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Healthcare Administration
Healthcare Administration
Introduction
Healthcare is a very important industry in the world today. Every country wants the healthcare industry to work in the best possible manner and also to ensure that the people of the country are getting the best services from the healthcare providers. This will help the country to ...
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Asthma
Asthma
Introduction
Asthma is a common chronic illness in children and adolescents, affecting 14% of American children (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2009) and 9% of Icelandic children. Among high school students in Australia, 19% reported they had ever been diagnosed with asthma, 16% currently had asthma, and 38% of ...
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Leadership in nursing
Leadership in nursing
Introduction
John Salka has worked with City of New York fire department with more than 30 years and, currently a battalion chief in the 18th Battalion in Bronx. He is the author of “First In, Last Out, leadership lessons”. As we all know, that the fire department ...
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NURSING
What is Nursing?
What is Nursing?
Nursing is a very dynamic field in the provision of healthcare. The definitions of nursing are many and vary from region to region. I personally think of nursing as the promotion, optimization and proactive protection of health and wellbeing as well as promoting abilities that ...
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Medicare, Medicaid and the Delivery System
Introduction
To understand the Medicare payment and delivery reform initiatives in the health care sectors, this paper reviews how hospitals and physicians are reimbursed under the current Medicare payment mechanism, and under the proposed Medicare ACO rule, as well as discusses key success factors of ...
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ETHICS & HEALTHCARE PRACTICES
Ethics & Healthcare Practices - The Influence, Role & Relevance of Nursing in Ethical Conflicts
Ethics & Healthcare Practices - The Influence, Role & Relevance of Nursing in Ethical Conflicts
The role and relevance of ethics in nursing practice is undeniable when considered against the backdrop of the ...
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Importance of medication management, to keep patients at home in their community
Importance of medication management, to keep patients at home in their community
Introduction
Elderly people like to live independent inside their homes despite the medical illnesses they face and the medication regime they have to follow. Many are shifted ...
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DEMENTIA
Understand the Process and Experience of Dementia
Outcome 1: Understanding the Dementia's Neurology
Range of Dementia Syndrome's Causes
Fixed cognitive impairments are due to a single event. Traumatic brain injury may cause generalized damage to the white matter of the brain or localized damages. A temporary reduction in the supply of blood ...
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Personal Statement
Personal statement
My name is Victoria O Obiozo and it is my aim to join the noble profession of nursing. Nursing has always interested me and it is my dream to dedicate my life in the service of mankind and to heal their ailments by caring for them. This natural ...
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Poverty
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor
I am writing this letter because I believe that even though United States is one of the most advanced industrialized countries in the world, it has some of the highest child poverty rates in the industrialized world. Some children are poor because their parents are working, ...