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of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

conditions may worsen and require treatment which will be more costly for the state or healthcare provider. This is unlikely to ha...

Indeed, the law is not perfect, which is why the average citizen should care about the prison system. Even if they do not break th...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

the SWOT analysis. This is an older analysis model which gives a good framework by looking at the strengths, weaknesses, opportuni...

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

a noun and a verb, is inextricably intertwined with nursing. Nurses provide care, that is, the actions necessary to attend to pati...

within the course of ones career as a leader. Differing models of leadership all hope to achieve the same outcome of conferring a ...

It also freed Blue Cross from the traditional laws that governed insurance companies. The justification for this status was that t...

managed care, hospitals have found that there is a higher margin of profit in specialized services, such as cardiology, pediatrics...

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...