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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, however, mandated electronic health records for all Medicare and Medicaid pati...

This paper discusses a major health care organization and its diversity. Several topics are discussed: data regarding diversity, m...

regards to taking prescribed medications is a common phenomenon among patients. It has been estimated that roughly 10 percent of a...

family with $15,000 at most for health insurance, medical expenses, and other emergencies. Health Insurance Plan Options Once th...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

to adulthood or general maturation processes. In an institutionalised environment, this can be a difficult transition, yet in a co...

equilibrium" (Christian, 2006). Each of these features lies within their own continuum. For instance, while all families establish...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

seek the same health goals for clients as in mainstream nursing, nurses in remote locations often cope with problems and obstacles...

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

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

This paper pertains to the challenges involved in achieving world peace and the actions that public health practitioners should ta...

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

This research paper pertains to actions that nurses undertake to aid heart failure patients in regards to self-care management. Th...

This research paper/essay concerns a home visit with an older woman suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF, hypertension and...

nature of both the emotional and the physical changes that are a natural part of adolescence ("Teen," 2003). Annually, close to 5,...

but society as a whole. Businesses, organizations, and even the government itself could flounder in the face of such a severe pro...

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

use these techniques only in response to certain ailments, such as back or neck pain (Steiner 20). However, another difference is ...