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Health Care Industry - Assessing Different Financial Environments

in the western United States (Cleverley, Cleverley, & Song, 2012). Such institutions are typified by the primary goal of "sharehol...

Financial Environments in the Health Care Industry

Hospital, a "450 bed not for profit acute care hospital" (Gapenski, 2007). Lastly, of course, because much health care access in...

QI Questions

for example the use of different Total Quality Management (TQM) tools (Mintzberg et al, 2008). The use of performance measurement ...

Opportunities for Health Care Entrepreneurs

led to most nurses being dissatisfied with the reality of working in conditions that threaten the safety of patients, and the qual...

Home Nursing Care Accreditation, Regulation and Licensing

for competency, the use do surveys to assess standards and the evaluation of clients as well as the provision of a complaints hotl...

Branding and Marketing in Health Care

phenomena of health care marketing and branding. One of the most instructive lessons in modern health care marketing and branding ...

Health Care Product Marketing

favorable. For one thing, patients typically complain of excessive pain in relation to the treatment, and this pain does not alway...

Policies in Long Term Care

to improve the system will grow, raising key policy issues" that cover all dimensions of the political landscape (Feder, Komisar, ...

Marketing Segmentation for Health Care

is through the process of market segmentation. Segmentation enables an organization to identify critical demographic features of a...

Health Care and Entrepreneurship

at a predominately corporate level, the work of union activists, and was granted to workers as one of the benefits of their employ...

Universal Health Care: The Ongoing Debate

Health care in the United States is a fundamentally different animal than it is elsewhere in the world. Certainly, the country has...

Health and Business Statistics

the business. Otherwise, it could impact sales margins. For example, if a statistician attempts to conduct a statistical analysis ...

Health Care and Entrepreneurship

recognize a marketable opportunity upon which to capitalize. The second step is the "development of the business plan" (Hisrich, 2...

Roles and Issues Regarding Health Care Reform

in the future development and revision of health care policy: While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010...

Health Care Industry Differentiation Strategies

high-competition field is positioning. By utilizing positioning appropriately, in conjunction with competitor and demographic rese...

The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONSHIPS AND HEALTH CARE

EDs x-rays or MRIs onto the priority list for whatever reason. The result is a lot of misunderstanding between the departments: ED...

Research Support for Applying Orem’s Self Care Theory

body being prioritised (Arvidsson et al, 2011). While this research is valuable for aiding with understanding and aiding with the ...

Nursing Studies: Identifying the Underlying Theoretical Frameworks

order to infer what theoretical framework is being utilized, and why such a framework is appropriate for the context. This parag...

Electronic Medical Records - Business Incentives and Ethical Concerns

information flows between healthcare facilities; the bottom line is that legislation will have to be concerned not simply with pro...

Nursing Ethics/A Diabetic Patient

2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...

OBRA 87: Achieving its Potential

facilities that it was intended to achieve. Looking at more specific indicators, however, one can see from the literature review ...

Floor Planning for Health Care Facilities

station is situated just before the facility branches into two main hallways, along either side of which are situated the twelve e...

Recommendations for Improving Quality of Care Through OBRA 87

ensure a complete implementation of improved infection control standards at all facilities. In order to overcome this deficiency, ...

Making Improvements in the Nursing Agency

provided in their own home. Services offered include, but are not limited to, general nursing services, physical and occupational ...

Career Planning

first essential step in the pursuit of any lifelong goal such as this is to develop a "five year plan". In the development of su...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

Health Care Management Models

there is a pressing need to "make clinical goals specific, roles explicit, [and] processes clear" (Phillips, 2005). For instance, ...

Nursing and the Philosophy of Care

activity of "caring moments". Caring moments are instances wherein a nurse spends a certain amount of uninterrupted devoted time w...

Advance Directives, Pros and Cons

of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), define an "Advance Directives," as "l...