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it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...

The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...

This paper concerns veterans inability to obtain health care services from the VA, with a focus on mental healthcare. Six pages in...

Discusses Brill's Time magazine article "The Bitter Pill," and its impact on the politics and economics of the U.S. healthcare sys...

Discusses some of the risks faced by today's healthcare organizations. Topics include joint ventures, physician contracting, the T...

A literature review and methodology overview for a paper about the integration of healthcare systems. There are 4 sources in the b...

community decisions that enhance health" (Thomas, 2006, p. 1). Relevancy of effective communication with other healthcare profes...

than on the payment of premiums. As this suggests, the EHT funds are similar to the OHIP premiums in that these funds are likewise...

the state has focused on methods for improving access to care by gaining the support from organizations like Health Access Califor...

cost, but one that tries to find a way of assessing and managing the conflicting needs of the different stakeholders. The manager ...

HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular s...

embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...

was when a respiratory infection became severe and his doctors prescribed the use of an iron lung to aid ventilation. Macurdy desc...

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

US to a disproportionate degree. These groups include African Americans, Hispanics, and minority women and children (Dancy and Dut...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

also changing. In the past the systems were being used in a more limited manner, with more emphasis placed on aspects such as busi...

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

justified. As they expect to see signs of slothfulness and unprofessional conduct, this is precisely what they find. Their expecta...

of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...

separation of Medicaid eligibility from assistance programs. In fact, this act was designed to increase the access for low-income...

the director of health system performance studies at Fraser Institute, was quoted as saying that "It is irresponsible for a wealth...

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

expanded upon, specifically, in the Nurse Practice Acts that govern nursing in the individual states. New understanding relations...

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Resource Management Systems," 2007). Acquisition relates to recruiting employees as well as the selection process ("Contemporary P...

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