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Field of Nursing and Managed Health Care's Impact

In two pages this paper examines the nursing field and the growing complexities involving managed health care. Two sources are ci...

Field of Nursing and Managed Health Care

In eight pages this paper discusses managed health care and its impact upon specialized nursing in an assessment of managed care's...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Social Work in Managed Care

figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...

Peplau and Orem/Core Concepts

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

The New Health Care and Columbia/HCA

Managed care has caused an upheaval in the way medical services are delivered in this country. This paper discusses the largest su...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

Nursing Profession and Managed Care

In twenty pages this research paper examines how the field of nursing has been impacted by managed care in a consideration of its ...

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...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

Managed Care Contracts

Wagner 35). It is also suggested that the practitioner should, of course, thoroughly read the contract, but also that practition...

Quality Nursing Care

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

Best Practice in Ensuring Infected Wound Healing

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

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

The Interprofessional Approach to Nursing

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Nursing Relevance of Jean Watson's Theory of Caring

phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

Issues of Managed Care and Patient Rights

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

Nursing and Managed Care

In fourteen pages this paper examines systems of managed care from a current and future nursing perspective. Eight sources are ci...

Nurses and Opiate Addiction

In this paper consisting of ten pages the addiction to opiates as it applies to managed care nurses is discussed in detail. There...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...