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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...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

Health Care Industry - Assessing Different Financial Environments

in the western United States (Cleverley, Cleverley, & Song, 2012). Such institutions are typified by the primary goal of "sharehol...

79 Year Old Woman with Multiple Diseass

the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...

Financial Environments in the Health Care Industry

Hospital, a "450 bed not for profit acute care hospital" (Gapenski, 2007). Lastly, of course, because much health care access in...

Assessing Research

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

Assessing Research

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

An American View of Dying and Death

that many adults have to being placed in nursing care (Ciechanowski et al, 2004). The degree of social isolation along with depen...

Changing Social Views on Dying and Death

of death often occurs without the presence of loved ones and in the absence of any great fanfare. While some cultures create an e...

Obamas Views on Immigration

Obamas 2012 State of the Union Address portrays the view that the nation is much better than it was before Obama took office. Thi...

Hospital Administrator

to gain an executive position immediately upon graduation, possibly in a specialty area such as government relations, medical staf...

Effects of New Health Reform Policy

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Factors Negatively Influencing Continuity of Health Care for Black Males

From a humanistic standpoint, the distribution of health care services should occur in accordance with the principle of equality o...

Personal Nursing Philosophy

perspective, is viewed as "the optimal level of ones potential relating to the environment" (Tourville and Ingalls 22). For examp...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

Practicum Outline

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

Hospital Database Use

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

The United States - A Reluctant Welfare State

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

A Case Study in Professional Responsibility

incomplete, they have not been tested for drugs and the training room that he had counted on using in their orientation is booked ...

Appraisal of Team Performance

of every single employee. If youre not thinking all the time about making every person more valuable, you dont have a chance. Wh...

Preventive Strategies, Cost Containment, and Managed Care

stability, while the goal of tertiary prevention "is to help the patient return to wellness following treatment" (Torakis and Smig...

Uninsured and HMOs

citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years, the general system also has been char...

Pros and Cons of Canada's Health Care Privatization

in accordance with the Canada Health Act (1984), the federal government shares in the costs if provinces adhere to the following p...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

Australia and Medicare

the poorest communities, in terms of income level, have the lowest standard of health: a group which practises low-risk behaviours...

Essays on Health Care

before, with the result that there is a "pill" for virtually any physical condition. Individuals taking any kind of ethical drug ...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...