scholarly journals Nursing Students Learn About Complementary and Alternative Health Care Practices

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean N. Groft ◽  
Ruth Grant Kalischuk
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Alternative Health ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Alternative Health Care ◽  
Health Care Practices

Informed by a philosophy that embraces wholeness and balance of body-mind-spirit, the authors each led a 13-week university course in which undergraduate students explored the history and practice of alternative and complementary healing modalities. Students submitted weekly journals chronicling their responses to and understanding of the course material. The journals were examined to gain an understanding of students’ experiences related to all aspects of the course content and process. Thematic analysis revealed a major concept (searching and re-searching) as well as five subconcepts (engaging, opening, hesitating, understanding, and knowing) that represented the iterative process of interacting with and reflecting on the learning of often unfamiliar approaches to healing. Of significant interest was the tremendous personal growth identified by students. Nursing students were also able to recognize the utility of their new awareness and knowledge within the context of nursing care delivery, acknowledging the role of alternative and complementary therapies and treatments in the choices made and care accepted by their clients. Implications of the findings for nursing education include the need to expose students to such information and experiences for improved professional nursing practice and health care in general.

Ball Memorial Hospital: Section 2 Sherman Act Analysis in The Alternative Health Care Delivery Market

1988 ◽  
Vol 14 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 249-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Kirsch
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Memorial Hospital ◽  
Alternative Health ◽  
Circuit Court ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Alternative Health Care ◽  
Sherman Act ◽  
Preferred Provider Organization

In 1986, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Ball Memorial Hospital v. Mutual Hospital Insurance denied an injunction sought under the antitrust laws by the plaintiffs, eighty acute care hospitals, which would have precluded Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana from implementing a Preferred Provider Organization. The Ball court used a conservative economic analysis to deny the injunction and failed to consider many industry-specific factors. This Note examines these factors and challenges the Ball court’s position by arguing that antitrust scrutiny of alternative health care delivery markets must go beyond the court’s narrow approach.

scholarly journals The DETERMINANTS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN CHOOSING NURSING PROFESSION AS CAREER, A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF NURSING STUDENTS AT DISTRICT KHAIRPUR SINDH, PAKISTAN.

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Faheem Ahmed Mallah ◽  
Shahzad Ali Khan ◽  
Nazeer Ali Buriro ◽  
Muhammad Baqar Baloch ◽  
Mrs. Surriya Parveen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Care Delivery System ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
First Choice

Background: Nursing is an important tier for the health care delivery system. Nurses are holding essential and largest part of health delivery system from direct care to management, performing many functions for the smooth operations of the health care delivery system. Nursing education ignored in Pakistan nowadays many nurses are being enrolled in nursing schools every year. Changes people to join nursing profession may vary from one another. Objectives: Our study's objectives were to explore motivating factors for the nursing profession, and to assess the motivational factors among student nurses. Methods: We conducted Focus Group Discussions with nursing students. Thematic content analysis was done after assigning codes, making sub categories and categories and then driving sub themes and themes. Results: Factors such as wish to become nurse, mostly an alternate as failure to get admission in medicine, to fulfill parents wish, financial support job either public or private and get a chance to settle abroad, and seeking stipend during training. Easy public, private or clinic set up and jobs abroad. According to our study findings most students chose nursing profession as alternate but not their first choice, many personal, professional and financial factors attract students to enroll into the nursing. Conclusion: We conclude that most of the nursing student's perceive nursing being more suitable for females supporting their financial health.

Variations in Lay Health Theories: Implications for Consumer Health Care Decision Making

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 1687-1703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée Shaw Hughner ◽  
Susan Schultz Kleine
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Health Care Decisions ◽  
Alternative Health ◽  
New Era ◽  
Alternative Health Care ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Make Health Care

Wide variations in how contemporary consumers think about health and make health care decisions often go unrecognized by health care marketers and public policy decision makers. In the current global environment, prevailing Western viewpoints on health and conventional biomedicine are being challenged by a countervailing belief system forming the basis for alternative health care practices. The ways American consumers once thought about health have changed and multiplied in this new era of competing health paradigms. Our study provides empirical evidence for this assertion in two ways. First, it demonstrates that in the current environment consumers think about health and health care in a multiplicity of very different ways, leading to the conclusion that we should not classify health care consumers as either conventional or alternative. Second, the results provide clues as to how individuals holding diverse health theories make health care decisions that impact health behaviors, treatment efficacy, and satisfaction judgments.

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