The First CVS store was founded in Lowell, MA, in 1963 by brothers Stanley and Sidney Goldstein and Scandinavian American Ralph Hoagland. They had 17 stores by 1964, and sold primary health and beauty products, until operating their first store with a pharmacy department in Warwick and Cumberland, RI. before being sold in 1969 to the Melville Corp. For the next 30 years CVS has grown and merged with many different pharmacies and companies, including purchasing 1,268 Eckerd Drug stores and Eckerd Health Services by 2004. During the fall of 2006, Caremark Rx was facing fierce acquisition from Express Scripts an opposing PBM. CVS entered into the sale offering cash/ stock mix, board seats, and a merge with CVS Pharmacare PBM.
An Analysis of Nursing Theory In the Film: Wit Daniel Foytlin Kean University Abstract The Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, by Margaret Edson, was artfully converted to film in 2001. The story details the life and reflections of a brilliant, uncompromising, yet cold-hearted English professor, as she endures an experimental treatment for cancer. The film also provides a stark view of the medical community and its various approaches toward end of life care. The analysis of the film discusses the contrast between various Nursing Models, as viewed through the eyes of the patient and her reactions toward each model. Wit is the story of Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson), a doctor of English literature, who has recently been diagnosed with stage four, metastatic ovarian cancer.
Gaddy v. Douglass Facts: In 1988, Ms. M created a will, a charitable trust and a power of attorney designating Dr. Gaddy, her physician and close family friend, as executor, trustee and attorney-in-fact; on March 12, 1999, when she was suffering from chronic and severe dementia caused by the advanced state of Alzheimer's disease, Ms. M visited and attorney selected by her family, and signed a document revoking the 1988 Will and the 1988 durable power of attorney naming her cousins as her attorneys-in-fact. Dr. Gaddy filed a declaratory judgment action, and the trial court ultimately found that the woman lacked capacity to revoke her prior documents and invalidated the subsequent power of attorney and revocation of the original documents.
The Effect of Cultural Mores on Patient Behavior and Clinical Care The Effect of Cultural Mores on Patient Behavior and Clinical Care Western Governors University Introduction to Nursing Arts and Science ACT Task #1 Karla Larin ID:191851 The Effect of Cultural Mores on Patient Behavior and Clinical Care| 1 Jane is a single, 24 year old, Vietnamese woman. She currently holds a part-time position in a biology laboratory while attending the local university. Since Jane immigrated to the United States she has continued to follow her Vietnamese religious, medical and dietary traditions. She has a history of allergies which she treats with Eastern medicine. During a recent physical activity she complained of severe shortness of breath,
Team Research Project Part III (Walgreens) Team 4 Rasmussen College Author Note This research is being submitted on September 08, 2013 for Steve Johnson’s B 233 Section 11 Principles of Management course. Team 4 Research project Part III September 08, 2013. Gregory D. Wasson is president and chief executive officer of Walgreen Co., and has served on the company’s board of directors since 2009. Wasson joined Walgreens as a pharmacy intern in 1980 while a student at Purdue University’s School of Pharmacy in West Lafayette, Ind. After earning his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy in 1981, he managed several Houston Walgreens drugstores before being promoted to district manager in 1986.
She had just finished seeing what seemed like a hundred diabetic patients, one after the other. As an endocrinologist, she specializes in the management of hormonal disorders she specializes in the management of hormonal disorders. More than sixty percent of her patient visits focus on diabetes. Dr. Vollbrecht picked up her last chart of that morning and noticed it was just another patient with Type 2 diabetes. But the doctor didn’t know that she was in for a surprise.
After being Honorably Discharged, I was employed in retail for approximatley ten years. In 1990 I became an LPN, where I continued to work until I fell ill with Cancer. In 2005 cancer free I returned to school. In 2007 I obtained an Associate in Information Technology ; a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology focused on Multimedia-visual communication in 2009. I am currently in my last class working towards an MBA with a focus on Health Care
Chronic Illness Psychosocial Implications Using the Behavioral Nursing Assessment Tool as a guide, this paper begins with a personal interview with a patient who had a right Below the Knee Amputation (BKA) related to Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD). Mr. Gerke is a 72-year-old retired investment banker who was admitted at Manor Care Hospital on October 4, 2008 for post-op BKA rehabilitation. This assessment tool assists in developing psychosocial assessment criteria for individuals and families adapting to physical illness. Assessment Health Perception-Health Management Mr. Gerke has a history of hypertension, Diabetes and Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD). He previously had undergone a right 5th toe amputation at Hemet Valley Hospital.
| |Past Medical History - Includes hypertension, CAD & osteoarthritis. At Consulate Rehabilitation Center, she received PT, OT & ST 5x week for 4weeks & discharged home with her spouse as primary caregiver & homecare| |services. Pt. was referred to QOL Homecare for OT, PT & skilled nursing services. Pt.
(2010) Talks about the alternative-to-discipline (ATD) program for addressing nurses with substance abuse problems. The alternative-to-discipline approach emphasizes recovery and rehabilitation for drug abusing nurses and succeeds in retaining nurses during a time of shortage in this field. By 2008, alternative-to-discipline programs had been approved by 45 state boards of nursing in the United States. The opposing approach is the disciplinary approach, in which punitive action is used against nurses with substance abuse issues. A major drawback to this disciplinary approach is that the potential for termination of employment for the addicted nurses may prevent other nurses from reporting substance abuse among their coworkers.