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Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

The Elderly and Alternative Care Choices

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Ethical Treatment of Patients and the 1975 Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

Personal Nursing Model Using the Self Care Deficit Theory of Orem

in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). From this perspective,...

Product Safety Management and the Infamous Ford Pinto Case

7. Ford brought the Pinto to market in September 1970, in time for the 1971 models, as directed (Davidson, 1984). The development ...

Veterans' Benefits

into perspective when one considers the fact that benefits are still being paid to offspring and widows of both the Civil War and ...

Nursing as a Desirable Career Choice

trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

Issues Concerning Child Abuse

Tom. Jennifer flatly states that she has been locked out of the house at night in punishment for objecting to being sent to her ro...

School Field Trips and Care Issues II

the group, the service provider should discuss with her whether she will want to be responsible for her child or if she prefers on...

U.S. DentalCare and a Program of Managed Care

and Types of Patients Treatment Type Daily Total Annual Total Age Group Perio Oper Prosth Endo Income Income 20 - 30 2 1 1 0 808...

It's Always Something by Gilda Radner

with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any event, things were mi...

Overview of Respiratory Therapy

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

Johnson and Johnson Marketing Communications

and in 2001 unofficially took over daily operations of Johnson & Johnson as he was being trained to succeed Ralph Larsen upon his ...

Types of Home Care Services

specifically, a geriatric or elder care case manager is the person to consult when selecting home care services (Rotary Club of Sa...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Care of Senior Citizens and Issues of Dependency and Incontinence

prove to be so embarrassing to elderly clients that they alter their lifestyles to avoid social situations and, thereby, become so...

'Managing' Managed Care

By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...

Problems of Managers Regarding Managed Care

By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...

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...

An Overview of Critical Care Nursing

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

Three Business Ethics Questions

simply because the company did not want to lose money by taking the crib off the market. The social costs theory goes a step furt...

Australian Duty of Care/Emergency Services

or her field of duty is encompassed by the law of the Northern Territory of Australia, specifically the Personal Injuries (Liabili...

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...

Nursing Self Care Deficit Theory of Dorothea Orem

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

An Article on Families in the ER Critiqued

and fear and engenders feelings of support and help for the patient " (MacLean, et al, 2003). In regards to negative outcomes, fam...