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Terminal Patients and Hospice Healthcare

we all must personally face. Dealing with the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the f...

Chronically Ill Patients, Disabled Veterans, and Depression

In nine pages depression as it affects the chronically ill and disabled veteran portions of the population is discussed in terms o...

'Managing' Managed Care

By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

Preventive Strategies, Cost Containment, and Managed Care

stability, while the goal of tertiary prevention "is to help the patient return to wellness following treatment" (Torakis and Smig...

Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

NICU Principles of Family Practice

care is the guiding concept behind the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphias (CHOP) commitment to values that place mutual trust and...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Nursing and Its Cultural Aspects

In five pages the cultural aspects of the nursing profession are considered in a discussion that while Canadian and U.S. nurses mi...

Home Healthcare Nursing Application in Critical Care Nursing

In ten pages a home healthcare case study is employed to examine what nursing approaches would best be used in this scenario and a...

Overview of the Florida Department of Children and Families

to be done to improve various perceived problems. Unfortunately, it must be said, that from what one can tell, the report is very ...

Nursing and Family's Role

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

An Article on Families in the ER Critiqued

and fear and engenders feelings of support and help for the patient " (MacLean, et al, 2003). In regards to negative outcomes, fam...

Self Care Model of Dorothy Orem

Hendersons definition of the Orem model as being the "practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own be...

History and Implications of Medicare's Managed Care

cover the costs of catastrophic illness, but otherwise they maintained their own routine health care. The route of health care ac...

Training, Teamwork and Benefits in Patient Care

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

Caring Nursing Theory of Jean Watson

that caring is good. Some nurses might object to allowing themselves the luxury because it makes them vulnerable, but in some prof...

Human Caring Philosophy of Jean Watson

cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...

Adult Day Care Placement Benefits

not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

Need for Cultural Competent Care

quite frequently, they are seldom defined specifically, yet both terms hold significant importance in terms of their relevance to ...

Assessing Research

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

Assessing Research

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

Harassing Behaviors Have Negative Outcomes

One set of scholars suggested that harassment is so widespread, it should be classified as a significant international health prob...

Education and Health Promotion

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

Issues of Service Quality and the Marketing of Transportation Services

the transportation into a product that is wanted rather than bought on price (Hooley et al, 2003). This will mean having the right...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

London Ambulance Service's Project Management Failure

though success factors. Four main areas are considered for the classifications of success factors, these are the factors that a...