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This paper compares and contrasts continuity of care and continuum of care and shows how each one may impact a patient's care. It gives descriptions of the different facets of continuity of care and continuum of care and how each is important to quality patient care.

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"Continuity of care is defined as the continuation of care of a patient over time by multiple health care providers ..."

Tags:continuum of care, continuity of care, patient

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses foster care outcomes for children, related to parent-child interactions. The writer looks at differences between non-foster care and foster care mothers' reports of mother-child interactions during foster care visits. The writer explains that participants were non-foster care mothers and foster care mothers who voluntarily returned the research packet.

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"The purpose of this study was to determine child outcomes of foster care with the specific purpose of determining differences between non-foster care and foster care mothers' reports of mother-child interactions during foster care visits. Participants were non-foster care mothers and foster care mothers who voluntarily returned the research packet. Conclusions for the study are as follows biological mothers reported no positive outcomes and foster care mothers reported positive child outcomes related to ..."

Tags:thesis, foster care, parent, child, interactions, mother

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This essay is an analysis of various forms of literature that provide information on foster care in Canada. Using six sources as Literature Reviews, the writer creates a proposal on the subject. What the text is supposed to provide is a darker side (injustice, bureaucracy, insensitivity, discrimination) and a brighter side (family-centered reform, more parental training, etc.) to the discussion of foster care in Canada. This paper will review the many sides of the issue, and offer potential solutions from the literature.

Outline:
Review of Literature: Basic Numbers of Canadian Children in Foster Care
Review of Literature: Challenges Presently Facing the Foster Care System
Review of Literature: The Social-Emotional Dynamics of Foster Children
Review of Literature: Benefits of Giving Foster Parents Better Training
Review of Literature: Professionalizing Foster Care
Review of Literature: Kinship Care - Better Option than Foster Care?

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"In general, children who were subjected to neglect were younger, and were more likely "...to have caregivers diagnosed with a substance abuse disorder" (Marquis, p. 6). Also, neglected children tended to have been placed in homes with higher rates of exposure to "spousal abuse" than children who had been maltreated (Marquis, p. 6). As for children who had been physically abused (maltreated), they displayed "greater difficulty during their foster care adjustment" and once they had been discharged from their care environment, neglected children "were more likely to be returned to the care of the agency" (Marquis, p. 6).
"As of the publishing of this research (2008), there were an estimated 76,183 children in foster care in Canada, Marquis explains (p. 7). That is a dramatic increase from 1999 (46,397 children in foster care) and from 1997 (36,080). Looking at Ontario, the province showed skyrocketing numbers of children in foster care: On March 31, 2003 there were an estimated 18,126 children in foster care, a 56% increase since five years earlier (March 31, 1998)."

Tags:canada, foster care, welfare, child welfare

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This paper examines different types of geriatric care in Australia, especially in light of the demographic transition as the baby boom generation ages along with increased longevity and declining fertility rates. This transition is still in its early stages and is about to become much more serious. In particular, the population of Australia is rapidly aging so that impending challenges will be the development of policies that provide adequate care and services to the elderly in a cost-effective manner. The choice for care of the elderly is between institutionally based care and community based care.

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"All industrialized nations are presently experiencing a demographic transition as the baby boom generation ages along with increased longevity and declining fertility rates (Anderson & Hussey, 2000). This transition is still in its early stages and is about to become much more serious. As in all countries around the globe, the population of Australia is rapidly aging so that impending challenges will be the development of policies that provide adequate care and services to the elderly in a cost-effective manner. The choice for care of the elderly is between institutionally..."

Tags:community, institutional, care

Abstract
The paper relates that adult day care is defined as a planned program providing personal care to adults with physical or emotional difficulties (A new lifeline for older people,.2007, p. 3). The paper explains that it was developed to assist families in taking care of their relatives instead of sending them to institutions such as a nursing home (Femia, Zarit, Stephens, & Greene, 2007, pp. 775-788), and these programs are provided by designated adult day care centers, which are non-residential facilities specializing in providing activities for these individuals ("New York Health", 2008). The paper discusses how they aim not only to promote alternative care by enhancing socialization and self-esteem, but also to assist the families by allowing them to handle other matters while knowing that their relative is well cared for in the facility ("New York Health", 2008).

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"Adult day care is defined as a planned program providing personal care to adults with physical or emotional difficulties (A new lifeline for older people,.2007, p. 3) It was developed to assist families in taking care of their relatives instead of sending them to institutions such as a [1]nursing home (Femia,Zarit, Stephens, & Greene, 2007, pp. 775-788). These programs are provided by designated adult day care centers, which are non-residential facilities specializing in providing activities for these individuals ([2]www.nyhealth.gov, 2008). They aim not only to promote alternative care by enhancing socialization and..."

Tags:adult, day, care

Abstract
In this article, the writer discusses that cases of child abuse in all its types continue to increase in the past years, some occurring in child care centers or committed by babysitters and other child caretakers. The writer notes that symptoms of abuse may also indicate the quality of care. Further, the writer discusses that parents must also contend with the high cost of quality day care services and risk the possibility of their children developing poor social skills in these child care centers. The writer also points out that current research showed that regular day care does not have to interfere with the emotional connection between a working mother and her infant. The writer concludes that adequate provision for the child's basic physical needs, the feeling of being valued, being allowed to play and the mother's personality traits weigh much more heavily.


Outline:
Introduction
Literature Review
Hypothesis
Method
Findings and Discussion
Conclusion

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"Meyerhoff discusses how the economic, cultural and social revolution in the country 50 years or so ago has driven young women and mothers to join the workforce. To adjust to the change, child care centers were set up to keep the children while their parents worked. Scientific evidence stands that children raised primarily at home develop much better social skills than those who spend a lot of time in group care. These young children in the company of other young children in group care learn social skills among themselves through imitation and operant conditioning. Every child will try some strategy, which will get him what he wants. In addition, many parents have started to feel guilty about separating from their children and leaving them in the care of others. They wish the situation could be more beneficial. Parents can make the arrangements needed to address this problem, but they should not be distracted away by modern conveniences from the fundamentals of authentic human development. When a problem turns up, the author invites parents to focus their attention on the expectations they place on the child's behavior rather than on the child's behavior itself."

Tags:development, group, care, healthy

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This paper, written from the perspective of a nursing practitioner, examines the issue of open versus closed visiting hours in the intensive care unit. The author explores these questions from the perspective of a quality care issue as well as a culturally competent care issue. The author summizes that open visiting hours in the intensive care unit can cause more strain on the patient and the staff than is good for either to experience.

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"Confounding and complicating factors in the study include the relative selectivity of the patients, and the fact it was a single center trial, which reduces the degree of generalization of the results. What should be noted in the authors favor however is that the study was indeed a pilot and used more scientific methods than had previously been done to examine the true effect on the patient. What cannot be judged from this survey is what the effect of the rotating sequences had on the staff. It is noted that the staff were not allowed to know which sequence was being used until the new period began. It is also interesting to note that the ICU did not accept any new patients in the last week of the two month period in order to prevent overlap of patients in different visiting cycles, and that the ICU was closed for 4 days between each cycle to allow a cleaning and disinfecting. This unusual procedure may have had a confounding effect on the rate of infection as well."

Tags:critical, care, nursing, intensive, care, units, (ICU), hospitals, patients

Abstract
The writer states that his/her practicum took place at Mount Sinai Mother and Baby Unit, a place where change is used as a catalyst to enhance quality of care. The writer's project was based on the principles of family centered care. The writer's main learning goal was to understand family centered care and to apply nursing and change theory to his/her own practice of family centered care. It was emphasized during the retreat that family centered care is holistic and that patients and families must be respected and treated with dignity.

Tags:family, centered, care

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This paper describes and defines holistic care of patients. The writer claims that the provision of suitable nursing care is not possible if the patient is not viewed in a holistic and complete manner. The writer explains that the holistic care of a patient involves the care of the whole person. The writer further points out that even though nurses do often tend to provide what they believe is holistic nursing care, they also tend to forget the spiritual dimension.

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"It is impossible to provide adequate nursing care if the patient is not viewed holistically. Holistic care refers to care for the whole person. According to the CNO, among the core competencies for the nurse who is performing assessment, she "considers the psychosocial, emotional, ethnic, cultural and spiritual dimensions of health". "

Tags:spirituality, holistic, care

Abstract
This paper examines the issue of how day care settings affect a child?s development has been studied by many child experts and psychologists. It looks at how diverse factors, such as the amount of time a child stays at day care, the behavioral tendencies of a child, the child?s bonding with his parents, and the social and environment adaptation capability of a child, are being used as measures in examining whether or not day care causes negative effects to children. Research and studies on the effects of long-term day care still need to consider factors, such as the hereditary genes and the natural behavior of a child. Such factors, if applied, may provide more reliable results in determining whether negative behaviors of a child are actually caused by his long-term attendance in day care.

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"The emotional and psychological aspects of children are the critical issues in the effects of daycare, especially on those who attended long-term daycare at an age earlier than 5. Researches have shown that these factors in a child's development are weakened by lack of attachment and bonding from a primary environment that must consists of parents and family. The article Daycare describes two studies conducted by Janice Wallerstien (1995) and Karl Zinmeister (1998). Both studies indicate that even daycares with high quality of service are unable to provide the necessary attachment needed by a child in his childhood."

Tags:genes, parents, bond, environment, care, giver