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Basic Rights in Health Care

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Family and Health Promotion

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

HEALTH CARE AND FUTURE TRENDS

that telemedicine is already having an impact on how healthcare is being delivered (Kohler, 2008). Kohler points out that technolo...

Post-Merger Problems

with similar expertise but with a slightly different viewpoint; it may be expanding vertically by acquiring a company either above...

Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

There is no question HMOs are in need of some major improvement efforts. Time and time again, anecdotal accounts of personal ongo...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

4 pages in length. The writer discusses money's role in driving health care reform and what shifts might take place over the next...

An Evaluation of EMTALA

costs ("American Academy of Emergency Management: EMTALA," 2008). In some cases, patients without insurance would be sent to a cou...

Health Care and Equal Access

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

Health Care Delivery and Various Moral, Philosophical, and Ethical Issues

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

American Journal of Nursing Article 'Improved Rates of Compliance with Hand Antisepsis Guidelines: A Three-Phase Observational Study' Reviewed

efficiency is paramount. The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to ba...

Health Care Service and 'Professional Power'

different forms such as verbally or in writing, however, the compliance with the request is also influenced by other factors, such...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

American Health Care

over the decades--people can opt to purchase lower priced vehicles or do without. They may own homes and cars already. Life is aff...

Winners and Losers Among Health Care Providers

however. This investigation is concerned more with the dynamics between payers, providers and consumers. Has government healthcar...

Defining a Healthcare System in the U.S.

to protect doctors from expensive lawsuits is thin. Although health care is problematic in the United States for a variety of rea...

Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

Health Coverage and Catholic Women

the situations are not precisely parallel. A closer analogy might be if businesses owned by orthodox Jews argued that they did not...

Economy of California

and policies. Consultant Jeff Melton states that the "cost of doing business in California is 30 percent higher than the av...

Uninsured and Impoverished Health Issues

the poverty line. These researchers point out that the poor are less likely to have health insurance, less likely to seek health s...

Questions on Financing of U.S. Health Care

argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

1994 Baby Deaths at Canada's Winnipeg Health Sciences Center

In seven pages this paper examines the post heart surgery deaths of 12 babies in this Canadian health care facility in a discussio...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

Health Care System of Canada

financial or other barriers" (Canada Health Act, 2004). Financing and Payment Structures Local governments and municipaliti...

PPS Health Care Payment Systems

The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...

Healthcare and Caribbean vs. South American Perspectives

In a paper that consists of five pages women's mental health care and the differing perspectives between the Caribbean and South A...