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Interview with Director of Critical Care

a top priority for many hospitals; however, the competition among hospitals for these nurses is intense (Thomason, 2006). Problem...

American Society

In a paper of three pages, the author considers the nature of the American society in relation to cultural diversity. Though the ...

Iraq, North Korea, and American Ill Will

the United States (Culture of North Korea, 2010). The capital of Pyongyang, which had been severely bombed by the United States d...

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...

Cultural Cohesiveness and Distinction in the Latino/Hispanic Population

a multitude of cultural groups. Consider, for example, the tendency of the dominant US culture to lump all people of Asian herita...

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...

Investigation of Cultural Differences I

American value. Neither do we want anyone else dictating what constitutes security for any one individual; how we will sell...

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

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...

Business Mediation and American Culture

or weak uncertainty avoidance and 4. masculinity versus femininity (Wentworth and Chell, 1997 p. 285). While Hofstedes work ultima...

Regulatory Agencies for Managed Care

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

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

International Business Practices and Cultural Factors

and that other factors precipitate the differences. In this paper, well provide a literature review that discusses this in...

Psychiatric Nursing Alternatives

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

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....

Has Health Care Been Improved by Managed Care?

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini by Carpini

He also speaks in considerable detail of their personal habits, which he apparently finds both appalling and fascinating. Interest...

Quality in Health Care and the Effects of Agency Nurses

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

Projections for the Universal Health Care System in Canada

7 pages and six sources used. This paper considers the existing status of the universal or national health care system in Canada ...

Health Care in the United States v. Canada

In fifteen pages the health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are compared with an emphasis on Canada's private and public fundi...

Internet and Health Care

In five pages this paper examines health care and how providers are able to utilize services provided by the Internet and also con...

Homeless and Nursing

In seven pages this paper discusses the health care profession's lack of providing decent care to impoverished and homeless member...

An Overview of Clinical Pathways

Clinical Pathways can be important to saving the health care system of this country, according to this paper. It gives an overview...

Mixed Economy of Care Improves Quality of Life For the Elderly

there were no caregiver present to assist the elderly individual during the day and evening, the frail older person frequently fou...

America and the Impossibility of Cultural Assimilation

In nine pages this research paper discusses the cultural assimilation myth that has always been a part of the U.S. immigrant exper...

Japanese Culture in the Seventeenth Century

In nine pages the Japanese cultural period known as Genroku is examined in terms of the cultural contributions of dramatist Chikam...

The Development of a Job Focus in the Area of Pediatric Care

Six pages with four sources used. This paper provides an overview of the central career opportunities in the area of pediatric ca...

The New Health Care and Columbia/HCA

Managed care has caused an upheaval in the way medical services are delivered in this country. This paper discusses the largest su...