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Health Care Communication

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

Factors Affecting Health Care

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

A Case Study of the Use of Collaborative Processes for a Woman with Multiple Comorbidities

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...

Managed Health Care and HMOs

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the health care industry in an overview of cost containment and HMO and managed...

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...

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...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Complexities Of Delivering Health Care In America

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

Adult Day Care in North Carolina

includes seniors centers focusing on social and wellness programs and activities, adapting healthcare needs to those standards rat...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Self-Care Deficit Theory, Dorothea Orem

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

The Impact of Nursing, Earthquake,

This research paper focuses on nursing care in regards to earthquake victims. The writer reviews relevant recent literature in re...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

U.S. Health Care System

care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...

Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Family Values/ICU Environment

and the church" and encompasses "spirituality, social support, and traditional, non-biomedical health and healing practices," whic...

Developing a Care Plan

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

Assessment of a Bundle of Healthcare Services for Patients with Dementia

why this population may be seen as particularly vulnerable. The paper will then look in detail at the service offered, and then co...

Health Care Interdisciplinary Teams

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

Canada's Health Care System

services to their residents. The system is intended to provide access to medically necessary services to each person. In the lat...

The Major Problems Facing the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

Global Health Care Issues

In twenty pages this paper examines international health care issues in an assessment of problems including planning regulations, ...

Public Health Care v. Home Health Care

of Healthcare Organizations is one organization which has had a definitive impact on the quality of care being provided across the...

Death in Hospice Verses Death in Death Row Incarceration

which the individual is supposed to pass, the doctors are usually good at predicting whether a dying person has a few days or a fe...

Organizational Structure of a Hospice

in business for many years, and it is old enough that it now has several groups that support single aspects of the organizations o...

A Case Study of the Brookstone Hospice

A research paper that draws upon a case study of the Brookstone Hospice. The author presents a method for a strategic corporate a...

Case Studies on Medical Care's Informed Consent

implied (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). Take the action of the patient who rolls up their sleeve to receive a shot for example (Ret...

Hospice Worker as a Career: An Essay of Cause-and-Effect

debilitating and terminal condition that requires constant medical care. Researchers have identified stress as a major occupation...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...