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HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...

Nursing Personal Values' Development

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Nursing Relevance of Jean Watson's Theory of Caring

phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...

Diabetes and Children

In eight pages this paper examines pediatric diabetes and considers the necessity for nursing specialists in this field in order t...

Nursing and Managed Care

In fourteen pages this paper examines systems of managed care from a current and future nursing perspective. Eight sources are ci...

Caring Defined

In five pages caring is examined through nursing field theories and new organizational areas in order to determine a relevant defi...

Nurses and Opiate Addiction

In this paper consisting of ten pages the addiction to opiates as it applies to managed care nurses is discussed in detail. There...

Issues of Managed Care and Patient Rights

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

Caring Nursing Theory of Jean Watson

that caring is good. Some nurses might object to allowing themselves the luxury because it makes them vulnerable, but in some prof...

An Analysis of Nursing Care Concepts

individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

Medicare, Health Care Issues, and the Presidential Election of 2004

that gives patients more options while maintaining fewer requirements (McKelvey, 2004). It is something that should strengthen the...

Jacobs, Marmor and Oberlander's The Political Paradox of Rationing and the State Health Plan of Oregon

subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

The Health Insurance Crisis

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

Access to Services for People with Disabilities

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

The Major Problems of the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Complexities Of Delivering Health Care In America

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

The Economic Impact on Home Health Issues

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

Billing, Coding and Reimbursement in the Health Care Field

the expansion of the industry was based on a business model-getting people well and making a profit doing it-rather than on doing ...

AN EXPLANATION OF CAUSALITY CONTINUUM

example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...