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Overview of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

Developments In Forensic Nursing

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

Health Care and Economics Principles

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

Canada's Immigrant Women, Prenatal and Postnatal Health Care

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

Hispanic Community, Health Care, and Government

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

Canadian Women Immigrants and Health Care

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

Enteric Feeds and Health Organization Policy

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Health Care and Elasticity of Demand

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Health Care Organizations and TQM

the country and that is because for the most part many of the health organizations do utilize Total Quality Management. This mode...

Health Care and Organizational Performance

Zellars and Fiorito commented: "Although being effective seems an obvious requirement of staying in business, organizational effec...

Organizational Management and In Search of Excellence by Peters and Waterman

the led. These distinctions depend on the ability to distinguish voluntary from involuntary compliance and to assess goal compati...

Analyzing Michigan's Kalamazoo Asylum for the Insane

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

Tutorial on Clinicians and Child Abuse

children should be returned to the care of abusive parents. Before launching into the actual meat of the paper, the studen...

Health Care Policy Development and the Roles of Interest Groups and Public Opinion

ability to provide politicians with useful information to which they might not otherwise have access. By joining these groups tha...

Social Security, Health Care Reform, and Public Policy

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

RN Nurses in Canada and Impact of Health Care Reforms

services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...

Senior Citizens and Health Care Legislation

time will tell if these bills will eventually be passed into national law. The purpose of this paper is to introduce five...

Belize and Conditions for Women

workers rights are in as much a quagmire as womens rights. So what is the solution? Identifying that poverty is one of the underl...

Nurse Role Definition

patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...

Alberta, Canada, and Health Care Privatization Issues

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

Forensic Mental Health Setting and Nursing Care

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

NJ's Advanced Practice Nurses

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

Health Care Applications of the Internet

This paper discusses the medical and health care benefits created by the Internet. This five page paper has eight sources listed ...

Strategic Management of Health Care

In ten pages health care facilities are examined in terms of strategic management and leadership in an overview of problems, chall...

Health Care, Organization, and Metaphor

In five pages this report examines metaphor in a consideration of the health care organizational environment. Three sources are c...

American Society and the Distribution of Health Care

In six pages health care system distribution in the United States is considered in a discussion of why the Clinton proposal failed...

Health Care Delivery Trends

In five pages the effects of various health care practices and trends upon the nursing field are examined. Five sources are cited...