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Birth Control and the Catholic Church

this new mandate. Catholic universities sent letters to the President asking him to exempt all religious individuals and instituti...

ADHD and Teachers' Knowledge

between 2 and 18 percent of all children, and it is associated with poor academic performance, which can lead to numerous other co...

THE PROFESIONAL MENTAL HEALTH NURSE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

No matter what the specialty, nurses are on the front line of healthcare - theyre the individuals who interact directly with the p...

Role in Health Administration

health care industry In January of 2011, the first of the so-called baby boomer generation, that is, individuals born immediately...

Stem Cell Research and Telemedicine

and scientific research, general regulations prohibiting the cloning of humans for reproductive purposes have been applied interna...

A Comparison of Electronic Health Record Software

records. In 2007, promoting the bill that would implement such incentives at the federal level, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham ...

Breastfeeding Advantages

In five pages this paper examines the health effects of breastfeeding with the emphasis being on its many child and mother benefit...

Google Health: Cultural Resistance to EMR Adoption

which they referred to as Google Health (McBride, 2008). The purpose of the service was to allow users to upload personal informat...

Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

Health Care Management Models

there is a pressing need to "make clinical goals specific, roles explicit, [and] processes clear" (Phillips, 2005). For instance, ...

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: ESTABLISHING ACCEPTABILITY, BUDGETING AND PRO FORMA

he received checks back in the mail for overage. "Im not sure what was worse," he told me at one point, "going through all that pa...

Career Planning

first essential step in the pursuit of any lifelong goal such as this is to develop a "five year plan". In the development of su...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

A Day in the Life of a Mental Health Supervisor

a three-year-old whose asthma was acerbated by her familys living conditions in a run-down tenement where mildew was evident. She ...

The Bio-Psychological Approach to Health

obvious examples of the bio-psychological approachs usefulness is in the context of chronic illness. Take, for instance, a patient...

Electronic Medical Records - Business Incentives and Ethical Concerns

information flows between healthcare facilities; the bottom line is that legislation will have to be concerned not simply with pro...

Tobacco and the Issues Surrounding It

History Tobacco has become fully impregnated in world society. Tobacco, of course, originated in...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

Our Imperiled Environment Our Imperiled Future

Global health is dependent on the decisions we have made in the past and on...

Holistic Patient Care: An Example

from the commune to provide support for Helen in the hospital setting. Some general concerns occurred as a result of the assessme...

Recommendations for Improving Quality of Care Through OBRA 87

ensure a complete implementation of improved infection control standards at all facilities. In order to overcome this deficiency, ...

Applications of the Social Ecology Model

Social Ecology Model that have appeared in scholarly literature; however, the original and most highly utilized version of this mo...

Advanced Practice Nurses and Their Significance

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the health care setting in an examination of the advanced practice nurse or nurse practition...

Wellness, Disease, Health, and Changing Attitudes

In six pages this report considers how wellness, disease, and health attitude perceptions have changed and evolved. Six sources a...

Lindlahr's Natural Therapeutics Compared to Five Articles

The natural approach to treating illness and maintaining health has become popular in recent years. Philosophy of Natural Therapeu...

Changing the Views on Mental Health Care

is dedicated to the memory of Linda Anderson, research writer, mother and friend....

Marketing and Community Health

health plan is linked to the belief that there are risk factors that can be assessed in an aggregate that are influenced by both p...

The Tertiary Level of Prevention

family violence has occurred relate the importance of a community base and social support mechanisms for reducing recidivism by pe...

Overview of Challenges to National Blood Transfusion Services

In seven pages this paper examines the World Health Organization recommendations regarding solutions to problems faced by contempo...