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a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

industry and primary care access; homecare access; and the new legislation proposed in regards to the entire health human resource...

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...

public policy. These groups are normally organized for the purpose of being with people of like-minded moral reasons for the soci...

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...