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Errors Linked in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial

emotion on their side. The O.J. Simpson case did indeed become a theatrical production but it was a production which served to ed...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Jacobs, Marmor and Oberlander's The Political Paradox of Rationing and the State Health Plan of Oregon

subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...

'Applying Airline Safety Practices to Medication Administration' Article Review

establish policy guidelines. In the administration of medication, "processes have been virtually ignored in the search for EBP" (...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

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...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

The Economic Impact on Home Health Issues

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Student Posed Questions on Statistical Errors

of the situation. For example, where there are personal points of view to be questioned and there are fears that the answers may b...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

Clinician Bias and Judgment Error

Why, after all, would he be without a home and gainful employment if he were of sound mind? This bias, which is based on popular ...

A Critique of Two Ariticles Pertaining to Cardiac Step Down Units

it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...

Overview of Control

going to use A to determine B. He has caught himself in a direct contradiction. Al-Ghazali wandered for ten years, meditating a...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

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...

Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

Project Risks of Boeing 787 Dreamliner

project. The two engines being used come from GE and Rolls Royce (AviationExplorer.com, 2005). A number of parts and components ar...

Psychiatric Nursing Alternatives

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

Has Health Care Been Improved by Managed Care?

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

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....

Regulatory Agencies for Managed Care

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

Aircraft Safety and Stress

and Ivancevich (1998) define stress as being an: "adaptive response, moderated by individual...

Controls in Australian and English Tort Law

actionable and for the bringing of cases to be controlled. We may also argue that they also serve a purpose in restricting and cre...