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from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

their infrastructures are concerned, but health care is something that has severe ramifications. That is, the lack of health care ...

inflamed, tender to the touch and evident of a small amount of pus (DAlessandro et al, 2004), becoming more painful as time progre...

is how the people who are in treatment, or receiving care, should participate in that care. The Planetree model for example takes...

Furthermore they state that is a strategic approach which relates to all aspects of an organization within the context the culture...

they should have "choices that are diverse and responsive to individual needs"; and they should exercise personal responsibility i...

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

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

has one location but intends to open a second site, which is the purpose of seeking venture capital. * By-laws of the company alon...

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...