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at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

This 5 page paper gives an overview of federalism and hwo it is conducted in the United States. This paper includes issues of heal...

This research paper presents an annotated bibliography pertaining to the effects of the nursing shortage on the delivery of health...

There are dozens of nursing theories that have been developed over decades. Each has its own value and each is beneficial for nurs...