Essays 631 - 660
who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...
without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...
Objectives Related to Pennsylvania Standards * Know at least ten animals that live in rain forests and some that have become extin...
health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...
(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...
at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...
in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...
are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...
medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...
state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...
diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...
policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...
since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guideline...
of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...
to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...
protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...
of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...
As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...
sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...
with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...
paralleled by the employers duty towards the worker. Legal accountability is that which is delineated by the civil and criminal la...
for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...
Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...
not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...
Health Act, 2004). Nevertheless, recently the provincial government of British Columbia found it necessary to pass legislation lev...
Holism, after all, embodies the concept of healing. Holism embodies another concept as well, however, that is the concept of cari...
But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...
there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...