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An Overview of Clinical Pathways

Clinical Pathways can be important to saving the health care system of this country, according to this paper. It gives an overview...

The Issue of Sexual Abuse of Children

physical, verbal and emotional components" (Kidman, 1993; p. 9). Child sexual abuse is defined as "the engagement of a child in se...

Homeless and Nursing

In seven pages this paper discusses the health care profession's lack of providing decent care to impoverished and homeless member...

Quality in Health Care and the Effects of Agency Nurses

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

The Development of a Job Focus in the Area of Pediatric Care

Six pages with four sources used. This paper provides an overview of the central career opportunities in the area of pediatric ca...

Projections for the Universal Health Care System in Canada

7 pages and six sources used. This paper considers the existing status of the universal or national health care system in Canada ...

Health Care in the United States v. Canada

In fifteen pages the health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are compared with an emphasis on Canada's private and public fundi...

Internet and Health Care

In five pages this paper examines health care and how providers are able to utilize services provided by the Internet and also con...

A Critique of Two Ariticles Pertaining to Cardiac Step Down Units

it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Survival of Managed Care

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

Managed Care Contracts

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

Future of Managed Care and Specialized Laboratories

teams keeps the companys name at the industrys forefront THREATS * Restricted expansion within a very defined and specific niche i...

A Case Study of the Use of Collaborative Processes for a Woman with Multiple Comorbidities

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...

Health Care and Material Management

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

Responsibility of Physicians and Managed Care

physician should have more power than presently granted. II. Solutions In trying to come up with solutions, one should first...

Health Care Policy and Influential Factors

Paul Starrs (1983) book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, provides insightful vision into the changes that had occu...

COBRA and What It Means to the Economy

The role of public and private entities in health care is not a new debate. This paper details the Consolidated Omnibus Resolution...

UK and Community Care

This paper consists of five pages and considers partnership and care as they relate to individuals with learning disabilities with...

Managed Health Care and HMOs

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the health care industry in an overview of cost containment and HMO and managed...

Health Care and the Internet

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Elderly and Community Care

of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...