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    Breast cancers are classified by several classifications as: - Histopathology - Grades - Stages - Receptor status. Each of these influences the prognosis and can affect treatment response. Description of a breast cancer optimally includes all of these factors: • Histopathology: Breast cancer is usually classified primarily by its histological appearance. Most breast cancers are derived from the epithelium lining the ducts or lobules, and these cancers are classified as ductal or lobular carcinoma

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    that it is a Health Care Organization, there are many expenses to be met, if the hospital is incapable of paying for the services provided to the patients and for the physicians and nurses who are providing those services, it will be extremely difficult for the organize to survive. Therefore, Bruce Reid the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Blake Memorial has to transform Blake Memorial Hospital into a facility for Cancer treatment, in order to server patients with cancer and generate more revenue

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    Spirituality in Critical Care Nursing: Cancer Patient Population Critical care nursing can be a very intense job, whether there are in-depth skills that need to be formed frequently or it is a patient who needs lots of use of self from the nurse. In the cancer population within critical care this can be drastically increased since they need not only your technical skills, but your time and interpersonal skills to help them through all of what they are going through. A big part of critical care in general, and

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    ED overcrowding in Canada has become an epidemic. ED overcrowding has been defined as “a situation in which the demand for emergency services exceeds the ability of an (emergency) department to provide quality care within acceptable time frames” (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, 2014). This has been an ongoing problem across Canada. Ontario has developed an initiative to reduce ED wait times by implementing a variety of strategies and collaborating with other institutions. This paper

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    study, Dr. John Seffrin and the American Cancer Society can be analyzed as leaders in promoting the access to care initiative to ensure equal quality healthcare to lifesaving cancer treatments. One example seen here is the transformational leadership approach. This style according to Northouse (2016) “is a process that changes and transforms people. It is concerned with emotions, values, ethics, standards, and long-term goals” (p. 161), which the American Cancer Society shares in order to reach its goal

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    The Hillman Cancer Center is a nonprofit center dedicated to research, prevention, and the healing of cancer. They are partnered with The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). “ At UPMC Cancer Center”, they “are connected to patients to the integrated expertise of leading clinicians, academic researchers, specialty programs, and treatment centers” (Hillman Cancer Center, 2016). Their center is accredited and has a commitment to quality. Grobman reviews the importance of quality in nonprofit

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    of his macrosocial theoretical approach, he divides his data collection into three parts: understanding healthcare issues that emerge from patients’ narratives, observing interactions among actors in the ward and the role patients play in their own care, and learning patients’ conditions outside the hospital. Within each of these three subsets, he creates main arguments or general observations that most likely account for a deterioration of wellbeing during cancer patient hospital stays. First, the

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    Americans most at risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, unintentional injuries (accidents), and diabetes and also have a high occurrence of the following conditions and risk factors: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hepatitis B, HIV/AIDS, smoking, tuberculosis, and liver disease. Asian American men are 40% less likely to have prostate cancer, but twice likely to have stomach cancer compared with white men. Asian American women are 30% low chance to have breast cancer but twice as likely to have

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    Community group CanTeen is a national organisation working to support young people aged 13 to 24 that have been affected by cancer, they are cancer patients, a sibling, bereaved sibling or have a parent going through cancer (CanTeen, n.d.). CanTeen aims to support, develop and empower their members. They run peer support networks as well as professional education and recreation programs (CanTeen, n.d.). CanTeen members identify with six values which are we do it right, we own it, we are one

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    Biomedical Approach

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    Most modern Western societies rely on technology and evidence based medical treatments to diagnose and treat illness or disease. This biomedical approach is founded predominately by the belief that medical intervention, will return the health of a patient to a pre-illness state (Khatcheressian & Brown, 2009). However, an ample body of evidence is accumulating to suggest that consideration must also be given to the impact of psychological and social influences on health. Indeed, as Adler and Page

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