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Long Term Health Care Facilities and Nosocomial UTI Infections

there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

Preventative and Curative Health Care: An Economic Approach

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

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...

Overview of Intensive Care Nursing

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

The Importance of Well Written and Presented Educational Materials in Patient Wellness

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

Health Care and Aging

are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...

Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990 and Depression Treatment

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

Health Care Costs and the Impact of Medicare

resolve. Our nations seniors are responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased nee...

Health Care Workders and Accountability Arenas

paralleled by the employers duty towards the worker. Legal accountability is that which is delineated by the civil and criminal la...

Marrone and His Vision of Dying Dying

Death and dying are a major concern in American society today. Robert Marrone addressed the various issues in Death, Mourning, and...

Pennsylvania's House Bill 1959 Domestic Violence Health Care Response Act

In five pages this paper discusses a PA legislative assistance act designed to help healthcare workers response to domestic violen...

Traditional Medicine versus Alternative Health Care

inasmuch as drug therapy is the treatment of choice for traditional practitioners. Quoting Dr. Jeffrey Lowrey, Baptist Minor Medi...

Medicare Program Implications and Managed Health Care

In twelve pages this paper examines how Medicare affects managed care programs. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Responsibility of Physicians and Managed Care

physician should have more power than presently granted. II. Solutions In trying to come up with solutions, one should first...

Senior Citizens with Heart Problems and the Transitional Care Nursing Model

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

Nursing Homes Centered on Clients

The most recent trend in nursing home care is client-centered treatment. This paper examines statistics in elder care, with almost...

Fidelity, Fiduciary, and Managed Health Care

their doctors fidelity and integrity to put their medical needs ahead of the doctors financial interests. "The most significant s...

Problems with Health Care Access in the United States

This issue is examined in eight pages in an argument favoring privatization. Thirty two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Health Care Change Theories

gained to practice on the job (Kopelman, Olivero, and Hannon, 1997). The specific problem that was addressed was missing patient...

Hinduism and Health Care

the differences noted above, Hindus are often immersed within the same cultural elements as are non-Hindus, from outward appearanc...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

Health Care Assistant and Nurse in a Situation Regarding Conflict Resolution

In four pages a hypothetical situation is considered in which a conflict commences in an ICU between a healthcare assistant and a ...

Database Management Systems for Health Care Call Center

large advertising budgets for the purpose of attracting new customers, but many need to place more attention on keeping the custom...

Ethics and Legalities of Health Care

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

Health Care for Australian Aborigines

Among many Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders there is extremely high ratios of sexually transmitted disease present. This is...

Health Care, HR Departments, and Government Regulation

offer such an important and expensive benefit if they were not required to do so by law. When an individual starts a company, he...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...