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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Preventing Medication Error Change Project

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

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...

A Qualitative Assessment of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital's Online Web Portal

and health care demands, in part, that hospitals provide a functional presence on the web as a way of providing a higher quality o...

Nursing Concerns at Large Hospital System

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

Health Issues in Managed Care

This research paper offers brief discussion of 3 issues pertaining to managed care, which are the advantages and disadvantages of ...

INTERVIEW INCONSISTENCY ERROR - AVOIDING AND CORRECTING

In any survey, its hoped (and assumed) that both survey designers and interviewers are objective in their tasks - there is no room...

A Qualitative Assessment of Medication Errors

quantitative aspect of the research by Koppel et al. provides a very different approach to understanding the issue. The quantitat...

Eight Step Change Framework

differences between and among them. The truly effective change manager will likely draw on a couple of the theories when planning ...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

Advance Directives, Pros and Cons

of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), define an "Advance Directives," as "l...

Pharmacy Production Planning Research

hot or too cold for a long period of time. Refrigerated trucks can help to keep medications cold, but that is not always prudent. ...

Health Care for Immigrants - An Evaluative Argument

the beginning of the 2012 election season fast approaching, it is to be expected that the topic of immigration is going to come in...

The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

Personality Tests - Their Limited Value

tests in order to assess the potential compatibility of employees that they are considering hiring. However, there is little, if a...

Healthcare Initiatives at the Federal Level

outcome if the Affordable Care Act were implemented in 2011, in regards to the number of insured; without a doubt, coverage would ...