Essays on Quality Care

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Introduction

The focus of the research is on determining how the changing role of the field of Transitional Nursing can affect the quality of healthcare that is provided to the elderly population. Initial research has revealed that people above the ages of 50 are considered to be more at-risk for contracting chronic diseases, and also for relapses because of various demographic and lifestyle factors. The focus of this paper is on developing a study design and sampling methodology for the research, as well as formulating flow charts and maps in order to better understand the dependent and independent variables involved ...

Breaking Barriers: Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care

Breaking Barriers Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care With more than 3 million in numbers, nurses comprise the largest section of health care professionals in the US. They spend a huge portion of their time to deliver healthcare services which makes them a viable force in ensuring and safety of care. A careful examination of the nurses’ capacity to support the health reform is essential, especially with the passage of laws such as the Affordable Care Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, among others, which aim to improve the design, financing, and delivery of health services (Sochalski ...

The centers for Medicare and Medicaid define an accountable care organization as a group of medical professionals and hospitals, whose aim is to share medical and financial responsibilities for coordinated care to patients (McCarthy, 2013). The team members unite to provide harmonized and high eminence care to the Medicare patients, who visit the medical institutions. The coordinated care that is provided assists in ensuring that patients, particularly the chronically ill patients, have access to timely and quality care. Additionally, it helps in preventing medical errors from occurring as well as reducing pointless replication of services. If the ACO programs ...

Healthcare organizations face a big problem now when it comes to nurse staffing and scheduling. There appears a big scarcity problem in the number of nurses when assigned per patient. Researches done during the past decades have established the importance of having enough nursing staff or registered nurse staffing as they play a huge role in achieving positive patient outcomes, safety, and satisfaction. This means an adequate nurse to patient ratio promotes reduction in patient mortality, enhances outcomes, and improves nurse satisfaction when it comes to their work. For instance, one study pointed out that for every patient assigned ...

Recent changes to the healthcare system have called for a variety of transformations, spanning across the different aspects of health care practice. In the recent past, the nursing profession has been sidelined from major decisions regarding health care, leading to a limitation to the extent to which nurses can stimulate changes in healthcare. The Affordable Care Act is the second largest overhaul of the healthcare system in the United States since Medicare and Medicaid. The increasing need to align health needs of the American citizens with the transformations brought about by the implementation of the Act has led to ...

Introduction

Nurses play an integral, challenging, and complex role in the healthcare system. Nurses are considered as the backbone of the complex and diverse system that comprises patients and a multidisciplinary team of experts. Nurses are educated and trained to cater to a large group of patients and often seek continuing education and upgrade their skills and knowledge. It is only through clinical exposure that nurses learn and implement new strategies and techniques. Nurses are known to transform the healthcare system by acting as mediators between the patient population and the medical team (physicians and other allied healthcare members). Through ...

Genesis HealthCare services are one among the United States’ largest post-acute healthcare provider. Here are some of the internal elements that demonstrate the recent organizational portrait of this company. 2012-Welcome the Dr. Tami Secor as the newest member of the Genesis Physician Services group. This was in line with the entity’s objective to offer quality health care to patients. Dr. Secor will assist in managing of the short-and long-term medical needs of patients. 2013- During this year, twenty-two of Genesis HealthCare received awards for their commitment to quality care. The awards signify the organization’s adherence to high ...

The National Quality Strategy (NQS) is mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Act and established through a clear and combined process. NQS focuses on six major priorities to improve health and healthcare quality. These priorities are applicable for the consumer as well as for the healthcare providers. As a healthcare consumer, I believe that each person and family members must be engaged as partners in their healthcare. This priority is clearly depicted by PatientsLikeMe that was founded to educate people and families with chronic conditions and make them aware by providing answers to their chronic conditions. The initiatives ...

"I need you", said Lisa, a patient of cervical cancer, and the mother of three children, to Rocco, a registered nurse employed by the First Congregational Church in Hudson. Rocco accompanied her to the doctor's appointment, arranged volunteers to bring meals and take care of children thrice a week during her treatment. "I do not know what would I have done without you," said overwhelmed Lisa. This particular care highlights the modus operandi of parish nurses. Parish nursing is a growing movement where nurses do not give first-hand care or shots but focus on prevention of illness and promotion ...

Health and Hospital Management

Numerous organizations have taken a holistic approach to health and healthcare system management as they seek to address the common problems related to the rising health care costs, need for insurance, and promotion of healthy staff. The organizations have sought to establish and implement health care plans for thousands of employees. The plans have raised the need to have administrative competence, excellence in case management, solid network of care providers and health care institutions and departments. Common health-related problems today require a continuum of care that is built upon the collaboration of several actors and institutions. For this reason, ...

Introduction

Health policy can be defined as a plan or decision combined with actions to achieve specific healthcare goals by implementing key strategies within the society (WHO, 2016). As per the World Health Organization (WHO), an explicit health policy is known to be associated with several success factors such as development of a vision for the future and establishment of key targets for the short and long-term. Health policies enable organizations, institutes, societies, and groups to define outline, propose new goals, and inculcate different roles across various healthcare sectors (Záliš, et al. 2016). Healthcare policies are known to unite ...

Literature Review: Politics and Democracy

Politics in the society always faces numerous cases of controversies that occur from time to time. Cases of corruption and misappropriation of funds are most common in public facilities. According to Priest & Hull (2007), the corruption case at the Walter Reed medical center has seen misappropriation of funds meant to ensure that injured soldiers receive quality care from the medical personnel. The corruption case, which was revealed in 2007 by the Washington Post newspaper, occurred at an army’s top medical facility where the wounded soldiers sought treatment. According to the article by Washington Post’s staff writers, the ...

Achieving optimal staffing levels of nurses especially in the cardiac unit is a huge milestone that would help in minimizing adverse events, increase job satisfaction among nurses and ultimately foster quality outcomes. Hence, this emphasizes the need to develop a comprehensive implementation plan relating to the proposed solution in order to ensure that the intervention is properly integrated into the organizational system and subsequently enhance care delivery. The project is based in a cardiac care unit and shall involve various stakeholders including: the senior hospital administrators, nurse managers and the general nursing staff. Thus, it is important to obtain ...

Introduction

The United States’ health system is facing different challenges that show the need for reforms to the health sector to promote better health for the American population. Attention is focused on the Americans who are not insured and the ones facing increase in costs of the health premiums. To promote health care of the American population, the government should invest funds to help in reducing the number of people missing insurance coverage (Baciu & Sharfstein, 2016). The efficiency and quality of health care should be enhanced to reduce the poor health outcomes as well as reduce the high cost of ...

Nursing

Introduction The term management and leadership are often interchanged and interpreted as the same, but that is not always the case in nursing profession. This is because not every nurse can be considered as a good leader, and the same can be said about nursing leaders that are not necessarily managers. Primarily, a nursing manager holds the decision-making power in assigning organizational position, and is expected to carry out control over specific duties and processes. On the other hand, leaders may not have the same authority as managers, but the power that nursing leader posses is inherited from their ...

The patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a legislation that was enacted by president barrack Obama on March 2010.According to Pulcini (2013), the health bill was established by the US government so as improve the access to affordable and quality healthcare in the United States. The bill has been critical in reducing the government’s expenditure in the health sector through the development of public-private participation. Also, the expansion of the Medicaid mandate has been of great significance in enhancing the access to quality care services.

Advantages

A study by Smith (2014) portends that the Affordable Act has been ...

Rapid Appraisal

The impacts of nursing inputs on the quality care provided in nursing homes was investigated and found that mix staffing process can effectively optimize the organization standard and reduce the patient adverse outcomes (Hendrix, 2001, para.25). The statistical outcomes of this study present valuable data that is relevant to the proposed issue. The study outcomes demonstrated that the costs of care for decubitus ulcers significantly reduces with the presence of RNs and NAs while it increases with the LPN presence, indicating the significance of delegating appropriate staff for appropriate work as it can effectively improve patient outcomes and reduce ...

Introduction

After 47 years in business, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. (THC) has grown into a network of 79 hospitals, 20 short-stay surgical hospitals, and more than 470 outpatient centers in addition to nine facilities in the United Kingdom. As of 2015, it has 130,000 employees in its healthcare network. Three years ago, it acquired for $4.3 billion the Vanguard Health Systems (VHS) (Jacobson, 2013), which Charles Martin Jr. founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1997 and has a network of more than 26 healthcare institutions, which are a combination of acute care and specialty hospitals in five states: Illinois (Chicago); ...

A health system entails all programs, institutions, resources, procedures and personnel that are used by a country to meet the health needs of its citizens. The essence of a health system is to promote and restore the health of the population (WHO, 2014). Furthermore, an efficient health care system is always committed to the provision of quality care services to the citizens. According to Amce (2014), health systems vary from country to country. However, we have common elements like training of the physicians, robust funding, policies, health informatics and medical logistics. According to Kalisch (2014), the Australian health system ...

Root Cause Analysis of what led to the Demise of Mr. B. (Causative factors, errors, and hazards) Hazard 1: the dog lying in Mr. B’s path so that Mr. B could not see it, leading to Mr. B’s fall

Hazard 2: Mr. B’s use of oxycodone could not permit his sedation with regular dosage of diazepam or hydromorphone

Hazard 3: Mr. B was also overweight, and this had a deleterious effect on the ability to sedate him using the regular dosages of IVP diazepam or hydromorphone. The chief causes and errors leading to Mr. B’s death seem to have been the fact that there were two large doses of two different sedatives used on him, ...

Observation of Clinical Practices in Mayo Clinic Rochester

In mayo clinic Rochester, a single nurse is usually appointed to provide comprehensive care to a patient especially after admission into the hospital as an inpatient. After which the patient receives individualized attention throughout the stay period, and this is given by the same nurse until the duration of stay is over. In the same clinic also, a single nurse may be appointed to provide care and health services to a group of patients, especially those who have common needs for care. In such a case, the nurse is usually responsible for monitoring the progress of the group of ...

A growing concern has been rising within public and policy domains as fundamental elements in providing safe and quality health care have been lacking. This has led to poor patient care, as well as pitiable clinical, emotional, and social outcomes. On some occasions, catastrophic events have been witnessed as reports from Health Ombudsman and Patient’s Association indicate. For example, the reports present stories from patients who have had experiences characterized with poor, inadequate and negligent care, and abuse while receiving nursing care. These reports have led stakeholders within health care to affirm there are unrecorded stories that are ...

Currently, the United States health care system is struggling with an acute shortage of health practitioners especially nurses who are the major and significant primary health providers and close allies of the patients on their journey to full recovery and enhancement of their well-being. Thus, there is a need to boost and support the effort that will increase the number of health care practitioners in the country. On the other hand, just like the rest of the world, United States is also an aging society and the general population keeps increasing. Notably, during the 21st century, persons of the ...

The complexity of healthcare settings demands that care organizations have a definitive manner in which care is delivered. There are many forms of care delivery methods in nursing, but Finkelman (2012) outlines various distinct methods: total patient care/case method, team nursing, primary nursing, progressive patient care, functional nursing, care and service team models, among others. Some of the models are no longer in use in nursing practice, but they have made a significant contribution to the current models. Also, some of the models have maintained their main characteristics, but have been adapted to fit the modern demands of healthcare. ...

The need for understanding cultural competency has been developing over the recent past. This instance comes after the realization that cultural sensitivity increase healthcare outcomes and interactions in a multidisciplinary setting. The current healthcare setting has encouraged involvement from a diverse workforce with different racial and ethnic basis. In the same way, a precedent rise of a diverse population in the American society means that those in need of healthcare services also require healthcare practitioners to attend to their needs (Treas and Wilkinson, 2014). Given that culture is a complex and extremely demanding concept, the need for a conscious ...

What do you believe is the greatest achievement that the health care industry has made from both the patient and provider perspectives? Why? In the past decade, there has been significant improvement in the maternal and infant health with respect to the healthcare industry. The rate of neural tube defects and infants born with heritable or metabolic disorders have reduced owing to new diagnostic and treatment modalities. In the early 1990’s, the US government led to the implementation of folic acid fortification in all cereal grains that were termed as enriched. This movement led to the reduction of ...

Classroom Observation Tool

CHS111 Foundations in Early Childhood Education PRINT THIS FORM to use for your classroom observation. Once completed, print this form again and type the information you recorded into the form. The completed, typed form will be submitted in Unit 4.

Observer’s Name: _____Insert your name________________________________________

Time(s): Start: ___9:00am___________ End: _____11:30am___________ CENTER/SCHOOL INFORMATION Program Type (Place “X” for all that apply): public __ private _×_ non-profit __faith-based __ corporate __ other: _____________________

Observed Classroom

Teaching Staff Total: ___21___Teachers __10___ Assistant Teachers ____9__Other: _____2___________ Observed: ___16___Teachers __8___ Assistant Teachers __7____Other: ______1__________ Child Enrollment Total Enrolled: ___141_ Infants _18_____ Toddlers __24___ Preschoolers __45___ Kindergartners __54___ ...

Abstract

The healthcare systems comprise of many services that can lead to the successful delivery of treatment to the patients. Patients can receive their treatment and then the member or the hospital can contact the third party payer to reimburse them. There are numerous reimbursement methods and clients chose one that they. The methods include; the Value-Based Purchasing Medical Reimbursement, pay for performance, fee-for- service and episode-of-care payment. Each method has both its advantages and disadvantages to either the patient or the hospital. An acute care hospital which provides quality treatment to the patients within a short period utilizes the ...

Abstract

Diversified care is a huge issue in the healthcare administration. One of the reasons for this is funding, another is that patients are becoming more aware of the medical advances that exist and are more demanding in regards to the treatment that they obtain. This has a huge impact on a hospital’s finances and strongly affects how they operate. Nonetheless, there are many ways that the issue can be addressed and avoided by both looking at the needs of the community and enabling the institution to change and implement the technological advances as they come about. One way ...

Introduction

Access to quality, safe, and affordable healthcare is a priority of every person worldwide. Most countries in the world, especially, the United States of America (USA), have continued to put more efforts towards improving the delivery of care to ensure every citizen enjoys quality and safe health outcome. Health disparities act as one of the major issues affecting the delivery of health in the U.S. Health disparities affect different groups of people in the country, but it's more common among racial and ethnic minorities and underserved communities. The increasing documentation of disparities in healthcare calls for an urgent need ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to compare two research studies--one quantitative and the other qualitative--that concern a particular health issue or an issue that is pertinent to nursing. In each case, the study was chosen that addresses patient satisfaction and how we should measure that. The quantitative study, by Berkowitz (2016), concerns the complexity of measuring patient satisfaction when there is no simple way to go about it. The qualitative study, by Grondal, Wilde-Larsson, Karlsson and Hall-Lord (2012) looks at patient satisfaction through the use of interviews with a small number of patients (n=22) and then coding their ...

Research into the relationship between staff levels and outcomes in patient care is important in order to ensure that those receiving healthcare are given the most valuable service possible. The effect that staff levels have on patient care is an essential factor in the overall level of success that their treatment will see. In determining the relationship between these two factors, it is important to critically assess the general values that nurses themselves have as well as their patients when receiving care. Furthermore, the level of burnout, or physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion that nurses feel due to high ...

Healthcare is one of the most critical aspects of human well-being, it refers to the various measures undertaken to maintain, and also improve their wellbeing. Healthcare services are classified into primary, secondary and tertiary care. The different healthcare services are a medical diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of physical and mental diseases in human beings. Healthcare practitioners or providers are the ones tasked with the responsibility of delivering the above healthcare services. The structure of health systems and access to healthcare facilities varies from one country to another due to various factors. Some of the main factors that influence healthcare ...

Abstract

The current government has consistently been trying to reduce the costs of healthcare and at the same time improve its quality. This paper focuses on the current state of healthcare through an extensive research on the population. The research uses a cross sectional design to collect data and come up with relevant conclusions. The research project aimed at using a homogenous population to come up with accurate results. Such a population involves participants who have the same knowledge about the subject. Such participants are easily obtained through a referral process where one participant refers another. A total of 50 ...

The AACN Essential 2 prepares nurses to become promoters of quality care. It is done by engaging leadership, decision-making, coordination, accountability, and knowledge concerning the various organizational systems (Bender, Connelly & Brown, 2013). In actual fact, becoming an agent of quality promotion within different care settings requires a sound understanding of the various organizational systems. In general, the healthcare system is composed of sub-systems that influence different organizational components in a collaborative manner ultimately influencing the quality of care. Various sub-systems such as politics, power, policies and regulations also inflict a huge impact on the quality of care provided. As ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also known as the Obama Care was enacted on march 23, 2010 under the auspice of President Barack Obama (Smith,2014).The legislation was established so as to enhance the access to quality and affordable health care in the United States. The PPACA is anchored on the philosophy of the public private participation in the provision of the health care. The US government has put in place a number of initiatives like the expansion of the Medicaid mandate and the provision of medication to uninsured citizens (Smith, 2014).The strategy has seen ...

Introduction

This paper addresses the major steps that Caring Angle Hospital can implement to realize its goals. Also, it recommends one strategy that the heath care provider can adopt to obtain a large market share. Finally, it examines value-added services will strengthen its value proposition.

Major steps for Caring Angle Hospital

Improve the quality of care Improving the quality of care is important since it will prevent patients from hopping from hospital to another. Caring Angle Hospital can employ various strategies to enhance the quality of their services. The hospital administration should consider managing the process of care rather than focusing on controlling on the physicians. ...

Chamberlain College of Nursing

Introduction The brochure by the joint commission is titled "speak up". The brochure has no date to show when it was published because the brochure is printed to remain relevant as time goes by. To suffice this effect, the brochure is written in the first person and talks to the reader directly. The brochure answers important questions that a patient might have. The booklet is brief and straight to the point. The information benefits the patient, family and close friends to the patient and the general public. The information in the brochure is intended to appear as common knowledge ...

Sustainability monitoring and measurement is a quantitative foundation that is significant in informing the management about the sustainability of the organization. The Children Hospital of Philadelphia is the world’s leading hospital for children. According to CHOP (2016) the hospital has for a long time used various indices to determine the sustainability of the organization when it comes to the provision of the quality care to the children. In the recent study by the United States News and World report, CHOP emerged as the best in the entire US. As noted by CHOP (2016) the hospital has employed a ...

HEALTH CARE SPENDING

(Research Paper) The rising cost of health care has affected almost every section of society of the United States. One section which has been adversely affected in the name of Obamacare act is the medical fraternity is itself. The expenses of providing health care to all the segments have outweighed the incoming financial assets. The only way to reduce the expenditure of providing healthcare is by cutting the cost on the inputs or of the assets which are utilized for providing the optimum level of care. However, doing this may mean compromising with the quality of care. Different researchers ...

IOM Core Competencies

The Committee of Institute of Medicine incorporates the core competencies that are required to be acquired by the nursing professionals in order to enhance the quality of care. The current paper aims to enlighten the core competencies by the IOM in order to develop the SMART goals and direct towards the action plan for the effective execution of the objectives. The selected IOM core competencies are as follows: “To contribute in the team work by means of integrating the observations, bodies of expertise, spheres of decision making in order to coordinate, communicate and collaborate with one another so that ...

Abstract

The above paper seeks to outline the role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) with a comparison of practices in two main states (Louisiana and Arkansas). The paper starts with a review of the prescriptive authority of APRN's in Louisiana, with an emphasis that the area faces a shortage of health professionals. According to the regulations of the state, it is a requirement that NP should offer prescription with an oversight of a physician. The collaborative practice agreement helps guide the two practitioners to work in close collaboration with one another in providing quality health care to the residents. ...

Introduction

Affordable Care Act is a law in the United States of America that deploys the provision of health care more affordable and available to every American. It does so by focusing at the betterment of the health of common people within their reach. Barak Obama signed it on March 23, 2010. It formulates new rules and regulations for providing health to every American regardless of caste and creed. The health care provision has been the main concern of communities for a long time. Several policies have been made by hospitals and other health provision care centers. Providence of health ...

In this paper, I am assuming myself as an administrator at Sunlight Hospital in California. The main complaint from patients is about the quality of care that needs to be improved with immediate actions. Employees, who work in this hospital including the staff technicians etc., are always very busy with their duties. They do not have much time to deal with minor problems of patients. Therefore, it is the duty of administration to keep an eye on each and every issue that a patient faces related to his or her stay at the hospital and in particular those issues ...

Background Information and Justification of the Study (Introduction)

Over a period of two decades it has been observed that the professional bodies in the field of Orthotics and Prosthetics as well as other healthcare services from have been instrumental in trying to define the meaning and scope of continuing professional education for the structural basis and acknowledgement of individual progress through certifications for the same. The professionals in the field are also vying for these certifications for their professional growth and the certifications serve as tools to monitor and regulate the overall quality of continued education and in turn the public health. The International body in the ...

Thesis statement: It is highly beneficial for a hospital with an Oncology department to institute palliative care since the project will help patients and will make the families feel that the hospital cares and thus the hospital can gain from the high patient rating. At the same time, the project is bound to bring in profits to the hospital.

Introduction

The background information of the Palliative Care program project is introduced in detail including its definition, main purpose, benefits, and its goals and objectives. This section also explains how the project is going to improve the services being offered to ...

WGU

A. Table of Contents Professional Resume – presents my clinical knowledge, skills, experience, and philosophy to potential employers Executive Summary – provides an overview of the contents of the portfolio Professional Reference Questionnaire – presents the objective and subjective evaluation of my key behaviors and clinical performance by one of my professional references Importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) – discusses the need to develop knowledge and skills in quality leadership in order to improve the quality and safety of patient care and promote holistic, patient-centered care

Copy of IHI certificate of completion – serves to validate my completion of the IHI Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership course

Evidence-based Practice – summarizes an evidence-based research project on hand hygiene Applied Leadership – summarizes my ...

Introduction

Risk management is important as it helps in taking a business through the risk identification process, risk assessment as well as risk resolution in ensuring that an enterprise becomes successful. When preparing a risk management plan, the first step to undertake is to identify the potential risks for the business. Understanding the scope of the potential risks helps in the development of realistic and cost effective strategies to be able to deal with the potential risk appropriately (Wu, Chen, & Olson, 2014). It is also essential to think broadly when considering the types of risks that can affect the business ...

About myself

I am a college student finishing my nursing education at the College of New Rochelle, who is very passionate about the career as I love helping others. I am also a hardworking well-rounded person, and I believe that I have gained adequate knowledge in the field that will assist in my professional development. Choosing to be a nurse was one of the greatest decisions that I made, and I have never regretted. I plan on completing my Bachelor of Science in nursing degree this May, and I already know the great advantages as well as the incredible career opportunities ...

UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth group is one of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States serving over 70 million citizens (United Healthcare, 2013). Founded in the 1970s as UnitedHeathcare Corporation, the organization has grown over the years to deliver healthcare services to a lot of citizens in the country. Based on their mission statement, “We work with healthcare professionals and other key partners to expand access to quality health care, so people get the care they need at an affordable price” (United Healthcare, 2013). UnitedHeathcare has become Awards winners health care services provisions. The following case study is the operations of ...

Abstract

Every health organization has the goal of providing quality, safe, and cost-effective care to patients. Some safety issues reported in hospitals today question the role of the health sector in improving the health outcome of the community. Many hospitals record poor patient outcomes because of the inability of the management to plan duties and changes in shifts between nurses caring for patients in hospital wards. Poor inter-shift reports between registered nurses act as one of the most common problems threatening patients' safety and delivery of quality care in hospitals today. Technology plays a significant role in influencing communication between ...

THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUE

The focus on patient safety and quality of care has placed many demands on the healthcare system. One of the pertinent issues that have been explored as having an impact on the quality of care and patient safety is the nurse staffing ratios. The Joint Commission identifies that staffing levels have a profound impact on the occurrence of sentinel adverse events, injuries, deaths as well as permanent functional losses in patients undergoing care (American Nurses Association, 2016). With low staffing levels, the workload on the nurses and the healthcare personnel is heavy amidst the need satisfy all aspects of ...

Hippocratic Oath and Nightingale Pledge are taken by the healthcare professionals with the aim of promoting ethics in their profession. Healthcare professionals undertake this by pledging to lead by example, faithfulness, accuracy, devotion, responsibility, quality, and accountability (Kantarjian & Steensma, 2014). Nurses are responsible for giving quality care and therefore, the decision they make in their profession should be seen to promote quality care for all. One of the fundamental duties of a nurse is to maintain the noble traditions of the nursing profession and not going against the code of ethics that govern their profession. This, therefore, shows that ...

Continuous quality improvement and patient satisfaction

Continuous quality improvement in care delivery entails the identification of problems, implementing the solutions, monitoring the process, and evaluating its effectiveness (Olds et al., 2013). Nurse leaders and managers are involved in the process of finding areas that need improvement in the delivery of care and once they find these areas, they put in place all the resources and structures needed for improvement. The overall goal of continuous quality improvement of care is universal. These quality improvement initiatives are the reason why the United States health care delivery system is experiencing significant changes (Finkelman, 2015). Some of these changes ...

Introduction

Many nurses take pride in the practice of their nursing career. They are committed to advocate for the safety and quality patient care and they are supporting any reform of health delivery system that can go an extra mile to promote the nursing practice. The Nurses Day celebrations are received by a large population in a well orchestrated, thus, showing that nurses are the largest trusted workforce in the United States of America. The report released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in the year 2010 in their article entitle ‘The Future of Nursing: the Leading Change, Advancing Health’, ...

Caring for the Elderly

Diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer’s and cancer among other chronic diseases have become more prevalent to the older population. This has meant that the old have to receive the best medical care in order to beat the diseases. Even with the advent of medical technologies and medicine to treat these diseases, long term care among the old is necessary to ensure care. In the care facilities for the old, there are reports of abuse from the caregivers given that they face a number of challenges in administering care. Many people face difficulties taking care of the old and ...