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Essays 601 - 630
also increased the costs of healthcare and became one of the problems of rising costs. The insurance companies over time have so...
indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...
real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...
hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...
In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...
interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...
individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...
by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...
inadequacies in the standard of patient care due to a clinician refusing "to consult the on call physician or group" due to a cont...
15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...
noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...
this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...
Resource Management Systems," 2007). Acquisition relates to recruiting employees as well as the selection process ("Contemporary P...
the director of health system performance studies at Fraser Institute, was quoted as saying that "It is irresponsible for a wealth...
of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...
separation of Medicaid eligibility from assistance programs. In fact, this act was designed to increase the access for low-income...
a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...
justified. As they expect to see signs of slothfulness and unprofessional conduct, this is precisely what they find. Their expecta...
expanded upon, specifically, in the Nurse Practice Acts that govern nursing in the individual states. New understanding relations...
it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...
for any one patient can be almost overwhelming. Fortunately, numerous improvements are being made in health care that will better...
for top executives of an organization (BoLS, 2008). They also aid physicians and researchers with the preparation of "reports, spe...
a study whose purpose was to determine the way in which patients perceive patient education efforts. This research revealed that c...
action, along with a generous dose of determination and the application of intelligence, are essential to success. Therefore, in...
as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...
than on the payment of premiums. As this suggests, the EHT funds are similar to the OHIP premiums in that these funds are likewise...
HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular s...
embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...