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Essays 1981 - 2010

Nutrition for Athletes

by telling them that everyones confused about what to eat, and then giving them solid guidelines. For instance, she says its impor...

Working Multiple Jobs

(Youssef). She gets home from her regular day job at about 6 p.m. and then works on her own business until 1 a.m. or later (Yousse...

Appalachian Patient: Cultural Considerations For Medical Treatment

proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species. Social norms play an integral role in both setting and meeting th...

Practical Applications Of Simulations In Nursing Education

"low-fidelity, moderate-fidelity, and high-fidelity" (Sportsman et al., 2009, p. 67). Low-fidelity are introductory, moderate-fide...

Gilded Era/Welfare Reform & The Elderly And Privacy

or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...

Prostate Victims & Their Partners/Quality of Life

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

A Comparison of the US and European Health Care Systems

While some of the European health care system share many similarities with socialized medicine, the US system of health care is ba...

The Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

launching a business). And what about competitive advantage? This is great if the opportunity is a "first-mover," in other words, ...

CANCER, ITS IMPORTANCE, AND SOCIETAL IMPACT

But what is the deal when these cells multiply, and why is this bad? Normal cells are needed to keep the body healthy - when they ...

Mental Health Services and the Elderly

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...

Discrepancies Between Aspirations and Reality in Health Care

group are already marginalized by virtue of having the condition; their aspirations therefore are lower than for others, because "...

Meeting the Access Target

per week, which is a strategy designed to improve access to care and achieving NHS target goals. The NHS has established HNAs as a...

Universal Health Plan -Stakeholder Communication

television commercials to scare the public (Greene, 2008). The couple, Harry and Louise, was sitting at their kitchen table mockin...

Stark Laws And Other Issues

is referred for tests, a medical code is given to that referral (Dietrich, n.d.). If a clinic of several physicians, for example, ...

MCCAIN HEALTH CARE PROPOSAL AND DOLLARS

(McCain-Palin, 2008). What would be the economic implications of a health care reform proposal such as the one John McCa...

Social Workers in Mental Health Services

would have to provide those benefits in the same way as benefits provided to all other medical and surgical procedures covered by ...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

Universal Health Care Policy

such as Massachusetts and California, the pros and cons of universal health care and others. Some of the articles reviewed are lis...

MARKETING, HEALTH CARE AND ETHICS

outgoing because of the particular medication. And yes, the commercials list the side effects, but usually as an afterthought. Bec...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

USING A SWOT ANALYSIS TO DEVELOP NEW SERVICE OR HEALTH CARE PROGRAM

a machine, as it were, even if the machine is connected to a health-care professional on the other end. Along those lines,...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Social Work in Managed Care

figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...

Health care is a Right vs. Health Care is a Privilege

The other ideological camp would be the socialist camp, a camp comprised of those that believe health care is a universal right. ...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Evaluation of Usablity.gov

which entices the user to explore further. The target audience for this site is quite broad. As indicated in the introduction to ...

Role of Public Health Nurse/Diabetes Care

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...