Essays on Care Center

Health care settings function in a well collaborative manner where multidisciplinary work environment exists. In a complex care situation, such as transition care of patients, the role of nurse care professionals was believed to be vital in coordinating the care. For instance, in geriatric settings, it is these professionals who can take up the complex tasks to enable the elderly individuals in transition from the care center to their residence seek suitable care and therapy (Cortes, Wexler & Fitzpatrick, 2004). So, there is a growing research interest on how these nurses utilize their potential in administering the care quality for ...

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Description of HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that weakens and destroys the immune system of the body so that the body cannot defend the infection. HIV positive person also possesses AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), and if HIV is treated at its early stage, the risk of AIDS can be averted. If an HIV-positive person is diagnosed with AIDS, it means that the complete destruction of the immune system has been accomplished by the HIV and that increase the vulnerability of the patient towards various opportunistic infections. The ...

Introduction

Unexpected medical expenses are very common, and they are frustrating when they happen. These medical requirements have to be met, and this necessitates the need to have an insurance cover. The US federal government offers health insurance programs called Medicare and Medicaid that cater for the financial burden for aged and poor citizens respectively (Rowland & Lyons, 1996). A hospital that accepts Medicare or Medicaid as pay sources is very sensitive to its clients. Furthermore, a hospital should satisfy its customers fully and reduce the cost of medical services for them (Rowland & Lyons, 1996). This paper analyzes quality initiatives that ...

Discussion

There are ten exemplary early childhood programs outlined in the article. While all of the programs have specific features, which make them excellent, other programs seem to stand out as compared to others. One such program is the Children’s Village Child Care Center located in Philadelphia. What makes this program exemplary is the fact that it exhibits open communication, which transcends the obstacles presented by language and cultural barriers. The program embraces families with a myriad of diversities given that it is located in an urban setting. It unites and enables interactions of families of diverse constellations, economic ...

Introduction

The proliferation of health care centers in the United States is influenced by various factors which can be broadly categorized into political, social and economic factors. Reforms in the health care system have been ongoing for many years. These reforms are concerned with providing the population with cost-effective, high-quality services which are easily accessible. The demographics are changing with people recognizing the importance of health, and the demand for health care services has influenced the growth and the rise of health care centers. Quality is a major concern in the health care sector and measurement of performance is crucial. ...

Introduction

Quality improvement has to be a conscious process in any given organization. The reason for this argument is the fact that continuous quality improvement enables the organization to improve its productivity and service delivery. This is the case even in David HealthCare Center, a community center dedicated to the provision of expert services to its clients. The following report is a quality improvement plan for Davis HealthCare Center whereby the focus is on the development of staff members and the improvement of teams. As a health care organization, Davis HealthCare Center plays a critical role in maintaining good health ...

Team Performance and Team Improvement

A nursing home care should offer services in a homely environment. Most of the patients in such institutions are stable enough to leave their respective hospitals, but yet need health care to manage their daily activities. Davis is such healthcare founded in the heart of California in Davis and offers services to the sick patients. The organization provides post-acute healthcare to the patients and collaborates with capital Medical, extended medical care to assure the patients of proper and timely services. Erwin, Brownson, Keck & Scutchfield (2016) contends that to enhance efficiency in the care center. However, there is a need ...

Health Care Administrator

Health care organizations require that activities run smoothly and efficiently to improve the quality of the services provided. The management of the organization has to ensure that the way the institution runs spurs proper service delivery, and coordination of activities is efficient. I visited a health care center and interviewed one of the management administrators to gain a deeper knowledge about the management of the health care institutions. After learning in class about the process of management in health care organizations, I had to look for experienced officers from the field. In this paper, I present the responses that ...

Emergency medical services can be defined as the medical attentions and services that are dedicated to the provision of treatments and medical care to patients outside a hospital setting. These services are made available at the urgent need and are performed by authorized and dedicated personnel. The role of emergency medical services is generalized being provision of urgently needed medical care to patients with acute health complications; the medical attention provided is aimed at rescuing the patients and thus saving lives of people. Therefore, most emergency medical providers are supposed to be trained in service production to acute medical ...

An investigation into whether polypharmacy in hospice and palliative care patient population can be reduced, thereby affecting quality of life

Introduction Polypharmacy simply refers to the use of several medications by patients. Sometime patients are prescribed several medications than what is clinically allowed or a patient may be given too many pills of drugs despite being clinically indicated. In addition, sometimes the drugs given to patients may not be evidence based but their use is only based on the speculations. Polypharmacy has been described to have a lot adverse effect on patients despite the patients being on medication. Instead of improving the quality of life, polypharmacy may sometimes prove to be adverse on patients. Common consequences of polypharmacy include negative ...

Attachment theories have are based on observational studies that examine the lifelong bonds that develop between children and their parents. The theory takes parents as the attachment figure, and considers the relationships that children develop during their childhood. In addition, the theory also focuses on the mental and emotional impact these particular relationships have on children once they grow up. Secure attachment on the other hand, develops when a parent or adult is sensitive towards a children's requirements, understanding fully what the child wants to communicate, and meets these requirements in an effective manner. Needless to say, the importance of secure ...

My name is Sandra Romero. I am forty four years old. I am an immigrant from the Philippines. Though I currently live and work in the United States, I only came here some years ago. I am a single mother of three wonder full boys. My first born is eight years old. My second born is five years old and finally my third born is three years old. All the three attend school at the Wilshire Preparatory School. I landed in the United States three years ago when my third born son was still new born. Over the years, ...

Introduction

According to Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin (2010), “what have changed in business in recent decades is the amazing proliferation of product choices in just about every category” (2). Authors exemplified this statement by referring to the choice of providers in the U.S. healthcare industry. If earlier, nothing but services by your doctor, your hospital, Medicare and Blue Cross was on offer, modern healthcare industry us characterized by a strong rivalry of multiple providers. So, under the circumstances of modern highly competitive market, companies need to offer products and services that have the potential to stand out the competition.

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Problem Identification

Dominion care center is a business that will focus on giving the much-needed health care to disabled old people aged 65 and above in Rhode Island. Home care for the disabled elderly people is increasingly being sought for generally in the United States and specifically in its smallest state (Rhode Island). Home care is part of the general health care, and it is unique in the way it is administered. Home care is not offered in a hospital setup but an environment similar to a would-be home for the client. The American baby boomer population are in their in their late 60s, ...

“Scientific Skepticism”

The meaning of the word science has suffered many changes across the centuries in Western civilization. The scientific method is commonly known to be at its base, but the philosophy that serves as it foundation is often overlooked. This is in part because its contemporary meaning, made possible by Descartes’ separation of meaning from truth, has a great pretention of rigor that is especially linked to mathematics. Lilienfeld theorizes that there are six principles that serve as guidelines for what should be accepted as scientific thought. Furthermore, these theories must also hold other qualities that differentiate them from other ...

Introduction

Day care also called child care refers to taking care of a kid during day time by other people other than the real parents or guardians of the child. In most cases, the parents or children are usually busy with their activities such as business, jobs or any other activities that keep them busy. There are different reasons that lead to the setting up of a day care business. First, daycare allows time for parents and guardians to attend to their personal activities effectively and efficiently. This allowance reduces the anxiety that could arise as a result of this. Second, the business ...

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Company Overview Trinity Mothers Frances Hospitals and clinics include Mother Frances hospital-Jacksonville, Mother Frances hospital – Winnsboro, the Louis and Peaches Owen Hospital. They are affiliated with the health south, Tyler Care Hospital a facility that is a long-term acute care facility and trinity Clinic. It is preferred by multispecialty media groups as it has over 350 physicians and mid-level provider that represent 40 specialists in 36 locations that serve east Texas since March 1937. It is a 404-bed acute care facility that is located in Tyler, Texas. It offers a wide range of services; emergencies and trauma care, surgical and medical care. ...

Business Plan For Daycare Learning Center

Executive Summary My First Child Daycare aspires to be an established business that desires to create a center daycare in the area of Allentown, PA., a place where a parents will feel satisfied and confident to leave their children, with the assurance that their precious little ones are well taken care of. The owner's intention is to offer a teachable moment in the daily routine by creating programs that can be enjoyable as well as an opportunity for learning for the children. The children eligible for admission to the daycare learning center shall be between 3 months to 10 years of age. ...

The census held in the year 2000 shows that Any County stands second in terms of population in the state, after That County. Approximately 750,000 people are living in Any County, off which around 15.2 percent (114,000 people) are older adults (people of the age 60 or above). This number of older adults in Any County has increased significantly has increased between the years 1995-2005. The increase was greater than the one at State or National level. In total, 21.7 percent increase in the older adult population was recorded. Out of the total older adult population ...

Q1: Using Peter Frumkin’s model of the Four Functions of Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, how would you describe MeadowMarsh Service Agency. Ans: Peter Frumkin focuses on four primary functions of Non Profit and Voluntary organizations and believes that success can be achieved by them only if all of these functions are balanced. He describes these organizations as - Vehicles of Service Delivery - Promoters of Civic and Political engagements - Vehicles for Social Entrepreneurship - Enactors of Values and Faiths With reference to the above MeadowMarsh Service Agency is basically a service delivery ...

Special considerations should be taken during evacuation after an emergency has occurred for a child care facility that is located in an office building. The main objective of this is to minimize the chances of the children, the facility personnel along with the visitors from being harmed. For the evacuation to be carried out as expected, it is important for workers in this premise to familiarize with all the possible routes that can be followed in case of an emergency. This can be done through ensuring that workers are able to locate all the stairways, emergency exits and also the ...

Introduction

Hazard identification and mitigation should be a consistent part of any government or corporate program. No one can actually say when a disaster may strike and that is the main reason why no one can make the fatal mistake of becoming too complacent that everything will fall in their place at the right time because surely, anything that can go wrong will eventually go wrong. A government or a company that cares about corporate social responsibility knows that importance of planning early even before a natural or a man-made disaster occurs, especially if the hazard is located near public facilities such as nursing homes, ...

Introduction

A community is a group of people who live in one place and also share characteristics. A group of people who form community may either be living in the same neighborhood, city or even town. Members of the community may have a common interest, come from the same race or even share the religion. The fact that people have common interests makes them appreciate one another as members of the same community (Garcés and Martin, 2009). Since the community is made up of people who have a common interest and come from the same geographical region, it is important for the ...

Introduction

This report shows the design of a database for the Care for Kids crèche database. This is a database which will be used to store information regarding the booking of the care center. The staff will manage to store information regarding the booking that will be made by the parents to the care center. It is important to understand the requirements of the database and how data will be related. The paper will assess the logical design and how the design will help create a database that will be used in the care center.

Design

There will be various tables that will ...

As per the mandates by the government every company, organization and enterprise, irrelevant of its size has to take proper precautions to ensure that the health and safety of the employees is safeguarded. To save the interests of the workers and make this responsibility of the employers bound by law, the government in all the countries has established the Health and Safety Act. This legislation provides and sets the rights and obligations of both the employers and the employees in a workplace and also provides for penalties and fines in case of any breach of the health and safety legislation. ...

During the last three months, I have been engaged in several community service projects related to developmental psychology, especially child psychology. As a volunteer, I worked with many children and adults dealing with a wide range of issues: learning disabilities, anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, trauma, and abuse. Through my experiences, I have learned to apply the material learned in the psychology classroom to real life situations. I performed the following four good deeds in the past three months: volunteered as a tutor to provide after-school tutoring and homework assistance for a child diagnosed with Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), volunteered to provide weekend care ...

Introduction

The United Transitional Care Center was created to cater for the increased need of specialized care for patients released from hospital on their way home. This programme intends to act as the intermediary between the hospitalization period and the rehabilitation into the society period. the center provides its patients with the chance to acclimatize with the conditions expected at home while trained nurses attend to them and offer specialized care in the managing of the variously ailments they suffer. The center is specifically important to people of advanced age as they have slow response to medication and would require ...

Introduction

As myriad of changes continue being experienced in the health sector, several challenges prevent effective implementation of healthcare services. These challenges include limitation in healthcare services, inefficient skills, unskilled personnel, poverty and huge gap between the number of skilled healthcare providers and number of patients seeking services. These problems further intensify in rural areas whereby the distance between patients and healthcare facilities prevent timely access to healthcare. This explains why several federal policies target problems facing the rural poor. Studies further show that more than 15 percent of healthcare beneficiaries reside in rural areas (Thrall, 2012). These patients depend ...

A.1A single mom has to go back to work and needs day care for her baby. She is trying to decide between a baby sitter, who cares for children in her home,ora nearby day care center. The baby sitter charges a flat rate of $10 per hour, and the localday carecenter charges $325 per week, for 5 days per week, up to 40 hours. (Mon-Fri), plus $10 per hour for any time exceeding 40 hours. A.2The baby’s mom will need day care services M-F from 7:30-5:30 (10 hours per day, or 50 hours per week). A.3The baby ...

Literature Review

Technology

Introduction

Effat University located in Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is in need of a Health Clinic Web Page. The correct management application will enhance the usefulness of the health clinic for the students as well as its staff. The use of digital technology in a health clinic has particular characteristics that may not be as important in other environments. The purpose for this web development is to add a management application for one employee and a nurse and it is a management application. Therefore a web based application will be developed using Oracle. The purpose of this literature review is to ...

Introduction

The corporate sector has been adversely affected by the recent economic downturn. The changing economic settings have led to the need to deviate from the traditional American sense odd responsibility and fairness. Many companies are resorting to new ways of operating their businesses. Business structures are also evolving into more flexible and performance inclined systems. Many organizations are seeking to adopt a corporate structure that would maximize organizational performance and be fair to all stakeholders. The issue of corporate responsibility has also taken center stage in the recent years are organizations seek to participate in activities that promote social and ...

The twenty-first business environment is experiencing tremendous changes on a day to day basis. What was considered to be optimum yesterday soon becomes moribund and therefore newer ways of doing things are required. Globalization, backed by immense investments in information and communication technology, has been on the fore front in creating new business paradigms. Commerce is now driven by a vast network of computers and the internet provides room for business transactions. In the same regard, marketing, product promotion and advertising has shifted to online-based mechanisms. Social media has allowed millions of people to be interconnected providing opportunities for marketers. The ...

Quality healthcare is a key component in the development of a country and healthcare organizations should continually seek ways to improve themselves for the betterment of their societies, (Hall, Moore & Barnsteiner, 2008). Orange Door Health Center (ODHC) started as a community based crisis-care center with volunteer staff offering healthcare services at a small token fee of $10 “if one could afford it” (Filipovitch, 2006). However, the demand for the organization’s services grew with time and going into the future the management needed to adapt the organization to offer more holistic healthcare. ODHC was able to obtain a $1.8 million over a three-year period ...

Question Six

Ana is having the greatest impact on her mother, Kat. This is because Kat feels like she is the only person in the household capable of taking care of all the necessary tasks to maintain the family’s lifestyle (Interview One, Interview Three). This includes working, taking Ana to child care, household chores, caring for her disabled husband, and discipline of her daughter. Ana’s behaviour at home, at the child care center, and at Cooinda Community Health Centre (CCHC) are problems Kat wants to remedy, but she is confused and feels she lacks control over external factors concerning ...

Application of ICT in Health Care

Provision of quality health services is the key agenda for health care through usage of innovative technologies. However, the most significant one would be the use of (Information and Communication Technologies) ICT in healthcare services. ICT can be described as tools that ease communication, the dispensation, broadcasting of information, and electronic distribution of data. This involves the use of electronic digital as well as analog ICTs. The use of ICT can be divided into two areas; basic ledger system and patient health care. The ledger system deals with the day to day purchases and payments made to the health ...

Question #1:

Chairing a committee is not an easy task though leadership entails doing the right thing (Rosenbloom, et. al., 150).The new responsibilities that I have been granted are quite challenging in the sense that I will be handling individuals with different personalities and views. The issue at hand is also political and emotional in nature thus requires strategic solutions. It is however my responsibility as the chair of the committee to come up with a harmonious group. My concerns are whether my committee members will be cooperative and fully participate in coming up with a sound solution. My other concern is whether ...

HYGIENE PRACTICES IN A HEALTH CARE UNIT

Research Details This research is meant to identify the challenges encountered when implementing the hand washing program within a health unit. The research therefore is like a feedback tool, following the previous project.

Research Question

What are the challenges associated with implementing a staff hand washing program, and what are its advantages and disadvantages? Research Aims The aim of this research study is to find out challenges encountered during the implementation of the staff hand washing program, as well as ways to overcome the challenges, so as to ensure total success of the program. Another aim of this research is to ...

Introduction

Economics is a social science that examines and describes the results of the choices made using scare resources (Black, 1997). It analyzes how individuals and organizations, such as health care, choose to utilize the scarce resources to achieve quality and at the most minimum cost. The health care sector uses economics to assign its scarce resources to various departments. The allocation of resources through economics in turn enables the health care sector to cut on costs and achieve quality in its services. Therefore, health care and economics are two inseparable areas that share different terms. This paper describes the similarities ...

The long-term care system in the United States is becoming an increasingly importunate policy issue. With the increasing number of the elderly people in the U.S., there is need for policy makers to incorporate policies to take care of their needs. Despite the fact that long-term care receives little attention than health care, long-term is also of equal importance in the U.S. There are challenges in implementing the long-term care system in the U.S. because of many unmet demands and the chronic illnesses of the elderly. The state and the federal government differ on who should finance the long-term ...