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overall, there is nonetheless a reduced life expectancy by as much as one-third, with increased chances of blindness, kidney disea...

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

DCF] the worst child-welfare system in the nation" (Hathaway, 2002, p. 1E). The state child protective agency, regardless of its ...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

In eleven pages English law is referred to in this case study of social services gaining a care order for the children ages two an...

are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...

felt she had no option but to take Asante with her. She left the child in the car and planned to come out periodically and check o...

has lost market share without making any changes aside from the package that consumers no longer recognize as being their old and ...

grocery chains in the US avoid the use of such loyalty programs. In the United Kingdom, most of the leading grocery chains have a...

individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...

plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for...

measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...

public policy. These groups are normally organized for the purpose of being with people of like-minded moral reasons for the soci...

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

and environment integral relationships" (Carey, 2003). One way in which to determine the usefulness of the theory and how p...

to assist in the process of migrating through the stages of ones particular challenges (What Is Hospice & Palliative Care? 2003)....

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....