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IDS AND HEALTHCARE DELIVERY COSTS

Focuses on whether integrated delivery systems can help control healthcare costs....

Nursing Shortage in an ED, Proposed Plan

This paper discusses nursing understaffing in an emergency department and proposes a plan to address it, using a SWOT analysis. Fo...

Human Behavior: Conditioned Responses

Utilizing rats and pigeons, Skinner (1965) set out to prove the whole of human behavior is based upon the fundamental concept of o...

Cause And Effect Of Stress

happy, excited or anticipatory by virtue of positive tension; this stimulation is critical to the body/mind connection. Negative ...

Gideon's Trumpet: Book Review

a lifetime of prison sentences], a flame still burned in Clarence Earl Gideon. He had not given up caring about life or freedom; ...

Medical Error Disclosure: Is It Safe To Say You're Sorry?

Appropriate treatment decisions and planning require this level of honest communication. The decision to disclose shouldnt revolv...

The Impact on the Quality of Life for the Tube Fed Elderly

quality of life represents the extent to which an individual can continue living his or her normal existence without the overwhelm...

Gideon V. Wainwright

case included Clarence Earl Gideon (appellant); Louie L. Wainwright, Division of Corrections Director (appellee); Abe Fortas (appe...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

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

Advantages Of Effective Incentives In Health Care

United States health services system are not the sick and injured, but rather the physicians, health service institution administr...

Diabetes: Alternative Health Care

of which includes diabetes (Samuels et al 55). Auricle pressure points - comprise over half of the more than 400 acupuncture poin...

Mandatory Staffing Ratios

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

Ida J. Orlando And Hildegard E. Peplau: Theoretical Application To Eating Disorders

the inherent differences between models. Ultimately, an individual chooses a nursing model that is based upon and compatible with...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Organizational Behavior Problem in Hospitals

A study by the Joint Commission revealed that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel ev...

The Policy Process In Developing/Emerging Countries: Nigeria

of strengths, weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages. However, one might readily argue how Nigeria would not be at the point it...

Motivational Factors: Literature Review

note the impact perceived control of external influences has upon an individuals ultimate behavior. Gallozzi (2008) points out ho...

DVT and Evidence-Based Practice

breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

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

Evidence-Based Practices Nursing

In health care, implementing evidence-based practices refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evi...

Opinions and Biases in Research

and the critique of knowledge. These may be framed as different forms of critique, but are often interdependent, as Gold (et al, 2...

Top Journalist Falters

Brian Williams, NBC news anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, was one of the most trusted journalists in mass media. Ev...

The Problem of Inequalities of Health Outcomes for Indigenous People

have indicated that socioeconomic disadvantages are more significant than genetic vulnerabilities (Durie, 2003; National Health Co...

Health Outcomes and SES

This research paper describes research findings that indicate the relationship between health outcomes and low socioeconomic statu...

Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research of 'Single-Case Methodology'

Hilliard further clarifies that intrasubject research is distinguished from intersubject research. In the first type of research ...

Antitrust Case Against Microsoft in Terms of Laws, Issues, and Outcomes

the OS as long as it benefits consumers and cant be replicated (Wired News Report, 2002). * May 18, 1998: The U.S. Justice Departm...

Clinical Family Health Promotion Outcomes Analysis

intervention protocols. In particular, this model has been utilized to consider the way in which health professionals address beh...

Illinois Wechsler Intelligence Scale Outcomes and the Impact of Ethnic or Racial Bias

between the ages of 6 and 16 (WIS, 2003). Finally, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-R) is used for intelligence testin...

Methodology on a Study Regarding Student Outcomes and Parent Involvement

organizing parent help at school, home, or other locations (Sheldon and Epstein. 2005, p. 196; Jones, 2001, p. 36). * Type 4. Lear...

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and Alternative Outcomes

gone with him there are several ways in which this could have altered the story. The first example will discuss how the story coul...