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regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

the poverty line. These researchers point out that the poor are less likely to have health insurance, less likely to seek health s...

financial or other barriers" (Canada Health Act, 2004). Financing and Payment Structures Local governments and municipaliti...

The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

Holism, after all, embodies the concept of healing. Holism embodies another concept as well, however, that is the concept of cari...

trouble is, no one seems to want to point the finger at the cause. In fact, there is no one person, organization, or government ag...

make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

Medicare/Medicaid faces an increasing number of recipients and a decreasing number of contributors. Alonso-Zaldivar (2005, pg A14...

referrals, and so on. Messages are recorded by human workers, on message pads, then the message is placed in the appropriate locat...

for loans themselves (assuming that the partners themselves are some type of financial institution) or that the Limited Partners p...

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

of a minimum wage. As will be discussed below, the same principles apply to health care, not because there is any market-level co...

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

States would need to assure education and training were available for qualified individuals. One thing all states could do that ...

is relevant here is that the authors note that the goal of a CEO performance appraisal should be to link its results to the execut...