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Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

Hospital Organization Case Study

to the CEOs statement, the difficulties which the hospital is experiencing can be divided into two main but overlapping categories...

Peripheral Blood Vessels and the Effects of Diabetes

or where the body produces insulin, but for some reason the insulin does not do as it was intended, meaning the body can not metab...

Twenty First Century and Challenges to Health Care

century will be healthier, longer and enriched for more people than ever before. Premature deaths, those that occur prior to age 5...

A Blue Care Network Analysis

Michigan with a family of products that has been around since the middle of the 1970s ("Company," 2002). There was a time when BCN...

History and Implications of Medicare's Managed Care

cover the costs of catastrophic illness, but otherwise they maintained their own routine health care. The route of health care ac...

Caring Theory, a Critique

nurse-patient relationship, the nurse gives without the expectation of reciprocation (1991). Thus, a patient need not return the f...

Strategic Management of Health Care

In ten pages health care facilities are examined in terms of strategic management and leadership in an overview of problems, chall...

Considerations Involving Medical Data

In five pages this paper examines the problems posed by electronic medical information and the assistance offered by SISTeM in ter...

The Christian Science Church

book that described her new beliefs entitled Science and Health, which was published in 1875. In 1877, she married Asa Gilbert Edd...

Human Based Services Delivery

In eight pages the delivery of human care services are examined in terms of decision making, organizational structures, resource a...

Medical Ethics Cases

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages medical care and options are examined in terms of decision complexities that surround t...

Healthcare of African Americans After the Second World War

Hitler, especially during the Olympics, the United States may well have had to save face, and actively illustrate how they believe...

Social Services For Grief Counselling

This paper examines the topics of loss, grief, and self care in terms of the social services available for the treatment of these ...

FUTURE TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE

days, thanks to technology and the Internet, distance treatment is being used more and more in the delivery of health care service...

Health Care For Low Income Families

of centers that promote research and practice of health communication. Ideally, these centers would duplicate the existing Charle...

Cultural Considerations and the U.S. Health Care System

and others is becoming more and more diverse. Mwaura (2006) emphasizes that every culture has experienced a similar evolu...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

Terminology in Healthcare Economics

the patients insurance company and get a referral for a nutritionist. Each of these individuals and things and offerings are consi...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

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

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...

The United States - A Reluctant Welfare State

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

Energy Crisis

send oil prices soaring to unprecedented levels" (Leeb and Strathy, 2006, p. 19). The end results may well be the end of civiliza...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Terminal Patients and Hospice Healthcare

we all must personally face. Dealing with the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the f...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

Health Care Delivery and Various Moral, Philosophical, and Ethical Issues

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...