Essays on Johns Hopkins

Capstone Project Milestone 2

Asthma is the most common cause of in-patient admissions in acute care hospitals. Poor education and training of patients with respect to self-care and symptom management has led to an increase in the number of asthmatic patients reporting to the emergency department (ED) or acute care hospitals. It is empirical to understand the cause or trigger factors that relate to acute exacerbations of asthma. Some of the common triggers that causes asthma include exercise, infections, allergens, smoking, infection, gastric problems, hear burns, and indigestion. Based on current evidence, food allergens are considered as the most common form of allergens ...

After Giving Birth

NR451 RN Capstone Course Term and Year After Giving Birth Even though postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of mortality after giving birth, most health care facilities do not have a standardized measures to assess blood volume loss and rely only on visual estimations for assessing and documenting blood loss. Consequently, blood loss below 250 mL tends to be overestimated, whereas blood loss above 2,000 mL tends to be underestimated (Bamberg et al., 2015). Inaccurate diagnosis of PPH delays treatment and increases mortality risk among intrapartum and postpartum women, so the purpose of the proposed nursing plan ...

Over the next several years, the contributions of Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) to the economic and health vitality of the surrounding communities are expected to grow due to the ongoing changes in the hospital’s healthcare system. For example, between fiscal years 2015 and 2019, Johns Hopkins Health Service (JHHS) has planned to invest almost $797 million in constructing new medical facilities and renovating existing facilities (Appleseed, 2015). The investment is expected to translate into jobs for residents in nearby communities. Most importantly, however, the investment will increase the capacity of JHH to meet the healthcare needs of the ...

Introduction

The John Hopkins hospital is a premier teaching and research-based institute base in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It was founded in 1889 by John Hopkins. It is one of the leading hospitals in the US known for its strong scientific and innovative background in multi-special therapeutic areas (Pronovost, et al. 2013). It specializes in neurosurgery, cardiology, endocrinology, and paediatrics. It is one of the only institutes in the US to have a full-fledge medical college that houses students from 30+ countries. The quality of care and management at John Hopkins is of the highest standards are recognised globally. Quality Measures ...

NR451 RN Capstone Course

Term and Year Skin-to-Skin Contact for Neonates The separation of mother and neonate for non-urgent medical reasons is a growing trend in nursing practice. However, research has indicated that the practice can have a deleterious long term effect on the healthy infant and mother with regard to breast feeding, cardio-respiratory stability, and blood glucose levels (Moore, Anderson, Bergman, & Dowswell, (2014). The solution to the problem is to initiate skin-to-skin contact at birth (Moore, et al., 2014). The nursing focused plan is to introduce the practice of skin-to-skin contact following birth, which entails placing the naked infant prone on the ...

Satire in The Importance of Being Earnest

The most important role of any work of fiction is not simply to entertain its readers but to teach some moral lesson or convey a message. Each writer seeks to improve bad side of humans’ nature, presenting all their shortcoming and inappropriate behaviour in the images of the main characters of their stories. The best way to do it is definitely by using such genre of literature as satire. It does not only ridicule different vices and faults of particular individuals or society in general, but aims to construct social criticism and lead to further improvement. The Importance of ...

Healthcare policy analysis, one of the scopes of healthcare policy, is mainly involved in the development and evaluation of the different interventions that have been implemented to help in the improvement of the healthcare delivery system. Policy analysis in the healthcare system is mainly associated with the regulation and finance of different healthcare services. Other activities involved in the process of healthcare policy analysis include developing and analyzing data to serve as support for different policies, assessing new initiatives in the field of healthcare by utilizing different techniques which include cost-benefit analysis, evaluation of programs, analysis of implementations, and ...

QUESTION ONE

Background Specifically, the porters five model is a tool that is widely used to identify and understand where power lies in a given corporation or institution. With such understanding, an organization is capable of capitalising on its strengths, improving its weaknesses, and avoiding costly mistakes. The key elements of the model include the buyer power, supplier power, the threat of new entrants, competitive rivalry, and the threat of substitutes (Dobbs, 2014). The healthcare organization that I choose for the healthcare organization that I choose for this assignment is Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Barrier to Entry

Health facilities are confronted with relatively high barriers ...

Introduction

Menopause is a condition that women experience when their regular monthly menstrual cycles end. It is a perfectly ordinary condition, occurring in some women earlier than others, and varying in severity. Menopause is characterized by changes in monthly period, hot flashes, and/or loss of vaginal health or bladder control (National Institute on Aging, n.d.). Menopause occurs normally in most women, but there are situations in which menopause does not occur naturally, such as surgical menopause, when either one or both ovaries are removed (Johns Hopkins Medicine, n.d.), as in a hysterectomy, or it can, it is believed, be brought  ...

Pain is a commonly experienced phenomenon among patients. Despite the commonality of the phenomenon of pain, it is a complex concept to describe and explain. There are different types of pain that are diagnosed using different metrics in primary care –somatic, neuropathic, and visceral pain, depending on the location of the pain on the body. Pain can also be acute or chronic, based on the length of time that a patient has experienced the pain. Due to the complexity of the phenomenon of pain, it is poorly understood in the nursing practice. Performing a concept analysis of pain is ...

1. Anderson, L.V. (2016, May 19). Ethics compliance training is a waste of time. Slate Magazine. This article, despite the cynical title, provides good research concerning the process by which companies implement ethics compliance training programs, including what incentive they have and how the external legal environment influences them to do this. The article begins by stating that the predominant form of ethics compliance training that all onboarded employees typically take in corporate organizations in the United States are in the form of eLearning courses. The article describes the typical mandatory basic ethics, harassment and discrimination training that are ...

<Institution> The adolescence stage is a crucial period in a person’s life. During this time, people begin to explore and establish their own identity as influenced by their personalities. In the field of psychology, many experts have extended effort to help understand the stages and complex process that adolescence go through in terms of the establishment of identity and the development of personality. Among these experts are James Marcia and John Holland. James Marcia developed the Identity Status Theory while John Holland developed the Six Personality Types Theory; both of which contributed greatly in understanding the complexity ...

The struggle to access affordable and quality care has been a challenge to many citizens in the United States for quite long. Many reforms in the healthcare system which have been carried out in the past from the President Clinton to President Bush administration did not managed to provide sustainable solutions to many Americans who were grappling with the high cost of health care and failing economy. However, the President Obama administration has tried to bring to sanity in the health care system and some relief to consumers. The promulgation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 made it ...

Food deserts are those areas within cities where the local population has no or little access to fresh fruits and healthy vegetables. There is evidence that the food desert areas are more prevalent in the lower income neighborhoods. Lack of healthy foods leads to obesity and health ailments such as heart disease and diabetes. It is also seen that the neighborhoods with low-income are mostly African American. The essay discusses the Food deserts, what they mean and who is affected and how. Research works on food deserts in Baltimore city are looked into and how a lack of nutritious ...

Introduction

Outreach programs led by a registered nurse are known to have a significant impact on the quality of care and health outcomes of patients (Toyce, et al. 2015). Nurses involved in post-discharge care such as home safety evaluation, medication compliance, and patient education have a positive impact on patient outcomes (Toyce, et al. 2015). Most patients do not follow instructions laid by the healthcare professional post-discharge which leads to non-compliance and readmission. This problem can be solved by a nurse-led outreach program that helps patients in various activities at home, thus improving health outcomes and reduced readmission rates. Nurses ...