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Should the US Adopt a Universal Healthcare System?

potential for a greater degree of efficiency. The question is whether not there should be a universal healthcare system adopted in...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

Roy Model and Infection Control

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

Article Analysis: Hospice and Non-Hospice Care

is defined differently than it is for healthier people; the terminally ill may consider that they have a good quality of life if t...

Collective School Perspective

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

Sample of a Community Health Assessment

As well, a full seventy-five percent of low-income citizens lack even the most basic of medical screenings, having typically gone ...

Health Maintenance Organizations' System Improvements

In three pages this paper examines how HMOs can be improved in order to ensure better care quality. Three sources are cited in th...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

African Orphans Studies II

provide additional income. Environmentally, the water supply is inadequate and healthcare is of poor quality and also inaccessibl...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

OBRA 87: Achieving its Potential

facilities that it was intended to achieve. Looking at more specific indicators, however, one can see from the literature review ...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

Tools to aid with Quality Implementations in a Home Care Agency to Help Reduce Fall Incident Rates

populations in other settings (Gray-Miceli, 2007). The aim of this risk model is to identify adults which are most likely to be at...

Analyzing the Bipartisan H.R. 2723 Consensus Managed Care Improvement Act

In a paper consisting of five pages the key supporters, opponents and flaws of the bill are considered. There is also a letter ad...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Education Needs Systemic Change

This essay discusses education as a system and supports the premise that real improvement will only come from systemic changes. I...

How Can The Police Improve Knowledge Management - A Research Proposal

The writer presents a proposal for research with the aim of identifying improvement to knowledge management which will aid police ...

Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program

This 15 page paper provides an overview of the Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program, or MsCIP, which was developed in response ...

Improvement Processes

been adding a cost. The process of improvement was akin to the introduction of a just in time management system associated with ...

Vertical Integration as a Means of Expansion: the Case of BMD

The writer discusses the case of BMD, a lumber yard company, which attempted to expand and maximize profits by acquiring other com...

Using Simulation to Improve Team Competencies

high quality of care scores and low mortality rates for patients with CHF (Chen et al., 2010). Hospitals with lower levels of exp...

Presentation for Customer Service Improvements

The paper is based on a case provided by the student where a telecoms company has committed itself to undertaking a strategy to th...

Projections for 2010 at the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital

be noted that the 15% is of a relatively small amount, so the monetary value is not a particularly large increase. However, when l...

A Poland Human Resource and Employment Marketing Concept

and human resource development. Background In the late 1990s, the Polish economy and employment statistics declined significant...

Improvements on Campus

lots and pathways. However, installing streetlights is very expensive because it means hiring professional electricians, getting p...

Case Study of Focus Plastics

by which to infiltrate an already existent market goes to show that perseverance and a belief in ones performance abilities are tw...

Australian Workplace Management and the Improvement of Occupational Safety and Health

In six pages this paper examines the importance of worker consultations in allowing management to improve health and safety in the...