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media seems to be sending mixed messages. Disney films routinely show two parent households, but then the characters are often in ...
and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...
that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...
Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...
without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...
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...
are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...
felt she had no option but to take Asante with her. She left the child in the car and planned to come out periodically and check o...
state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...
population, newborn infants who can not verbally communicate their pain or allow the researcher any means of utilizing patient sel...
diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...
different forms such as verbally or in writing, however, the compliance with the request is also influenced by other factors, such...
2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...
to the development of military medicine" (Tripler Army Medical Center, 2008). It had 450 beds at the start of WWII, then expanded ...
15 percent within the first six months as sales to professional headdresses would increase by 10 percent of the same period. The b...
4 pages in length. The writer discusses money's role in driving health care reform and what shifts might take place over the next...
costs ("American Academy of Emergency Management: EMTALA," 2008). In some cases, patients without insurance would be sent to a cou...
had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...
There is no question HMOs are in need of some major improvement efforts. Time and time again, anecdotal accounts of personal ongo...
partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...
charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...
leaving one job for another has created are entrenched in insurance underwriting. Many people with pre-existing conditions are fea...
for decision making (Lexis, 2004). This approach also reflects the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Cretney , 1998). Ho...
a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...
efficiency is paramount. The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to ba...
radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...
a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...
a machine, as it were, even if the machine is connected to a health-care professional on the other end. Along those lines,...
to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...