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Fadiman/Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

with their prescribed regimen for controlling the childs epilepsy (Simon, 2003). They became so frustrated that they brought charg...

Transcultural Assessment - Arab-Americans

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

HOFSTEDE'S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS: U.S., VIETNAM AND CHINA

Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...

Health Care and Native Americans

In five pages this paper examines the health care of Native Americans and considers the impact of their cultural traditions. Six...

Nursing Cultural Competence

and Cultural Competency in Health Care: An Australian Study by Megan-Jane Johnstone and Olga Kanitsaki. * Abstract; The authors p...

Field of Nursing and Managed Health Care

In eight pages this paper discusses managed health care and its impact upon specialized nursing in an assessment of managed care's...

Elderly Care in a Nursing Home v. At Home

In seven pages caring for the elderly is considered through two options with home health care oftentimes presenting more advantage...

Communicating Across Cultural Lines

With more diversity in industry every day, cultural issues come into play in addition to other barriers to smooth operation. This ...

Continuity in the Culture of African Americans

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates the concept of cultural continuity as it can be applied to a view of the African Americ...

Public Health Care v. Home Health Care

of Healthcare Organizations is one organization which has had a definitive impact on the quality of care being provided across the...

Health Care and Communication

to miscommunication. For example, in a busy hospital where there is a high degree of activity patients may be distracted and not e...

George W. Bush's Economic Policies

This research paper offers an overview of the George W. Bush administration's economic policies. The writer addresses issues assoc...

Theoretical Comparison of Hildgard Peplau and Dorothea Orem on Self Care Deficit

In seven pages this paper compares the self care deficit health care theories of Peplau and Orem in terms of similarities regardin...

Madeleine Leininger's Contribution To The Field of Nursing

This paper examines Madeleine Leininger's theories of human care as well as her trans-cultural nursing model. This seven page pap...

Health Care Industry Strategic Planning

In eleven pages this paper discusses strategic planning in the health care industry with HMOs and their impact, the relationship b...

Mental Health Services, Long Term Care

This research paper/essay consists of two parts. The first deals with long term care and the second argues that behavioral care sh...

Global Health Care Issues

In twenty pages this paper examines international health care issues in an assessment of problems including planning regulations, ...

Hospitals and Multicultural Diversity

In five pages the hospital setting is examined in a discussion of the importance of multicultural diversity in care with various i...

Nursing and Its Cultural Aspects

In five pages the cultural aspects of the nursing profession are considered in a discussion that while Canadian and U.S. nurses mi...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

Brazilian Culture and it's Influence on Business

ended than the monchronic and not tied to a set timetable, many task as seen as being able to be completed and it is the completi...

The Major Problems Facing the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

Connection Between Caring and Altruism

paradigm. To understand this approach we can look to the caring theory of Watson, which is based on this main elements, th...

Counseling Ethnic Minorities

at once the most primitive and most efficient means of communication throughout time: the art of narration, or storytelling. Huma...

The Relationship Between Culture, Health And Illness In Singapore

level of education, the impact of traditional culture is also highly influential. The concepts of health are based on the cultural...

Factors Negatively Influencing Continuity of Health Care for Black Males

From a humanistic standpoint, the distribution of health care services should occur in accordance with the principle of equality o...

Assessment of a Bundle of Healthcare Services for Patients with Dementia

why this population may be seen as particularly vulnerable. The paper will then look in detail at the service offered, and then co...

Cuba and Healthcare

problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...

Case Management, Leininger's Theory

This case management paper pertains to a Hispanic man with type 2 diabetes and draws upon Madeleine Leininger's Cultural Care Dive...