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Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Mixed Economy of Care Improves Quality of Life For the Elderly

there were no caregiver present to assist the elderly individual during the day and evening, the frail older person frequently fou...

Fragmented Systems and Managed Care

it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Professional Nursing Dimensions

ethnic distribution of the population in Paramus: White Non-Hispanic (75.5%) Hispanic (4.9%) Korean (4.8%) Asian Indian (4.5%...

Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

Regulatory Agencies for Managed Care

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

Has Health Care Been Improved by Managed Care?

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Lack of 'Health' Concern of Mainstream Medicine

In fifteen pages this report discusses how the U.S. system of health care is failing citizens due to poor care by medical practiti...

Healthcare, Clinical Pathways Importance, and QA

In 1992, for example, this organization issued a mandate that all hospital chief executive officers become familiar with continuou...

The National Health Care System in Canada

Fifteen pages and 14 sources. This paper relates the fact of the increasing discontentment with the universal health care system ...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Defeat of the The Boren Medical Reform Bill

In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Self Care Model of Dorothea Orem

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

Rural Health Care and Employee Training Outsourcing

educational providers. Todays workplace is characterized by an incontestable shortage of appropriately trained workers. Wh...

Elderly and Community Care

of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

A Lesson Plan For Infection Control

control in the long term care setting. Avoidance of infection is preferable over the need for cure, and also has the effect of in...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

Local Policies and Global Health Issues

In thirty pages senior citizens' care is examined in this Canadian geriatric case study of various global health issues and local ...

Public and Private Health Care's Rise

no knowledge of the world of bacteria; viruses were unheard of; biochemistry had not been considered at all. In short, there was ...

"Youth Do Not Care About Politics": Why, and What Can be Done?

material possessions and feelings of isolation from political officials and institutions. Forbrig, Joerg. Revisiting Youth Pol...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

AIDS, Health Care Privatization, and International Expectations

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

HEALTH CARE ACT AND MENTAL HEALTH

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

Interview with Director of Critical Care

a top priority for many hospitals; however, the competition among hospitals for these nurses is intense (Thomason, 2006). Problem...