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Katie Eriksson's Nursing Theory

grounds that it is not caring at all but rather reduces the patient to a process component that needs medical attention. While tr...

Adolescent Resilience, Gender, and Foster Care

media seems to be sending mixed messages. Disney films routinely show two parent households, but then the characters are often in ...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

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...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

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

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

Managed Care Research and Ethical Issues

majority group in the United States. When considering other population groups, the disparities are even greater. The purpose her...

Minorities and Health Care Disparities

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Care at the End of Life and Cultural Variations

(1997) observes: "Involving the family in hospital care, maximizing the family as a resource, and creating an environment where h...

Health Care and Situational Leadership

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

Institutional Care, Legalities, and Ethics

of children in an institutional setting is at the very crux of ethical issues. Because the caretaker maintains control over the c...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

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

Health Care Crisis and Economics

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

Asians and Beliefs on Health

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

Analyzing Behavioral Health Care Organizations

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

Health Promotion Role of Practitioner When Clients Refuse Antipsychotic Medications Because of Side Effects

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

Impacts of Socioeconomic, Behavioral, and Environmental Factors on New Zealanders' Health

to be significantly more susceptible to the detrimental affects than others. Such locales as New Zealand appear to be on a direct...

Nursing Dilemma Represented by The English Patient

and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...

Health Care Communication Protocol Enhancement

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

Australian Case Study on Employment Law

of the employee or worker having and injury for which compensation is payable. Mary has suffered a laceration her hand. However, ...

Inaccessbility to Those Needing California Health Insurance

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

Florida and Foster Care

DCF] the worst child-welfare system in the nation" (Hathaway, 2002, p. 1E). The state child protective agency, regardless of its ...

The History and Mission of Tripler Army Medical Center

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

Nursing Scholars, Feminism, and Postmodernism

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

Health Care System Negligence

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

Registered Nurse's Hospital Role

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

Health Care Economics and the Impact of Medicare

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

Issues of Managed Care and Patient Rights

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

Care Order and English Family Law

In eleven pages English law is referred to in this case study of social services gaining a care order for the children ages two an...

Patient Care Perception and Nurse Uniform Color

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...