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An Efficacy Evaluation of a Private Not for Profit Wellness Center

In four pages the efficacy of this wellness center is evaluated through clinical pathways as a way of improving health care costs ...

Quality of Life and Health Care Policies

In five pages this paper examines public policy with regard to health care in a consideration of whether or not it is improving th...

Coalition Buyers Health Care Action Group

In eleven pages a Minnesota coalition known as Buyers Health Care Action Group is discussed in terms of how it works, its efforts ...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

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...

Fort Bend County, Texas/Health Care Spending

This paper offers a summary of "Health care spending, quality and outcomes: More isn't always better" by Fisher, et al (2009). The...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Should the US Adopt a Universal Healthcare System?

potential for a greater degree of efficiency. The question is whether not there should be a universal healthcare system adopted in...

Polarity Management

are problems, the use of critical thinking models or other problem solving tool will help to find an effective resolution. The pro...

Collective School Perspective

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

Data Collection Tools/Patient Safety

This research paper addresses selection of data collection and other relevant tools for use in a quality improvement project that...

Nursing Need to Delegate

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

Family Health Nursing

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

Nursing Philosophy for Professional Practice

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

Discussion of Change Theories for Specific Field

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

Impact of Insured on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

Family Nurse Practitioner

either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Nursing Director, Role and Description

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of the qualities and characteristics that describe an ideal nursing director. ...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Interview With Nurse CEO

A very large meta-analysis was performed by the American Library Association in 2007 to determine the most important traits for an...

Increasing Health Care Costs

The health care situation is rather complex, but solutions can be implemented once the problem is thoroughly understood. This pape...

Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing

management dilemma" and is written by Orly Toren and Nurith Wagner. The authors discuss different ethical dilemmas nurse face dail...

Health Care and Information Technology Utilization Increases

matter crucial in todays health care industry. The health maintenance organization (HMO) was born of an effort to reduce the rate...

Responsibilities of Nursing Directors

In five pages Directors of Nursing are examined in terms of their many responsibilities which include business management, human r...

Quality of Life, Nursing, and Concept Analysis

of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...

Quality of Life and the Role of Nursing

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Increased Taxes and the Affordable Care Act

This paper questions the economics of ObamaCare. Americans are benefiting but others are paying dearly for those benefits. There...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...