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Behavioral Health Management, Case Managers and Primary Care Physicians

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...

Health Information Management

the store improving customer service quality, but it might not generate sufficient income to pay the extra costs. Coppola, Erchk...

Fragmented Systems and Managed Care

it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

Adult Day Care in North Carolina

includes seniors centers focusing on social and wellness programs and activities, adapting healthcare needs to those standards rat...

Article Critique/Quality of Life/Palliative Care

founded on the perspective that patients who are cared for in the home are provided with an overall better quality of life (Peters...

The Transformation of Attitudes about Death and Dying

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

The Issue of Unresponsiveness of Physicians in the Hospital Setting

In a paper of four pages, the writer considers the issue of the unresponsive patient, especially as it impacts patient care. This...

Assessing the Success of an IT Implementation in a Healthcare Setting

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...

Religious Beliefs, Importance to Nursing

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

The Impact of Culture in Medical Care

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

Memory Deficits Due To Alzheimer's

illustrated how certain aspects such as genetics, disease and environment diversely impact the extent of human memory, with old ag...

MANAGING HEALTHCARE FOR THE UNINSURED

The problem is that the system is broken when it comes to getting appropriate healthcare to the uninsured. Even if Congress passes...

Issues of Managed Care and Patient Rights

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

The Development of Healthcare Financing in the US

millennia ago, it is the first recorded use of pooled payment systems to proved healthcare. There are many examples of similar soc...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Freedom of Choice for Patients and Managed Health Care

In seven pages this paper examines freedom of choice options for patients and how they are affected by managed health care. Six s...

HEALTH CARE ACT AND MENTAL HEALTH

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

HEALTH CARE AND LEGISLATION

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

Senior Citizens with Heart Problems and the Transitional Care Nursing Model

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

Healthcare, Clinical Pathways Importance, and QA

In 1992, for example, this organization issued a mandate that all hospital chief executive officers become familiar with continuou...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Nursing Ethics/A Diabetic Patient

2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...