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Plane Crashes and Human Error

air crash in Arkansas, that occurred in 1999 was blamed on pilot error due to a poor decision to land "in a severe thunderstorm" (...

The Importance of Well Written and Presented Educational Materials in Patient Wellness

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

Overview of Intensive Care Nursing

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

Hospital Setting and Administration of Medication in a Consideration of Competence Building Through Reflection, Experience, and Training

is overwhelmingly female, though nursing also is experiencing a gender shift as more men come to the profession than at any time i...

Case Study of Exporting and Importing Errors

components brought in is more difficult to assure as the production processes is not under the companys control. The jubilation ...

Human Resource Management Errors

In four pages HRM errors are discussed in an examination of employee mismanagement by a fast food chain that resulted in a high tu...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

The Serious Side of A Comedy of Errors

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

Costuming in The Patriot

necessary in order to reconstruct the aspects of needlework, fabric and even the most intricate details not otherwise available th...

Nursing's Philosophical Issues

course of action is often jumbled. Is the patient cognizant enough to make the correct choices? Many issues come into play when a...

Nursing Profession and Medication Errors

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...

Advanced Practice Nursing, the Self Care Deficit Model of Dorothea Orem, and Urinary Incontinence

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

Nursing Homes Centered on Clients

The most recent trend in nursing home care is client-centered treatment. This paper examines statistics in elder care, with almost...

Health Care Policy and Influential Factors

Paul Starrs (1983) book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, provides insightful vision into the changes that had occu...

Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

In seven pages this paper discusses the emotional mix that is represented in William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Four sources...

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 ...

Responsibility of Physicians and Managed Care

physician should have more power than presently granted. II. Solutions In trying to come up with solutions, one should first...

Faith and Ethics

Trembling clearly demonstrates the fact that faith needs to go beyond such an ethical system in order to be legitimate, an attribu...

Overview of Pilot Error

In eleven pages this paper discusses pilot error and considers reasons behind airplane crashes that result and offers problem solu...

Transference Theory of Sigmund Freud

In twelve pages this paper examines Freud's transference theory in a consideration of his famous Rat Man, Dora, and Anna O cases w...

American System of Health Care

In seven pages an examination of the U.S. health care system includes discussion of general health care issues of coverage, physic...

Future of Managed Care and Specialized Laboratories

teams keeps the companys name at the industrys forefront THREATS * Restricted expansion within a very defined and specific niche i...

Complications in the Noel Coward Comedy 'Blithe Spirit'

In 5 pages this paper analyzes 'Blithe Spirit' and the comedy of errors that take place throughout the course of the play. There ...

COBRA and What It Means to the Economy

The role of public and private entities in health care is not a new debate. This paper details the Consolidated Omnibus Resolution...

UK and Community Care

This paper consists of five pages and considers partnership and care as they relate to individuals with learning disabilities with...

Measurement Error and Reliability

represent the probability distribution created by repeated sampling and by calculation of the sample statistics. This allows the ...

Managed Health Care and HMOs

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the health care industry in an overview of cost containment and HMO and managed...