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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...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Medicare and the Elderly

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

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...

Resource Dependency Theory, Contingency Theory and Core Technology

over a great deal with social exchange theory and the study of politics in the workplace (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The use ...

Health Care and Material Management

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

A Case Study of the Use of Collaborative Processes for a Woman with Multiple Comorbidities

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...

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 ...

Survival of Managed Care

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

Managed Care Contracts

Wagner 35). It is also suggested that the practitioner should, of course, thoroughly read the contract, but also that practition...

Questioning Health Policy

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

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...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

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

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...

Elderly and Community Care

of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

Public and Private Health Care's Rise

no knowledge of the world of bacteria; viruses were unheard of; biochemistry had not been considered at all. In short, there was ...

Senior Citizens Care and the Impact of Local Policies and Global Health Issues

In thirty pages this paper discusses elderly care in a discussion of nursing, holistic care, communications, and local policies, a...

Local Policies and Global Health Issues

In thirty pages senior citizens' care is examined in this Canadian geriatric case study of various global health issues and local ...

Responsibility of Physicians and Managed Care

physician should have more power than presently granted. II. Solutions In trying to come up with solutions, one should first...

Nursing Homes Centered on Clients

The most recent trend in nursing home care is client-centered treatment. This paper examines statistics in elder care, with almost...

Home Health Care Marketing

In five pages this paper examines how to market home health care with a local marketer interviewed and a community facility that f...

Senior Citizens with Heart Problems and the Transitional Care Nursing Model

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

Health Care Policy and Influential Factors

Paul Starrs (1983) book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, provides insightful vision into the changes that had occu...

Science of Healthcare

In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...

Leadership in Health Care

In nine pages this paper examines health care leadership in a consideration of such topics as policy, whether or not health care s...