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partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...
a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...
efficiency is paramount. The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to ba...
however. This investigation is concerned more with the dynamics between payers, providers and consumers. Has government healthcar...
to protect doctors from expensive lawsuits is thin. Although health care is problematic in the United States for a variety of rea...
by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...
argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...
the situations are not precisely parallel. A closer analogy might be if businesses owned by orthodox Jews argued that they did not...
and policies. Consultant Jeff Melton states that the "cost of doing business in California is 30 percent higher than the av...
the poverty line. These researchers point out that the poor are less likely to have health insurance, less likely to seek health s...
of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...
of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...
to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...
not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...
protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...
who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...
As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...
sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...
with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...
the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...
at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...
scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...
or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...
process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...
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 ...
providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...
How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...
U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...