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State Differences Scope of APRNs

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) are licensed registered nurses (RNs) who have advanced graduate degree education. They ...

Case Study, Congestive Heart Failure

This case study pertains to Mr. P, a congestive heart failure patient, and his wife. The writer relates an approach to care, a tre...

"Physician as Strategic Manager," A Case Study

This research paper offers an overview of primary care practice drawing on a description that was published in 1994. The writer dr...

Christianity in the First and Second Centuries

Christianity expanded and grew exponentially in the early centuries. There were many reasons for this quick growth including its m...

The Many Impacts of Obamacare

This paper considers the problems associated with the federally imposed Affordable Care Act. This seven page paper included six s...

SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

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 ...

Acute Care Facilities and HIPAA

leaving one job for another has created are entrenched in insurance underwriting. Many people with pre-existing conditions are fea...

Children and Legal Responsibilities

for decision making (Lexis, 2004). This approach also reflects the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Cretney , 1998). Ho...

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...

Nursing Self Care Deficit Theory of Dorothea Orem

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

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...

Nursing and Statistics

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Australian Duty of Care/Emergency Services

or her field of duty is encompassed by the law of the Northern Territory of Australia, specifically the Personal Injuries (Liabili...

Terminally Ill Patients and Palliative Care

"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...

Health Care Pharmacists and How They Have Evolved

been favorable to increased privileges for pharmacists. This trend towards increased privileges are certainly understandable give...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

Three Business Ethics Questions

simply because the company did not want to lose money by taking the crib off the market. The social costs theory goes a step furt...

Pneumonia and its Connection with the reuse of Suction Catheters in Children

controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta analyses, clearly defined hypothesis, and a definitive and strong conclusion. If one ...

NICU Principles of Family Practice

care is the guiding concept behind the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphias (CHOP) commitment to values that place mutual trust and...

The Importance of Forensic Nursing

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

2004 Senate Bill 2545

and respiration. Her parents were told that she would never recover, but that her body could be kept alive indefinitely through ar...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Proper Care for Stroke Victims, a Case Study

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

Crisis in Health Care and the HMO Model

wider array of coverage options so that all patients would be treated well. In essence, while people cannot choose any doctor they...

Health Care Management Effectiveness

can easily lead to misunderstandings and even conflict. Delegation is a skill many new managers lack. There are many reasons mana...