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Changes at Intel

had out-earned Intel. Intels response has been to lower prices on its PC chips (Edwards, 2006); additional revenue from other sou...

Transcultural Assessment - Arab-Americans

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

Culturally Competent Care/Duke University Health System

could be applied towards unmet standards. Culturally competent care at Duke University Health System It has been determined by ...

Alcoholism in the Workplace

course, is one of the more prominent of the substances being abused (Plouffe, 2001). This results in estimated losses of $9.2 bil...

Health Care Management in North Carolina

cited any firms in North Carolina. Are there similar firms in the state? One could surmise that perhaps there is an absence of thi...

HR 676 (Reaction Paper)

offering fewer and fewer benefits and with the high cost of medical visits, many people are simply avoiding their doctors offices....

Child Abuse and Neglect, Various Issues

This research paper/essay pertains to various issues that are associated with child abuse and neglect. A principal focus of the pa...

Culture Care Theory

There are dozens of nursing theories that have been developed over decades. Each has its own value and each is beneficial for nurs...

Mental Health Care, Veterans

This paper concerns veterans inability to obtain health care services from the VA, with a focus on mental healthcare. Six pages in...

Federal And Connecticut Resident Rights: Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome And The Counting Method

upon as wholly overwhelming. II. SUMMARY The individual conjures up a traumatic memory while the therapist counts from ...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Aviation Maintenance

mobile offices" (Pryma, 2002, p. NA). The portability of the laptops allows maintenance workers to bring them on the plane, if the...

Health Care For Low Income Families

of centers that promote research and practice of health communication. Ideally, these centers would duplicate the existing Charle...

Human Factors in Aircraft Repairs

of human error. Khalil (2007) reported that 70-80 percent of airline accidents are due to human error. Graeber (n.d.) put the rati...

Critique of Bohomol, Ramos and D'Innocenzo (2009)

of a research article is "an impersonal evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the research being reviewed" (Coughlan, Cro...

Implementing High Involvement Work Practices

Using two example case studies the writer looks at the way in which high involvement workplace practices may be implemented in ord...

Transformational Leadership: Public Health Care Nursing

were organized and participative, then they took great risks in alienating the public by participating in suffrage events like the...

Reducing Errors in Research

necessary to choose the most appropriate method, in many cases this may include the use of screening and stratification in a numbe...

An Analysis of Medication Errors

it can be catastrophic. Indeed, in England and Wales recent medication errors have resulted in thirty-seven deaths (Nursing Stand...

SELECTION ERRORS AND THEIR COSTS

Discusses the costs of false positive errors and false negative errors when it comes to recruitment and hiring. There are 3 source...

The Slow Process of Reform in Health Care

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the issue of health care reform and considers reasons that it has taken such a lo...

Medication Errors

in control of the medication. Worse, not all medication errors are reported. If the wrong medication has reached the patient, the...

How to Utilize Databases

This paper pertains to the health challenge inherent in hospital acquired infection and focuses on the process of searching databa...

Patient Safety and Human Factors

This research paper pertains to nursing errors that threaten patient safety, such as medication errors. Five pages in length, five...

Media and Global Terrorism

In eight pages this paper examines the issue of terrorism and whether or not coverage by the media encourages rather than discoura...

The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman

call on the point of her physician-husband (Brooks ppg) The narrator tells us: "John is a physician, and perhaps--(I would not sa...

Process of Decision Making

make the "right," or good decision. According to Harris (1998), this facilitates other actions that may not help us in the way th...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

The Functions of Upper Management

was by Socrates, in a political context. The study of military strategy is ancient, examples include; Sun Tzus The Art of War; (ci...