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JOB DESCRIPTION OF A HEALTHCARE RISK MANAGEMENT FUNCTION

Analyzes a risk management job description from Memorial Hermann healthcare system. There are 4 sources listed in the bibliography...

How to combat the Problems of Healthcare Database Management

This 8 page paper gives an overview of healthcare databases. This paper includes facts about managing and regulating databases wit...

RISKS FACED BY HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS TODAY

Discusses some of the risks faced by today's healthcare organizations. Topics include joint ventures, physician contracting, the T...

PATIENT COMPLIANCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A SOCIAL NET

A literature review about the importance of friends, family and neighbors on patient compliance when it comes to healthcare. There...

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...

AN ANALYSIS OF STEVEN BRILL'S "THE BITTER PILL"

Discusses Brill's Time magazine article "The Bitter Pill," and its impact on the politics and economics of the U.S. healthcare sys...

Hospital Technology

The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...

TUNISIA, ECONOMICS AND HEALTHCARE

Focuses on Tunisia, its economic health and healthcare issues. There are 5 sources listed in the bibliography of this 4-page paper...

UK State and Healthcare Law

If we look at the situation historically the state has not always involved itself in healthcare. At the begiunnig of the twentyith...

Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

Correcting Flawed Surgery Sites and Wrong Site Amputations

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...

A Memo Advocating that Pharmacists have Prescriptive Authority

error, is increased substantially. Not only does this result in a lowered quality of health, it results in a significant economic...

Developing Health Policy Through Lobbying

Association (AHA) alone increased on internal and external federal lobbying to $12 million in 2000 from $6.8 million in 1997, whic...

Issues of Global Threats and Demographics Involving Healthcare

influenza can pose a severe health risk for older members of a community. This means that not only has there been the providing of...

Terminal Patients and Hospice Healthcare

we all must personally face. Dealing with the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the f...

Professional Nursing Dimensions

ethnic distribution of the population in Paramus: White Non-Hispanic (75.5%) Hispanic (4.9%) Korean (4.8%) Asian Indian (4.5%...

Minority Healthcare Disparities

U.S. health care system, shares some of the biases of that system (Eichner and Vladeck, 2005, p. 365). Instead of helping, Medica...

Aging Society and the Ethical Challenges This Presents

the American population becomes progressively older. This report warns that we are on the threshold of becoming a basically "geria...

Application of Leadership Theory II

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

Conway Medical Center's Economic Forecast

Also on hospital property is an 88-bed nursing center that the hospital also owns and operates. Conway Medical Center provides ge...

Shands Healthcare Long Term Strategy Establishment

provide Shands with an advantage over its direct competitors. * The pod plan has the potential of significantly increasing capacit...

International Healthcare and the Impact of Technology

correct medications, and the list goes on and on (Bartholomew and Curtis, 2004). McEachern (2004) reports that technologically adv...

Economics and Health Care

can add to scarcity, such as time and income (Schenk, 2004). Furthermore, resources are limited, such as manpower, machinery and n...

3 Research Studies' Literature Review

in all. General weaknesses : The sample population all came from the same hospital, which may limited the applicability of the f...

Homeless and Health Care

problems "are extremely high among the homeless population" (NCH Fact Sheet #8, 2005). In fact, homeless persons are far more li...

Applying Economic Term Definitions to Health Care

period. It is determined by a number of factors including income, tastes and the price of complementary and substitute goods." In ...

Legalizing Euthanasia in Canada

clear pronouncement in the case noted above that assisted suicide remains illegal, several additional cases have either ended in a...

Healthcare, Change, and Leadership

organisational changes fail at a rate of 29% (Maurer, 1997). Reengineering is higher at 30% and of most concern is the figure for ...