Dunaway M Tray
Healthcare Value, Inc, USA.
Caring. 2006 Dec;25(12):60-1.
Beginning with a concerned society, from individuals, to visiting nurse associations, and to publicly traded corporations, home care and hospice have been meaningful threads in the American fabric for over a hundred years. Today, advances in technology, a burgeoning regulatory environment, and universal health care cost concerns make continued change expected and certain. While external health care environmental pressures incessantly shape the evolution of home care and hospice, a central value lives on in the heart of what we do as caregivers, in what is nowtermed our "industry". It is a value we must safeguard from evolutionary extinction.
从一个关注此事的社会开始，从个人到访视护士协会，再到上市公司，家庭护理和临终关怀在美国社会结构中已经成为有意义的组成部分超过一百年了。如今，技术进步、迅速发展的监管环境以及对全民医疗保健成本的担忧使得持续变革既在预料之中又不可避免。尽管外部医疗保健环境压力不断塑造着家庭护理和临终关怀的发展，但我们作为护理人员所从事的工作，也就是现在我们所说的“行业”，其核心存在着一种核心价值观。这是一种我们必须防止其在发展过程中消失的价值观。
