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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....

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

Advanced Practice Nursing, the Self Care Deficit Model of Dorothea Orem, and Urinary Incontinence

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Access to Services for People with Disabilities

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

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...

Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

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...

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...

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...

Rural Health Care and Employee Training Outsourcing

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

Health Care and the Internet

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Health Care: Proposal

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

Factors Affecting Health Care

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

A Critique of the 2006 - 2011 Indian Health Service Strategic Plan

the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...