Health Course Works Samples For Students

- Should taxes on alcohol and tobacco be increased to help pay for rising medical costs?

Thesis statement

In this topic, we are going to analyse the reasons why alcohol and tobacco should be taxed. I am in full support of the taxation of alcohol and tobacco. I am targeting the policy makers who govern budget making and the general public as well.

Alcohol and tobacco related deaths have been on the rise with the improved levels of lifestyles in America. More people are earning more so they have more income to use and sometimes it leads to drug abuse such ...

Balko (par 1) assets that the three- day summit on obesity intends to find a lasting solution on the issue of obesity. This summit has members from the media, nutrition activists, policy makers, and state officials presiding over the event. The federal government considers the installation of sidewalks to enable students to walk to and from school to exercise their bodies. The government has also banned the sale of high calorie food within the school institutions. Balko (par 1) advocates for high tax on the snacks to stop their production. Congress is of the opinion of setting legislation that will ...

What the popular culture eats in this century depends on the ethnic groups in the nation. Each group has its own food habits and culturally based foods. Conversely, the mainstream culture affects cultural perspectives on food since it offers a wide variety of foods such as cuisines and pizzas. This paper focuses on three different articles representing their views on food in America. This paper argues that the American diet has the combination of many cultures in this decade.

Mary Eberstadt argues that people have trouble of mentioning food without by passing mention of sex. The human mind perceives ...

The concept of social justice is defined as justice that is exercised within a given society and particularly if it is applied among and to different society classes. It is also the ability for people to realize their given potential within the society they live in. market justice on the other is an approach derived from concepts of individualism, personal effort, voluntary behavior, and self interest. These concepts denote situations that are different in a society but they share some characteristics. Market justice dwells on the creation of a situation or society where people are depended on their personal efforts and themselves ...

Psychology

Psychology
In psychology there are three main types of parenting. They include Authoritative, Authoritarian, and the permissive parenting styles. The Authoritarian parenting style involves the parent feeling the need to control the actions of the child. The parent values highly obedience and respect and usually feels superior to the child. The child develops fear due to the harsh punishments given. Children of Authoritarian parent develop poor social skills and competences. In extreme cases the children may develop insecurities and have ant-social tendencies.

The Permissive parent has no control over the child. The parent avoids confrontation and does ...

The interviewee was as System Administrator at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. As a system administrator, the person had been charged with the responsibilities of setting up and maintaining user accounts, maintaining and monitoring system performance, developing security and privacy policies for users and creating data backup and recovery policies. Other responsibilities included managing password and identities, installing and upgrading software, scheduling hardware repairs and auditing the system. He joined the hospitals in February 2010 as Assistant Network Administrator before getting a promotion to his current position in July 2013. He had worked Broadway Supermarket as a database administrator for a period ...

- Considering the demand of the citizens, America has toughened its stand on the criminals and put them into prisons. However, this step has caused a different problem. The American prisons are overcrowded and the government faces the ire of judiciary as well as several human rights organization that demand a human treatment for the prisoners. An easy option before the American government is to privatize the prisons to provide the prisoners a comfortable life. The american government is exploring every option to look into the probaility of privatizing the prisons.

Privatization of prisons does not mean that the government is ...

Abstract

The 1956 US Presidential election in was a similar contest to the former contest in the year 1952 and pitted Republican Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat’s Adlai Stevenson. Republican’s Dwight Eisenhower beat Stevenson in a similar manner to the year 1952. This happened despite the intense speculation in the winter of the previous year the incumbent Dwight Eisenhower would not run owing to his failing health. His failing health emerged as a campaign issue in the electioneering period and was used by the opponents to fight him. The year 1956 was also the year that television commercials were used a great deal ...

Carbon monoxide poisoning is a potentially fatal condition that results from a person inhaling, or absorbing through other means carbon monoxide gas. Because carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, gas that forms from the incomplete combustion of carbon, it is difficult to detect, so people should be aware of the signs of poisoning to prevent at worst death. Many modern day appliances emit carbon monoxide as a result of their operation, and so carbon monoxide poisoning is an environmental health issue which could potential affect almost anyone living in the modern, urban world. The United States Government’s site for The Center For ...

In recent years, the health sector has become a very competitive field. Health institutions have been forced to develop effective strategies to counter the competition. The only solution has been to improve the quality of health care and create a good rapport with the customers. Gaining ground on the market is not an easy affair in health care as it is a delicate balance between ethical issues and business strategies (Ward, W. J., 2004). Krona Community Hospital is on a mission to remain competitive in the health care sector within this region through ensuring effective delivery of quality care. A comprehensive business strategy ...

Overview of two selected special populations found on the U.S. Department of Health and Human

Chart drawn with information from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality websites.

The chart above is a pictorial representation of an assessment of exclusive health indicators including health behaviors, exploitation of health services, and certain health conditions. The basis of which is to indicate the level of disparity that exist in American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) community. This is evaluated alongside data from Hispanic, Black White and Asian natives in ...

Question 1:

Managed care has had a significant effect on the service delivery in the US. First of all, it has given the general population a chance to choose the kind of service they wish for and who they prefer to give the services to them. As such, the citizens have a chance to access the services of their choice. This is very important as it makes the people have both physical and psychological relief after getting teh services. This facilitates quick recovery. Managed care system has also helped in raising the standards of service care delivery. The different health personnel ...

Discussion 1

Judicial review of competency or reasonability in regard to defendant mens rea (mental state) at issue in case involves four general rule elements where 1) waiver of rights is determined accord to the 2) capacity of a party to plea and 2) stand trial, the criteria to 4) defense. Defendants “pleading not guilty by reason of insanity” forsake criminal responsibility in exchange for state mental health incarceration (Meyer & Weaver, 2006).

In the cases State v. Bates and State v. Stiller no assignment of incompetency should occur. If temporary insanity is determined to be in question, hospital ...

Question One

Private Prisons
Private prisons were banned in the Mid-20th Century because they were views as the new form of slavery. During the progressive era, the last private prison was closed down. Commercialization of Prison system was demonized by religious groups and Human rights activists. The business revived again in the 20 the century. This was as a result of the increased incarceration efforts by the criminal justice system. In order to reduce the crime rate, the courts opted to adopt tough sentencing rules. Currently, the United States of America has incarcerated over two million inmates. The phenomenon creates a situation ...

Implications of cultural patterns on health

Introduction
Communities have distinguishable characteristics that make them different from the rest of the society around the world. Such cultural patterns are transferred from one generation to another for a very long period of time. According to Edberg (2013), every society across the world, has unique cultural practices as well as belief. However, some beliefs and practices are rewards to some members of that community, and a punishment to the rest of the community members. Such beliefs and practices include; female genital mutilation, early marriages and some religion practices and beliefs (Edberg 2013).

Female genital mutilation is the removal of ...

The US is experiencing a shortage of primary care physicians. It is projected that by 2020, there would be a shortage of 45,000 primary care doctors (Novak, 2012). Current graduates prefer the subspecialties due to the compensation, working hours, and challenges in the profession. The annual income of primary care physicians ranges from $140,000 to $150,000, however, specialists earn as much as three times this amount (Novak, 2012). Primary care doctors are burdened with more work, especially administrative tasks (Chen, 2012). Medical students may feel that primary care is not as challenging as the cases they discuss inside ...

IMPROVEMENT IN THE HEALTH (NURSING) SYSTEM

Improvement in the health (nursing) system
Nurses are an important part of the society. According to Dorothy Johnson’s behavioral systems design, the human being is a system that when disrupted, nurses assist in restoring the system to normal functionality (Johnson 1990). According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), the nursing profession is faced with several challenges that hinder the full dispensation of the duties as a nurse should. Some of these challenges include staffing problems, mandatory overtime and lack of security when handling patients. All these problems can be tied to management of the organizations. If the management at ...

Introduction

In the US, the responsibility of covering healthcare has largely been left to the private sector. The private sector is able to achieve this through employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI). However, the ESI is marred by a number of problems, which have hampered its effective implementation. As such, the US has introduced certain reforms as well as observing the principle of justice to ensure that the health sector carries out its roles smoothly.

Problems caused by employer-sponsored health insurance

The first ethical concern is that employer-sponsored health insurance hampers transparency and accountability. Despite the fact that there are significant increases in insurance premiums, employers make only small ...

Educational institution

In the times of highly sophisticated computers, there are several fields in our everyday life that need the implementation of such technology. Healthcare system is among those primary ones that could greatly benefit from the development of information systems for an additional optimization, and further development of its own.

As the amount of health-related information is constantly growing, public health organizations will soon require well-designed information systems to simply function, and make optimal use of that stacking data. Healthcare system will rely on information systems in managerial decision making, program and clinic administration, public health planning, policy analysis, ...

People look forward to spending time for rest, recreation, and leisure. In contemporary times, there are diverse choices of recreational activities that individuals, groups, or family members could select from. One affirms that the choice of recreation or vacation endeavors depend on the person’s concept of what constitutes a satisfying vacation. The current discourse hereby aims to present a description of the elements that create a satisfying vacation from one’s perspective.

First and foremost, one of the elements that would create a satisfying vacation is to presence of loved ones or a special someone. One affirms that any endeavor ...

About the assurance on the benefits of some pharmaceutical companies discussed, I believed that it would be improper to generalize that all pharmaceutical companies’ only intention is to make money; some companies are pursuing science and health. For example, the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law or PAL is applicable to the medical devices and drugs. Specifically, it measures geared toward medical devices. One of the goals of the PAL reform effort is to build up distinct regulations for medical devices as opposed to the rules that are currently applied to the devices and pharmaceuticals.
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Labor Relations Review Questions

2. Using the hospital as a setting, give two examples of what would violate the NLRA.
One of the provisions of the NLRA is the right to self-organization. Section 157 of 21 US Code, also known as the National Labor Relations Act, provides, among others, that employees have the right to organize themselves, either by forming, joining or assisting unions and bargain with their employers as a group through the union. This provision would be violated under healthcare setting, when a hospital management, for example, would deal directly with its employees for the setting of terms of their contracts. This happened ...

Blogging Survey

Media Summary
Part 1

Most of the posts (52%) in this story are supportive of Obamacare. Only 22% of the sampled posts are against the plan. In addition, a sizeable number (24%) gives neutral opinions. It is apparent that even those who are opposing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) do not have concrete arguments but are only opposed to the plan because it is from a government which is run by the Democratic Party.
The general message in these posts is that Obamacare is achieving what Republicans thought it would not. The five million people and counting who ...

Introduction

In Ontario Canada, the use of technology in nursing has advanced with developments in ICTs where nurses are continuously taking advantage of the opportunities that ICTs present in improving the quality of service delivery in the nursing profession. According to the Registered Nurses of Ontario e-health refers to the leveraging of information and communication technology to enhance professional practice in the promotion and the facilitation of the health and wellbeing of individual and families or patients (Registered Nrseses' Association of Ontario, 2009). The importance of ICT knowhow development in the nursing profession in Ontario is in the development of ...

The Elms is among the neighborhood regions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Islington Avenue and Humber River are on the west and east of the elms respectively. Thistledown is on the north of elms while highway 401 lies to the south of the Elms. Apart from that, Ward 2 North Etobicoke is among the neighborhoods of the elms. According to the National Household Survey of Statistics Canada held in 2011, the Elms Old Rexdale has a population of 9437 with the majority of groups being lone parent families and under age 19 years (City of Toronto 3). The elms harbor the ...

Abstract

The major financial systems in management of any finances of an institution include balance sheets, income statement, statement of owner’s equity and statement of cash flows (Baker & Baker, 2014). The balance sheet is an important tool in the assessment of the organization’s ability to meet its long term obligations. The income statement, on the other hand, gives a summary of the organization’s transactions over a set period. The statement of owner’s equity is a financial statement that uses information from the income statement and provides the same to the balance sheet. It analyzes the changes in profits of a ...

Introduction

The respiratory system can be termed as a biological system comprising of specific structures and organs that are used, by an organism, in the respiration process. It participates in the exchange together with intake of oxygen and carbon dioxide between an organism and its environment (Seeley, Stephens and Tate).

In vertebrates that breathe air, respiration occurs in the organs of respiration, lungs. The air passage to the lungs for supply of oxygen to the body is called inhalation, while the air passage away from the lungs to release carbon dioxide is called exhalation. In human beings, the anatomical characteristics ...

Protection of health information is important. HIPAA Privacy Rule protects the privacy of individuals. Individuals must consent to have their health information disclosed to other people. Health care providers can share and discuss health information of an individual if he/she does not object. Sharing of information only happens in cases where the person receiving the information needs to know for payment or needs to know about the care of the patient. If the patient is unconscious, the health care provider of the patient can share the information to a family member ('Health Information Privacy', 2014). Nursing workplace is field that ...

Question One

Privatization of Prisons
There is an emerging trend in the western countries of Privatization of prisons. Because of the huge costs that are incurred in the construction of a new correctional facility, countries such as the United States of America and Britain have opted to subcontract private prisons to cater for the rising need for space in the prison facilities. Mass incarceration has created an opportunity niche that is currently being exploited by American Business people. The privatization of prisons in the United States is caused by the punitive measures and the tough sentencing rules adopted by the criminal ...

1. Name Badge- NPA Section 301.351 I am in agreement with the sections cited that a nurse is supposed to wear a name badge. The nurse’s name, qualifications, practice position, and the employer are all things supposed to be on the badge. The abbreviations supposed to be included in the badge are R.N for the registered nurse and LVN OR VN for the vocational nurses.

2. Refusal of Mandatory Overtime-NPA Section 301.356 nurses may refuse to work overtime and still have no form of disciplinary action taken upon them. Health facilities or administrators need not compel nurses to work ...

My patient is a seventy five year old African American man with Geriatric condition. Geriatric is a condition that affects elderly people. The medication administered to such individuals is called Geriatric medicine. It is also called family medicine or internal medicine. This medicine helps to promote the prevention of disabilities and diseases in older adults (Kagan, 2010). The physician who administers geriatric medicine to the patient is called a geriatric physician or a geriatrician. In other words, Geriatrics is the ‘care of elderly or aged individuals’.

As said above, my patient is a seventy-five old African American male. His name is Caleb Rama. ...

Public health informatics (PHI) denotes the logical application of computer science, information, as well as technology to the practice of public health, learning, and research (O'Carroll, 2013). PHI is an interdisciplinary vocation that uses engineering, mathematics, information science, as well as related social sciences to significant public health processes and problems.

The field of informatics has been applied and is significant in the components of public health involving public health surveillance, nursing, environmental health, emergency response, and administration. Public health informatics has provided methods or techniques for attaining goals of public health in a ...

The breach in data use causes billions of dollars in wastage. This risks the credibility in medical well being, and the future of most healthcare providers. To help protect the breaches, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) controls and protects the usage, transmission and storage of healthcare information. It protects both electronic and paper formats with the main aim of guaranteeing the privacy and security of healthcare information. On the other hand, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) came into law on February 17, 2009 mainly to improve and promote the adoption ...

The process of evaluation is used to monitor the program and its operations. The experts use it in home health nursing. They also use it to assess the design and implementation of the project according to the plan.

The journal highlights various factors that are put into consideration when customer and family education programs are designed. They include: time, frequency, and personal preference. Client goals are considered in the program. Evaluation is necessary to determine a patient’s condition. Home health nursing requires evaluation process to ensure that the expected outcomes are achieved (Revel &McCurry, 2010).

The process ...

War against Polio

Throughout the history of humanity, viral diseases have been with people, and for a very long time, medical scientists have sought various ways to stop and eliminate them. In the developed states, vaccines were produced to make humans immune to diseases such as rubella, mumps, measles and whooping cough. However, it was just once that any virus has been eliminated from its last defense in both the body of human and the wild and effectively treated completely. This virus was smallpox, which was totally eliminated outside high-security laboratories in 1977. From that day on, people have been free to inject ...

Introduction

The major theme of this module is that most institutional healthcare providers are corporations however, sole owners and partnerships can also provide healthcare facility. The major discussion in this module is connected with corporate healthcare – the organizations, management, and liabilities they should assume and certain laws they should abide to.

Lessons learnt

There are a lot of lessons learned from this module. Detail knowledge of a corporation is learned in this module. Corporations are formed and are artificial beings and follow the rules and regulations as stated in the charter. Corporations possess unlimited liability, free transfer of ownership, ability to raise capital and ...

Program description

Weight loss programs are mostly not designed with children in mind. Due to increasing numbers of children who are becoming obese and other problems related with an increase in weight, there is, therefore, need to develop a program that addresses this problem. The program seeks to bring down the number of children who are developing weight related problems by putting in place a good health care delivery program that encompasses educational aspects to all the stakeholders involved. The program shall seek input from all stakeholders who include health professionals as pediatricians and family physicians and also the parents or guardians of ...

Question 1

President Clinton made a strategic miscalculation in health reforms and at the end experienced disappointments. The republicans, moderate democrats, the American Medical Association and the Health Insurance Association of America backtracked from a policy that they had agreed to support (Clinton & Clinton, 1993). The health reform suggested for implementation of universal care coverage that failed terribly remained a dream that never came true. Clinton failed to consider the matters of interest groups as he made a blunder of becoming a partisan in the health reform. The president planned to empower his leadership by public opinions and tried to play the politics of health, which ...

Introduction

Program evaluation and assessment in projected to the activities that are carried out in regard to the development determination. Project assessment helps the sponsors and the investors to have a clear overview of the program. The sponsors of the investment or the program are involved in the entire process as it they are the main player. Therefore, the process that is employed in the development planning, they are provided with the report as the evaluation and assessment are done. There are several steps followed in the conducting assessment and evaluation of the program.
These steps include obtaining program description ...

Introduction

Aims of pre-clinical studies
Main stages in clinical drug development and challenges from Phase I to Phase IV
Conclusion
- Minimum required contents of a clinical trial protocol.
Introduction

This document contains information related to aims of pre-clinical studies. A brief outline of the main stages in clinical drug development and challenges emerging from it will also be addressed. This would be done by highlighting developments occurring from phases I through IV. An exploration into the minimum required contents of a clinical trial protocol will also be embraced.
Aims of pre-clinical studies

Pre-clinical trials ...

Reduction in the level of performance within the workplaces have been witnessed in the contemporary world with stiff competition and economic crisis, causing budget cuts and layoffs options to address the situation. The effect of budget cuts and layoffs is increased uncertainty, fear, as well as higher degrees of stress. Certain workplace stress may be treated normal; excessive stress may lower level of performance and affect emotional and physical health of workers (Rossi, Quick, & Perrewe, 2009).

Many steps exist that an employee may pursue to reduce overall stress levels. These may include taking responsibility for enhancing emotional and ...

Lead placement during an echo

During echocardiography, the leads placement occurs at different positions of the body. The leads during the process are placed depending on the type of echo that is supposed to be conducted on the person. In relation to this, there are two different types of echocardiograms among the usual four that are conducted to a person. These types of echocardiograms are transthoracic echocardiogram and transesophageal echocardiogram.

On one hand, during the transthoracic echocardiogram, an echocardiographer places the leads or transducers on the back of the chest and on the wall of the chest (Leeson 56). The position of the leads ...

Known as the second deadliest disease in the world, tuberculosis remains a high rated disease with remarkable fatal rates. As earlier stated it is caused by a small aerobic, non motile bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis which in most cases lives in the lungs. This pathogen has a high lipid content, which confers to its unique characteristics.
Tuberculosis is a worldwide disease that can be contacted by anybody so long as they are in contact with this bacterium. However, there is a population which is at risk of contacting this disease known as the target population. The target population is associated with risk ...

- There are manifest and latent functions of all of societies. What are the manifest and latent functions of Facebook?

Facebook have become so large since its launch in the year 2004. It has changed the world and its perspective of social networking. It provides accessibility of information regarding people’s lives including their address, friends and even hobbies and personal preferences Facebook has altered our means of communication and interaction. Every day, more and more people use Facebook. Facebook serves different functions to every one of us.

Facebook can serve manifest and latent functions. Manifest and ...

Introduction:

The Chlamydia has been reported to be the most common sexual transmitted disease in the United States of America. It is most common among the sexually active people who include the young adults and the adolescent. State reports and surveys have revealed that from two to twenty percent of this age group have contracted this disease. The female adolescents have been noted to be having the highest rate of infection of this disease. In general, the young adults and adolescents who are infected with this disease result to a total of 4%. The black Americans are also noted to be ...

Fraud and Abuse in Managed Care in America: An Introduction

The American government significantly knows more about health care reforms, and what requires to be put into practice to resolve the poor health care system. The major trouble the government is trying to deal with the considerable rise in health care expenditures that are creating a large number of patients that are registered all over the USA. There exist various factors that are linked to ...

5A. Niche Clientele is a portion of the market that an organization identifies as having some special features and determines that it is worth marketing to that portion of the market. The organizations tend to use niche clientele most often are those in the private sector-such organizations are owned and run by individuals. Considering a micro-finance: the questions usually asked in this case is: who will be their clientele with specific features and how will knowing their clientele help the organization? Such small finance corporation will often target people with low income or middle income level people. Understanding the specific income ...

- In today’s health care environment is it better to approach the future with a compass or a map? Explain and defend your choice.

Maintaining one’s health should be both affirmative and exact. It is always necessary to know the things that should be dealt with prior to making decisions and actions. Health care had greatly evolved for the past decades and individuals seeking for health care assistance must know these differences. The advent of globalization and the innovational breakthroughs had pushed many health care providers to make maximum offers to the customers. To be able to know ...

Good health of the people is essential for the prosperity of the nation. The realization of national goals such as increased national income significantly depends on the good health of its people. Emerging trends indicate that the United States government has taken the initiative to ensure that it has established a comprehensive health insurance plan for its citizens.
Given the three separate options, I will prefer the imposition of a 7 percent rise in the income tax. This is because this option of funding takes account of the relative differences in income earning among members of the society. It acknowledges ...

Creative thinking is a term that can encompass all fields of human knowledge and expertise. Creative thinkers are the greatest assets that humankind can boast of; they are the inventors and the people who challenge the conventional ways to arise with new methods of doing things. Highly creative people have numerous attributes that they share, from rejecting the conventional way of doing things through multiple approaches to problems to finally a future-oriented outlook.

I consider inventors to be the most creative people around. The inventors view problems differently from other people. While most people just accept things the way they ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 or otherwise known as “HIV-2” has been identified as the second type of HIV disease that was discovered in 1986 in West Africa, from an isolated case of AIDS afflicted patients in the area. Studies revealed that there has been scant literature written about the natural history of HIV-2. However, present research has shown that HIV-1 and HIV-2 have some similarities and differences since they hold similar modes of transmission of the virus. However, it appears that the immunodeficiency of patients who are infected with HIV-2 develop slowly than HIV-1 and ...

Community Location

According the population census conducted in 2000, the total population of District 13 is 106, 120. However it has been observed that the population of the region has been on the rise. The people in the district live in different locations. These locations include; the Coney Island the Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Bath Beach, Homecrest and the Sea Gate.

The Coney Island is an urban residential neighborhood located in the Southwestern side of Brooklyn in New York City. The Coney Island is around 4 miles long and half a mile wide. The Coney Island creek that ...

Question-1 – The Difference between Accounting Methods and Their Effects

These two accounting systems reflect the timing of the period in which the revenue stream and the operating expenses are recognized in the financial statements of a healthcare entity. The major difference between these systems is that the accrual accounting system recognizes revenues in the period during which they are earned regardless of whether the actual cash is received or not. Similarly, this accounting method reports expenses in the period in which they expire irrespective of the cash payment.

In contrast, a healthcare organization using a cash basis of accounting recognizes the revenue stream in financial statements only when the cash ...

The review report will evaluate the methods and conceptual framework that the article published with the title of “Positive Psychology in Progress” discusses. I have searched the article from Google Scholar with the helping of inputting search terms “Positive psychology in healthcare”.

The article is a rather milestone in the field of motivational interviewing and psychological practice because it validates a very loud claim that modern psychology made in the recent years. They argued that psychological healing provides the basis for physical one. However, there was no scientific proof that can be produced in order to back up the value ...

Before employing new employees in the company, it is advisable to follow all the set rules and regulations for compliance purposes. The employees selected are ensured to be up to the tasks to be assigned to them where the skills they possess should match the tasks given. The health facility must be in compliance with several rules and regulations for it to be certified and recognized by the relevant authorities. I will discuss local and state regulations, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and financial risk.

The health facility and the health service providers must comply with the ...

The United States Department of Health and Human Services states quality improvement (QI) uses continuous and systematic approaches leading to improvements in the health status of targeted patient group and health care services that are measurable (HRSA, 2014). There is a direct correlation between the health outcomes of populations and the individuals within them and how well health services are improved. The systems of care and the delivery approach used by an organization is the focus of improvements in quality.
The Baldridge Award Criteria evaluate companies in seven divisions for consideration (Bushbinder and Shanks, 2007). These criteria set the ...

There has been much speculation in regards to whether at least some, if not all of the deaths that occurred at Virginia Tech could have been preventable. One of the biggest conflicts on this topic is the lack of communication within the school about the gunman, Cho Seung Hui’s prior history of violence and mental illness. According to a New York Times article (2007), “because university officials misunderstood federal privacy laws as forbidding any exchange of a student’s mental health information, the panel’s long-awaited report concludes, they missed numerous indications of the gunman’s mental health problems” ( ...

Breast cancer is inevitable and it is the most common cancer next to skin cancer. According to statistics, 1 out of 8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will have an approximate 240,000 new cases of diagnosis related to breast cancer in the United States .

Risk Factors of Breast Cancer

No study have proven the direct cause of having a breast cancer, however, there are numerous risk factor identified related to the disease. Among the risk factors of breast cancer include age, gender and heredity. As women age, the risk of having breast cancer increases. ...

Cover Letter,

Mercy Medical Center has enlisted Howard Electronics as a potential bidder for the supply of one computer server. Howard company was considered for the supply after careful review and analysis of the company’ background information captured in the website and other business reports. To this end, the hospital is seeking information regarding the company’s services and product. The required information is captured in the Request for Proposal document attached to this letter.

The hospital is currently using four servers located in the departments of pharmacy, clinician, laboratory, and admission. These servers host patients’ health records handled by the departments. ...

Identify a Culturally Diverse Population within Your Community

Attaining cultural competency is one of the major goals of health care institutions in United States. Achieving this goal creates a greater challenge to U.S. health care sector because of the higher numbers of diverse patients and health care providers. Moreover, most health care centers spend time serving diverse populations, which are associated with conflicts and violence among health care providers reducing the nature of patient care offered by medical professionals. Culturally diverse populations suffer high risks of poor physical, social and psychological health and often never get access to quality health care (Galanti, n.d). The following discussion focuses on ...