Health Care Literature Reviews Samples For Students

INTRODUCTION

Historically, obesity has been a pertinent issue affecting a large percentage of the American population. Obesity can be described as a medical condition in which there is an accumulation of excess fat in the body. This condition, when not controlled well can result to further body complications such as heart diseases, high blood pressure and diabetes. Therefore, once detected early, the condition should be controlled to avoid such complications. Weight loss is one sure way of reducing the severe effects of obesity as obesity manifests itself through gaining weight. In the US, obese cases have been ranked as among the ...

Literature review

Over the past number of years, the issue of violence has generated a lot of concerns in the workplace. Different sectors experience different levels of workplace violence with 85 percent of non-fatal assaults occurring in retailing and service industries. The health care sector falls under the service industry and workers in this sector are at higher risks of workplace violence. It becomes hard to estimate the true incidence of violence towards health workers because of different definitions and data collection systems (Hartley, D., & Ridenour, 2011 #1).

Violence among health workers triggers most psychological and physical outcomes. Some of the ...

Achieving of higher levels of education and training for nurses.

In the healthcare practice there are various groups of professionals who work together to ensure efficient delivery of services to the patients, they include the nurses, physicians among other health care professionals. They all work together to come up with ideas on what clinical practices issues should be considered in an organizations systematic agenda. According to a report by the Institute of Medicine (2013), some of the key practices recommended by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) are; - Registered Nurses (RNs) should practice to the full extent of their education and training there should be no constraint on their ...

This essay covers the topic of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs are health care organizations envisaged in the Affordable Care Act with a health care delivery and reimbursement model that is based on quality metrics. ACOs are responsible for providing quality care and reducing the total cost of care and account for their services to patients and the payers of health care services. The focus of this essay is the benefits and the unintended consequences of ACOs.

Benefits of ACOs

ACOs function on a delivery model of individual health providers and organizations coming together to coordinate care delivery. An immediate benefit of ACOs is ...

Introduction and Review

Background This paper will focus on a systematic review to determine the barriers of implementing TQM approach in health care organizations. Today, there is a need for realizing the TQM concept, essential in indicating the function of organizations, by trying to better put in use resources, and knowledge through individuals sharing and working together in teams. This is by identifying the obstacles hence, helps in the uncovering of management's beliefs, important in developing awareness of duties in daily management, which are regarded as “true”. TQM is a philosophy that proposes uniform obligation to quality, in all organizational areas towards promoting an ...

Literature Review: Building Health Information Technology Workforce

Introduction Health information technology is an aspect of healthcare that involves the exchange of health data and information via an electronic platform or in an electronic environment. In its broadest form, health information technology encompasses the technology that is used for various operations management, administrative and even direct clinical functions in medical institutions. One of the most recognizable elements of health information technology is the electronic health records commonly abbreviated as EHR. An electronic health record refers to a record of a patient’s health information that includes medications, immunization, radiology reports, laboratory data, patient demographics, vital signs amongst others. ...

Background information

Critical thinking is one of most highly valued educational outcomes in the professional education of healthcare professionals. Educationalists tend to emphasize the importance of teaching future healthcare professionals how to think, rather than the need to improve the contents of curricula. This view stems from the fact that the nursing process is highly concerned with problem-solving and decision-making-related activity that requires acquisition and continuous improvement of related skills (Yilldrim, Ozkahraman &Karabudak, 2011, p.174) As nursing education is directly related to critical thinking theory, tparticularly the development of these skills is essential for curricula in nursing educational instituions (Yilldrim&Ozkahraman, 2011, ...

Projections indicate that chronic diseases could account for nearly 60% of deaths and disabilities by the end of this decade. Chronic diseases do not only cause illness to an individual but also affect their well-being and that of their close associates. Chronic diseases cause health complications that result to disabilities, functional impairment, high rates of premature mortality, mortality and prolonged illnesses. Controlling chronic diseases requires culturally and socially competitive approaches (Singh, D., 2008). This paper will seek to address the Tuberculosis diseases (TB), a communicable chronic disease, using the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Model (CDPM). TB has ...

Literature review of CVL

Introduction The management of the sick with serious disease like cancer requires a stable central venous access to be used for a variety of treatment that includes antibiotic and blood samples or product. It also allows the resuscitation of fluid, hemodialysis and parenteral nutrition and cytotoxic chemotherapy to access blood-stream so that medical professionals can observe and microbial culturing of the patient. In addition, it is used to monitor the pressure of central venous. The importance of educating the patient was emphasized too so as to avoid keeping the patients in darkness and not knowing what is happening to them ...

Systematic Review

- In my practice, I am observing an increased emphasis on infection prevention. This increased attention to infection prevention measures has been prompted by legislative changes that transferred the financial burden of healthcare-associated infections to hospitals. In 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a directive denying payments to hospitals for certain conditions if they occurred during a hospital stay and had not been present on admission. The CMS was empowered to issue the directive by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Section 5001(c) of the act required the Secretary of Health and Human Services to identify ...

Research Question: Do health care workers comply with hand washing strategies at the hospital level?

Annotated Bibliography Asare, A., Enweronu-Laryea, C. C., & Newman, M. J. (2009). Hand hygiene practices in a neonatal intensive care unit in Ghana. The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 3(05), 352-356. In this study, the researchers sought to assess hand hygiene practices and the nature of patient contact in physicians and nurses at a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Ghana. The study was descriptive and cross-sectional, lasted two weeks, and the amount time of observation daily was 5 hours. The researchers assessed compliance to alcohol rub as well. Compliance to hand washing before and after patient contact ...

Technology and cost containment simply describes the role or influence of technology in reducing the escalating health care cost. Studies and reviews have shown how health care system in America has lagged far behind several other industries especially in the areas of harnessing the capabilities and potentials of information technology. This should have been used in several areas to improve the services, knowledge, communication, quality, cutting costs and health care efficiency. Considering the needs of the health care sector in America and the population and growing cost in managing health, Information technology will always be needed to improve health ...

Background information

Workplace violence in nursing refers to violent acts towards persons who are on duty. The violence occurs when the practitioners face threatening situations from patients, colleagues and relations of the sick through verbal abuse, threats and physical assault that occur in a setting inside or outside a work setup (Chappell, 2009). Workplace violence affects many professions and it occurs in areas that occurs were the employees deal with the public directly and includes exchanging money, transportation of passengers, service and goods delivery. The groups that are prone to this kind of violence are social workers, health care professionals, community employees in ...

Literature Review

This section contains a broad literature review by revisiting significant studies previously conducted on Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA); alternatively referred as Obamacare. Given the ever changing perception on the issue of healthcare policy, the information contained in this review is subject to constant review. In future researches, this information may be less relevant and may require updating with recent literature. Several recent studies have made a contribution to the debate surrounding the Affordable Healthcare Act (Souter & Gurevitz, 2012). The aim of some researchers is aimed at disregarding the act as undesirable, highly costly, and unbeneficial to the US economy (Souter ...

Hospice caregiving is described as that which is patient and also family centred in a way that it is designed to cater for the needs of the patients (the survivor) as well as the needs of the caregiver. As the process of caregiving is initiated, many memories are formed too. These are the most touching memories in the patient’s life as the same case supplies to their families as these are the last moments of their lives that they get to share with their close loved ones: the most important thing to note when initiating an end of life ...

Evidence-based practice is the use of best evidence that gathered during research together with patient values and clinical initiatives to help in making decisions regarding health care. Evidence based practices (EBP) are practices that are meant to be used to in diabetes, asthma or in the event of heart failure. Health care organizations have used different practices to improve outcomes of their patients. Over the years, there has been intense emphasis only on analysis that will guarantee the safety of patients at the expense of implementing evidences on best practices. The implementation of the evidence-based practices of safety ...

Cross cultural communication barriers in provision of health care are global problems have been reported in various parts of the world. In provision of personalized care, it is necessary for nurses to consider the cultural identity and needs of patients in their care. It is therefore imperative for the nurse to play an ethical role in providing culturally acceptable care to the patients. The establishment of nurse patient therapeutic connection is dependent on the ability to communicate and share a common interpretation (McCarthy, Cassidy, Graham & Tuohy, 2013). Consequently, the therapeutic communication ought to be a focused and objective association that takes ...

Utilization of Health Care Services by Older Adults

The admission of the elderly into the various units of the hospital is perceived to be frequent with respect to their physiological responses. Persons navigating this age group are associated with a rapid body failure in a manner that dictates on their daily livelihoods. This implies that the prospect of having these persons as patients of the various hospitals is rather elevated. However, it is vital to quantify on the category of persons that depend increasingly on the medical routines. Senile is a term that is commonly utilized in the description of the elderly with respect to their rapid failing systems. This ...

Abstract

The SMS system is an essential tool in effective communication in various fields of life. The SMS system therefore plays a crucial role in transmission of information among people while carrying out their operations. Transfer of information among many people is enhanced through sending the bulk messages to the people. The SMS system is essential is among the fastest tools of communication of written information to a large number of people in different location. The SMS system also facilitates faster and efficient transmission of information among people. The use of mobile phones in sending SMS is common and they enable effective ...

The necessity for the improvement of quality and safety of health care is an essential aspect of the modern day health care industry. Quality healthcare is one in which the services offered increase the probability of achieving desired health outcome and consistent with modern professional knowledge. Measuring the quality of health care presents a challenge due to different actors in the industry as medical errors result from not only from human error, but also faulty systems and processes. Professional nurses face myriad of challenges as it is one of the most stressful profession especially critical care nurses. This results from ...

Facilitator:

In the last five years, the best practices in hand hygiene has proved to be a reliable mean of reducing unnecessary infection in modern dynamic society. Global healthcare professionals have ranked hand hygiene as one of the basic initiative that has significantly improved health condition in the world. Evaluation of various hand washing practices have affirmed that these strategies are effective in reducing the spread of infectious diseases by lowering microorganisms load (Jefferson, Foxlee, & Del Mar, 2007). Hands contact is a common vehicle through which transmission of microorganisms happens from patient to resident, form resident to the client and from the ...

Literature Review on Mobile Healthcare

Literature Review on Mobile Healthcare In the field of health, the use of advanced technology is not anymore limited to highly specialized branches such as medical robotics or nuclear medicine. Different levels in the healthcare delivery system have utilized the benefits and convenience offered by mobile devices. Mobile healthcare or mHealth is slowly gaining ground in health facilities worldwide. The term mHealth refers to “the use of wireless communication devices to support public health and clinical practice” (Kahn, Yang, & Kahn, 2010, as cited in Barton, 2012). In the succeeding sections the terms mHealth and mobile healthcare will be ...

The Center for Allied Health Nursing Education

This center was established in 2003 in response to an emerging shortage of trained and experienced healthcare workers in New Jersey. This phenomenon is believed to have evolved from increasing health care demands inclusive of a steep growth in the population; diminishing interest of new students within ther health care industry and an aging workforce and baby boom bubble. As such, the focus was towards ‘developing and offering educational programs that (i) provide students with comprehensive instruction and training and (ii) reinforce the humanistic aspects of care in the area of healthcare’ (Strategic Plan, 2013). Core values encompass a commitment towards ...

According to the World Health Organization (2006), quality in the context of health care is characterized as health care that is effective (i.e. evidence-based); efficient (i.e. maximized resources); accessible (i.e. timely, geographically reasonable, and competent); acceptable or patient-centered (i.e., considerate of the patients’ preferences and cultural differences); equitable (i.e. delivery of the same level of care regardless of the patient’s background); and safe (i.e. minimized patient risk and harm). In an effort by the National Quality Forum (NQF) to measure and improve the quality of nursing care, the NDNQI (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ) was developed ( ...

The strategies used to evaluate healthcare issues, health information systems inclusive are all evaluated to gauge whether they support the six common goals of healthcare; safety, patient-centeredness, efficiency, timeliness, equitability and effectiveness (Littlejohns, Wyatt & Garvican, 2003). Strategies to evaluate health information systems differs slightly because they focus more on ensuring timeliness in delivery of services while they focus less on safety and diversity matters, multicultural healthcare among others healthcare issues. When designing an Information System Evaluation Tool, it is important to consider the privacy of patient information, the security of the information gathered, its accuracy, capacity of the ...

Introduction

Various medical conditions continue to plague the world. Sadly, many suffer from such conditions during infancy or childhood without knowing about their real conditions until they reach young adulthood. Inpatient treatments are widely available throughout the country. The medical facilities that provide them have all the equipment and healthcare professionals needed to make sure that the care given is consistent and remains within the universally accepted protocols of medicine and health. However, even in advanced health settings, some patients still do not recover optimally. That is why extended care is strongly recommended (John Griffiths, 2005, p. 504). This may ...

I selected the issue regarding the shortage of nurses in hospitals and how it is affecting the quality of care. I chose to obtain my data and information about this issue from nursingsociety.org. This site contains facts about nursing shortage in North America and is run by the Honor Society of Nursing. I chose to use this site because it contains properly researched information in reports and articles about nursing. A study by a Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) board member, Mr. Peter Buerhaus published a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2000. The report stated ...

Introduction

This article summarizes the report written by Susan Trossman (2013) that explored the scope and practice of correctional nurses in the USA. In the article “Ensuring standards are standard behind bars” the author premises on the argument that the primary role of nurses is “the protection, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations”, correction nursing is the provision of the same services for individuals under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system. Nurse’ ...

The nursing profession has been plagued by poor performance for a long time. There have been cases of patients receiving poor healthcare from nurses, which has, in some instances, resulted to death of patients. There are a number of causes for the poor performance in nursing (Marquis & Huston, 2009). They include poor and unrealistic patient and work scheduling, biased and poor enforcement of policies, lack of leadership in the profession, failure to pay attention to the grievances of employees, failure to show care to the employees and failure by the management to lead by example. Unrealistic patient and work scheduling ...

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 ...

Should limits be placed on the legal rights of women to obtain an abortion from a healthcare provider?

YES. North Dakota lawmakers had completed an action to outlaw almost all abortions beginning at conception (Winter 2013). The house that was dominated by republicans also approved the personhood amendment that asks voters to change the state’s constitution to make it recognize and protect the inalienable right of every human being at any stage of development (Winter 2013). Apart from conferring human rights on fertilized eggs and outlawing abortion, the proposition could potentially affect end-of-life for adults (Winter 2013). In my opinion, limits should be placed on the legal rights of women to obtain from a healthcare provider. ...

Introduction

Healthcare involves the collaboration of various medical organizations, institutions, and providers, all of whom manage their own data under different storage and retrieval systems, and though practical and efficient within the target system, there is a lack of uniformity in structure across other systems (Masud et al. 2012). Moreover, there are often variations in data compiled from the same resources. This lack of synergy between the various data storage systems, and the types of information stored, preclude the sharing of data among the various healthcare professionals, institutions, and organizations. E-health systems, on the other hand, allow the storage and retrieval ...

Introduction to MRSA

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial strain of S. aureus that that has developed a resistance to certain types of antibiotics, including methicillin, penicillin, oxacillin, and amoxicillin (Farley 2008). The types of infections differ according to whether the MRSA infection was acquired in the hospital setting (HA-MRSA) or whether it was a community acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) infection. The most severe MRSA infections are those acquired in health care facilities and include infections of the bloodstream or surgical wounds, and pneumonia. MRSA bacteremia is often fatal, thus timely and aggressive intervention is critical in patients at high risk of death; for example, ...

Treating Mental Health Illness – A Literature Review

ABSTRACT The following literature review explores the capabilities of the nurse practitioner treating varieties of mental disorders as comorbidities of primary care patients. The NP interface with the primary care and outpatient services of different people living on the fringe of society with specific barriers to quality health care connected to mental illness proves valuable. The efficacy of the NP in treating mental illness in patients according to the literature emerges as a valuable intervention with screening, diagnosing, and therapy options for specific patients often isolated from medical care access with mental illness including homeless, geriatric, pediatric, and the ...

Introduction

Public health is the art and science of disease prevention, promoting health and prolonging life through informed choices and organized efforts of the society, communities, organizations, and individuals. It is primarily concerned with the threats to the health based on the health analysis of the population. Public health emergency preparedness and response focus on prevention against spread of diseases, epidemics and injuries as well as protect individuals against environmental hazards such as fire. Besides, it concentrates in accessibility of quality health care services as well as promotes healthy behaviors. In this paper, I primarily concentrate on public health preparedness ...

Abstract The paper briefly discusses the significance of electronic medical records or EMR’s in health care industry. This paper primarily uses one source (Brooks & Grotz, 2010) for evaluating EMR.

Introduction Electronic Medical Record (EMRs) is the latest method of documenting medical history of a person which helps to send and receive data electronically. It contains personal medical history, documentations, test results as well as medical and financial information related to a patient, subsequently helping the healthcare centers to provide better healthcare. President Obama sanctioned a stimulus to implement EMRs as it is can exponentially improve efficiencies and accuracy ...

Improving patient safety

A myriad of studies have identified lack of teamwork and communication breakdowns within the process of care provision as the major causes of critical/sentinel incidents and even loss of life that is otherwise preventable. A meta-analytic review of 11 such studies established that of the 2,677 critical incidents reported in the various studies, 49% had occurred due to poor non-technical skills; 20% of these were attributed to poor communication and teamwork. Lack of communication regarding initiation of new therapies and failure to effectively communicate a patient’s priorities to other members of the health care team were among the ...

Section 2: Literature Review

Implementation of Facebook in Nursing Education Programs 2.1 Introduction The inception of various social networking sites, such as Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Twitter, and LinkedIn, has attracted billion of users from all over the world, bridging geographical barriers by providing a seamless service of communication through which people may build and expand both their professional and personal networks. Especially, Facebook being at the peak of its success and being the most popular social networking site, various businesses have started making use of this great social platform to leverage their business operations and marketing practices. The education sector too is ...

Literature review for insurance

Introduction

Insurance is a broad industry in the market that enables people in managing risks associated to various uncertain events. The insurance industry helps in providing cushion against financial losses that result from various uncertain future events such as fire, floods, theft, disability or health related expenses. The insurance industry thus covers different sectors of the economy including the health care sector. Matters dealing with the health of individuals are uncertain and hence insurance helps people to be able to cover medical expenses in the event of an illness. Most of the health insurance industries have different plans to ensure ...

Introduction

Professional setting: Nursing manager A nurse manager has the responsibility of the clinical and administrative functions of a nursing unit. In my case, I am in charge of the intensive care unit section. There are many challenges that face the sector in specific and the nursing industry in general. The most acute case in this sector is the shortage of nurses. This paper will provide a literature review on the subject through research by use of peer review journals. It will also use bibliographic databases to prove its facts. The concepts of search include the acute and growing nursing ...

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Health care professionals including nurses, doctors, and clinical officers among others come into contact with patients of various faiths on a daily basis. As such, health providers have an obligation of understanding each of these faiths to provide healthcare to all their patients (Ammerman, 2005). However, since it is practically impossible for a given healthcare provider to master everything about every religion around the world, they must always ask their patients directly about their faith and what role it may play in their healing. There are various faiths around the world that holds different views regarding healthcare and ...

The first step in prioritizing healthcare resources is to estimate the burden of disease. High-income countries have reliable systems to assess the causes of death in the population; however, mid- and low-income countries do not have such systems in place, and mortality rates from a specific disease have to be extrapolated from incomplete data. Several studies have approached the problem of estimating the burden of disease by using a variety of methods to determine which diseases are responsible for the most deaths, which countries are carrying the highest burden of disease and death, and which populations are at the highest risk ...

Health Care Environmental Management

In any institution where people conglomerate, a number of health hazards may exist naturally. Such problems have to be identified by a health care professional such as a nurse manager and appropriate action be taken in order to minimize the effects of these hazards to individuals. As such, health care personnel have the sole responsibility of conducting a health care environmental checklist then come up with strategies of appropriately managing the risks. This therefore forms the basis of this piece of work. Availability of clean drinking water: The common healthcare environmental hazard in my institution includes the common drinking water pollutants. The ...

A transformational leader is a person influences practice and motivates individuals to perform to their best in delivery of required services that aim to achieve organizational goals and objectives. In the hospital set up, clinical leaders inspire their staff to work towards a common vision, challenge the way things are done in the clinical practice and influence as well as motivate others to practice evidence based nursing. Translating evidence into practice as a nursing leader is a rewarding endeavor to both the leader and the staff. My vision as a leader is to adopt a leadership style that will enhance continuous professional development that ...

4.1 Main research questions and sub research questions used Main question: How can the current medical treatments data synchronization be optimized in relation to the hospital billing system for a more efficient and accurate billing system?

Sub question 1: Which medical billing systems is state-of-the-art in medical treatment data synchronization at this moment? (Literature)

Sub question 2: How could the current data processing and billing system be described? (Analysis) Sub question 3: What are the requirements for an efficient, effective and accurate billing system? (Redesign) Literature Review Introduction Recent literature shows that the development in technology brings numerous things that individuals have not had in many years, especially in the healthcare. The basis ...

Introduction

The role of Nurse Practitioners has expanded extensively over the past few decades. This has been necessitated by a number of factors ranging from the need to cover the apparent nurse shortage, the reforms in the healthcare sector and the increasing number of Nursing Practitioners which has immensely led to massive power and influence by professional bodies that represent Nurse Practitioners. With the primary need to help overcome the apparent challenges in the healthcare sector especially with the increasing population of patients, as well as the increasing demands for quality of care and new models such as the holistic care ...

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Introduction to Burnout

Burnout refers to the condition of exhaustion of physical or emotional strength, or loss of motivation to work. Usually, burnout is caused by prolonged stress or frustration affecting the involvement of employees for meaningful impact on work. Burnout has also been described as extreme fatigue, inefficacy, and loss of idealism and passion for the job. Burnout syndrome can be illustrated by the “feelings of emotional exhaustion, negative attitudes and emotions towards those who are beneficiaries of the service (depersonalization), and sentiments related to professional failure and low accomplishment (lack of personal accomplishment)” (Schaufeli, & Maslach, 1993). Any person with ...

Tinham, B. (January 01, 2005). Visibility gives thought for food: Lean and agile multi-site supply chain operations are being delivered at Grampian Country Food, following implementation of new systems. Manufacturing Computer Solutions. The article involves a study on implementation of Lean and agile multi-site supply chain operations at Grampian County Food, a leading European chicken industry. The business has multiple businesses, and in different geographical locations with dependencies on each other. Each of the businesses was acquired over different times, with its unique systems market routes and business processes. The article provides a program on the appropriate time to integrate the ...

Literature Review: Meta- paradigms in Nursing

Description of alignment of personal theory with worldview

Analysis of personal utilization of nurses' ways of knowing

Literature Review: Meta-paradigms in nursing Introduction This literature review embraces the metaparadigm nursing theoretical perspective and how it relates to ways of knowing in the profession. A critical review aligning personal conceptualizations with a world view interpretation will be explored. Also, an explanation of my personal ideological premise regarding the efficacy of this theoretical perspective to contemporary nursing practice will be analyzed. The theoretical premise of this literature review hinges on the assumption that meta-paradigm is an inclusive perspective of a ...

Introduction

Industrial/Organizational psychology is an applied science dealing with psychology of ‘people at work’. (Kalat 2002). The workplace dynamics comprise of both tangible and non-tangible elements, both of which impact on employee satisfaction. Satisfied employees tend to be more committed and enthusiastic about their work. Moreover, employee satisfaction and dedication is contingent on a number of closely related variables such as, employee engagement, empowerment, the perceived (organizational) support structures as well as the organization’s commitment to employee welfare. Employees feel empowered when they have more opportunities for interacting with colleagues, a certain level of decision making authority and are accorded a fair ...

Care of People with Heart Failure

Introduction The constantly increasing number of people suffering from heart failure and other chronic conditions is always raising concern about the quality of health services accorded to these people. Admittedly, improving health care has emerged as one of the urgent issues around the world with governments, health care administrators and physicians, just to mention but a few, letting their policy objective be appreciably influenced by the desire to improve health care delivery, particularly for chronic and long term illnesses. This paper aims at describing the best model for care for heart failure. The paper also describes how models of ...

[Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees] [Institutional Affiliation(s)] [Include any grant/funding information and a complete correspondence address.] continuing qualification requirement (CQR) I. ABSTRACT II. INTRODUCTION III. THE CONCEPT OF CONTINUING EDUCATION - Changing Concepts 1. Recognising the need for improving professional knowledge - CE as knowledge up-gradation 1. Improving professional knowledge C. CE as a professional requirement 1. Meeting requirements of regulating bodies IV. RADIOGRAPHERS AND CQR

A. Additional Requirements

B. Radiographers and CE C. Radiographers and CQR 1. Importance of Radiation protection ...

Labour Force of Ireland

A close look into the labour force of Ireland, in accordance to the Census of 2011, shows that total count of labour force as noted in April 2011 has been estimated as 2,232,203, which is an increase assessed to be 122,705, or to be more precise 5.8% since the year 2006. Therefore, a straight statement can be declared about the annual average growth to be 1.1 % that is notably lesser than former intercensal duration of growth that has been declared to have an average of 4% per annum. A detailed declaration made by CSO (2012) is as ...

Abstract

In recent times, healthcare organizations have increasingly been placing a lot of emphasis on improving hospital supply chain performance. This is because healthcare organizations have been striving to improve operational efficiency while reducing costs. This paper identifies the role of supply chain integration in enhancing hospital supply chain performance. The paper reviews some of the factors that affect the integration of supply chain management and concludes that supply chain integration has a very strong impact on hospital performance. 1. Introduction A smooth running Supply Chain Management (SCM) system ensures that an organization can establish a sustainable competitive advantage. This involves high ...

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease and the number of cases is increasing worldwide among the public. Each year worldwide, over More than 12 million people are diagnosed with TB and over 4000,000 people die due to the disease. The large population and poor standards of living can have a major impact on TB epidemics. Can there be a new alternative to traditional use of drugs for treatment of tuberculosis? Most of the drugs approved by the FDA have no lasting effect on patients with tuberculosis, since the strains of bacteria have acquired resistance leading to a state of Multi-drug resistance. An ...

Abstract

There are many developments that are seen with the handling of health records in clinical settings. Health records are an important issue in managing hospitals. Patient data is important to both patients, doctors, clinicians, the government and medical organizations. This is because they are used to assess the health status of a patient. The government is working hard to ensure that the medical procedures are being automated so that there is accuracy and reliability of the systems is an important aspect when handling patient records. This is the reason as to why automation and development of information systems to manage ...

The article titled Data Mining and Clinical Decision Support System by Michael Hardin and David Chhieng provides an insight into a process of searching and converting data. First of all, authors define the notion of data mining in its broader terms. It is aimed at transforming the data into meaningful information and at searching for new patterns for the users. Pattern recognition is a part of the data mining. It was developed to look for analytical models, which would be able to classify data. Data mining is also related to the clinical decision support system. The progress in computing and medical ...

Introduction

The U.S health care system is one of the main industries that contribute largely to the economy of the country. The industry has developed massively due to a population that is aging swiftly and the increased impact of chronic diseases on the general population. It is one of the fastest growing industries in recent times posting $21.8 billion for the economy in the year 2013. This has attracted huge investments into the sector, and it is likely to continue this upward trend. A section of the health care system is public, and it forms up to 20 percent of government-owned ...

Abstract

Healthcare professionals caring for preterm infants in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) agree that there is a need to reduce noise in NICU as it affects neurological and behavioral development of premature infants. Healthcare professionals have embraced medical technologies and other interventions to address this issue; an aspect that has reduce neonatal and childhood mortality rate and increased survival of premature infants. Music is one of the effective intervention strategies employed in NICU, but there is a controversy about its effects on the development of preterm infants. Despite this controversy, empirical studies affirm that music enhances alert responses, growth and development, ...

The impact of implementing change in my environment and factors to be considered regarding end users and stakeholders

Change is a basic component of continuous quality improvement. The necessity for safety and quality improvement initiatives inculcates health care greatly. Change in the management of any organization is of paramount importance; therefore it is coherent to measure the effectiveness of the change and its influence in the organization. Though Evidence based health care practices are available for conditions like asthma and heart failure as well as diabetes, most of the time these practices are not implemented in care delivery and variation in practice are evident. Through the implementation practices of change, health care is made safer, but safety practices ...