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Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

an assessed internal rate of return of 4.46%. This assessment was made using the accounting convention of conservatism. However,...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

Exploration of Congestive Heart Failure

In seven pages this medical condition is examined in terms of its symptoms and treatment with a consideration of the role depressi...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Etiology and Pathophysiology of Lung Cancer

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

Reducing Falls in Home Based Patients

implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medical Coding, and Patient Privacy Rights

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

Blodget Case Analysis

a new, inexpensive test, called the Fox test, is now in circulation, and is available to help screen clinic patients. The test cos...

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

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

In Home Cancer Treatment

In a paper consisting of six pages the growing trend towards treating cancer patients at home rather than at a medical facility is...

Post Miscarriage and the Interaction Between Medical Staff and Patient

In sixteen pages this paper discusses nursing theory in a consideration of how patients who have experienced miscarriages or are a...

Plato's Views on the Ethics of Healthcare

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

Ethics, Politics, and Quality of Life

In six pages this paper discusses the importance of the quality of life and how the medical industry can become humanized by valui...

Supporting Life and Costs Both Financial and Emotional

In five pages this research paper considers comatose or vegetative patients and the financial and emotional costs of sustaining li...

Marijuana for Medical Purposes

In ten pages this paper argues in favor of a medical need for marijuana to be legally used citing the similar character properties...

Medical Use of Marijuana and California's Proposition 215

In a paper consisting of ten pages the inhumanity of denying marijuana for medical use in cancer, AIDS and paraplegic patients is ...

Surgical and Medical Patients and the Value of Sleep

In two pages this paper summarizes and reviews a journal article in which the importance of sleep for medical patients is argued b...

Are Physicians' Professionalism Sacrificing Humanity?

had no idea what chemical component was the primary factor of his theory -- he merely followed his heart as a physician who believ...

Nursing Responses to Healthcare Cultural Differences

In a paper consisting of 4 pages the surgical complications regarding a member of the Jehovah's Witness patient as described in a ...

Privacy Rights and Medical Records

In five pages this paper examines electronic medical record keeping and the violation of privacy that has resulted in a considerat...

Ethics and Removing Medical Patients from Life Support

In 5 pages this ethical consideration discusses 3 philosophers' views on removing medical patients from life support. There are 5...

Psychological Studies' Case Study on Mental Representation

timed in regards to their responses, Rosch reported that "response times are strikingly close to ratings of typicality" which mean...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Terminal Conditions and Informing Patients

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

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

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

Hinduism and Health Care

the differences noted above, Hindus are often immersed within the same cultural elements as are non-Hindus, from outward appearanc...

Examination of Huntington's Disease

patient displays. While the propensity for abuse can certainly go either way - from caregiver to patient and vice versa - the ext...