SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Nursing Home Industry and Patient Care Costs Determination

Essays 661 - 690

Difficult Decision Making

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

Nursing Homes and Elderly Abuse

report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...

Sunnyside Manor Nursing Home Changes

and every individual as the beneficial employee he or she truly is, is the most effective way for a change-agent project to achiev...

Physician Reported Syphilis and Ethics

what serves the greatest number serves the greater good" (London A12), rather than what is favorable for a few. Indeed, this has ...

Review of an Article on Nursing Home Residents and Hospitalization

field of nursing and in particular for nursing home facilities. Valid data could put pressure on nursing homes to hire an adequate...

Proposal Regarding Nursing Homes and Elder Incontinence

Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...

Nursing Homes and Abuse of the Elderly

over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

Restraints and Education Needs Assessment

and arranging transportation; and ensuring that physician orders for residents are met and followed. Beyond these duties ar...

Nursing Homes and Ethical Issues

blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...

Outpatient Clinic for Pain Management Establishment

surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...

Appendicitis Diagnosis and Computerized Tomography Scans

prior to patient/surgeon consultation (Lee, Walsh, and Ho, 2001). In reality, such approaches are limited given that the most acc...

Nursing Home Conflict and Resolution

44% involved strains and sprains, with most involving the back (Fragala 22). Of that number 10.5% of back injuries experienced in...

Supporting Life and Costs Both Financial and Emotional

In five pages this research paper considers comatose or vegetative patients and the financial and emotional costs of sustaining li...

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' Resistance

In seven pages this paper discusses how meeting JCAHO accreditation can be sabotaged by the resistance of staff in a narrative fro...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

Nursing Home Environment and Pet Therapy Programs

In five pages this paper examines the benefits of pet therapy in a nursing home setting in terms of memory stimulation and positiv...

Issues In Health Care

extent to which the managed care approach has created a complicated, ineffective health care system is both grand and far-reaching...

Prospective Payment Systems

(Moore, 2006, p. 10). The result is that this practice is losing so much money on Medicaid patients that they are beginning to res...

Top-Down Cost Estimating

and total cost is a primary factor. There is nothing new about this concept: even Jesus said, "who would begin construction of a ...

Reducing Absenteeism/Nursing Home

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

Article Critique/Where Terminally Ill Prefer to Die

that puts the topic of this study, as well as past research, within an appropriate philosophical framework. Tang then cites the ...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Article Analysis/Urinary Incontinence Study

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

Environmental Analysis of HHH Home Health Care Company's Strategic Plan

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

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...

A Costing Case

The Riverside Hotel contract stated that employees could have meals up to the cost of $12. However, they failed to define how the...