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Nursing Liability and Access to Health Care by the Poor in Texas

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

Health Care Crisis and Economics

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

U.S. Refugee Population, Health Policy Treatment, Prevention, and Care Services

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

Health Care and Special Interest Groups

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

Minorities and Health Care Disparities

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

A History of Children In Mental Health Facilities

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

Nurse Role Definition

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

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...

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...

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...

Enteric Feeds and Health Organization Policy

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

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...

Reform and Ethics As They Relate to Nursing Home Care

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

Developments In Forensic Nursing

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

Theory of Human Caring/Jean Watson

experience of another person, and another can enter into the nurses experiences" (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003, p. 25). Watson rega...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY - UNITED STATES AND CANADA

of the Canadian system, of course, is the fact that everyone is insured, no matter what the pre-condition, age, and so on. But the...

The Public Option is Necessary

very wrong with health care in the United States. Presidents have been trying to fix the problem for decades but they are fightin...

Pending Health Care Legislation

nursing home residents, uninsured children and families, people with chronic illnesses...and other underserved groups" (Pomeroy, 2...

Universal Health Care Is Too Costly

doctors, administrators and health care objectives overall lack strategic connection when it comes to major issues. Anderson et a...

MEDICARE MODERNIZATION - AN OVERVIEW

Medicare Part D has the ability to impact millions of individuals who are currently enrolled in Medicare and who were unable to ge...

Customer Service In The Health Care Industry

CUSTOMER SERVICE IN HEALTH CARE Customer service is the lifeblood of every business; from the mom and pop operations with 3 emplo...

Allocating Healthcare

saved. In essence, to allocate health care is to pick and choose who gets to live in a world where there are not enough resources...

TERTIARY PREVENTION AND HEALTH CARE

measures of prevention, and determine their effectiveness in a given health care model. An Overview of Tertiary Prevention ...