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Primary Care and Specialists

managed care, hospitals have found that there is a higher margin of profit in specialized services, such as cardiology, pediatrics...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Health Care: Changing The Way Services Are Delivered And Improving Quality Of Care

hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...

Managed Care's Pros and Cons

In eleven pages this paper discuses PPOs and HMOs in an evaluation of these managed care system's pros and cons. Twelve sources a...

Senior Citizens and Short Term Care as Opposed to Long Term Care

older our bodies begin to simply wear out. The modern marvels of medicine can patch up many of our creaks and groans, it can even...

Literature Review on Hospice Care's Underutilization

facility is (2000). Most also are not aware that Medicare pays for hospice facilities (2000). This article is important in pointi...

Neuman Systems Model

"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...

HEALTH CARE AND MANAGED CARE: AN ANALYSIS

were those who didnt like the "gatekeeper" mentality, the fact that any referral or recommendation needed to come from a "primary ...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

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

The Affordable Care Act: An Examination of Health Care Policy

at both the federal and state level. This also holds true for the health care industry, and perhaps more so because of the impactf...

Residencies for Registered Nurses

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

Group Process/Nursing

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

Reflective Learning Document; Healthcare Promotion

the stage of evaluation is being one mainly concerned with health-related assessment activities so that progress can be measured a...

Nursing Questions

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

Nursing Shortage

information about the shortage of nurses and the consequences. This was achieved as demonstrated in the following brief report of ...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

Policy Statements and Nursing Standards

gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Theoretical Nursing Perspectives on Pain Management

from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...

Nursing Leadership for Today and Future

entails job commitment and a resolution to not to waste time resisting change processes simply because they contradict the way in ...

Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

Discharge Instructions, Heart Patients

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

Value of Joining a Nurses’ Organization

of nursing and by lobbying" both Congress and regulatory agencies in regards to healthcare issues that affect nursing (ANA, 2008)....

Sharing Grief

did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...

Addressing the Nursing Shortage

be increased substantially, of course, by those immigrants families who would likely be admitted to the country as well. The inte...

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

Florence Nightingale's Work

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...