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a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...

to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...

The NYSNA representative agrees, suggesting that closing hospitals is not a good way to deal with the health care crisis ("Prevent...

either to reduce benefits or require employees to pay a greater share of the costs of their health care insurance premiums. Risin...

100 percent and also to create a neighborhood health and daycare facility. Another proposal is the creation of a preventative diag...

instruments not trustworthy? This is just another meaningless slogan, a cousin of zero defects" (Deming, 1986; p. 66). The...

its founding in the late 18th century, the United States has opened its borders to people from a variety of countries and cultures...

occur in an EMS vehicle in the summer months (McElroy, 2002). Such degradation can occur with no visible changes to the medicatio...

litigious society where health care workers and institutions are open and easy targets, this dearth of lawsuits reported in The Ne...

ineffective - organizational structure on the organizations ability to function at optimal levels has been known literally for dec...

processed, but also in terms of the culture where employees feel appreciated. They are paid more than the average wage, on top of ...

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

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...

HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...

employers are increasing employees portion of premium payments or ceasing to contribute anything at all. Many employers have ceas...

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

In five pages the TQM management strategy is applied to a scenario for transforming doctors into managers with a community hospita...

In five pages this essay considers the anarchist art of Ed Kienholz in terms of the artist's attitudes and style of composition wi...

In two pages this paper examines how hospital administrators and staff nurses share medical liability in a definition of the term ...

for medium and even smaller individual hospitals. Hospital administrators must both understand and communicate the fact that the ...

In six pages this research paper considers the early history of modern medicine as presented in Medicine at the Paris Hospital, 17...

In eight pages the moral dilemmas several Catholic hospitals struggle with in terms of such medical issues as euthanasia and abort...

In six pages this paper examines the increasing U.S. practice of merging hospitals in an overview of the pros and cons of this pra...

In five pages a hospital environment is considered in a discussion of a family centered care approach with pediatric nursing being...

In ten pages this position paper discusses challenging the tax exempt status of a California nonprofit hospital in terms of legali...

In ten pages this paper examines the increasing health care industry practice of hospital mergers and the problems with them and s...

emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...