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Social Work in Managed Care

figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...

Obama vs. McCain on Healthcare and Taxes

his country. A two-time congressman and serving his fourth term as a Senator from Arizona, McCain has shed his maverick reputatio...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

Health care is a Right vs. Health Care is a Privilege

The other ideological camp would be the socialist camp, a camp comprised of those that believe health care is a universal right. ...

Healthcare Problems in America and the Proposed Solution of 2008 Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain

very different plans to prospective voters. Obamas healthcare plan focuses on expanding coverage to Americans that are presently ...

Markets and Healthcare

In six pages the changes within the healthcare industry's status quo are examined in terms of present jobs and advancement opportu...

Barack Obama’s Universal Healthcare

time in history it seems that America lagged "behind European countries in finding value in insuring against the costs of sickness...

The Ethical Responsibilities of Health Care Organizations

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...

The Dream is the Goal, The Path to It is Determination

action, along with a generous dose of determination and the application of intelligence, are essential to success. Therefore, in...

Patient Services/Women’s Health

a study whose purpose was to determine the way in which patients perceive patient education efforts. This research revealed that c...

Canadian Case Law, OHIP

than on the payment of premiums. As this suggests, the EHT funds are similar to the OHIP premiums in that these funds are likewise...

Communication in Healthcare

for any one patient can be almost overwhelming. Fortunately, numerous improvements are being made in health care that will better...

Interview with An Executive Leader

it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

Healthcare in New Mexico

strategies and 10 tools that were used and to be able to relate examples of at least five of these. These goals support self-eva...

Affordable Healthcare in Australia

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

Administrative Assistant/Hospital Administration

for top executives of an organization (BoLS, 2008). They also aid physicians and researchers with the preparation of "reports, spe...

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...

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...

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. ...

Ethical, Legal Views on Healthcare

expanded upon, specifically, in the Nurse Practice Acts that govern nursing in the individual states. New understanding relations...

Philosophy of Healthcare Management

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

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...

Technology and Is Used for Operations Management in Healthcare Practice

also changing. In the past the systems were being used in a more limited manner, with more emphasis placed on aspects such as busi...

The Use of Healthcare Portals for Miami Valley Hospital

of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...

Media Perception & Canadian Healthcare System

the director of health system performance studies at Fraser Institute, was quoted as saying that "It is irresponsible for a wealth...

The Political and Financial Impacts of Health Coverage

separation of Medicaid eligibility from assistance programs. In fact, this act was designed to increase the access for low-income...

Healthcare Communication

community decisions that enhance health" (Thomas, 2006, p. 1). Relevancy of effective communication with other healthcare profes...

MEDICAL CARE, HIPPA REGULATIONS, COBRA AND OTHER CHALLENGES

HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular s...

Basic Healthcare for the Children of California

the state has focused on methods for improving access to care by gaining the support from organizations like Health Access Califor...