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Health Care Service and 'Professional Power'

different forms such as verbally or in writing, however, the compliance with the request is also influenced by other factors, such...

Nursing and Statistics

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Health Care Pharmacists and How They Have Evolved

been favorable to increased privileges for pharmacists. This trend towards increased privileges are certainly understandable give...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Nursing Metaparadigms Explored

paradigms According to Parse (1987), the simultaneity paradigm of nursing offers a substantially different view worldview than th...

Health Issues, Diet, and the Media

There are those who believe that advertising can actually be beneficial in promoting health and nutrition; after all, television e...

Antismoking Approaches and Using Beattie's 4 Quadrants Health Promotion Model

The model reflects different approaches, for example, the causes of illness may need to be focused on an individual or on a collec...

Different Careers in Nursing

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

World Health Impact of Dust Storms

far as the mouth, nose or throat. Finer particles by contrast are able to reach deeper into the respiratory system, more easily i...

Competitive Markets and Health Care

criticized for cutting costs when it comes to health care delivery. For another thing, consumers generally make a choice o...

College Students and Anorexia

readily been recognized that early detection and treatment of these disorders is the best way to end the chronic and often debilit...

Healthcare and Dictates of Culture

a model in which not only the biological components of illness were considered but also the psychological and sociological compone...

Senior Citizens and Health Care Needs

struggled with the shift to maintain services and provide support for this population. There is little dispute that the aggrega...

Great Britain and Medical Provision Between 1845 and 1954

pioneering hygienist. Here they were able to prove a different reason for the death rate of the patients at the hospital. The hosp...

'Health as Expanding Consciousness' Nursing Philosophy of Margaret Newman

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...

Health Care and Paternalism vs. Autonomy

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...

Overview of Pilates Exercise Fitness

similar to that of much more strenuous exercise programs (Anonymous, 1999). The inspiring combination of Zen meditation and...

Community Mental Health Practice and Communication

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Corporate Conspiracy of 'Junk Food'

had a disease, there would be a widespread and enthusiastic campaign to find a cure. However, because obesity is not considered a ...

Rationing Health Care and Ethics

where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...

AMAPAC and its Impact Upon Universal Health Care Coverage in America

field of medicine was not a very stable one, with almost anyone hanging out a shingle and calling themselves a doctor (American Me...

Metaparadigms and Nursing

and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...

4 Traditional Metaparadigms in Nursing

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

Health Care System of Canada

financial or other barriers" (Canada Health Act, 2004). Financing and Payment Structures Local governments and municipaliti...

PPS Health Care Payment Systems

The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...

Healthcare and Caribbean vs. South American Perspectives

In a paper that consists of five pages women's mental health care and the differing perspectives between the Caribbean and South A...