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Health Care
No nurse or physician can be expected to make a completely accurate diagnosis of a patient's condition absent the relevant information. While it seems tautological to suggest that such a situation...
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Health Care
By "organization members" you may be talking about stockholders-at-large and immediate participants within the organization. For this reason, the healthcare experience when it comes to technology...
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Health Care
Alternative therapies are meant to supplement conventional medical treatments. The rise of alternative therapies has opened doors for medical professionals to expand their medical practices to...
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Health
In a sense, I am not sure any profession can operate without teams that work to support one another in pursuit of a larger cause that envelops everyone. There is a danger to suggesting that one...
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Health Care
Hospitals are structured both horizontally and vertically. It is the rarest of businesses or organizations that is not primarily vertically integrated, as the top-down structure is necessary to...
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Health Care
One of the interesting things about government programs, including those sponsored by the Department of Defense (with whom this educator worked for many years in his capacity as a military...
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Health
The process you have described for terminating a patient’s care is respectful, clear, and transparent. In order for the doctor-patient relationship to remain effective over time, each party must...
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Health Care
If it were not for the fact that resources are scarce, health care administrators would have very little in the way of challenges. If there were so many resources available that every patient...
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Health Care
Many health care managers would argue that their greatest ethical challenge these days lies in the problem of ensuring patient confidentiality. Not just a moral obligation among medical...
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Health Care
I would argue that benchmarking is an ethical way of rating health care organizations. It is ethical so long as the benchmarks are legitimate benchmarks. If meeting or exceeding the benchmarks...
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Health Care
I would argue that it is fair and ethical to offer these services for some and not for others so long as the people running the program use appropriate criteria to decide who gets the services and...
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Barack Obama
One could describe the origins of the mammoth congressional bill that became the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010," otherwise known as "Obamacare," with the previous Democratic...
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Health Care
Having looked through the World Bank website, this page is the one that seems to be the best for answering your question. It gives health expenditures for all countries. It also gives health...
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Marketing
Marketing for a proposed outpatient surgical center would presumably be predicated upon an identified need for such a facility in a particular location. Advances in surgical procedures and...
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Health Care
Hospitals, for better or worse, are businesses, and they are run like businesses. Hospital administrators have balance sheets that reflect projected revenues and expenses for each fiscal year and,...
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Business
The SWOT acronym stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. It consists of internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (threats and opportunities) that may...
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Organizational Structure
Only the student submitting this question can describe the organizational model or structure of which he or she is a part. What follows, however, is an attempt at addressing the question in a...
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Teams and Teamwork
Teamwork is extremely important in health care. Any dysfunctional organization will be structurally and temperamentally incapable of executing its core mission properly. For most organizations,...
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Teams and Teamwork
In any organization getting employees to work together as a team is a challenge for management. In the healthcare industry, it can be an ever bigger challenge. The pressures associated with the...
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Health Care
It is important to realize that essentially everyone in the United States is a stakeholder in the issue of people who lack medical insurance. That is because everyone is affected in some way by...
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Health Care
The main issue that is related to people who are uninsured is the cost of their care. Even though these people have no health insurance, there are still times when they absolutely have to have...
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Health Care
I would absolutely communicate with healthcare professionals by email. In fact, I am rather disappointed that I am not already able to do so. The main benefit of email communication would be that...
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Health Care
In order to understand why this is, think about how companies often do things like giving discounts to people who buy in bulk. The same reasoning applies here. Companies do want to charge high...
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Health Care
Almost all consumers of health care have surely been influenced by the media to some extent on the issue of health care. This is because much of what we know about health care issues consists of...
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Social Sciences
There are a number of factors at play here. Let us look at some of the most important ones. First, it is not at all clear to many people that universal health care “has been proven to work well...
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Health Care
In general, verbal communication conveys specific words and thoughts, but nonverbal communication conveys attitudes and feelings. In the context of interactions between health care providers and...
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Social Sciences
The laws of economics tell us that people who pay for medical expenses out of their own pockets will be more likely to make the effort to maintain their health through lifestyle changes. However,...
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Health Care
The growing financial and social burden of caring for the increasing numbers of elderly in the United States –mainly Baby Boomers born between the years of 1946 and 1964 – will represent a...
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Health Care
Consumer demand will surely shape the future health care system for seniors, but perhaps not as much as consumer demand affects other markets. The system will also be strongly affected by what the...
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Health Care
It is very hard to know where the health care system will be or what it will look like in ten years. This is largely because of the degree to which this is a political issue and the extreme...
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Health Care
If I had the choice, I would want to work in cost containment. I would argue that cost containment will be the most important aspect of the medical field in the years to come. In the United...
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Health Care
The aging population has many health and social needs. In order to address the health needs of the aging population, their caregivers must receive support. Caregivers can be family members or...
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Health Care
The community health nurse is one of the emerging areas of health care. The community health nurse is a member of a given community and as such has "insider" information about community health...
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Health Care
“Primary health care” has two basic meanings. The first refers to the initial introduction to the health care system experienced by an individual or family. The way insurance policies are...
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Health Care
If it were completely clear as to how this could be accomplished, it is likely that we would already have accomplished it. Therefore, it must be hard to understand for certain how to cut these...
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Health Care
There are a number of causes of rising health care costs in the United States. Let us look at a few of them. Lack of awareness of costs. In our system, we are not really aware of what our health...
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Health Care
Obviously, the answer to this question is going to vary widely depending on the circumstances of the individual responding to the question. I, personally, have been very lucky to this point. In...
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Health Care
Strategic planning, performance improvement and information systems are all important in the delivery of quality health care. Each item is interrelated to each other. Many health care...
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Health Care
For this answer, I am assuming that you are asking about recent advances and I am assuming that drugs do not count as technology. Given those assumptions, I would argue that relatively...
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Health Care
There are at least two main ways in which electronic medical records would be beneficial to the nation as a whole. First, there are benefits to patients. If medical records were available in...
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Health Care
The main positive aspect of this is essentially seen in the question. There is more information available to individuals today. They do not have to be completely dependent on their doctors for...
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Health Care
The main kind of health care system that other countries have and which is very different from that of the United States is the single-payer system in which the government provides health care...
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Health Care
There are at least two main positive aspects of all the medical information available on the internet. First, it can be helpful because it can make for patients who are better informed about their...
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Social Sciences
There are many issues that come up in the debate over government-provided health care in the United States. The main ethical issue has to do with the ethics of having some people lack access to...
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Social Sciences
There are two separate aspects to this question. First, it asks if health care is a right. To this, I would say yes, at least in countries that are rich and modern enough to provide it. Second,...
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Health Care
First, we must realize that we cannot predict what each individual person will do. All we can do is to predict what will happen on average. On average, the laws of economics tell us that people...
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Health Care
It is not possible to know what combination of motives each doctor has for ordering the number of tests that they do. It may even be the case that doctors themselves do not know what is truly...
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Social Sciences
For the most part, nobody disputes that it would be a good thing if everyone in the United States had health insurance and could get health care when they needed it. This is sort of like the idea...
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Health Care
This is a complicated question. On the one hand, it does seem that smokers should be barred from using the government health system. They are choosing to take an action that is almost certain to...
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Public Health
A public health care leader is responsible for health communication in a number of types of situations. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute have worked with an...
