Middle Class Americans & Health Insurance Coverage
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A 15 page paper discussing the social and economic factors contributing to the increasing number of middle-class Americans who have no health-insurance coverage. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Healins.rtf

Minorities And Cancer
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This 8 page paper examines the differences between white Americans and minority Americans as related to: the incidence of different types of cancer; cancer screening; and cancer treatment. Minorities are far more likely to have any type of cancer diagnosed in its later stages while white patients are more likely to have cancer diagnosed in its early stages. Since the stage of the disease is so crucial to successful treatment, minorities have a higher cancer death rate than whites. The essay offers a literature review that addresses why the differences exist. Data are included. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: PGmncnc.rtf

Monitoring Geriatric Patients After Discharge at Newark Beth Israel Hospital
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This 8 page paper provides an overview of care at the hospital as it concerns geriatric patients. The main issue addressed is the problem of readmissions and the monitoring of geriatric patients. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA143NBI.rtf

Motivational Theories and Their Applicability to The Field of Nursing
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A 7 page discussion of the relevance of various motivational theories to nursing. Explores the theories of Albert Bandura, W. Edwards Deming,and Douglas McGregor, representing both the field of psychology and industry, in particular. Asserts that while some of these theories are directly applicable to nursing, other are not. Emphasizes that the nurse who actively takes charge of his or her job and who actively tries to make improvements to their ability to do that job is much more likely to succeed than one who passively takes whatever fate life deal them.
Filename: PPnrsMot.wps

MRI Finance
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A 7 page paper discussing usage and cost considerations for North Carolina Wayne Memorial Hospital. Located in a rural area without a city of any great size within a comfortable driving distance, North Carolina Wayne Memorial can use the experiences of other hospitals and the profits generated by their MRI capabilities as justification for adding MRI to its own list of services. Costly at a price of $2.6 million including installation, the existing MRI machine at another hospital generates more than $4.8 million in revenues annually. North Carolina Wayne Memorial can justify purchasing and installing MRI equipment solely as a sound business decision, even before evaluating the medical benefits it provides. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KSmriFin.wps

Multiple Sclerosis
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A 5 page paper. It is estimated that 400,000 Americans have multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that destroys the myelin around the nerves. In short, messages do not get from the brain to other parts of the body, causing the patient to experience any of a plethora of symptoms, sometimes at a debilitating level. This paper explains what MS is, the four types of MS, the symptoms and who it strikes most. The writer then reports two studies about treatment approaches and one study that investigated if the myelin could regenerate on its own. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: PRms3.rtf

National Health Care Limit
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As part of his program to stabilize Social Security President Clinton also proposed a reduction in health care costs by introducing global budget caps to limit the annual national health care spending. This 5 page paper argues that this proposal is not practical inasmuch as the people who are meant to be the recipients of a stable national health care system: children, the poor and the elderly, are the same population that would be effected adversely by the changes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KTlimits.wps

Negligence in the health care system and incapacity
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A paper which considers the issue of negligence within the health care system with particular reference to the ways in which negligence may impact on those patients who suffer from mental or physical incapacity, such as the elderly or the metally ill. Bibliography lists 12 sources
Filename: JLincap.rtf

Network Architecture Considerations for a Telemedicine Application
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A 10 page paper evaluating Sycamore Network's SN 6000, SN 8000 and SN 16000 and Lucent Technologies' WaveStar and LambaRouter for use in a telemedicine application linking more highly equipped and staffed urban medical centers with outlying rural areas. The paper discusses telemedicine as well as Sycamore's and Lucent's views on the future and necessity of the SONET ring architecture, but the primary focus is that of cost efficiency in the telemedicine application. The paper recommends that the health care provider choose a Sycamore product. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: KSoptiNet.wps

Neural Networking in Medical Imaging
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A 5 page assertion that networking is opening vast avenues for increased efficiency and accuracy in the analysis of medical imaging. Traditional methods of data analysis in such applications and medicine relied solely on the visual inspection of that data by experts. Neural networking complements this inspection with detailed computer analysis utilizing complex computer algorithms. The technique has proven invaluable in a number of diverse medical arenas. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: PPneurNt.rtf

New York Medicaid Laws
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A 9 page paper that discusses the Medicaid program in the state of New York. Some of the programs and eligibility requirements are discussed, the new Health Care Reform Act 2000 and the new Family Health Plus. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PGnymd.wps

New York's Health Care Proxy
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A 5 page paper discussing New York's provision for ensuring that medically incompetent individuals' wishes are followed in issues of health care when they are unable to communicate those wishes themselves. The law was enacted in 1991, in direct response to the US Supreme Court's ruling on the Nancy Cruzan case, that of a Missouri woman whose parents petitioned local courts to direct health care professionals to withhold artificial nutrition and hydration measures. The health care proxy allows individuals to assign decision-making responsibilities to an agent, who cannot be sued for decisions made in good faith. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KSNYhlthPro.wps