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Terminally Ill Patients Florence Nightingale
1,765 wordsSince the days of Florence Nightingale, patients in hospitals around the world depended on the care of nurses. These trained professionals assist doctors and specialists in virtually every area of medicine. In addition, nursing allows for a special type of one-on-one contact that doctors cant provide. Nurses provide various services for patients on an hourly basis. This special, intimate contact has prompted a significant change in the field of nursing. In most modern medicinal institutions, as ...
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Type 2 Diabetes Balanced Budget
713 wordsAltimier, L. B. , Sanders, J. M. , (2000, April). Can you make a merger pay off? Nursing Management, 31 (4) 8. This article discusses the merger of three hospitals and prenatal departments with the results of this complex transition. This huge project comprised of five nurse led areas proved to be cost-effective. By maintaining a single administrative structure, they eliminated bureaucracy and cut costs with staffing changes. No doubt time will test the success of this story. There are many give...
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Homeless People Homeless Person
888 wordsIn David A. Snow's book, Down on their Luck depicts the lives and horrors of homeless people in Austin, Texas. Homelessness is a crisis that has had an impact in our lives. Many people think that homeless people are those who are the mentally ill that are a threat to society, however, that is not the case. Majority of people who are victims of homelessness are those who have been pushed out of their homes, victims of environment catastrophes, the elderly, runaways, and unemployed individuals who...
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Bring His Family Town From Thirst Bomb
734 wordsAfter the Bomb written by Gloria Miklowitz is a thrilling novel that takes place before, during, and after a bomb which supposedly was sent from Russia by accident. L. A. and surrounding cities are all altered by the disastrous happening. Philip Singer a teenager is in a position as leader of the family. His brother Matt is awfully sick, possibly from radiation, his father was away at work during the blast and for all Philip knows he might be dead, and his mother was desperately injured and need...
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American Health Care Long Term Care
1,945 words... through their jobs. Employers used to buy the insurance from a third party, typically the local Blue Cross/Blue Shield not-for-profit plan. Recently the Blues have lost ground to more aggressive for-profit insurers. But their strongest competitor is now employers themselves, stung by rising health-care costs and the state authorities' burdensome regulation of the insurance industry. Federal law allows employers who "self-insure" (usually through an arm's-length intermediary) to escape state ...
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United States Army Army Of The Potomac
1,495 words"When the war began, the United States Army medical staff consisted of only the surgeon general, thirty surgeons, and eighty-three assistant surgeons. Of these, twenty-four resigned to "go South, " and three other assistant surgeons were promptly dropped for "disloyalty. " Thus the medical corps began its war service with only eighty seven men. When the war ended in 1865, more than eleven thousand doctors had served or were serving, many of these as acting assistant surgeons, un commissioned and...
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Three Or Four Civil War
1,524 words... loans fried. No wonder, then, that at sick call, shortly after reveille, many men who claimed to be sick were marched by the first sergeant to the regimental hospital, usually a wall tent. There the assistant surgeon examined them, then assigned some to cots in the hospital tent, instructed others to be sick in quarters, and restored a few to light duty or to full duty. The less sick and slightly wounded would be expected to nurse, clean, and feed the patients and to see to the disposal of b...
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Hours Per Week Department Of Health
567 wordsThe ACGME currently has work-hour requirements that apply to all specialties. Residents must have at least one full day out of seven free of activities involved in patient care and must not be assigned on-call duty more often than every third night, both averaged over a four-week period. Otherwise, the standards vary widely among specialties. Five specialties (allergy and immunology, dermatology, internal medicine, ophthalmology, and preventive medicine) have a weekly limit of 80 hours of work, ...
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Nursing Shortage In Long Term Care Facility
1,836 wordsNursing shortage in long term care facility This paper is about the globally spread problem -the shortage of nursing staff in long term care facility. The problem is increasing day by day; not only on national level but the hospitals that operate their medical facilities internationally are also facing this problem. Here are few examples what the professionals from hospital industry say about. As California hospitals embark on a hiring spree to meet state-mandated nurse staffing regulations, lon...
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Title Health Care Insurance In Saudi Part 2
1,566 words... begun to offer services associated with drug abuse. Programs to address the problems of drug use still need to be addressed as there Al Amal Hospital only admits males who are over 20 years of age and female and young drug users are referred to psychiatric rehabilitation centers and hospitals. It has however to be noted that drug abuse by women have been documented at the low percentage of only 2. 7 percent. As the religion Islam which is practiced in Saudi Arabia prohibits the use of alcoho...
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Wireless Transaction Protocol Layer
2,623 wordsWireless Transaction Protocol Layer To improve clinical performance, hospitals need to ensure that therapeutic practitioners can remotely access critical pathways, hospital patient records, and clinical outcomes tracking. Of course, such abilities also present an enormous confront for maintaining security and privacy. This paper will discuss designing a scalable system that will implement transactions between remote patients and hospitals. Many clinics are finding today that "thin" web-based sys...
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Paradigm Shift Organizational Effectiveness
1,726 wordsResearch & Writing First Draft Implementing continuous quality improvement in acute care general hospitals can be viewed as an occurrence of a paradigm shift and organizational learning. And that is what we should do to be in compliance with the Federal requirements set forth in the Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoP) in order to receive Medicare/Medicaid payment. The conflicting stakeholder goals of quality of care and cost savings are to be harmonized. Organizational members should unde...
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Critical Point Of View Private Practice
616 wordsWorking as a nurse in private practice compared to a hospital From contemporary point of view, both private sector and hospital setting bring various benefits and opportunities to a nurse. According to contemporary statistical data the average age of nurses working in public hospitals constitutes 44. 3 years old. Theoretically, this average indicator means that nurses are inclined to be employed at the hospital facility. However, still from the critical point of view, the criteria of working adv...
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Weak Points Health Care
877 wordsHospital accreditation Before speaking about strong and weak points of Hospital accreditation it is necessary to define what accreditation is and why it is so important for health care establishments. Accreditation is a process in which an entity, separate and distinct from the health care organization, usually non-governmental, assesses the health care organization to determine if it meets a set of standards requirements designed to improve quality of care. (Hospital Accreditation Reports 1991)...
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Relative Poverty Mixed Economy
1,538 words... mentioned poverty brings ill health with heart disease, cancers and recently diabetes which drains money from the NHS. The aging population also brings higher costs to the health service, as more elderly people will require care with less people to pay for it. Other costs to the health sector are the costs incurred with drugs in administering and research. As more people use the NHS the more drugs must be paid for. The cost of drugs can vary from a few pence per tablet to tens of thousands p...
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Ill Patients Care Financing
2,269 wordsPage 2 I. Introduction The 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 initiate...
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U S Government Pneumonic Plague
3,843 wordsThe United States of America has entered a period in which serious choices need to be made in safeguarding citizens against those who wish to do harm to the nation. Both domestic and international terrorists seek to use biological weapons, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, conventional weapons (including self-made bombs), and even the internet as means to attack the United States government. The threats posed by these groups necessitates the U. S. government to plan for the detection, neutraliz...
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Florence Nightingale Queen Victoria
2,157 wordsFlorence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy in Villa Columbia on May 12, 1820. Florence was named after her birth place just like her older sister Parthenope, who has the Greek name of Naples. Florence was the daughter of the wealthy landowner William Nightingale of Embley Park Hampshire, and his wife Francis Nightingale born 1788 who was a sibling of ten children. William was part of the antislavery movement and both William and Francis Fanny were Unitarians. In England the Nightingales ha...
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Health Care Reform Health Care Providers
2,270 wordsThe American Health Care system has prided itself on providing high quality services tothe citizens who normally cannot afford them. This system has been in place for years and until now it did a fairly decent job. The problem today is money; the cost of hospital services and doctor fees are rising faster than ever before. The government has been trying to come up with anew plan these past few years even though there has been strong opposition against a new HealthCare system. There are many reas...
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Middle Ages Modern Medicine
1,450 wordsThe logic and principles of medieval medicine shaped those of Modern medicine. Never was there a more efficient method perfected, so much that it remained through history through so many hundreds of years. Today? s concepts of diagnosis, relationships with the church, anatomy, surgery, hospitals and training, and public health were established in the Middle Ages. In the Middle ages, the modern idea of society taking responsibility for its poor with public health care was established. Many of the...
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