Medicare PPS Regulations and Regulatory Agencies
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A 5 page paper discussing Medicare�s attempts to find and halt abuses. The regulatory environment is such that many facilities employ workers for the sole purpose of reporting and filing claims, decreasing the facility�s ability to operate efficiently. The Health and Human Services Department instituted Operation Restore Trust in 1995, and the program has evolved into one that saves far more than it costs. Care providers can benefit from increased regulation and accountability in that they are forced to adopt sound business practices. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KSmediRegulat.rtf

Medicare, From Entitlement To Autonomy
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A 10 page exploration of the Medicare issue and future costs from the viewpoint of national means testing�for planning purposes, program reform based on programs already used by individuals and businesses, and a discussion of how these same reforms could be applied to the (reduced numbers of ) future uninsured. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: Mediau.wps

Medicare�s Effect on Health Care Costs
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A 15 page paper discussing health care costs in terms of Medicare�s influence on the rates that private insurers are willing to pay for services. The paper discusses the history, economic effect, regulations and future of Medicare, and how each has affected or is affecting efforts to reduce cost increases. If Medicare reform could be the prize, then the private sector gladly would assist in helping Medicare and CMS become more business-like in its function, purpose and operation. The private sector was forced to adopt the principles of continuous improvement years ago; if CMS could do the same, then every American citizen could benefit from the commitment. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: KSmedicHlthCosts.rtf

Medicare�s Effect on Health Care Economics
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A 5 page paper discussing how Medicare adversely affects the cost of health care in the US. The paper discusses price and cost structures; the economic effects of those structures; and the influence of supply and demand. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KShlthCareEcon5.rtf

Medication & Illness / Essential Contributors to Mental Impairment in Elderly?
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A 10 page paper discussing the intellect and cognitive abilities in the elderly illustrating that the main contributors to mental impairment can be directly traced to illness and prescribed medications. Other possibilities are also discussed within the literature review, such as the relationship surgery has to mental impairment. A large portion of the literature review discusses a study performed by Starr et al., which indicates the normal decline of mental impairment in healthy senior citizens 70 years of age and older. This is provided to better illustrate what normal cognitive loss may entail, thereby leaving room to better explain what the additional mental impairment can be attributed to. Findings illustrate that medication and illness rarely have any significant effect on mental impairment. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: Eldermed.wps

Mental Health Parity Legislation and Debate
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A 15 page paper discussing the 2001 Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act and possible ways of effecting social change in favor of adopting the act's requirements for parity in health insurance payment for both mental and physical healthcare. The most liberal among us would cling to the view that all should be served despite cost, but the moderate liberals of today realize that cost issues do exist, that no faction has unlimited financial resources and so must make choices. Conservatives tend to look at what can be done with the funds available, considering cost issues first. An astute cost-benefit analysis should be able to lessen the fears of conservatives while bringing the most liberal to a point of fiscal reality. When that occurs, then each side should be freer to indulge in creativity in formulating other and valuable options that as yet have not been voiced. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: KSmenHlthPar.rtf

Mental Health/Adjustment to Stress
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An 8 page research paper that examines examination of current research on the topic of coping/adjustment strategies in regards to stress, focusing specifically on two representatives studies, which demonstrate the role that research plays in revealing the best ways in which mental health professionals can intervene to aid individuals in developing successful coping skills to help them adjust to the levels of stress that affect their lives. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khstress.rtf

Mentoring in Nursing
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An 11 page paper discussing the value of mentoring in nursing. Mentoring is a nursing practice that is simultaneously informal and prescribed in the organization supporting it. In those organizations most devoted to improvement in all areas of operation, mentoring can be a valuable tool in improving patient outcome while enhancing efforts to recruit and retain high-quality nursing staff. The experienced nurse provides personal navigation for the new graduate who has studied theory and now is faced with putting it into practice. The mentor explains and demonstrates approaches and rationale, and gives practical meaning to all those theories the new graduate has studied but not yet put into practice. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: KSnursMentor.rtf

Merle Mishel�s Uncertainty in Illness Theory
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This 6 page report discusses the concepts associated with �uncertainty in illness� theory and the ways in which it relates to nursing. According to Merle Helaine Mishel�s �Uncertainty in Illness Theory,� individual patient uncertainty must be understood as a problematic characteristic of the experience of illness regardless of the acute or chronic nature of various diseases. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BWmishel.rtf

Methodology, Research Design, and Financial Considerations: Heat Treatment and General Anesthesia
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A 5 page paper which examines the methodology, research design, and financial considerations as they apply to utilizing heat treatment for recovery from general anesthesia. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: RAanesthesia.wps

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