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Managed Care and its Impact on Poor/Minority Patient Care

Concepts, theories, principles and practices in managed care and the health services industry in regards to social, economic, and ...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

HEALTH CARE ACT AND MENTAL HEALTH

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE AND HOLY REDEEMER

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

Health Care Services Case Study

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

Ethics Of Managed Care

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

Health Care Communication

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

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

Assisting in Grief Counseling

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

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Care Barriers

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

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Care Partners/RNs & PCTs

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Teen Families Canada

unskilled, dead end jobs. When school-based child care are not available, Head Start programs step in to give children of teen pa...

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Adolescence is considered one of the most crucial periods of socialization because of the very pressure it places upon youth. Thr...

Strategic Plan: St. Vincent Health Care

route of accessible health care to growing numbers of Americans. Harvards Clayton Christensen has long preached the gospel ...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Changing Views on Caring for the Mentally Ill

The treatment of the mentally ill has changed drastically since the asylums of the 19th century. This paper examines the historic...

A Case History of Angina

of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...

ACA Took Away Some Freedoms

Few stakeholders are satisfied with health care in America despite the fact that health care costs more than in any other develope...

Mishel's Uncertainty In Illness Theory

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

Empirical Evaluation

healing. Respondents who reported moderate stress before group (56.3%) experienced a decrease (43.8%) after group that dropped th...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...