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MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

Pain Management for the Elderly

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

Questions on Managed Care Answered

the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

Defining a Healthcare System in the U.S.

to protect doctors from expensive lawsuits is thin. Although health care is problematic in the United States for a variety of rea...

Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

Long Term Care Policy Change Memorandum

to help change laws or create new ones. For this reason, AARP serves a positive purpose, inasmuch as there are not enough citizen...

American Journal of Nursing Article 'Improved Rates of Compliance with Hand Antisepsis Guidelines: A Three-Phase Observational Study' Reviewed

efficiency is paramount. The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to ba...

Acute Care Facilities and HIPAA

leaving one job for another has created are entrenched in insurance underwriting. Many people with pre-existing conditions are fea...

Children and Legal Responsibilities

for decision making (Lexis, 2004). This approach also reflects the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Cretney , 1998). Ho...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

Health Care and Equal Access

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

Nursing Self Care Deficit Theory of Dorothea Orem

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

American Health Care

over the decades--people can opt to purchase lower priced vehicles or do without. They may own homes and cars already. Life is aff...

Health Care Service and 'Professional Power'

different forms such as verbally or in writing, however, the compliance with the request is also influenced by other factors, such...

Proper Care for Stroke Victims, a Case Study

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

Nursing Personal Values' Development

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Standards of Critical Care Nursing

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

Crisis in Health Care and the HMO Model

wider array of coverage options so that all patients would be treated well. In essence, while people cannot choose any doctor they...

Health Care Management Effectiveness

can easily lead to misunderstandings and even conflict. Delegation is a skill many new managers lack. There are many reasons mana...

Chiropractic Care and Insights

approaches and invasive surgical procedures are more commonly used to treat scoliosis, chiropractic care has been proven to be an ...

Integration of the Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow and Self Care of Dorothea Orem

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

Comparative Analysis of Health Care Systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Medicare/Medicaid faces an increasing number of recipients and a decreasing number of contributors. Alonso-Zaldivar (2005, pg A14...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

2004 Senate Bill 2545

and respiration. Her parents were told that she would never recover, but that her body could be kept alive indefinitely through ar...

The Importance of Forensic Nursing

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

NICU Principles of Family Practice

care is the guiding concept behind the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphias (CHOP) commitment to values that place mutual trust and...