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process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

moral and legal issues under constant debate over the issue of abortion but many of them are misleading, use misinformation and ar...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...

professional specialties. Since autonomy is expected within the professional environment, programs which include student autonomy ...