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Essays 1771 - 1800

The Master's Prepared Nurse: Competencies in Health Care

"benefits and burdens of... treatment", helping patients to "understand their prognosis", and emphasizing the importance of patien...

'Economics of Medical Care' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Evaluation

borrow from a retirement account or use money earmarked for something else, the hospital must have felt a sense of desperation. Th...

Policy Memo on Massachusetts' Single Payer Health Care

this number, a surprising 51.3 percent were employed people under the age of 65 (Birenbaum, 1993). Almost 28 percent of the unins...

Overview of Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust

the development and introduction of the NHS (Portillo, 1998). However, since that time there have been many changes and a range of...

Janet Gonzalez Mena's Multicultural Issues in Child Care

Many teachers use this direct eye contact as a way of gathering their students attention, but if this goes against ones upbringing...

Advanced Practice Nursing Care and Ida Jean Orlando's Theory

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

Massachusetts General Hospital and its Patient Care Delivery Model

the mid-1990s and later. The hospitals purpose in implementing the PCDM was to decrease costs of both operation and labor, while ...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Inclusion of a Child Life Therapist

adding a child life therapist for a neonatal intensive care unit (ICU). This person would be a trained therapist, with the sole pu...

Boots' Loyalty Care Effectiveness Assessment

to gain greater knowledge of the individual customer in order to offer more meaningful products and services. Though the organiza...

4 Websites on Managed Behavioral Health Care

a Magellan representative who informs you of current provider network opportunities in your geographical area. If these opportunit...

Mobility Scooters and Health Care Policy

electric scooter to virtually anyone over the age of 65, CMS current position is that no individual will be approved to receive on...

Case Study of Dad's Pet Care Company

Care, 2004). The product line has expanded from dog biscuits to a variety of different types of dog and cat foods (Dads Pet Care, ...

Patient Care and Issues of Culture and Language

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

Ethical Implications of Abortion Health Care

abortions were categorized as being either therapeutic (legal) or criminal (Aries, 2003). Therapeutic abortions were only cases i...

Advocacy and Caring in Nursing

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

Canadian Health Care System Proposal

feel that another area in which increased immunizations may be called for is in regards to vaccinating against influenza (Sibbald...

Terminal Care Patients, Families, Nursing Staff, and Effective Communication

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

Beyond Caring by DF Chambliss

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

Orem's Nursing Theory of Self Care Deficit Conceptual Analysis

differences between Orems theories and those of others. The intention of this paper is to work through each of these steps and to...

An Analysis of a Article on Nursing Home Care and Medicaid Payments

for all persons in Medicaid certified facilities within the US. This instrument entails over 350 different data elements ranging f...

Questions Regarding Issues in Managed Care

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

Health Care Reform Crisis

time has run out for this dysfunctional, disjointed thing we cal heath care" (2002, p. A15). Increasing premiums force employers t...

Metaparadigm of Nursing, Parse's Totality and Simultaneity, and Madeleine Leininger's Cultural Care Diversity

today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...

Reform of Medicare and Health Care Policy

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

Health Care and Organizational Structure

ineffective - organizational structure on the organizations ability to function at optimal levels has been known literally for dec...

Analyzing Universality and the Cultural Care Diversity Theories of Madeleine Leininger

patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...

Self Care Patient Education Plan

This means that some learn material better when they hear it said to them, while others learn best when they are able to read the ...

Health Care and Aging

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

Patient Care and the Adaptation Model of Callista Roy

All care is the responsibility of the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients respo...