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In health care, implementing evidence-based practices refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evi...

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on an article entitled: Providing Patients with Information on Caring for Skin. T...

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

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

In eight pages such healthcare issues as managed care, health rationing, improved medical technology, and increased life expectanc...

In eight pages this paper discusses America's managed health care delivery systems in an overview of HMOs and their negative perce...

In fourteen pages this paper presents an overview of managed health care and then focuses upon legal, staffing, and financial cons...

an employer. Under the HMO system the traditional fee-for-service setup of medicine in which a doctor is paid for each patient vis...

In seven pages this paper is formatted as a speech that considers managed health care and addresses the system's various problems....

having done so. Performance measures in general help to provide a composite of the respective hospitals financial viability, howe...

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...

In twenty pages this paper examines mental health services as they have increasingly become a part of the managed care landscape. ...

In eight pages the concerns that have recently developed regarding the 1976 ANA Code for Nursing are considered including nursing ...

more targeted micro-marketing" (Mass marketing comes unplugged, 2005), primarily because it is no longer possible to gain a mass a...

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

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

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...

issues difficult to address, in that there is often an interchange of duties as a means by which to compensate for the sometimes-i...