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Essays 331 - 360
over a great deal with social exchange theory and the study of politics in the workplace (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The use ...
can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...
for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...
points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...
it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...
nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...
physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...
would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...
diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...
hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...
ownership, because it once again acts as a preventive measure against accidents or injuries for the animals, damaged household ite...
?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...
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...
Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...
because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...
The purpose - indeed the entire study - does not specifically identify variables that can be labeled as independent. It is not an...
from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...