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Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

Culturally Sensitive Nursing/Hispanic Client

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

TQM in the Hospital Setting

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

Ethical Dilemma/Canadian Nursing Practice

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Healthcare Administration/Conflict & Stress

inadequacies in the standard of patient care due to a clinician refusing "to consult the on call physician or group" due to a cont...

HR Employee Benefits and the Impact of Rising Employer Costs

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

The Impact of Mananged Healthcare on Laboratory Income

also increased the costs of healthcare and became one of the problems of rising costs. The insurance companies over time have so...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

Financial and Managerial Accounting

the companys present and future performance, rather than past history (Managerial accounting - an introduction). They relate only ...

Corporate Crimes

is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...

U.S. Healthcare System and Important Institutional or Structural Changes

of the consumer and using appropriate marketing strategies can hospital executives ensure greater customer satisfaction and repeat...

eHealth Tools of Quality Improvement

inform them as to the quality of care that home care agencies in their region are capable of providing for themselves or family me...

Free Educationa and Healthcare for Prisoners

therefore STDs and HIV infection are spread easily as the vast majority of correctional facilities prohibit condom possession (Zac...

Sudanese Migrants in UK Healthcare Needs Grant Proposal

programmes to develop an approach to healthcare that will benefit both the community and the state in the long term....

Health Care and Free Market

insurance cost, 2004). The rising costs are bringing hardships to insured and uninsured alike; the single biggest cause for person...

Homeless and Health Care

problems "are extremely high among the homeless population" (NCH Fact Sheet #8, 2005). In fact, homeless persons are far more li...

U.S. Healthcare Policy

of many attempts at generating what would hopefully evolve into a comprehensive U.S. healthcare policy for all Americans, but the ...

A Sample Allied Health Care in Radiology Admissions Essay

life long learning as a personal life philosophy. Over the course of the last decade, the focus in human resources departm...

Applying Economic Term Definitions to Health Care

period. It is determined by a number of factors including income, tastes and the price of complementary and substitute goods." In ...

Legalizing Euthanasia in Canada

clear pronouncement in the case noted above that assisted suicide remains illegal, several additional cases have either ended in a...

Healthcare, Change, and Leadership

organisational changes fail at a rate of 29% (Maurer, 1997). Reengineering is higher at 30% and of most concern is the figure for ...

Turkey's Market Failure

When looking at market failure four main potential causes have been identified, these are market power abuse, the influence of ext...

Correcting Flawed Surgery Sites and Wrong Site Amputations

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...