Essays on AMA

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This brief essay studied the uninsured and the health care disparities they face. Essential Affordable Care Act provisions and their effects were studied. Critical factors affecting the health care of the uninsured were identified; these included race, ethnicity, income, socioeconomic status, culture, language and income. Several research studies concluded that while access to health care has improved, the quality of this care has not improved for the uninsured. Although the number of uninsured has been reduced dramatically since 2010, insurance costs continue to increase significantly. Failure of states to expand Medicaid benefits has limited uninsured patients’ health care options. ...

American nurses are guided by a code of ethics that has nine provisions. The first provision emphasizes on compassion by the nurse in carrying out their duty. The second is a nurse's commitment to serving the patient. Third in this code of ethics is the requirement that a nurse not only advocates for the patient’s health but goes further to protect it. The same provision points out the nurse’s duty to safeguard the patient’s rights. The fourth provision gives nurses authority and accountability for their practice, which makes them responsible for making the right decision in ...

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Introduction: For this assignment, I have chosen the topic: Stroke and its prevention for preparing the health information patient hand out. Stroke is a serious health condition and the third leading cause of disability and death worldwide. The handout will help create awareness about the condition in the population at risk. The handout will serve as an excellent source of information on this topic and the user can always refer back to check on this information. Creating awareness and preventing stroke are important as the condition is lethal and causes irreversible brain damage. Most cases of stroke are preventable ( ...

Brand Love

The relationships between people and brands have been studied for many years, though the researchers have different points of view but they found some common results. People may like some brands, but at the same time they cannot love them. People’s feelings influence the marketing strategy of a brand and sometimes may cause the false decisions ("Brand Love. What is it? [New Study]", 2015). Brand love is a rational feeling that depends on the receiving rational and material benefits while human love is more irrational and altruistic in some way. There are many examples nowadays of brand love; ...

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Healthcare is an integral part of a nation’s well-being. Despite its importance, there has been an increasing trend in the costs of health care. With the current high national debt, health care reimbursement should be part of the equation ("Healthcare Reimbursement | Knowledge Hub | athenahealth", 2016). The policy makers, physicians, and patients are well aware of the steps they need to take to reduce the costs of health care by considering health insurance plans. The insurance policies enable the doctors and other health practitioners to provide quality and efficient health care to the people. Health insurance payers are provided ...

What holes did you find in the article entitled, “Effective Gating?”

Dr. Cooper, R.G., in his article “Effective Gating” claims that modern companies do not stop any projects at their 1st stage, but rather take them all into further business’s product roadmap stations. Taking into account limited resources the company affords, passing too many innovative projects through the Gate 1 stage may result in financial losses and will definitely deter management from the most profitable ideas. However, the author also states that companies can and should kill and send for reviews projects at any stage, not only when the idea is just created (Cooper, 2009, p.13). So, he encourages ...

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The Walt Disney Company is one of the most exalted brands on a global level, with every individual affected by the company’s utilization of content, services and consumer products one way or the other. Marketing is the most important tool that helps Disney promotes their most creative, innovative and entertaining experiences and products, to generate the need and demand effectively (About Walt Disney Company, 2016). One of the most celebrated characters of Disney is Cinderella and the following report will focus on the evolution of this legendary character through time and the marketing impact to create and maintain ...

Once recruiting, the firm looks for certain personal qualities in the candidate. No matter how good is the candidate, there is always a lot he must be trained for, which is more any business must promote and follow the highest ethical standards and values (Johnston & Marshall, 2013, Ch.10). Statement of Ethics, declared by the American Marketing Association (n.d.) lists the main ethical norms and values to be followed by every salesperson. Among the six values listed, I would emphasize on the following three to be mandatory for the effectiveness of my sales force: responsibility, respect and transparency. Responsibility refers ...

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Analyze the bioethical issues found within the scenario It has to be noted that Matt’s case presents a controversial ethical and legal situation that has a potential to affect the medical facility, its workers, as well as the family members. There are several bioethical issues involved in the case. First of all, there is a disagreement between the desire of a family to resuscitate their son and the judgment of the physician not to proceed with this procedure due to the low chances that the patient will eventually wake up. Secondly, the nurse finds it morally difficult to ...

1. Identify how you can conduct surveys to assess customer satisfaction. Discuss the various pieces of information that can be discovered through surveys and the guidelines for survey questions. Customer satisfaction is the primary objective of any business and surveys is one of the most relevant research tools to gauge the results. To be able to get the quality responses that can help in understanding the customer’s mood, it is imperative to create questions that can access, the consumers from a behavioral and psychological perspective. It is better to pretest the survey that will help in rechecking some ...

1. Define and discuss the roles and responsibilities of an ethics committee in a hospital setting. The ethics committee is a multidisciplinary group that is made up of both hospital staff members and members of the local community. This committee, then, serves several different roles, or has multiple responsibilities, related to their position. The first responsibility of an ethics committee is providing education for the public in the community. In doing so, the committee has to communicate both positive and negative elements of the current healthcare systems, so that the public understands the state of healthcare in their area. ...

One figure found in society that is both a role model or not depending on the situation or the person are professional athletes. There are those that say that healthcare workers are role models and thus should carry themselves as such. There are others that say that the healthcare workers did not “sign up” to be role models and thus should not be held to a higher standard than the average person. There can be some credence to this as people like police, judges and, yes, medical personnel are obviously held to a higher standard than the average joe. ...

Brand Management

Introduction As per the American Marketing Association (AMA), the definition of a brand is a name, term, symbol, design or a combination of them, which is intended to identify the goods or services (Cohen, 2011, para. 3). These products may belong to one seller or a group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competitors (Korchia, 2012 p. 13). However, there exist several other definitions for the term "brand." In such circumstances, it is always good to use a standard definition that can be used under every circumstance. The AMA definition is the best one ever definition ...

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The issue of the necessity and value of Graduate Medical Education, also known as GME, is a matter of studies and researches on the local levels. The economics of such phenomenon as GME is pretty complicated and has lots of positive impact. GME is extremely expensive as it is held nationwide. Medicaid is the main program that finances GME, with funds being delivered on both federal and national level. GME allows controlling the number of physicians and avoiding shortages. It creates conditions for saving recruitment costs that can be redirected to patient care needs, increases patient care quality and ...

Ordinary and extraordinary treatment has different meaning to different people. For those working in the medical profession, ordinary means standard treatment while extraordinary means non-standard treatment. When used by an ethicist, ordinary treatment will refer to those means of prolonging life which are morally acceptable by both the physician and patient preserving life and health. Extraordinarily relates to those means of treatment which are not morally acceptable. Standard treatment for a particular group of patients is more likely to be morally required than a non-standard treatment. In some cases, standard treatment may be not morally required for individual patients ...

Many have advocated far and wide the attempts at legalization of cannabis, a drug that we also very commonly referred to by the name of marijuana and it is the same attempts that have produced fruits for as of August 2015, four states have legalized the purchase of marijuana. In the year 1969, only 12 percent of the country’s population favored the legalizing of pot in the United States. Today, almost 47 years from today, more than half of the US population have switched over to the side which favors the legalization of the drug and these attempts ...

Question 1: Ensuring compliant coding and billing

Adhering to accurate coding and billing processes is one of the most important elements in ensuring RCM coding and billing compliance. A critical process that can be used to ensure RCM practices comply with coding and billing regulatory guidance and industry standards is regular monitoring and auditing of medical claims before submission for payments such as the ICD-10 standards (CureMD, 2016; Kochhar, n.d.). Frequent request follow-up and verification activities improve and strengthen the overall coding and billing processes of a firm by helping ensure that all the necessary right safeguards are in place to avoid errors (MetricStream Inc., 2016). ...

Economics

Economics is a field of study that deals with analyzing the factors involved in the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Economics strives to explain how economies of different countries function and the interaction between different agents operating in those economies. Economics as a field of study finds application in different spheres of the society including businesses, governments, health, education, politics and other social institutions. There are two major categories in this field and they include microeconomics and macro economics.

Microeconomics and Macroeconomics

Micro economics is the branch of economics that deals with the basic elements of the economy. It deals with ...