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Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Study on Health Status and Participation Critiqued

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

Health Promotion

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

Michael Moore's "Sicko" - Health Care That Harms Rather Than Helps

head of the largest Anti-Michael Moore website announced that he had to delete the website because his wife had cancer and the ins...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

The United States - A Reluctant Welfare State

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Field of Nursing and Managed Health Care's Impact

In two pages this paper examines the nursing field and the growing complexities involving managed health care. Two sources are ci...

U.S. Nursing Shortage

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES AND HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

Health Care Pricing and Costs

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

Aspects Of Universal Health Care In U.S.

Canadians must also pay for dental and vision costs. Dental problems can lead to other health problems and diseases. The desired...

Commissioning a Health Care Facility

few points of the requirements of HVAC design and execution in the new health care facility, but they demonstrate the complexity i...

Caring in Nursing Theory

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

Health Care Insurance And The Unemployed

does. Literature Search By November 2008, there were more than 10.3 million people unemployed in the United States (Families USA...

Health Care Teams

This research paper addresses the unique challenges that are associated with delivery of health care services by teams of professi...

Home Health Care Nursing

This paper emphasizes the importance of home health care by outlining typical day in the life of a home health care provider. The...

Government Involvement in Health

It also freed Blue Cross from the traditional laws that governed insurance companies. The justification for this status was that t...

The Government Role in Health Care

Health care is something that should be available to everyone. At the same time, it isnt logical to expect to...

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...

AN EXPLANATION OF CAUSALITY CONTINUUM

example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

Health Information Management

the store improving customer service quality, but it might not generate sufficient income to pay the extra costs. Coppola, Erchk...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Health Care Communication

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

Universal Health Care

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

Health Care Services Case Study

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...