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Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

The Need for Quicker Lab Results

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

an assessed internal rate of return of 4.46%. This assessment was made using the accounting convention of conservatism. However,...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

BPD Difficlut to Diagnose

a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...

Decision Making at Happy Hospital Budget, Performance, and Ethics

properly! Budget and performance reports are a...

The Causes and Impact of Increasing Costs of Healthcare

Third cause of increasing healthcare costs is attributed to the attitude of the public, with the expectation that will diseases wi...

Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

Mentally Challenged Individuals and Contract Law

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...

Overview of the Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

of standards with sets of criteria that must achieved. Standards related to information management span the operations of the orga...

An Article on a Study of PICCs Critiqued

indicated as an advantage of PICCs can be initiated at the bedside by a registered nurse, which avoid the need for general anesthe...

Correcting Flawed Surgery Sites and Wrong Site Amputations

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...

The Treatment of Hordeolum

chlamydial, and rickettsial organisms" (Bessette, 2004). Inhibits bacterial protein synthesis (Bessette, 2004). E. Cloxacillin: "...

Medical Residents and Fatigue

to conduct studies of our own to assess the relationship between patient well being and medical resident work load. Much ...

Uninsured Issues for Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York II

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

Paternalism or Autonomy and the Hippocratic Oath

God" (Hippocratic Oath, 2001). It seems to me that the wording leads the young physician directly into the trap he hopes to avoid...

Reaction to Conversation Language And Possibilities A Postmodern Approach To Therapy by Harlene Andersen

followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-modernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of modernism, with p...

Frequency of Hemodialysis

2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...

Outpatient Surgery and Risk

(Outpatient Surgical Centers, 2005). Surgeons generally are not part of the staff, but the centers employ all other positions req...

Self Administered Medications and Medication Aides

2005). However, the employer of these aides will be responsible for ensuring that systems are in place in regards to proper manage...

Price Setting Case Study for Bair Hugger Device

and needs to be carefully monitored, and the water filled blankets may be effective if used above and below the patient by they ar...

Five Questions on Medical Law

himself to be placed in charge of Thompsons case, he assumed the responsibility of having all adequate medical knowledge to pursue...

Student Submitted Medical Article Review

the specifics of the experiment. When patients are first enrolled, their entry is broken down by risk in addition to whether or no...

Evaluations of Biopsychosocial and Biomedical Health Models

true medical condition. The approach is taken even further by Thomas Szasz where any mental condition is not seen as a true medi...

Overview of Dolphin Therapy

dolphins could provide a piece to a perplexing medical puzzle that has long been missing. They can, these dolphin aficionados mai...

Sexual Trauma and Psychological Understanding Thanks to Sigmund Freud

later in life. This obvious connection to anthropology led Freuds predecessors to continue applying such a concept even as the fa...

An Ethics Case Study

any love relationship can be hurtful enters the picture. With this rationale, one can see that to have an affair with an ex-patien...

Statement Critically Evaluated

her to divide the ways in which certain cultures utilize their power when compared with others. When the student discusses the un...

Alzheimer's Disease and the Role of a Psychologist

and eventually all cognitive function for the person inflicted with the disease (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). While the spec...