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CHF Guidelines and Readmission Rates

the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, ...

HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...

IWB-Latest technology for Schools

of programs and resources but there is still evidence that teachers are not using them to their full potential. One of the reasons...

Reflections on the Concept of Self

be, the "self," derives from memories of past experiences in the context of present relationships and situations. While the popula...

HTN and Transcultural Nursing

a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...

Heat-Related Illness

system impairment and cardiovascular failure" are all significant to the pathology of heat stroke (Lim and Mackinnon, 2006, p. 39)...

Criminal Justice and Empiricism

of empiricism through three primary assumptions of an ontological, axiological, and methodological nature. This includes a realist...

Hume's Skepticism - An Overview

the importance of direct experience in the formulation of knowledge, is at the core of Humes overarching skepticism, which makes a...

Prejudice against the Disabled

hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...

Secondhand Smoke and Public Policy

to be the "third leading cause of preventable death in the United States," as it constitutes a "major source of indoor air polluti...

New Nursing Ward Manager/Challenges Involved

ward manager is responsible for the "24-hour delivery of care to patients within a designated care setting" (Peate, 2010, p. 7). T...

The Link between Employee Engagement and Financial Performance

the employees perception of the performance of the firm in terms of corporate citizenship impacting directly on the employment rel...

Scientific Functionalism Versus Empiricism

This paper addresses the statement: functionalism is a scientifically suspect theory, quite apart from concern about its empirical...

Female Artists and Male Pseudonyms

In five pages this research paper examines the practice of women using male pseudonyms in literature and art with an empirical ana...

Discrimination in Marketing

This 3 page paper discusses discrimination in marketing, and the claim that market segmentation has gone too far. The writer argue...

Students with Special Needs and Homework

In six pages this paper employes empirical research in a consideration of homework requirements for pupils with special needs. Th...

Achievement of Students and the Impact of Absentee Teachers

In eight pages this empirical research review examines the causes of high rates of absenteeism among teachers and the negative imp...

In Terms of Leadership Are Women More 'People Oriented?'

In six pages this paper considers whether or not women are more people oriented in terms of leadership than are their male counter...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

Religious vs. Cultural Oppression of Women in Islamic States

This paper presents an empirical research proposal to discuss the issue of female oppression in Islamic states. The author discus...

Analysis of Massachusetts Changed Education Law

In six pages this paper uses Fisher's framework in order to analyze the change in Massachusetts' education law that reduces 'free ...

Theories of Child Development

what is good or bad for childrens development is riddled with methodological flaws and the results subject to many different, even...

Concepts and Theories of Object Recognition

In five pages this paper discusses memory in a consideration of object recognition and its importance with empirical evidence prov...

School Uniforms and Their Impact

conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals in 2000, surveyed 755 principals across the nation. Some of ...

Concepts of Relativism and Reality

can not. When one considers the important role played by sensory...

Carper's 4 Knowledge Types and Nursing Evaluation

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

David Hume and John Locke on Perception

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

Research Proposal Tutorial on Corruption in Law Enforcement

In eight pages this tutorial presents an empirical research proposal regarding corruption in law enforcement and the influence of ...

Interviewing and Research Concepts

In five pages this paper discusses researching through a combination of interviewing and research as considered in applicable chap...

Beliefs of the East

In seven pages the Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucian concepts of 'nothingness' are examined in terms of how these ideas represent a ...