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Taking Care of the Elderly

The author considers the difficulties facing families who decide to care for elderly relatives with Alzheimer's. The author analyz...

Customer Service and Long Term Care

In fifteen pages this paper discusses long term care facilities in a consideration of customer service issues. Twelve sources are...

Nursing Aide Certification

Certification is important in many fields as it is in nursing. The CNA position is discussed in depth. The nursing care industry i...

Rural Health Care and Farm Injuries

In ten pages the rural health care issue of farm injuries is discussed in an overview that also presents a program for outcome bas...

When Elderly Parents Must Be Cared for by Adult Children

This paper consists of five pages and examines the problems connected with adult children caring for their elderly parents by disc...

Overview of Hospice Care

In twelve pages this research paper presents an overview of hospice care in an examination of program history, basic concept defin...

Death and Dying Interview

In five pages a nursing services' director for a long term health care facility for senior citizens is interviewed regarding the p...

Nursing Administration Unit and Hospital Mergers

In ten pages this paper examines the increasing health care industry practice of hospital mergers and the problems with them and s...

The Five Major Principles of the Canadian Health Act of 1984

the CHA. For example, in the western province of Alberta, Premier Ralph Klein has dealt wit the decline in federal funds by author...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

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

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

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

Long Term Care Policy Change Memorandum

to help change laws or create new ones. For this reason, AARP serves a positive purpose, inasmuch as there are not enough citizen...

Sales Data Warehousing and Keane Care Customer Service

and an Accounting DB2 database. The data staging layer serves as a single source to consolidate data from existing DKSystems SQL ...

Nursing and Health Care Political Issues

the same sort of indirect methods that they have advocated will aid the economy. For example, the Republicans are pursuing putting...

Overview of Needlestick Injuries Among Health Care Workers

infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) as well as the hepatitis B virus. Of health care workers infected with HCV, "85% become ch...

Acute Care Facilities and HIPAA

leaving one job for another has created are entrenched in insurance underwriting. Many people with pre-existing conditions are fea...

Children and Legal Responsibilities

for decision making (Lexis, 2004). This approach also reflects the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Cretney , 1998). Ho...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

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

American Journal of Nursing Article 'Improved Rates of Compliance with Hand Antisepsis Guidelines: A Three-Phase Observational Study' Reviewed

efficiency is paramount. The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to ba...

Health Care Service and 'Professional Power'

different forms such as verbally or in writing, however, the compliance with the request is also influenced by other factors, such...

Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

1994 Baby Deaths at Canada's Winnipeg Health Sciences Center

In seven pages this paper examines the post heart surgery deaths of 12 babies in this Canadian health care facility in a discussio...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

Winners and Losers Among Health Care Providers

however. This investigation is concerned more with the dynamics between payers, providers and consumers. Has government healthcar...

Summary and Analysis of the Film Daddy Day Care

care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...

Defining a Healthcare System in the U.S.

to protect doctors from expensive lawsuits is thin. Although health care is problematic in the United States for a variety of rea...

Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

Pain Management for the Elderly

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

Questions on Managed Care Answered

the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...

Health Care System of Canada

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