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This paper analyzes the care prevailed for Lucy, an adolescent college student who is diabetic and complaining of fatigue. Diagnos...
If public health and health care could be integrated, it would result in numerous benefits, however, there are barriers and challe...
necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...
the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...
equipment was very important to them. It needed to be safe and there needed to be a lot of it. These parents have read to their so...
As stated, the pet food industry already generates more than $53 billion in sales; accessories and nonessential services (i.e., ex...
healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...
The purpose - indeed the entire study - does not specifically identify variables that can be labeled as independent. It is not an...
workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...
knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...
meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...
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...
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...
conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...
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...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
(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...
because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...
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 ...
were those who didnt like the "gatekeeper" mentality, the fact that any referral or recommendation needed to come from a "primary ...
hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...
All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...