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the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, ...

More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...

The Orem Self Care model is represented in an example consisting of nine pages involving an AIDS patient who is discharged after a...

In five pages government bureaucracy is considered in a discussion of such issues as responsiveness, accountability, monitoring, a...

In ten pages a tutorial review on the article 'Discharge Teaching Work Strategies for Patients and Families for Care in the Home'...

9 pages and 6 sources. This paper considers the concept of fortitude and the ability of hospital personnel to assess fortitude. ...

Decision-making, critical thinking and advocacy are all important in the modern hospital experience. This paper examines a patient...

of revenues, and it is likely lower. Allowing 35 percent food cost, however, the cost of operations including labor should not ex...

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...

and Smith, 2006). This in turn will create a relationship with the patient that facilities the achievement of these goals (Walshe ...

The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...

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

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

Dementia is a debilitating disease that strikes mostly older people. The focus of this essay is Spiritual care for people with dem...

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

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...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

in funding for long-term care will have had a devastating impact on women, minorities, and children. Patterns of Use According to...

who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

a high school player, Mother would go over to the box... and drop some coins in the box... I asked what she was doing and she said...

the result of a multi-dimensional situation, in that it has existed in one context as a state-to-state issue involving Israel and ...

not everything is black and white. Landau (1993) suggests that there are a variety of viewpoints within Israel and amongst the Je...

and their Roman conquers. This, again, led to another great scattering of the Jewish people (Jones, 1996). Although there has been...