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this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Nursing has evolved over the decades primarily as a result of research (Director, 2009). Nurses recognize a problem and introduce ...

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

Concepts, theories, principles and practices in managed care and the health services industry in regards to social, economic, and ...

story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...

This is the event for which the processes focused, on which the reflection is taking place. This is an objective stage where the d...

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...

in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...

Patient adherence to a prescribed chemotherapy is particularly crucial to the goal of positive patient outcomes in regards to trea...

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

at any given time. More than a decade ago, Bigelow and Arndt (1995) suspected value in TQM in the hospital setting but wrote, "Th...

Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...