Executive Summary  Senior Human Resource Management should adopt some changes in order to combat the current growing nursing/healthcare personnel shortage. ... This report will focus on these issues and what options there are to help diminish the current nursing and healthcare professional shortage. As of May 2011, the demand for nurses in Texas alone has exceeded the current supply by 22,000. ... Purpose and Scope  The purpose of this report is to bring attention to the nursing as well as physician shortage and to help reach solutions for this ongoing matter while maintaining focus on the ...

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To find a solution to the problem of a hostile work environment between nurses and physicians, one would have to focus on the root of the problem. ... The final article, authored by Brown (2008), focuses more on what the nurse can do for him/herself regarding improvement of the relationship between the nurse and the doctor. ... These positive factors are used to convince the audience why change is needed as opposed to the current system. ... These include the statistics presented by Rosenstein (2008) that demonstrate that the nurse physician relationship is a current problem in the field of nu...

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Overall, though healthcare should be a right to all Americans, it is treated more like a luxury only available for those who can afford it, creating an industry that cannot continue on its current path. ... With the focus on creating a 'public option' which would mitigate the cost of healthcare for the roughly 46 million who are reported to be uninsured today, Obama is working against a grain of industry lobbies and Republican Party leaders. ... The discussion here provides a basis for the overhaul and the public option through a consideration of the current failures which have damag...

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Definition Currently there is no universally accepted definition of telemedicine. ... Thede (2002) describes telehealth as "the use of electronic communication networks to transmit data or information that focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, consultation, education, and/or therapy." ... Current Status of Telemedicine Currently every state in this country has at least one telemedicine program. ... For the most part, consultations via the Internet or video conferencing are the major ways that health care services are currently provided via telemedicine (Ashley, 200...

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The Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HERD) is active in ongoing research that is focused solely on the social and economic factors associated with the HIV/AIDS problem. It is a global organization that is more focused on international health, but it also works to educate people globally about HIV/AIDS and it develops programs that will aid the global community. ... Policy makers need to fully understand the costs and benefits, the current social impact, and the future social impacts if no changes are made vs if changes are made, in order to more fully serve those in need and ...

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Often women engage in discussion that is saturated in comments about our looks, especially our body weight, and this causes much focus to be put on how many calories are consumed, rather than the nutrients needed. ... I believe this is an indicator that we live in a society where the focus on weight and body-image puts much pressure on women to agonize over food decisions. ...

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There are currently 15.2 million refugees worldwide and 46% are children under the age of 18. ... Refugee communities lie out of sight, well under the radar of current mainstream drug service delivery (Streel & Schilperoord, 2010). ...

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In the process of evaluating Matteson's health systems, we divided up the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for this community; STRENGTHS with a focus on Access to Health Services. ... Just like in any other community, maternal-infant health, with focus on infant malnutrition and low immunization rate represents one of the community's health problems too (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). ...

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A MARKETING RESEARCH PLAN EMPATHY TRAINING Introduction The bedside manner currently used by the medical profession while conveying pertinent information to a cancer patient is quite disturbing. ... Our analysis included observation, another form of primary data by investigating the current personal attitudes regarding the interaction between the medical profession and cancer patients to determine the need for more training in the area of care and compassion. We have discovered the existing attitudes of oncologists are distressing, and the bedside manner the medical profession currently u...

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June 21, 2000, a police officer is shot dead in Flagstaff, Arizona. This violent crime was committed by 17 year-old Eric Clark. In the Supreme Court case of Clark vs. Arizona, Clark argued that his paranoid schizophrenia gave him the inability to understand the nature of his acts at the time they we...

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Given demand for limited resources within the health care system and other sectors of the economy, some observers believe current services might not provide benefits commensurate with costs. ... While physician and other profession/provider buy-in is crucial to an equitable system and certainly to good quality of care, the consistent focus has been on the identified person. ... The notion that denial of care or benefits can be justified for the common good underlies much of the current utilitarian calculus of managed care, population-based medicine. ... While focus on the public health may ign...

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If any professional stay focused on clients, he or she would be remembered. ... By sticking with the correct understandings, I want to continually develop myself evading inertia. 2.1 Preferred Learning Style and current skills As a kid, I tried to learn different styles of learning. ... The main focus in development plan is to improve my weaknesses. ...

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Alzheimer's Disease is relentlessly destroying the brains and lives of our nation's older adults, robbing them of memory, the ability to reason, and affecting their emotions and behavior. Alzheimer's Disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain. The longer we live the greater the risk; "nearly 10 percent of all people over age 65 and up to half of those over age 85 are thought to have Alzheimer's Disease or another form of dementia" (Anonymous, 2002). The devastation of Alzheimer's Disease affects millions of families in the United States. Alzheimer's Disease c...

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In England, healthcare policy is focused on two main forms of care: primary and secondary. ... While In Wales, the main focus is on patient's quality of care and public safety; placing an emphasis on high value evidence based care. ... NHS Scotland currently employs approximately 140,000 staff who work fourteen regional Health boards which are subdivided into Community Health Partnerships, to provide local services more effectively. ...

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Many medical facilities are concerned with the manufacturer and the distribution partner being able to meet current inventory levels, which may cause them to purchase additional inventory to minimize the risk. ... Equiptek's main focus was to ensure that computer compliance and customer supply needs were addressed before January 1, 2000. ...

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Term paper topic: Solutions to counter adverse selection in Managed Health Care A. Introduction: During the class sessions of ECON 253, we have discussed the basics of social insurance and hence, took a broad view on the US health care market. The US health care industry is massive as it employs about 10 million people and accounts for about 13.5 percent of GDP. Interestingly, only 17 percent of total health expenses are paid out of pocket through consumers - private insurance pays 35 percent, government 45 percent. After 2nd World War, health insurance had been crucially pr...

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