Hospital Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

United States health care system focuses on delivering quality healthcare services and improving people’s wellbeing. The practices and services offered by U.S. healthcare focus on ensuring patients receive quality care and achieve a better patient outcome. The health care delivery system used in U.S. is unique and very effective. Health care centers must comply with the rules and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health. The two major components of U.S. health care system are health care delivery and health services delivery (Jonas, Goldsteen, & Goldsteen, 2007). Well, Being Hospital must ensure accomplishment of these components by using effective health ...

Retain medicine are health care clinics that provide treatment for acute conditions such as minor skin problems and bronchitis , in additional to vaccinations and other preventive care such as cholesterol screenings and hypertension. Retail clinics offer services that are affordable, convenient and timely on a limited opportunity of walk-in basis. These health facilities are located in pharmacies and retails such a Walmart and Target (Mehrotra, Adams, Thygeson and McGlynn 2011). Basically, Physician assistants and nurse practitioners staff this retail clinics and who endeavour a high customer satisfaction level. These clinics continue to offer quality health care and create a threat to the financial ...

JagjotDulay

Healthy Communities Nursing Theory and Practice
Debora Spartaco
d) Primary Health Care‐how have the values and principles of Primary Health Care been reflected in the work you are involved with? How does it directly influence your clients?
The Values of The basic principles of primary health care identified in the Alma Ata declaration are to be modified into national health policies so as to sustain the vision of primary health care as part of a comprehensive health care system which is in consonance with other sectors, these principles include
Equitable distribution of health care, Community ...

a) The purpose of ABC hospital policy document number 9 policy regarding HIPAA security standards.
The purpose of the document is a reflection of ABC hospital commitment in ensuring that all its employees have appropriate authorizations for accessing ABC hospitals electronic health systems. The purpose of the document is to ensure that health facility has reasonable and the suitable administrative safeguards that establish the foundation for the protection of electronic health information of patients at the facility.
b) The two documents that employees must sign at ABC hospital
The two documents that employees at ABC hospital must sign are i) ...

The face of hospitals is changing fast. The need to provide effective and efficient medical service has become cardinal, and all the stakeholders of hospitals have to ensure they ameliorate service delivery to attain this objective. In the last half century, a wave of technological and infrastructural changes has characterized leading hospitals throughout the world. In this regard, the Ventura County Medical center is no exception. The board of Supervisors has initiated an ambitious project that would see the construction of a massive 120-bed wing building. This will subsequently replace more than half of the current main building at the hospital. ...

Eric Shinseki with the proposal:

How to low costs in the veteran apartment

INTRODUCTION

PROBLEMS:
AMERICAN HEATH CARE SYSTEM
VA ISSUES
COSTS
CONCLUSION
It is well known that the U.S. has the most extensive help system for veterans in the world. This system exists from 1636th, when the Pilgrims Plymouth Colony was at war with the Indians Pekuot. Then was the first time when was mentioned that a soldier who is injured must receive help from the colony. 1776th, on the Continental Congress was the first time when was mentioned pension for the injury military. Nowadays, MDC is available to all ...

Question 2

The hospital scene is very important in this article. It gives us a glimpse of what lack of fluency in a given language can do to a person. Language is used for expression and impression. A person is judged according to their presentation in terms of appearance and language skills. As for Tan, when she went to hospital and expressed her concern about the CAT scan appointment, the personnel in charge considered her an illiterate person who does not know her rights. They told her to book an appointment for another day since they could not trace her CAT scans concerning her ...

Abstract

The study seeks elaborate on the nonprofit and for-profit hospital joint venture and giving growing similarities in their operation capacities. The growing need for improvement by nonprofit hospitals regarding healthcare delivery requires high capital generation and more funding. Overdependence on sponsors and well-wishers for grants do not support the community benefit fully. This makes nonprofit hospitals not to deliver high quality health care, and unable to settle bills and outsourcing high technology to support medication. The conversion from nonprofit to for-profit hospital, and joint venturing with for-profit hospital help in improving performance, delivery, and high-quality health care. The paper ...

Introduction

Outsourcing entails the allocation of specific organization process to an external service provider who is specialized in the particular business process or service. In most cases business fails to handle all facets of business process internally, thus they opt to hire external help with specific business processes. Additionally, the duration of some business process calls the need to hire external help instead of in-house professionals (Stevenson, 2012). The appointed external firm takes the responsibility and risk of performing the specified business process while maintaining the business' assets. However, it is crucial to comprehend the advantages and shortcomings associated with ...

Disaster Plan

Being a manager of Emergency Department, I have set up various disaster management plans for this hospital. To begin with, staff training has been taken as a strategy to deal with any kind of disaster. The training has been established for both internal and external calamities. Through such training, all the staff is made aware of incidences that may be brought abut by either natural or man-made disasters. Natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes bring in more injuries and casualties and the staff is more informed on matters relating to such incidences. The reason that makes natural disasters to predict more ...

Abstract

A patient survey at a community hospital in which I serve as the chief financial officer indicated the need for a commercial 24-hour pharmacy within the hospital. The pharmacy would ensure that patients and families fill prescriptions and begin taking prescribed medicines as and when ordered instead of waiting for the following day. In response to the findings of the survey, this paper seeks to look into the viability of the business. Herein provided is the proposal for the first three months of operations. The paper also looks into the financial implications of the proposed project by looking into ...

Introduction

Health care systems across the world are struggling with rapidly mounting costs of health care provision to the whole population, quality assurance as well as universal access to facilities. Patients stay in hospitals only if they required continuous monitoring and specialized equipment or expert care, which cannot be cost-effectively or practicably be offered away from the hospital. If hospital stays do not serve the best interest of the patient or if such stays lead to higher costs than is necessary, then such stays are unnecessary (Epstein, Jha, & Orav, 2011). In order to ensure the efficiency, it is necessary to ...

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When it comes to staff training on Lean, the hospital starts training them immediately about Lean as soon as the employee is hired (Perez).Education on Lean is made available to all levels of staff from the bottom up, at Miami Children’s Hospital with a manual that states how each task is to be carried out. Personal engagement is done on everybody on the team to have an appreciation and understanding on what Lean is. This kind of methodology was applied to routine applications. This approach made staff feel like they were also part of the decision ...

Facilities Management in Healthcare

My Role as a Facilities Manager in a New Construction Project
Facilities management plays a major role in clinical operations management. It is an essential component in ensuring that all operations run smoothly. Facilities management improves facility efficiency, service quality, safety and patient satisfaction. It also ensures a clean and healthy environment.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is planning to construct an improved medical center. The center will increase hospital bed and space. The project is expected to solve several issues facing the hospital such as undersized facilities and safety laws mandated by the state. The project’s ...

When the internal audit is being carried out, there are several problems that will be discovered by the internal auditors. One of the problems that will be discovered is the inappropriate keeping of accounts receivables. Accounts receivable should be kept in an appropriate manner to allow the hospital make some follow-ups on the accounts that have not been settled. Due to the inadequate knowledge, then it might be impossible to keep appropriate records of the accounts receivable. When the records of the accounts receivable are not kept properly some of the patients might take advantage of the situation and ...

Critical analysis of The Influence of a Post discharge Intervention on Reducing Hospital Readmissions in a Medicare Population by Costantino, M. E., Frey, B., Hall, B. & Painter, P. October 2013 16(5), 310-316.

Interventions Reducing Readmissions

Abstract
Discharging patients from a hospital is a complex and intricate process that should be handled with a lot of attention and care to avoid the unnecessary readmission of patients. The study states that some reasons cause hospital readmission in Medicare patients between 30 days of discharge and they may include failure to follow the physician’s directions, reoccurrence of the condition, lack of follow-up care ...

The Proposed Plan for Solving the Problem

The problem that occurred at Sharp Memorial Hospital was the rendering of subpar health services to two ill patients which is contrary to the function of a hospital. In so doing, the implications of the services could end up doing, even more, harm to the patient. The complaints showed that the hospital does a have a shortcoming in its management as the services provided could have been from the signing in the front desk to receiving the actual treatment. The coordination of all the services provided at the hospital thus becomes very important. A hospital is ethically charged with ...

Assignment Executive Summary

Introduction
Delivery of quality services is a priority in healthcare as excellence determines patient outcomes. Various factors affect quality service delivery in health facilities. Healthcare facilities employ the most competent healthcare professionals yet patients continue to receive poor quality services. The hospital setting is dynamic as different personnel are responsible for the patient’s well being. Proper communication structures between health professionals reduce chances of information misinterpretation or conveyance of erroneous information. Both medical and non-medical factors affect the quality of service.
According to Hughes (2008), delivery of poor services occurs because of errors within the healthcare system. For ...

Risk Management Program

The ever changing regulations and numerous by laws enacted by relevant bodies continue to make risk management program a number one priority program in the modern dynamic enterprise environment. Health care facilities have not been left out in managing various risk programs. They operate under various bodies with different demands and standards which they must follow to avoid legal consequences.
In the 21st Century, risk management has dominated board list of priorities. This is because of numerous threats to an organization continuity and efficiency. It is important to note that the growing concern over risk management programs have been ...

Howard County Medical Center in St. Paul,

Nebraska,
P.O Box 406,
St. Paul, NE68873
With the current need to raise car seat awareness in the Nebraska Community, there is a need for finances trawl facilitate the whole process. There is low awareness of car seat services and knowledge in Nebraska; this is partly because of the fact that Nebraska is a small town. There is a need to ensure that the services are available.
Howard County Medical Center in St. Paul has great hopes that this letter will find favor from you. This will enable the hospital to empower the community about the need to ...

Hospital Acquired Infections

A fact that emerges from the events in the video is that healthcare associated infections are a threat to the health and safety of both the staff and patients in the hospital. Familiar Healthcare associated diseases such MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), bloodstream poisoning and surgical site infections are highly contagious diseases that require special treatment and care in prevention.
The cost associated with treatment of such diseases is high because it requires close monitoring of the patient in the intensive care unit. The doctors transferred the patient (Whitney Rose) to the intensive care unit after acute organ failure. This ...

The Affordable Care Act is a law that seeks to implement reforms in the health services to ensure that every citizen has access to quality health care. This act was made into law by President Barak Obama on March 23 2010. These reforms also target the insurance sector, with these changes stipulated to be complete and working in full force by the year 2014. By making policies that regulate investments, the act provides a way to increase the quality of health care for American citizens . The citizens are not the only group of people that gains from these reforms; health care ...

Articles Review

Healthcare system is a complex system of relationships on various organizational levels. While organization-client relationships are essential, the success of the companies in the sector depends on their ability to recognize the trends and opportunities and build stronger bonds between public, private and not-for-profit (NFP) sectors. Globalization, technological advancement and others aspects of the environment in which healthcare professionals and organizations operate places more pressure on the healthcare system with regards to strategic development and implementation of appropriate strategic alternatives, which can ensure sustainable and high-quality service in all the services.Martin Healthcare Systems is subject to all these influences ...

Introduction

Nurses have a noble duty to deliver high quality nursing care to their patients with devotion and integrity. Like all human beings, nurses face various sexual health issues. To optimize their efficiency at the workplace, it is imperative that hospital managements create appropriate self-care wellness programs aimed at enhancing the nurses’ sexual health. Self-care programs for nurses can go a long way in promoting the nursing practitioners’ health and performance in the hospital. This paper proposes and justifies a short term, self-care wellness program on sexual health for nurses with in a hospital setting, and suggests ways of implementing the proposed program.

Self-Care Wellness Program

Nurses, ...

Do midwives shoot themselves in the feet when it comes to not counting babies and mothers as separate units?

There is a misnormer that postnatal care is less important than other aspects of maternity care.The set staff-patient ratios in majority of postanatal wards count mothers and babies as one unit rather than separate entities. As a result, these wards have chronic understaffing problems because they are allocated less staffs. Understaffing impacts on the quality and safety of care provided as well as patient and staff satisfaction. This essay is a personal reflection of the frustrations that result from the exclusion of babies ...

Introduction

ST. Louis Medical Center was a healthcare organization in Summerville, Chamberlain County, South Carolina, in the USA. The firm has served the communities in Summerville. Iron ridge and the surrounding community in the county and State for over 50 years. The firm has 500 doctors and 450 nurses. The business has their mission as provide quality healthcare in a supportive and caring environment, coupled by unlimited devotion and commitment to improve the quality of the lives of the people they serve. The organization has the vision of becoming the national leader in the excellence and employing innovation to develop ...

Abstract

The payer mix in healthcare financing currently comprises of three broad groups that include private insurance, government payers, and private payers. Private insurance covers 61% of the US population and contributes 49% in revenues. Government payers cover 31% of the population and contribute 55% of the revenues while the private payers account for 5% of population and contribute 6% of the revenues. The Affordable Care Act seeks to increase the insurance coverage in the United States. It would increase the contributions from government payer and reduce the default risk associated the private payers. This would also ensure that all ...

Introduction

In this paper, the article entitled “Lactobacilli and bifidobacteria in the prevention of Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and Clostridium difficile diarrhoea in older inpatients (PLACIDE): a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial” by Allen, et al., (2013) will be critically reviewed. The article investigates about Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD) which occurs more often in older patients who are 65 and above and are treated with antibiotics that provide immunity against a wide range of bacterial diseases. Clostridium difficile is a dangerous bacteria which can cause AAD, and it can be very harmful to the patient’s health. The researchers “did a multicentre, ...

Ethical problem

Stacy (2012) reviewed a case study of an irreversible case of pneumococcal pneumonia who had become mechanical ventilator support dependent. The male patient had decided to be removed from the ventilator and allowed to die with full knowledge of his irreversible condition and the eventual death that will come upon him after all life-maintaining support were removed. Although the family did not agree on the removal of the life-support treatment, they acceded to the wish of their father and approved the gradual removal of the ventilator referred to as terminal weaning. This case, unlike most controversial cases that leads ...

Critical Article Analysis

Synopsis and Summary
There is constant innovation in the health care industry of the United States. As part of the innovation, new implants and devices are constantly emerging in the market. Such devices come at considerable cost, and their utilization in the hospital is primarily driven by the preference of the physician. These high value physician preference items form a large chunk of hospital expenses, a rising proportion of which is no more covered by government funded schemes like Medicare. Hence, there is a need to whether the newer high technology items introduced actually add value to the quality ...

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Designation
Introduction
The critical thinking paper begins with the discussion of health financing concept. The paper explains the process and techniques that will be used in designing the healthcare services package as well as health financing mechanism/s for Province A in country Y. Priority setting and Programme Budgeting and Marginal analysis techniques are discussed in a critical manner and recommended to be the techniques established for the health care package at Province A. Economic evaluation methods are discussed with Cost benefit analysis recommended for the case. The Strategies for implementation of health care system at Province A are ...

Introduction

The Cleveland Clinic is an academic, multispecialty medical center that is situated in Cleveland, Ohio state in the United States of America. The Cleveland Clinic is presently one of the top four highest regarded hospitals in USA. At Cleveland clinic, all the core value and ethics regarding their code of conduct both to their clients and employees have been given put into great consideration. In their policy statement their clients come first for cannot meet their objectives without them. Furthermore, this has been shown by their commitment to principles in the areas of their environment, human rights, labor and ...

Hamad General Hospital

Emergency Department
Observation on our Emergency Department
Points of possible improvement
INTRODUCTION
I am presenting this document in a preliminary format of possible a larger one which could contain an extensive observation I have worked as a physician in the last 2 years in the department of emergency at Hamad General Hospital. I have noticed that the hospital administration has emphasized a great deal of weight on improvement of the working standards and condition. The hospital has in the recent trying to fall in the right path in order to acquire the JCI accreditation.
I am forwarding these ...

The U.S government sponsors a national health insurance program managed by the social security administration. This national health program is referred to as Medicare. The Medicare is generally available to all U.S citizens aged sixty five years and above and the young disabled persons. Since Mrs. Zwick has Medicare part A she will therefore get service benefits on the cost of her stay in the inpatient hospital, the skilled care nursing home and the rehabilitative services she received from the skilled nursing home. She will also get benefits on the cost of pain relief and symptom management during her stay ...

Problem Statement

Nurse residency programs prove to be an effective means of facilitating the smoother transition of the qualified nurse professionals to clinical practice. This critical analysis explores the systematic requirement of developing the nurse residency programs with the objective of helping the nurse graduates in joining nurse residency following the successful accomplishment of their advanced practice degree program.

Recommendation

The configuration of multiple stages of a nurse residency program requires the systematic development of the program infrastructure in the context of evidence-based literature. Consistent execution of the nurse residency program requires its periodic evaluation and dissemination of the findings between the ...

Qualitative Data

Article: Health care cost growth, drivers, and implications for states by Leitz, S. (2007)

Quantitative Data

Article: The Impact of Nurse Staffing on Hospital Costs and Patient Length of Stay: A Systematic Review by Thungjaroenkul, P., Cummings, G. & Embleton, A. (2007).

Quantitative Table 3: Impact of Nurse Staffing on Patient Length of Stay

Narrative
In Table 2, ten studies indicated that there is a relationship between staffing of nurses and costs while two of them did not show any significant correlation. The researchers found three studies that showed that higher registered nurse to patient ratio, reduced hospital costs while one study recommended for a cost reduction by increasing the number of highly skilled ...

Introduction

Fundraising has been essential for a lot of organizations, particularly charities and non-profit making organizations. Numerous organizations opt to host fundraising events to gather for expenses for needed programs or services. Raising funds have several other benefits besides securing funds for the entities. A consistent and solid fundraising plan assists the organization to spread its mission and to achieve its goals (Larson, & Gray, 2011).
This paper will examine Student Fundraising-Project Case Study and discuss and study next steps that the Council of Fraternities and Sororities (CFS) need to take. It will also evaluate three fundraising projects CFS can take ...

Implications of inadequate patient histories on the radiological examinations

Implications of inadequate patient histories on the radiological examinations

Introduction

Radiology is a medical specialty that uses imaging techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Commonly used radiological techniques include X-ray radiography, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A number of factors influence the diagnosis made by radiological techniques. Some of these factors include type of the disease, type of the technique used, parameters of the instrument used, interpersonal differences between the radiologists and clinical history of the patient.
The availability or non-availability of the clinical history affects the diagnosis of radiological ...

Forces in the External Environment That Have an Impact in the Organization

The Health care organization is considered as an open system the focuses on external relationships. Currently, there are inherent fundamental changes in the practice and the way health care is delivered. This has led professionals and managers in this field to recognize the significance and links between the processes of problem solving and decision- making. The external environment is inclusive of the; social, technological and political trends. It is these external factors that affect the way an organization operates. In this organization, the two key external factors are the demographic and competition influences.
The demographic condition is a significant ...

Franz Kafka led a very complex life in the short amount of time he lived. A lot of critics love to make the probably true personal connections between Gregor and Franz in “The Metamorphosis,” but these critics always seem to forget two pertinent facts in addition, the work was first drafted well before he had any symptoms of tuberculosis, and during the beginning of the war, several revisions were made to the work before Kafka released it. The idea that his experience with TB has to do with the book in any way, usually the primary argument of literary ...

In the case study from the textbook, the manager is faced with an employee who suddenly begins criticizing the management policies of the hospital as well as some of his own decisions. This sudden behavior has Glen, the manager, confused and stressed and he seeks advice from the hospital Vice President of Human Relations.
Three main points from the case study, as I read it, outline the issues involved. One point is that Willis, a Physical Therapist, has begun to criticize the management of the hospital. He has begun discussing many aspects of management with his supervisor, Glen. A ...

Franz Kafka led a very complex life in the short amount of time he lived. A lot of critics love to make the probably true personal connections between Gregor and Franz in “The Metamorphosis,” but these critics always seem to forget two pertinent facts in addition, the work was first drafted well before he had any symptoms of tuberculosis, and during the beginning of the war, several revisions were made to the work before Kafka released it. The idea that his experience with TB has to do with the book in any way, usually the primary argument of literary ...

Introduction

In the discipline of nursing, professional advancement and development models are often used as frameworks for recognizing and acknowledging nurses’ clinical expertise, especially the nurses who provide direct care to patients (Gentile, 2012). Most of the earlier models revolved around the tasks that nurses were expected to become familiar with and master as their careers progressed. However, subsequent models went beyond the element of tasks and incorporated elements of leadership, continues education and reflective practice (Gentile, 2012). One of these models is Benner’s Novice to Expert model. This model applies the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition and describes ...

3 Commercial Analyses

The car company Lexus has a TV advertisement that breaks the tradition of form of most car commercials. Most car commercials feature a car driving along an urban or rural roadway. Amazing in motion starts with full band music with the letters “Amazing in Motion” appearing above a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton. Then the scene jumps to a number of flying futuristic drones. They move with personality and do not seem robotic. The music in the background is uplifting orchestral music that guides the drones music. They fly through city streets and museums and finally they fly into the sky where ...

Individual Policy Assignment

Executive Summary.3
Introduction .4
Overview of the Issues 4
1 Economic..5
2 Political 5
3 Epidemiologic ..6
4 Sociological...6
Conclusion ..7

References 11

Executive Summary
This report describes an economic, political, epidemiological and sociological analysis of issues brought up by Minister of Health and Minister of Sport Peter Dutton during a speech to the Australian Healthcare and Hospital Association on the government’s putative policy to reform the Australian healthcare system, namely changes to how the system should be financed, administered and improved. After a survey of the Australian healthcare system and a summary of Minister ...

Assisted suicide

Recently in the newspapers there was a man who killed his wife who was suffering from stage four cancer. In his defense, he said that the wife had asked him to kill her in order for her to stop feeling pain. The wife was no longer responding to pain medication and was in agony for several weeks. This act of mercy killing is called euthanasia.

Euthanasia

Euthanasia is defined as the intentional killing of people in order to relieve them from pain and suffering. Euthanasia is a hotly debated topic. Critics believe that mercy killing is unethical. They believe that the choice ...

Introduction

The project incorporated the application of various strategies in advocating for prevention of hospital acquired infections. These strategies include Evidence based practice (EBP), Advocacy skills, nursing code of conduct and the role of leadership. The main objective for the application of these strategies is to collectively create an effective hand washing awareness to clients. These efforts will help enable a smooth facilitation of safe client care.

How to apply Evidence Based Practice decision making

Evidence based practice (EBP) entails use of the best evidence that currently exists in conjunction with patient values and clinical expertise in guiding healthcare decisions (Aveyard, 2009). They include; empirical evidence acquired random controlled ...

Introduction

Qualitative research studies are mainly used to seek an understanding as to why people behave in the manner that is seem to be. It differs from quantitative research studies in that it attempt to gather information or data that can provide relationship between certain variables or compare the two by being objective and trying to separate the investigator from the investigation while providing the relevant predictions.
In this case, the qualitative study seeks to understand why clinical staffs within the hospital settings are not washing their hands properly after using the washrooms or toilets, as per the rules ...

(Professional/nursing care plan)

Introduction

- A brief introduction to setting and the chronic health condition

Critical application of a chronic disease model of care used to inform self-management.

Articulation of short and long term goals.
Identification and critical examination of specific strategies/interventions to support self-management.
Identification of the tasks/actions necessary to complete each strategy, as well as who will
Conclusion
- Examination of the effectiveness of the self-management plan (i.e. how the achievement of goals will be evaluated)

Abstract

This report contains a self-management care plan for a diabetic patient with an associating chronic condition. A brief introduction to the setting and chronic health condition will be outlined. Critical application of the ...

Physical abuse in a nursing home is considered any action that causes patients “pain, damage, either intentionally or recklessly [including] striking, kicking, pushing, burning, strangling, the inappropriate use of drugs and physical restraints” (Buzgova & Ivanova, 2009, pp. 3-4).
The law regarding institutional abuses against residents in nursing homes provides that it is a duty to report any believed abuse upon the residents, which falls in the responsibility of every person who suspects such a treatment upon the nursing home patients. Moreover, in the case of the employees who fail to report such treatment, they become subject to civil penalty Alexander & Alexander, ...

Abstract

Working as a medical practitioner requires a keen observation of ethical controversies regarding patient confidentiality as defined in the medical code of conduct and ethics. However, there are some instances when medical practitioners are faced with a dilemma of disclosing patient’s confidence data as stated in the HIPAA incidental disclosures regulation. Some instances are where there is a third party who may be affected by the consequential withholding of the patient’s private medical history especially in case of hereditary and deadly transmitted diseases.
The ethical dilemma in this case involves a patient, Mrs. Joan Smith with ovarian/breast cancer that is genetically ...

Abstract

Ethical issues at the hospitals that prohibit nurses, doctors or any medical practitioner to disclose a patient’s personal data and information has created several dilemma cases especially if there is an exposed person who might be affected in some way if the information is withheld. This is mostly more difficult when the patient fails to willingly inform the other people especially family members or spouses and the medical practitioner is left with a choice of whether to disclose the information or just keep quite. Such scenarios where the ethical duty to disclose privacy data for the patient and the duty ...

InstitutionalAffiliation

Staph Infections
Definition of Staph Infections
The word “Staph” is a short form of the word “Staphylococci” which is the name of the bacteria that causes various infections. Staphylococcal infections, commonly referred to as Staph infections are a group of infections caused by the said bacteria. The infections can result in a wide range of infections including skin infections, lung infections, heart infections and blood infections. Most of these infections are caused by a group of Staphylococci bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus. This group of bacteria is responsible for various infections including skin infections, pneumonia, food poisoning, blood poisoning and ...

A hospital is not just an institution where one can get professional examination and treatment, this type of medical organization is also to provide excellence in medical research, patient case and medical education services. Some hospitals serve as outstanding examples of high-quality and well-planned health system management within a wide clinical network and are consistently expanding the range of multispecialty services. This paper reviews the policy and principal daily operations that relate to the area of ethical and fiscal responsibility of health care assistants (HCAs). Management system of any medical institution presupposes that HCAs are competent stewards of resources ...

According to Gulanick and Myers (2013), the nursing process has been identified as the most appropriate strategy which can be employed in trying to ensure that the most suitable care is provided to a particular individual. Ensuring that the patient gets the best out of the Caregiving process should form the primary objective of any nursing undertaking. Addition studies (de Oliveira et al. 2012; Weber and Kelley, 2013), show carrying out a thorough assessment of a patient is a significant step as it forms the basis of a care plan. Studies by (Papathanasiou et al., 2013; Morrissey, 2016) showed ...

Martin Health System is a healthcare center founded by three medical practitioners, namely Van William Burns, Walter F. Davey, and Julian D. Parker in 1939, in Stuart, Florida. It was originally based on the principle that all patients should have access to medical care and treatment irrespective of their racial or financial background. Originally, it consisted of a facility that had twenty-three bed, ten workers, and three physicians, which has now expanded into one MediCenter, three hospitals, a free-standing Emergency Center, as well as, many outpatient clinics. It is a non-profit community based healthcare organization that provides preventive and ...

As a nurse, it is important to know the scopes and limitations of one’s practice. This is because this can certainly spell the difference between a highly successful treatment regimen for a patient and a disastrous one—perhaps even one that ends in litigation. In this paper, I used the 5 Rs of reflection namely reporting, responding, relating, reasoning, and reconstructing to outline one of the meaningful experiences in my nursing practice.
One of the most meaningful experiences wherein I was able to use my knowledge of Attribute 2.5 of the NMBA Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse ...

In 2006, during winter, the Electrolux Company shut down the biggest refrigerator company in the United States, and shifted it to Juarez, Mexico in pursuit of a cheaper workforce. The company had employed approximately three thousand employees, and the consequence of the shutdown was greatly felt in the lives of these workers. Their lives were turned into disarray considering they had lived a comfortable life characterized by lovely homes and holiday vacations before shutting down of the Electrolux firm.
Because of unemployment, many of the employees succumbed to a stroke, hypertension, and even committed suicide because external life events ...

“Mrs. Dalloway” is a novel written by Virginia Woolf published in 1925 by Hogarth Press in United Kingdom. It is one of the best known novels in the history of fiction, and a best from Virginia Woolf. The novel is basically a combination of two earlier short stories from the writer named “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” and “The Prime Minister”. The novel discusses the preparations made by Clarissa for a party she is hosting in the evening. While reading the novel, the story travels in the past that gives reader an understanding of the past life of Clarissa. The ...

Management

Transitional Theory
Understanding transitional theory and how it applies to young graduate nurses become professional registered nurses has undergone a lot of attention. While quite a number of scholarly and peer-reviewed research materials are available in print and electronic media, the studies of Duchscher (2008), Farnham (1993) and Edgington & Bruce (2006) are considered to understand and answer the question on how transition theory can be used to prepare students for practices as a Graduate nurse. While Duchscher (2008), was quick to say that students experienced a transition shock as they moved from the college to a more professional and nonsensical role of professionally ...