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Healthcare Problems in America and the Proposed Solution of 2008 Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain

very different plans to prospective voters. Obamas healthcare plan focuses on expanding coverage to Americans that are presently ...

Health care is a Right vs. Health Care is a Privilege

The other ideological camp would be the socialist camp, a camp comprised of those that believe health care is a universal right. ...

Barack Obama’s Universal Healthcare

time in history it seems that America lagged "behind European countries in finding value in insuring against the costs of sickness...

Organizational Leadership and Politics

ahead and enjoy the practices of the past (or those of recent government bailout recipients), but not to flaunt them too flamboyan...

State of Science, Nursing Ethics

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

TQM in the Hospital Setting

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Corporate Crimes

is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

The Impact of Mananged Healthcare on Laboratory Income

also increased the costs of healthcare and became one of the problems of rising costs. The insurance companies over time have so...

Financial and Managerial Accounting

the companys present and future performance, rather than past history (Managerial accounting - an introduction). They relate only ...

Homeless and Health Care

problems "are extremely high among the homeless population" (NCH Fact Sheet #8, 2005). In fact, homeless persons are far more li...

U.S. Healthcare System and Important Institutional or Structural Changes

of the consumer and using appropriate marketing strategies can hospital executives ensure greater customer satisfaction and repeat...

eHealth Tools of Quality Improvement

inform them as to the quality of care that home care agencies in their region are capable of providing for themselves or family me...

Health Care and Free Market

insurance cost, 2004). The rising costs are bringing hardships to insured and uninsured alike; the single biggest cause for person...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Ethical Dilemma/Canadian Nursing Practice

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

Healthcare Administration/Conflict & Stress

inadequacies in the standard of patient care due to a clinician refusing "to consult the on call physician or group" due to a cont...

HR Employee Benefits and the Impact of Rising Employer Costs

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Culturally Sensitive Nursing/Hispanic Client

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

Developing Health Policy Through Lobbying

Association (AHA) alone increased on internal and external federal lobbying to $12 million in 2000 from $6.8 million in 1997, whic...

Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

A Memo Advocating that Pharmacists have Prescriptive Authority

error, is increased substantially. Not only does this result in a lowered quality of health, it results in a significant economic...

Correcting Flawed Surgery Sites and Wrong Site Amputations

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...