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JOB DESCRIPTION OF A HEALTHCARE RISK MANAGEMENT FUNCTION

Analyzes a risk management job description from Memorial Hermann healthcare system. There are 4 sources listed in the bibliography...

RESEARCH PLAN, PART I: PRICE DISCREPANCIES AMONG HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS

Offers an overview and hypothesis for a research paper focused on how standardizing costs can lead to more efficient healthcare de...

PATIENT COMPLIANCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A SOCIAL NET

A literature review about the importance of friends, family and neighbors on patient compliance when it comes to healthcare. There...

RISKS FACED BY HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS TODAY

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

LITERATURE REVIEW AND METHODOLOGY FOR HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SUCCESS

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

Mental Health Care, Veterans

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

AN ANALYSIS OF STEVEN BRILL'S "THE BITTER PILL"

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

Hospital Technology

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

Overview of Healthcare Economics

In ten pages healthcare economics is discussed in an overview that includes planning, rational planning, costs, efficiency, equity...

Developing Health Policy Through Lobbying

Association (AHA) alone increased on internal and external federal lobbying to $12 million in 2000 from $6.8 million in 1997, whic...

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). ...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

A Memo Advocating that Pharmacists have Prescriptive Authority

error, is increased substantially. Not only does this result in a lowered quality of health, it results in a significant economic...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Student Ethics Article

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

UK State and Healthcare Law

If we look at the situation historically the state has not always involved itself in healthcare. At the begiunnig of the twentyith...

Telemedicine Evolution

access to the expertise of various medical specialties from time to time, it is not cost effective for either private or public he...

2 Industries and Ethical Standards

is Gatifloxacin." Before the doctor can order the medication, yet another screen pops up and tells the doctor that he needs to tak...

Ethical Implications of Abortion Health Care

abortions were categorized as being either therapeutic (legal) or criminal (Aries, 2003). Therapeutic abortions were only cases i...

Gayle L. Zieman The Handbook of Managed Behavioral Healthcare

hundred years of managed care Zieman steps backward in chapter 2 and offers a discussion of the history of prepaid health plans i...

Healthcare According to John Kerry and George W. Bush

making their own choices and opting to purchase for themselves individual insurance (Gleckman, 2004). The President believes that...

Health Care Reform Crisis

time has run out for this dysfunctional, disjointed thing we cal heath care" (2002, p. A15). Increasing premiums force employers t...

Overview of Self Mutilation

superficial variety is most common among adolescents. Self-mutilation is commonly the cutting of forearms or wrists, but there ca...

Student Case Study on Dentyl pH and Fresh Breath

2003). The company with the largest market share is GlaxoSmithKline Plc who claim nearly 29% of the market, Colgate-Palmolive ar...

Diabetes Education Expanded Lesson Plan

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

A Country Hospital Uses Cross Training

the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those nurses ...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

U.S. Healthcare and Involvement of the Government

at best, and many would say that it has been the businesslike minds which have thrown the healthcare system into its present state...

Social Services, Nursing, and Collaboration

team discuss examples of collaboration that are drawn from various databases and professional journals that demonstrate collaborat...