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Market Justice and Social Justice: How They Conflict, Complement and Reform Healthcare Abstract Market justice asserts that in a free market economy, market forces can achieve a fair distribution of healthcare among individuals who have the freedom to purchase the healthcare services they value. In market justice, healthcare is rationed by the willingness and ability…

The Importance of Ethical Theories and Principle in Decision Making for Nurses The Importance of Ethical Theories and Principles in Decision Making for Nurses As nurses, we are put in many different situations in the workplace. Sometimes, we are assigned to care for a patient that we may have different beliefs or values from. Other…

Introduction To provide general information that would support why the shift from volume to value-based care is more effective and efficient. It will also reflect on how value-based care can be cost-effective as well as improve the quality services provided. Proposal/thesis statement There is a need for healthcare institutions to shift operational basis to other…

Intake Assessments and Examinations Issues of Newly Arrived Inmate/Patients California Correctional Health Care System (CCHCS) provides overall health care of inmates of inmates/patients housed in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) institutions. In 1995, a class action law suit was filed by the Prison Law Office at San Quintin, California (Plata, vs. Davis, 2003)….

Introduction In the 1960’s the Advance Nurse Practitioner role was initiated as an action plan initiative to resolve the epidemic of having enough accessible primary care physicians in underserved and rural areas to meet the healthcare needs of the community of people (Woo, Lee & Tam, 2017). Advanced nursing practice’s establishment into primary care’s role…

This paper will discuss advocacy for Ohio Senate Bill 51 which aims to establish a Non-Opioid Directive and coverage of evidence-based Non-Opioid therapies by certain insurance carriers (S.B. 51, 2019).  This Bill was chosen due to the catastrophic opioid crisis that currently exists in the State of Ohio.  An overview of healthcare policy and advocacy,…

Abstract This paper will address the health care system in Cuba and the main challenges that the system faces.  This analysis will include the costs, quality, access to care and innovation issues of the overall health care system in Cuba. A system thinking analysis of domains will be included with strategic policy recommendations. The health…

Health care organizations face challenges with the initiative to increase racial diversity within the nursing workforce. Despite efforts to diversify, the 2018 Bureau of Labor and Statistics showed that amongst 3.2 million registered nurses in the United States (U.S.), 75.5% are whites, 13.1 % are Black or African- American, 9% Asian and only 7.2% are…

Universal Health Care has been a very controversial topic to discuss over the past years, because there are people in countries who do not get access to any form of healthcare because they do not have the resources to get it. Though there are many methods to aid us in achieving free UHC (Universal Healthcare…

A single-payer healthcare system is a model financed primarily by taxes and managed by one entity such as a government, providing essential health care to all citizens throughout their life (Hsaio et al., 2011). A single-payer health insurance system is financed by taxes so that individuals and citizens of the country do not pay extra…