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Nurses & Health Care Policy

the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...

Family Nurse Practitioner

either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

Canada and Electronic Order Entry

and harmful adverse drug events dropped to 0.03 per 1,000 doses from 0.05 per 1,000 doses. This equals the prevention of one harmf...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Disease Surveillance; A Literature Review For Research Into Attitude And Practice Of Ministry Of Health Physicians Toward the Surveillance System In Saudi Arabia

a history of proactive surveillance beginning in 1933 when a rule decree was implemented in order to help prevent the spread of co...

Against Euthanasia

in the last months of his life than he had been previously, and that was something he would have denied them, and himself, had the...

Physician Induced Demand: Examples From Obstretics

on physician induced demand. Turcotte, Robst and Polachek (2005) observe the relationship that exists between the cost of a servi...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET): The Potential Pitfalls of Reimbursement

availability of such reimbursement, however, comes the potential for certain pitfalls. Those pitfalls include the overuse of the ...

Medicine and Artificial Intelligence

beneficial in considering their application for prediction models and medical research. Reflecting on the utility of these system...

Medicine Evolution and Physicians

When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...

Supporting Argument for Operating Room Cameras

incidence of post-surgical infection (Weir, 2004). It therefore stands to reason that including cameras in the operating room wou...

Questions on Financing of U.S. Health Care

argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Stark I and Stark II Laws and Physician Self Referral

referrals directed towards certain facilities owned or operated by a physician or their family member might also be prevented, eve...

ER Television Series and the Nursing Image it Presents

(Summers, 2004). This switch back to pursing a doctors role sent a horrendous message concerning nursing to the viewing public. ...

An Individual's Explanation on Why He Wants to Become a Doctor

in most cases much better compensated than any other professional. Others want to become a physician simply because of the societ...

Contract Payment Alternatives and HMOs

same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...

Patient Service Improvements of NPs

and unequivocally made significant strides" within their specialty over the last two decades (Geiss and Cavaliere, 2003, p. 577). ...

PhysicianOffice Software Business Plan

health care industry continues to writhe through its evolution away from the structure in which it has operated for more than a ha...

Patient Outcomes and the Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

Home Health Agency Information Technology Upgrading

means of the company. Current Work Process Purpose of the Work Process The "home health" sector of the health care industry...

English Law Medical Case Study

to Mrs Jarvis was adequate, this was a treatment to alleviate her condition, but it was also wring, if she were pregnant she was o...

PhysicianOffice Software Marketing Plan

experience and former medical office managers who know well the requirements of medical offices administrative needs and the chang...

Literature Review on Dementia and Healthcare Employee Attitudes

but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...

A Biography on Charles Drew

This biography takes a look at this black doctor who lived during the 1900s. What Drew would contribute to modern medicine is incl...

Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide, and Ethics

In ten pages this paper considers the act of physician assisted suicide from a perspective of ethics and morality and determines t...

Medicinal Marijuana Use and Ethical Issues

is anecdotal. Nevertheless, for many physicians, it is hard to argue with the results they seem to see personally. In prescrib...

Terminal Illness and Counseling

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how psychologists, clerics, physicians and nurses can counsel patients who are term...