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Prenatal and Neonatal Care

While only 6 percent of newborns require advanced life support in 1997, the rise in the number of neonates since that time weighin...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Performance Management through Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

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

Mexican-American Homeless & Programs

research that has investigated the characteristics of new Latin American immigrants has determined several characteristics that ma...

Needs Assessment for an Administrator of Patient Care Services for Women's Healthcare Services

often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...

Health Care Center Case Study: PQRST

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

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

A Personal Model of Helping

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

Aveyard/Believing and Doubting

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Hillary Clinton’s Health Care Proposal

reform is the American Health Choices Plan. In it she addresses costs and quality and hits on topics such as long term care, canc...

Legal Due Diligence

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

The Ethics of Pricing and Access to Health Care: A Social Justice Issue

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

Closeness and Distance: A Way of Handling Difficult Situations in Daily Care

the strategies that nurses are currently using to address these types of difficult situations. The qualitative approach utilize...

Diabetes in Adolescence

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

Postpartum Doula Care

experience" in previous eras (Abramson, 2004, p. 34). This doula program recruits doulas from the community being served. The mode...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

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...

The Impact of Bioterrorism on the Future of Health Care

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

Caring and the Nurse Practitioner

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

Nursing and Self-Care

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

DOES THE U.S. NEED HEALTH CARE REFORM?

States will cost a lot. There just isnt enough to do so. But Welch (2005) points out that a universal health care policy doesnt ha...

HEALTH CARE AND FUTURE TRENDS

that telemedicine is already having an impact on how healthcare is being delivered (Kohler, 2008). Kohler points out that technolo...

A Visit to a Child Care Facility

a nursery and individual classrooms for each age group. The facility also has a state approved food preparation and serving areas...

Teen and Adult Parenting Styles

she found out. It brought my mom and I closer but my dad and I, were not close any more at all" ("Melinda"). Because this girl is ...

Family and Health Promotion

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

Significant Policies of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama and Their Controversies

Hillary Clinton has lobbied tirelessly to provide all Americans with decent and affordable health insurance and was the chief arch...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Gap Analysis: Global Communications

Horngren, Sundem and Stratton (2002) provide a view of the alternatives available to organizations in Global Communications positi...