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

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

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...

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, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guideline...

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

people who are uninsured, while many more are underinsured (Reports Say Millions Getting Second-Class Health Care Treatment, 2003)...

The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...