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Marie Curie Nobel Prizes
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1,123 wordsFlorence Nightingale is remembered throughout the world for her heroic, almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child, Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in her years attending school. Florence grew up to be a lively and attractive young woman, admired in her families elite social circle and was expected to make a good marriage, but Florence had other concerns. In 183...
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Ill Patients Payment System
1,108 wordsThe rising cost of medical care in the United States has been a concern for quite some time. Beginning in the 1960 s with the advent of Medicare, a system has been needed that will balance cost with services provided within acceptable parameters. In 1982, the US Congress placed a cap on operating expenses for each Medicare case treated in a hospital, as a protective measure to insure adequate payment within reasonable limits. A prospective payment system (PPS) was initiated as a result of the ca...
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Tons Of Tnt Power Of One
1,426 wordsThe detonation of a single nuclear bomb or "warhead" would cause a local disaster on a scale that few people in the world have seen and survived. However, it should not be confused with the effects of a nuclear war, in which many nuclear bombs would be exploded. That would cause the end of civilization in the countries concerned, and perhaps over the whole world, as well as radioactive contamination of whole continents, and terrible damage to the environment and ecology. The effect of a single b...
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American Red Cross Clara Barton
1,893 wordsMedical Care and Nursing in the US Civil War Introduction -The Civil War was horrific and bloodiest warfare. During the Civil War, medicinal knowledge was tremendously primordial. Doctors were not aware of seriousness of infection, and did not put much effort to prevent it. These issues created interest to know about cure of soldiers in battlefield. Thus the main objective of this paper is to focus on the treatment of wounded soldiers, their nursing and medicines used during civil war. Medical c...
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Article Titled Car Accidents
1,317 wordsMedia Fear Tactics This paper will take a look at two articles on BBC World News and how they directly relate to Gavin De Becker's Media Fear Tactics. It will take a look at the way news articles are presented so that the viewer and reader begin to have fear instilled in them as soon as they begin the article. It will also take a look at why the news coverage would attempt to do this to their viewers and readers. The first article on BBC World News that got a lot of attention was the news articl...
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Touch With Reality Mental Illness
1,460 wordsIt is my intention in this paper to build on the idea put forward by Thomas Seas that mental illness is, in fact, a myth. Labelling theorists such as Goffman believe that the label "insane" to a person may represent an important stage in the process if becoming mentally ill. It is my opinion that as labels of madness are so much a part of our everyday language, their use has a big effect not only on the individuals perception of themselves, but on the cultural perception of mental illness. These...
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Medicare Beneficiaries Trust Fund
1,250 wordsProject 2: Problem Statement, Team Charter and Work Plan Problem Statement We represent a hospital multi-system with more than 52 hospitals in 23 states. I am the Director of Clinical Operations responsible for Performance Improvement, Regulatory and Accreditation for the eleven hospitals in my division with hospitals in Mississippi (1), Louisiana (6) and Virginia (4). I work closely with the hospitals leadership team, CEO, CFO, COO, CNO, and Quality Resource Management to ensure the compliance ...
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Medicare Beneficiaries Qualified Personnel
2,737 wordsOutcomes Assessment and Quality Management Introduction The materials and information provided here are guidelines to be used to ensure the compliance with regulatory (Medicare and State) and Accreditation (Joint Commission Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and process improvement, especially with the Medicare CoP standards in section 482. 30 (hospital must have in effect a utilization review (UR) plan that provides for review of services furnished by the institution and by memb...
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Health Care Reform Health Care Providers
1,908 words... elderly and disabled Americans enter nursing homes and other institutions when they would prefer to remain at home. Families exhaust their savings trying to provide for disabled relatives. Many Americans in inner cities and rural areas do not have access to quality care, due to poor distribution of doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics and support services. Public health services are not well integrated and coordinated with the personal care delivery system. Many serious health problems - such...
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Critical Thinking Case Study
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Standard Operating Procedures Doctor Or Nurse
1,679 wordsCritical Thinking Case Study Critical Thinking Case Study Let It Pour: My First Assignment as Executive Assistant Abstract Faith Community Hospital believes in supporting the well-being and health of the citizens in the area through cooperation with partners who share the same values and vision. Faith Community Hospital is also experiencing troubles from internal and external forces that are affecting the viability of the hospital. The first problem is organizational issues facing management and...
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American Nurses Association Public Health Care
1,409 wordsContemporary Issues Project Quality nursing depends on many different factors. In this paper I would like to discuss the Quality Nursing Care Act of 2005 H. R. 1372. The main goal of this act is to impose staffing ratios in Medicare participating hospitals. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the Quality Nursing Care Act and compare it with the ethical and legislative responsibilities of working nurses. I want to compose it in exactly this way because this act is tightly connected with the...
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Organ Donation Organ Transplant
4,523 wordsHarry Wilson is one lucky man; even Harry's doctors cannot believe how lucky he is. You see, Harry, at age 54, was dying. He had to have both of his kidneys removed, they were failing and he had been on an organ donation list for the past two years without success. Harry's children were tested for compatibility but without success. Harry's own brothers and sisters were tested for compatibility but still no success. Now you may ask, how in the world could anyone consider Harry Wilson lucky? Well ...
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Past Few Years Hours Per Week
1,669 wordsOver the past few weeks I have been researching my interests, values, and goals. Throughout this research a lot of things that were already evident to me, were proven for a fact. My interests included researching different aspects of science and data analysis. Analysis has always been a big part of my life because I analyze everything. My values have been proven to be centered toward helping people and being around people. These interests and values are almost equivalent with what my goals in li...
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Compton Mentally Ill
1,638 wordsBorn Dorothea Dix Dorothea Dix Born in 1802, Dorothea Dix played an important role in changing the ways people thought about patients who were mentally-ill and handicapped, originally cast-off as? being punished by God, ? as well as the way facilities handled and treated them. She believed that that people of such standing would do better by being treated with love and caring rather than being put aside. As a social reformer, philanthropist, teacher, writer, writer, nurse, and humanitarian, Doro...
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Health Care Managed Care
1,655 wordsENGHmo Regulation Mark Miller ENG 101 December 2, 2000 HMO Regulation Health Maintenance Organizations, or HMOs, are a very important part of the American health care system. They involve elements such as beneficial health care programs like Medicare for seniors and Medicaid for the poor. HMOs are sometimes referred to as managed care programs, which involves participation through clinics, physicians and insurance companies. Other essential parts of HMOs include prescription drug plans, such as ...
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Marie Curie Nobel Prizes
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Physical And Emotional Music Therapy
1,673 wordsDuring Music Therapy Music Therapy During the past thirty years, concepts in the mental health profession have undergone continuous and dramatic changes. A relatively new type of therapy is musical therapy, which incorporates music into the healing process. Music therapy also is changing, and its concepts, procedures, and practices need constant reevaluation in order to meet new concepts of psychiatric treatment. The idea of music as a healing influence which could affect health and behavior is ...
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Good Communication Skills Nursing Homes
824 wordsPreparing for a career as a Pharmacy Technician involves extensive training, good communication skills, and a willingness to work with the public. A pharmacy technician, also called pharmacy technologist, pharmacy medication technicians, or pharmacy assistants, provide technical assistance for registered pharmacists and work under their direct supervision. They usually work in a chain or independent drug stores, hospitals, community ambulatory care centers, home health care agencies, nursing hom...
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