Essays on Health Care

Nurses play a vital role in healthcare by providing quality patient care that guarantees better patient outcomes. However, the nursing profession is faced with the challenge of shortage of nurses due to the high number of people seeking patient care as well as the increasing aging population with chronic illnesses in the United States. Therefore, the current healthcare environment with high demand for nursing care stretches nurses to greatest limits. As result, nurses have to work effectively with the assistive employees through delegation in order to meet the high demands of quality care using the few available nurses (National ...

Geisinger Health System is a non-profit organization that focused on the delivery of high-quality, innovative health care products to 2.6 million people living in Pennsylvania. The initial goal of the project is to increase performance by improving the quality of the products and services as well as the satisfaction of the patients by redesigning the delivery of care. The main idea was redesigning care processes in a package-priced portfolio of services called ProvenCare. As a result of studies and innovative practices, which included changes in coordination, administration and management, Geisinger Health System reached significant success. The system invested huge ...

Nursing care models are distinct frameworks used in care settings to deliver care services. The type of framework adopted in an organization is determined by various factors, including economic factors, leadership, recruitment and retention of staff members, and type of decision-making models used in the organization (Fairbrother, Jones & Rivas, 2010). The type of care model used determines the quality and effectiveness with which care services are delivered. There are four main types of nursing care models, which can be broadly categorized into task-oriented or patient-centered. Team-nursing and functional care models are task-oriented, while primary-care nursing and total patient care ...

The field of health care is an extremely sensitive and critical field. Given the fact the practitioners of this field deal with the lives of people, it is of utmost importance to critically evaluate every decision and action made towards a certain case. This is because a single, small action can either make or break the condition of the patient. Which is why, I believe that the interviewee’s view that marketing food and healthcare products is the same, is actually very naïve. Health care marketing can be similar to marketing other products and services, in the sense ...

The main goal of the article by the authors was to appraise the perception of nurses on the ethical climate in their workplaces. The article was influenced by the fact that due to major and rapid advancement sin pharmacological interventions and therapeutic technologies, the nurse’s environment faces countless moral and ethical dilemmas. The article thus seeks to establish how nurses view such ethical issues including whether such ethical issues have received attention as essential factors n making decisions in the nursing workplace. The article also appraises the nurse’s experience with medical errors and how this affected their ...

Worries about a decline in the birth rate are nothing new, at least in many developed nations. As early as 1909, Hoffman made it perfectly clear that a love for babies was not the reason that some in the U.S. fretted over the declining number of births. Rather, it was concern over the decreasing rate of births among “native white married women” while the “rate of reproduction [was] materially higher among the foreign element” (p. 676). Similar concerns are in evidence today in places such as Israel, where the comparatively high rate of births among the Arab population has ...

Concept of cultural competence nursing

Changing demographics in most nations require that nurses offer culturally competent care. Due to diverse populations, medical professionals have started to address the essence of creating a way to promote cultural competence in different healthcare situations. Primarily, cultural competence involves creating an appreciation of a person’s existence, consciousness, notions, and situation without permitting it to have an inappropriate effect on people from different backgrounds. Additionally, cultural competence demonstrates understanding and comprehension of the patient’s culture, embracing and accepting cultural diversity, and personalizing care based on the patient’s culture (Flowers, 2004). Public health nurses should pay attention ...

There are various regulations that tend to influence the APRN practice. Therefore, the paper will entail an analysis of such regulations, basing its focus on the research about the state legislator’s position on the health care issues and nursing, as well as the position of the federal legislator’s position on the same subject. In addition, there will be an analysis of the lobbyist for the state nurses’ association, as well as the position of the nurses’ association on the legislation in operation and its candidates. For that matter, the state of choice for the analysis is Washington ...

Introduction

People all over the world live according to their own preferences and needs, but try to orienteer better in the society by reading current newspapers and analyzing the environment around them. This way, news is extremely important in our lives, as it performs a variety of functions, beginning from the one of informative pattern and ending with the educational achievements. This paper is to evaluate the level of influence, carried by news into people’s lives along with mentioning changes in awareness throughout society in the form of the role of social determinants of health (SDH), which are mentioned ...

Previous studies reveal that mental health conditions affect a significant percentage of the population. For example, statistics of mental health in England in 2014 showed that approximately one in three men was suffering from mental health with women reporting higher incidences than men (Rise in Mental Healthcare, 2016). The figures are too large to ignore. Studies of populations at risk of mental health have taken different dimensions. While some studies have focused on the prevalence, other studies have attempted to investigate the risk factors associated mental health disorders. According to Bitsko et al. (2016), a combination of sociodemographic, community, ...

The USA is currently ranked among the countries with the high number of aging population in the world. However, the presence of aging population comes with consequences and a responsibility to the state and the society in entirety. Principally, the aging population is associated with myriads of limitations ranging from healthcare to the higher dependency level. Thus, the aging population does not command the power and energy to produce positively to the economy of a country. Ideally, the broader societal views have shaped the old age policies in the USA, and this becomes the backbone of the essay. Principally, ...

Introduction. 2

Strategic Plan3 Program Description.5 Leadership Challenges..6 Ethical Implications..7

Engaging communities and building constituencies.7

Budgeting, financing, and human resources.8 Performance management & Health Informatics..9

Appendix 1 SWOT Analysis10

Appendix 2 SMART Objectives..11 Appendix 3 Budget..13 References15 Introduction In the past decade, chronic lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart/cardiovascular disease and stroke have increased exponentially in the state of Minnesota. Sedentary lifestyle and poor diet has led to an increase in obesity which in turn has led to an increase in heart disease and stroke. Most adults in Minnesota have poor lifestyle which has increased their risk to heart disease and stroke. As per the Minnesota department of health, ...

Regulation plays a significant function in driving the health care system. The federal government has instituted a series of regulatory agencies tasked with the protection of the public from risks that arise from facility-based activities. This discussion looks at four regulations that affect the LOS/Excess Days program at CGH.

• HIPAA

• HITECH Act • Affordable Care Act (ACA) • CMC’s Rule 1599-F Implemented under CMS, HIPAA requires that CGH reduces costs while providing better healthcare in a patient-centered environment. This regulation works to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of any program that falls under CGH’s jurisdiction (Miaoulis, 2010). The regulation is ...

I have learned that in the free market medicine, the price of healthcare goods and services is determined freely by the agreement between the patient and the medical providers and that there is no government intervention to control demand and supply of the healthcare goods and services. In particular, this has helped improve the efficiency in providing the healthcare services by reducing cases of mismanagement as observed in the government controlled healthcare services. Additionally, the free market medicine has helped reduce the waiting time, and therefore patients can see the medicine providers more frequently (Stossel, 2013). Currently, the free ...

The role of community health nurses in ensuring population’s health cannot be understated. These healthcare professionals are usually tasked with seeing to it that all the safety and quality of the health care and the needs of a particular population have been thoroughly addressed. For them to achieve this objective, they ought to have a proper understanding of disease histories, symptoms and the presenting characteristics which may indicate that an outbreak has occurred. Therefore, this realization requires health practitioners to take the center stage in seeing to it that the patterns of such a disease are kept on ...

I interviewed TJ, a 59-year old male of Hispanic descent and a staunch believer of the Buddhist religion. The following is the transcript of the interview and the responses from my respondent and a patient a facility where I had been working at some point.

Do you think that spirituality has a significant or any influence on physical health?

TJ: Over the years, I have been raised in a family where spirituality was regarded in high value. I have never known any other way to achieve wellness and peace if spirituality is not included. For me, the association with a higher being is important especially for the mind because in any case, the ...

According to the 2012 census, the United States total population is estimated to be over 313 million; this represents a 9.7% increase within a period of 10 years (Thomas, 2014). Moreover, the composition of the population is one of the most diverse in the world; it’s made up of people with different racial and ethnic backgrounds ranging from Caucasians or the Whites, the Blacks or African Americans, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders, and the Hispanics or Latinos. As a result, the diverse U.S. population has serious implications on the United States ...

Question #1

The major problem, in this case, is poor implementation of the new electronic clinical documentations system by the end users. The problem is likely to have been caused by the hurried implementation, inadequate training, and minimum involvement of the end users during the early stages of the project.

Question #2

I agree with the nurses’ views regarding the differences existing between pediatrics hospitals and intensive care units, and adult hospitals. The conditions handled as well as the workflows in each respective setting are different, and each one should be treated independently. There might be some similarities between adult and pediatric settings, ...

Integrity

Introduction The mediums are the means, by which communication entity transmits a message to the target audience. They include personal communication, external information, and public events. Medium can be direct and indirect, formal and informal, personal and not personal. Private mediums are the most effective, because they ensure the interaction of several people in the process of communication, both directly and by phone, over Internet, correspondence, etc. Depending on the situation, different style of message can be applied (Blundel and Ippolito, 2008).

A message of condolence to the family of a team member, who died recently, should be sincere ...

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 ...

Medicare

What are the purposes of Medicare regulations other than the one mentioned above? Medicare was signed into law in 1965 with the intention of providing better healthcare to the citizen through medical insurance. It provides protection to its recipients, and it is a government program intended to provide insurance to the aged and people living with certain disabilities (Moon, 2006). It is mandated by the law to provide hospital insurance, medical insurance and cover drug prescription for its recipients. How will the federal government enforce compliance in the Medicare Advantage program? Which two other Medicare regulations do you think ...

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 ...

The affordable Care Act 2015 formerly christened as Obamacare is one of the major reforms in the health sector. Obamacare seeks to expand and improve health care access to a majority of Americans by curbing costs of healthcare through taxes and regulation. The primary focus of this policy was to provide more Americans with access to health insurance, improved quality of health insurance and health care, reduce healthcare expenditure in the country and more importantly regulate the insurance industry. However, the policy has received support and opposition in equal measure. Proponents of the policy call it a monumental legislation ...

A Summation Of The Safe Medical Devices Act

The SMDA Act is an act that sanctions the progressive reporting as well as tracking the regulations for the use of the medical devices. The medical devices defined under the Act involve the devices classified within the consent of the Medical Device Regulation Act. The Act is responsible for the mandate of reporting the requirements made by the manufacturers of medical devices. The requirements hold with regards to the safety events as well as the product efficiency of the said devices. Based on the Act, the devices are classified with a substantial equivalence to the class II medical devices ( ...

ISP Instructions

Use this form to develop your Individual Success Plan (ISP) for NRS-490, the Professional Capstone and Practicum course. An individual success plan maps out what you, the RN-to-BSN student, needs to accomplish in order to be successful as you work through this course and complete your overall program of study. You will also share this with your mentor at the beginning and end of this course so that he or she will know what you need to accomplish. Application-based learning assignments are listed in the course syllabus with a Practice Portfolio Statement requirement element noted within the assignment itself. ...

Public Health

Public Health Today, many diseases, which emerge can be transmitted to a large number of population in different parts of the world. Everyone is vulnerable, even though technology and other health care informatics are evolving every day. However, there are efforts from different professionals in the medical field to address all health concerns and diseases that target the human species. In 2015, the Zika virus disease has been identified as a local transmission in Brazil and continue to spread through different areas of the United States. In the following year, travel-associated cases have been reported to increase. In addition ...

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What is Beer’s list, what is the purpose? Beer’s Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Elderly, or more commonly known as Beer’s Criteria, is the list of medications that are not recommended to use for the treatment of the older patients. The main purpose of this list is to prevent the negative reaction to drugs, avoid the adverse drug interactions, and exclude medications that are not necessary for the elderly. It is important for the health care providers to consult the list in order to prevent the adverse consequences for the older adults.

What commonly used medications appear on the list that is ordered routinely for your patients?

There are ...

In countries around the world, children are suffering and dying from malnutrition, disease, and poverty secondary to drought or flooding. Changes in climate create many risks to the lives of children and their families as they struggle to survive in areas where food is difficult to grow and workers are poorly paid. Due to the increase in temperature and extreme weather conditions brought on by climate change, many communities are expected to suffer scarcity of clean water with the result of perilous diseases and health complications. Disasters and humanitarian crises may bring long-term displacements and disruption to educational, health, ...

In the article, “Diverging Development: The Not-so-invisible Hand of Social Class in the United States”, Furstenberg said that social class is quickly beginning to shape the development of children, even before the child is born. Classism is alive in the form of less opportunities for lower social classes, forming a class that isn’t necessarily unintelligent, but uneducated. There exists a stereotype against those of lower social classes that these people do not strive to rise in the social hierarchy, and they often receive sub-par assistance, in part, through this prejudice. The article argues that social class is part ...

Cost-containing strategies used by the U.S.A The rising cost of healthcare continues to claim a large portion of the United States of America's budget leading to the introduction of cost-containing strategies. One of the costs-containing strategies used by the U.S. health sector is the price option strategy. The price option aims at controlling the amount of money paid to the provider. For example, the introduction of Medicaid and Medicare programs that control the cost of delivering care by reducing the number of allowances paid to providers. Second, the U.S. health sector utilizes the quantity option strategy to contain high ...

Abstract

Scholars across the board have been persistent on the need for the near perfection of the concept of vital signs monitoring. Prior contributions to this field of knowledge all seem to bend towards correcting the wrongs that at times overwhelm the nursing practice, while at the same time constructing updates and ingenious suggestions towards the bettering of methods of monitoring vital signs. This paper cuts across the dimensions of nursing practice as applied in a reflective situation, and the evaluative outlook into the perks of vital signs monitoring as a physiological assessment process, its outcomes, and its repercussions both ...

Medicare and Managed Care

The U.S. government started initiatives to make medical assistance to as many citizens as possible. This program is one such initiative by the government. Medicare is a health program under the federal government that covers individuals who are 65 years and above. It also includes younger people with various disabilities. Also, people with renal diseases that require dialysis and any other medication are covered by this program. Medicare was created in 1965, ("What is the History of Medicare? | National Academy of Social Insurance", 2017). At this time, many people above 65 had difficulties accessing health care. In essence, this ...

Evaluation Plan and Disseminating Evidence

Introduction The process of evaluating a program is essential before initiating any given project. Most falls among the elderly occur in the nursing homes, creating a need for the development of a plan to reduce these falls rates. The number of deaths and injuries resulting from falls among the elderly is increasing at an alarming rate creating. The rates of falls are higher for patients in the nursing homes compared to the community residents. Some of the factors that have facilitated the increase in falls numbers among the elderly in nursing homes are poor conditions of the hospitals, increase ...

Business Project Plan

Business Project Plan In the contemporary age, carefully managing the mental and social health concerns of the veterans is a crux role of every government, and this demands every responsible government to formulate an action plan that can be applied in the management of these health concerns. This is especially so as medical scholars continue to acquire new insights regarding the mental, vocational or physical health of veterans as applies to mental health, as well as the difficult and traumatic experience of the veterans in their transitioning to normal life after completion of service (American Public Health Association, 2014). ...

The concept of clinical risk management is concerned with the aspect of making improvements to the quality and safety of health services in the mental health sector. As such, this achieved by pointing out the circumstances and opportunities that create risks to patients and staff and identify the approaches that can be adopted to prevent such risks through risk assessment and management. Risk assessment and management have become a primary element of mental health services in modern times, and the significance of good practice in this specific health care area cannot be disputed. The process of risk management and ...

There is the need for seeing to it that the care which patients receive has been founded on evidence since such a move is aimed at achieving improved outcomes on the patient. In the same regard, the way a patient is assessed assists in developing the best forms of care which will adequately address all their healthcare needs. Therefore, the questions which I would ask my patients during all their visits for the purposes of providing them with individualized services will include the following.

How many times have you visited this healthcare facility?

Have you ever received some vaccination in this facility? Have you ever been vaccinated in ...

Project 1: Evaluation Plan

Evaluation Method For a favorable assessment of this QI initiative, the quality control department proposes the utilization of the formative evaluation (FE) approach. There are four main types of FE analyses that can result in an exhaustive evaluation of this program, namely developmental, implementation, progress, and interpretive assessments. For instance, implementation-focused analysis evaluates differences between plan execution and implementation. Here, the sources of data include stakeholder interviews, focus group discussions, observations, and patient charts (McGowan, Cusack, & Poon, 2008). Contrarily, progress analysis concentrates on progress towards improvement and implementation at first intervention. The analysis considers clinical performance data on process ...

Article critique

The title of the study provides a clear and succinct indication of the issues which will be touched on in the main study. The issues which will be discussed in the study includes nurse staffing, nurse work schedule and patient mortality have been clearly captured. Such a realization provides the reader with a sneak preview of what to expect when they read the study.

Abstract

The abstract of the study provides a clear breakdown of what the reader should expect to see while reading the paper. The problem of the study has been clearly stated as the independent effects which ...

Chapter 7

My general observation is that the society considers nurses as people who enhance the healthcare experience, while the real credit of serving healthcare, are taken by the physicians and the administrative staffs. Probably, a person admitted as an inpatient or admitted to the ICU would have realized the true value of nurses, but in general, the services of the nurse are often unappreciated and unrecognized. Though nurses engage in important healthcare activities, they are treated as subordinates and not as leaders of healthcare. Nurses rarely participate in decision making and in making a health plan. Lack of clear guidelines ...

Management of Power

Introduction 3

Organizational Structure Influences 4-5 Conclusion 5-6

References 7

Management of Power As the nurse executive at St Louis Medical Center, it will be important to identify and utilize the leadership theories relevant to management of power in this professional capacity. Management of power is critical in creating work environments that are conducive for nurses to provide quality patient care. In a fast evolving healthcare sector, there is a growing need for nurse leaders to ensure their leadership provides the motivation and inspiration needed to continuously improve services. Based on this observation, the current paper seeks to identify and articulate ...

The process of nursing care aims at ensuring that the care which patients are given in a health care facility has been tested and proven to result in positive outcomes. There are, however, instances where a particular nurse may be overwhelmed by their responsibilities or certain circumstances where the knowledge of a nurse regarding a particular care protocol may be deficient (Huber, 2013). In situations such as these, the delegation of responsibilities is needed. In this regard, a nurse in charge will be required to transfer the responsibility of performing such a task to another care provider while at ...

My name is Hoyi Tsui and I was born in 1991 in Hong Kong, China. While I was born in Hong Kong, I immigrated with my family to the United States when I was seven years old and have since lived in Salisbury, Maryland, which I consider my home. I always had a passion for biology and medicine and was thrilled to learn that a career in pharmacy was within my grasp after searching through a local community college catalog in 20011. Not long after this discovery, I found great success as a student in the college’s “Pharmacy ...

Culture: Multicultural Issues in Corrections

Question One Correctional officers must strive to build rapport with inmates from all backgrounds while remaining neutral to all backgrounds. I would create rapport with inmates from diverse cultures by providing innovative and bold leadership through cross-cultural knowledge and advocacy, respect, and empathy for various cultural perspectives. Furthermore, I would incorporate conceptions of cultural diversity to improve the spirit and harmony at the correctional facilities. I would try to learn some of their cultural practices and values so as to know how to deal with them based on their cultural inclinations (“National Commission on Correctional,” n.d). Yes, cultural competence ...

Cultural competence in medicine is the ability of health facilities and health professionals to take into considerations the cultures and beliefs of other people apart from one’s own (Horvat, Horey, Romios, & Kis‐Rigo, 2014). Cultural competence is necessary within the health sector because it will assist in understanding the attitude and perception of patients towards certain illnesses. In addition, cultural competence will help in determining the right medication and diagnosis of patients in accordance with beliefs and values of different societies. As a leader in the health care, it is appropriate to think of the most suitable strategies ...

Issues at Kaluyu Hospital: Case Study

1. The case of Kaluyu hospital highlights a slew of anomalies in organizational culture and practices that demoralize employees. First and the foremost, there is a lack of transparency in rewards and performance system. The credit of the patient care usually goes to the doctors despite the fact that nurses do all the work. The partnership of doctor and nurses, one of the fundamentals of quality care, is in trouble. Research reveals that these types of conflicts often lead to serious long-term issues. If it continues unabated, it is likely that the organization will witness high turnover, low job ...

Level of Education in Nursing

Level of Education in Nursing The nursing profession plays a huge role in delivering evidenced-based, safe, and high quality health care to patients. To be able to this, nurses must have the knowledge and skills that must be updated with the latest development in the medical field (Boz Yuksekdag, 2015). In the year 2010, the Institute of Medicine released a report that contains recommendations for the future of the nursing profession. It technically recommends the nurses’ continuance of knowledge through educational programs (Gooch, 2015). As a nurse, it is important to follow IOM’s recommendations to be aware of ...

The Canadian healthcare and social assistance sector falls under the NAICS classification. The sector entails a publicly funded healthcare system. The sector is guided by the provisions of the Canada Health Act of 1984 (Belchetz). The sector, relative to its peers in most other countries including the U.S and Mexico, is unique. Its uniqueness arises from the fact that despite being predominantly publicly funded, most of the healthcare services at the point of sale are provided for by private practitioners. The Canadian healthcare and social assistance sector has been billed in many quarters as a model to be followed ...

Part 1

Of the many borrowed principles which are currently in use in the professional nursing world, the social exchange theory has proved to be very crucial as regards to the relationships which care providers have with their patients. The stability of relationships between different persons in the society is based on the interactions which they have amongst themselves. Furthermore, the benefits which an individual stands to gain from their relationships are what make them enter into coalitions (Cook et al., 2013). A balance in the relationships between different parties is the primary goal for people forming such coalitions. The core ...

Charting Nursing’s Future is a series of policy briefs on topics of interest to nurses whose publication is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The purpose of the policy briefs is to enlighten key stakeholders in health care set up such hospital managers, nurse leaders and the state and national policymakers on different matters related to nursing profession (Nurse 61). The briefs also seek to bring to light the important role of nurses in promoting a culture of health. Moreover, the series of the briefs covers a broad array of topics related to nursing which can ...

Is Hand washing more effective in Infection Reduction versus Gel Hand Sanitizers?

Is Hand washing more effective in Infection Reduction versus Gel Hand Sanitizers?

Introduction

Today, the burden of health care-associated infections (HCAIs) are drawing attention not only from governments and health care regulatory bodies but also from patients and more so from health care practitioners (HCPs) themselves. This phenomenon is not merely because of the magnitude of the problem regarding the associated incidences of mortality, cost, and complexity of treatment, and morbidity, but also due to the growing recognition and understanding that, most of these complications are preventable. The medical fraternity is thus witnessing in tandem unprecedented improvements in the spread ...

There are so many nurses in the country, so people might think that their voice would be clear and heard out loud. However, that is not the case. It is not always easy to talk about issues, especially if it would have a direct effect on your job. I have to agree with Garon. According to Garon, it is important that nurses realize the need to speak up and be heard at work. It is important not just for the satisfaction at work, but also to have better team work and to provide outmost patient safety. (Garon 2012). I ...

Lewin came up with a three-stage model that is quite essential in the nursing practice. The model involves three stages: unfreezing, changing and refreezing. The main goal of the unfreezing stage is to create awareness on how the prevailing level of acceptability is impeding the effectiveness of service delivery in the organization. Examination of the previous processes, behaviors, organizational structures, and ways of thinking is significant in showing everyone how necessary change is. Lewin states that after people have been enlightened on the need for change, then the organization can transition into the new state of being. This is ...

I. Management Summary The FM General Hospital aims to develop its growth marketing strategy, and the purpose of this plan is to present a market penetration strategy to address the health care trends projected over the course of the following five years. Specifically, it is expected that outpatient care and sub-acute care (i.e., home health) will be the most important trends in health care delivery and marketing in the future. It is also expected that targeting millennials with different sources of educational health materials, including websites and print materials, will be required to improve relationships between those groups of ...

Executive Summary: Improvement of Patient Care Quality Project

The types of data collection and display tools that will be used and deciding which one is best for the project Questionnaires concerning satisfaction are feasible and useful means of providing opportunities for patients and involving them into the health case provision process and manner (Pope, 2002). They are also a good tool for continuous quality assessment and prioritization of actions that are necessary to improve quality. Analysis of the data collected by means of questionnaires will be analyzed by means of special programs. The results of such analysis will help identify the weaknesses of the patient care quality ...

Ethical and Security Issues of HIT

HIT and impact on patient privacy Health Information Technology is increasingly being adopted across the healthcare sector given its innumerable benefits in improving patient care and augmenting the delivery of care. With HIT, provision of cost effective healthcare is also plausible through nurses. However, with technology also comes varied challenges and chief among these issues that come with HIT is patient privacy. With recent news documenting massive breaches of patient information, the usefulness of HIT and possible adoption strategies have been largely watered down. According to McGonigle and Mastrian, (2014) the ethical concerns that come with HIT are equally ...

Introduction

Occupational therapy focuses on increasing participation in a client’s daily activities. It involves the identification of environmental barriers that limit the customer’s ability to perform his or her daily activities and eliminating them. This is done by modifying the tasks, educating and teaching the skills to the client to enhance his or her daily activities. More emphasis is placed on the needs and goals of the client. Young@Heart is a film about a chorus composed of senior citizens. They sing contemporary songs as well as pop and classic rock songs. Eighty is the average age of ...

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13.1 For Betty, faith is one of the most crucial part of her life that cannot be ignored by the health care provider. Patients with strong religious beliefs are often considered as problematic, as their faith may interfere with the treatment and the work of health care providers. However, it is the obligation of the nurses to make the patients feel safe, appreciated, and respected. In this case, the nurse can help the patient to overcome the difficult period by providing moral support and understanding of the patient’s state. The nurse may have a conversation with Betty regarding ...

Assignment #4: Parties and Elections

The paper will examine the party platforms from the end of the 20th century and hence the year 2000. The examination of the Republican and Democratic platforms will show the similarities and differences between the platforms represented by the running candidates Albert Gore Jr. and George W. Bush. Bush has won the 2000 presidential elections with 271 electoral votes compared to the 266 electoral votes won by Albert Gore, Jr. The first differences seen in the platforms is the length since the Democratic platform with 24.220 words is shorter as the Republican platform with 34.555 words (The American Presidency ...

Public opinion can best be defined as not only the desires and wants but also the way the majority of people often think. In other words, public opinion is the overall opinion people of a certain society or a state about a certain subject of interest. Human beings tend to be very opinionated about certain things as everyone feels it is only right that they are entitled to their own personal opinions whatsoever the issue or matter. This essay focuses on public opinion in healthcare particularly regarding the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act as it is commonly ...

Introduction

Arabs, particularly from Middle East and North Africa have unique psychological challenges that are associated with the back rash that has been brought about by terrorism. In addition to the increased misconception of their religion being associated with the vice, they also face cultural challenges that dictate how they are supposed to live. There are numerous studies that have been carried out among the Arab women on the subject of their mental health. This paper will address the epidemiology of their condition, focusing on the special group on the immigrants, while comparing them with their counterparts at home and ...