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Health, Environment, and Law

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

Access to Health Care and the Discrimination and Stigma of HIV and AIDS

on coverage based in what has been deemed "pre-existing conditions" and to refuse coverage to individuals based on everything from...

HIV and AIDS Survey Protocols

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

Cultural Care in Russian Families

sometimes goes to the lengths a westerner would consider as infringement)" (Russians, 2004). In relationship to statistics it a...

Rights, Empowerment, and Social Work Legislation

Rights The concept of human rights have been a part of discussions on ethics and the ethical treatment of many different populati...

Liability in Nursing

Colorado/Utah and 3.7 percent of the hospitalizations occurring in New York resulted incurred adverse events (Dunn 45). Death occu...

Health Care and an Application of Distributive Justice

Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...

Nursing Model of Dorothea Orem Evaluated

and the patient are often unproductive (Roberson and Kelly, 1996; Hanna, 1997). Understanding the basis for this cultural percept...

Senior Citizens and Health Care Needs

struggled with the shift to maintain services and provide support for this population. There is little dispute that the aggrega...

Human Care Nursing and the Theoretical Contributions of Jean Watson

She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...

Rationing Health Care and Ethics

where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...

AMAPAC and its Impact Upon Universal Health Care Coverage in America

field of medicine was not a very stable one, with almost anyone hanging out a shingle and calling themselves a doctor (American Me...

Competitive Markets and Health Care

criticized for cutting costs when it comes to health care delivery. For another thing, consumers generally make a choice o...

Veterans' Health Care

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

Research Proposal on SNFs and the RN Shortage

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

Internet Group Membership and the All Macaw Group

The student writing on this topic should note that I personally have been a member of AllMacaw since its inception and have full k...

Research Evaluation on Nursing Home Costs of Utilizing MDS/PPS RUG III Systems

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

Adult Day Care Placement Benefits

not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...

Infections of the Urinary Tract

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

Austria's Health Care Financial System Positioning

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...

Health Care and Special Interest Groups

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

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...

STDs and Plans of Health Promotion

in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...

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 and Situational Leadership

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

U.S. Refugee Population, Health Policy Treatment, Prevention, and Care Services

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

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...