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Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

Culturally Sensitive Nursing/Hispanic Client

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

Solutions for Health Care Staffing Problems in Rural America

Resource Management Systems," 2007). Acquisition relates to recruiting employees as well as the selection process ("Contemporary P...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

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

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Youth Suicide and Depression; Conventional Approaches To Treatment

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

Philosophy of Healthcare Management

justified. As they expect to see signs of slothfulness and unprofessional conduct, this is precisely what they find. Their expecta...

Ethical Dilemma/Canadian Nursing Practice

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Healthcare Administration/Conflict & Stress

inadequacies in the standard of patient care due to a clinician refusing "to consult the on call physician or group" due to a cont...

HR Employee Benefits and the Impact of Rising Employer Costs

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

Financial and Managerial Accounting

the companys present and future performance, rather than past history (Managerial accounting - an introduction). They relate only ...

Corporate Crimes

is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

U.S. Healthcare System and Important Institutional or Structural Changes

of the consumer and using appropriate marketing strategies can hospital executives ensure greater customer satisfaction and repeat...

The Impact of Mananged Healthcare on Laboratory Income

also increased the costs of healthcare and became one of the problems of rising costs. The insurance companies over time have so...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

TQM in the Hospital Setting

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

eHealth Tools of Quality Improvement

inform them as to the quality of care that home care agencies in their region are capable of providing for themselves or family me...

Minority Healthcare Disparities

U.S. health care system, shares some of the biases of that system (Eichner and Vladeck, 2005, p. 365). Instead of helping, Medica...

Legalizing Euthanasia in Canada

clear pronouncement in the case noted above that assisted suicide remains illegal, several additional cases have either ended in a...

Healthcare, Change, and Leadership

organisational changes fail at a rate of 29% (Maurer, 1997). Reengineering is higher at 30% and of most concern is the figure for ...

Turkey's Market Failure

When looking at market failure four main potential causes have been identified, these are market power abuse, the influence of ext...

U.S. Healthcare Policy

of many attempts at generating what would hopefully evolve into a comprehensive U.S. healthcare policy for all Americans, but the ...