safety-net hospitals are facing one of the largest curveballs, as nearly 30 million Americans stand to gain coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beginning in 2014. Nationwide, only 2 percent of acute-care hospitals are safety-net facilities, but they currently provide about 20 percent of all uncompensated care to provided to the uninsured. Despite this statistic, a decline in America's uninsured is unlikely to relinquish the need for safety-net hospitals, according to
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incorporated as he witnessed first hand the nursing informatics and technology “explosion” and how this facility incorporated this technology into their daily nursing care over the past 15 years. In 1995 I acquired a job as a nurse’s aid at the hospital I am currently employed. At the time, they were just introducing computers at the nurse’s stations. It was used primarily for their first generation of Computer-Assisted Physician Order Entry (CAPOE). With exception to limited order entry, all
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randomly sampled hospitals in 2004, and 20 in 2008 out of the total of 93 Dutch hospitals. Eight hospitals were studied in both years. Both samples were stratified for hospital type, university, tertiary teaching and general hospitals, and a proper representation of both urban and rural settings in the samples were verified. Tertiary teaching hospitals in The Netherlands provide specialised care and train doctors. The level of care given is between that given in a university hospital and in a general
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Passages for Comment Additional Materials: * 9 7 9 6 7 5 0 3 6 9 * 8693/11 May/June 2012 2 hours Answer Booklet/Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write
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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY Course LAWS 200-01 Introduction to Law Semester Spring 2013 Mondays 10:00am – 12:30pm DI 181 Instructor Marc A. Schwartz Email: schwartzm@mail.montclair.edu Office Hours By appointment Texts D. Carper
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Confucius regarded three things that is people, wealth and education as the three essentials of any country. He is believed to be greatest advocate of popular education and the first person in Chinese history to give his almost entire life to teaching (Zhang 1999). He worked to establish private education and make education accessible to all. He believed that the purpose of education was to provide with the ability to reason, to develop right thoughts, right feelings and right actions and that a
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contrast between Western and Chinese food, also you could talk about McDonalds, KFC or fast food) Western Economy, Capitalism (Big Companies – Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Nokia, famous business people Bill Gates etc.) Education (e.g. Oxford Cambridge Universities in England, Harvard in US, any western school you’ve or any friends have had contact with) Religion (e.g.Ghandi, Christianity – Protestant, Catholic, Mormons) Culture Regions (e.g. any place in Europe, America, Australia, New Zealand
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Cambridge Five Creation and Operations Introduction “Cambridge Five” or “Magnificent Five” is the name given to a group of five young men whom all graduated from Cambridge University. They betrayed their country by spying for the Soviet Union and passing them secret information. They were probably the most successful Soviet spies to penetrate the western intelligence. Their actions allow the Soviet Union to get access to vital intelligence and created rift between the British and the Americans
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Realism in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Churchill’s Top Girls Nineteen-century Europe held rigid conventionalisms of class division, social order and gender roles. Society hid behind the mask of hypocrisy in an attempt to preserve bourgeoisie’s position of power. In that concern, conceptions of ‘liberty of the spirit’[1] and ‘liberty of thought and of the human condition’[2] came to question. Thus, Henrik Ibsen drew attention to the threat to ideas of freedom and public opinion by giving life to
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Types of Grading Systems By Ashley Leary, eHow Contributor * * * * Print this article Schools use grading systems to communicate with students and parents about student performance. Grades also help teachers communicate with one another, providing easy-to-understand data about student performance. Grades are meant to be a concrete evaluation of student knowledge. Perhaps the best-known type of grading system uses letters---A, B, C, D or F---to represent student achievement
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