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Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Peplau and Orem/Core Concepts

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

The Major Problems of 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...

The Need For Consistent And Predictable Care

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

Access to Services for People with Disabilities

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

The Health Insurance Crisis

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

Health Care Services Case Study

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

Pet Care Industry

As stated, the pet food industry already generates more than $53 billion in sales; accessories and nonessential services (i.e., ex...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Commissioning a Health Care Facility

few points of the requirements of HVAC design and execution in the new health care facility, but they demonstrate the complexity i...

Health Care Pricing and Costs

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES AND HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

Aspects Of Universal Health Care In U.S.

Canadians must also pay for dental and vision costs. Dental problems can lead to other health problems and diseases. The desired...

Medicaid/Long-Term Care

why. First of all, the student researching this topic does not offer any indication of what specific "everyday life issues" were...

Health Information Management

the store improving customer service quality, but it might not generate sufficient income to pay the extra costs. Coppola, Erchk...

Selecting Child Care

equipment was very important to them. It needed to be safe and there needed to be a lot of it. These parents have read to their so...

A Critique of the 2006 - 2011 Indian Health Service Strategic Plan

the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...

Advance Directives, Pros and Cons

of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), define an "Advance Directives," as "l...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

AIDS, Health Care Privatization, and International Expectations

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

Interview with Director of Critical Care

a top priority for many hospitals; however, the competition among hospitals for these nurses is intense (Thomason, 2006). Problem...

HEALTH CARE ACT AND MENTAL HEALTH

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

Funding Universal Health Care

care without knowing some data. It is also lopsided to discuss the cost without discussing the savings. In 2009, the National Coal...

Health Care Insurance And The Unemployed

does. Literature Search By November 2008, there were more than 10.3 million people unemployed in the United States (Families USA...

Intergenerational Family Relationships

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...