Essays on Emergency Room

Coming into Language is an autobiography by Jimmy Baca that is used to depict the power of being literate. The author illustrates the life of a young illiterate Hispanic male who had to struggle through life in school, at work place and even unable to be stand up for his right to freedom. He compared his life when he was illiterate and when literate and shows the obvious benefits of being literate against the disadvantages of being illiterate. This is a story of hardship and gloom that ends in a triumph as the character is able to overcome his ...

The emergency room in a hospital provides patients with primary care as per the first round management of possible illnesses and injuries. This paper focuses on the required observation phase and as per the provided instructions, I analyzed the emergency room of (Insert name of hospital). Accordingly, the analysis revolved around the medical environment in the emergency section of the chosen hospital. For a detailed description, while making sure one does not interfere with the medical personnel, it was best to carry out the observations on a weekend. To that end, the following sections present the operations that go ...

Capitalism And Health Care in US

Americans are afraid to contact the emergency medical room (Emergency Room - ER) due to long lines, numerous medical errors and depressive atmosphere (lack of seats, crying, moaning, cursing, blood) prevailing in waiting rooms. That conclusion was reached by experts of a number of non-profit organizations who have studied the attitude of residents of the United States to a modern health care system. It is important to admit that the work of ER has been criticized for at least three decades. However, only in recent years, Americans have come to prefer self-treatment, rather than a visit to the hospital. ...

Healthcare is a profession that requires intensive documentation, timely actions and response, as well as high level of human skills for delivery of quality healthcare. There has been an effort since extremely long time to bring in information technology and digitization into the realm of healthcare. The result has been in isolated pockets and digitization is being witnessed more in diagnostic efforts and aids. These isolated pockets have resulted in extremely sophisticated diagnostic equipment starting from digital X-Ray machines, blood analyzers, ECG (Electrocardiogram) machines etc.. The digitization efforts has so much so intensified in the area of healthcare that ...

Abstract

Continuing Professional Education (CPE) or Continuing Professional Development (CPD) enhanced the management, professionalism, team building, technology, interpersonal communication, accountability, and teaching. In the medical world, the knowledge, skills, attitude, and its concept has incorporated CPD in a wide range of competencies needed to practice the highest quality medical services, socially, ethically, and personally. The Diagnostic Medical Sonographer’s role is highly important to the treatment team such as the doctors, nurses, and other clinical health providers and the patients. The diagnostic medical Sonographer is a well-trained individual who operated the computers and machines to administer an image scan of ...

Medical service of the United States is the only one of the leading industrial powers, which has not accepted compulsory health insurance system. About 108 million of Americans cannot afford the visit the dentist. At 45 million Americans have no medical insurance, among them 10 million are children (The Telegraph, 2010). A disease is a direct path to devastation for many Americans. Stunning cost of treatment is partly explained by the fact that it incorporated the cost of potential litigation. If, for example, a defective baby is born, the obstetrician faces the possibility of the court, which resulted in ...

American Well is a business started by Ido and Roy Schoenberg in 2006 to provide quick and efficient health care to patients using the internet and telephony. With American Well, patients could be connected with their primary care physician (PCP) within minutes instead of waiting for an office appointment days or even weeks away. I believe that this concept is a viable alternative to the health care environment today. Connecting with a doctor online provides a quick and easy way for a patient to get medical advice and diagnosis, without having to endure pain or discomfort for days waiting ...

Takeaways:

■ There frequently aren’t enough doctors and nurses to go around. ■ Even when there are enough medical resources they often aren’t applied well. ■ Focusing on-site physician care on high-cost patients and locations can have disproportionately large benefits. ■ The patients most in need of this sustained care are usually the most expensive. OVERVIEW Getting healthcare to the people who need it is more of an issue than ensuring there is enough health care to go around. The ongoing shortage of physicians is an issue, but while necessary increasing the supply of medical professionals will not automatically translate into those ...

Nursing Autobiography

My nursing philosophy is informed by numerous and diverse experiences in this noble profession. In addition to the concepts learnt in class, I have had experiences in practice that have helped me perceive nursing in an entirely different perspective. While the concepts learnt in class are important, my experiences in practice have taught me that a lot more than then the knowledge of the nursing process is required to be a professional nurse. I have seen nurses driven by compassion make unimaginable sacrifices for well-being of the patient. For instance, I remember an incident where a nurse who had ...

Domestic Violence Shelter

Domestic violence is an ongoing problem affecting 10 million people every year and accounting for 15% of violent crime, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence [NCADV] (n.d.). Not only does it affect the men and women who are the physically and mentally impacted, but the children who must witness it as well. A domestic violence shelter designed to address the needs of all those impacted by domestic violence can provide the first steps to regaining control of one’s life through counseling, case management, victim advocacy, medical and behavioral health referral, and vocational, legal and educational support. ...

San Francisco’s Healthy San Francisco plan is one of a few local government initiatives to help improve health access and quality for all citizens. The debate on whether government should intervene in health care delivery has raged on for decades in the United States. The Healthy San Francisco Plan was designed to protect and advance the interests of citizens by ensuring affordable and quality health care. The argument forwarded in this paper is that government has an active role to play in delivering affordable and high quality care. The argument that market is infallible and capable of ensuring ...

Executive Summary

Executive Summary

Over the past few years, there has been a notable increase in the number of car accidents on our road leading to an increase in Emergency cases in the hospitals. The emergency section of the hospital has proven to be a little bit small for these increased cases; as it was not designed to suit that high number of patients at once. With this in mind, the purpose of the project would be to create a wing that would be specifically designed to handle such cases. This will result in effective health care delivery to the patients and utilization ...

Interdisciplinary relationships are a joint communication and decision-making process with the aim of better health care need of the target population. Effective interdisciplinary relationships reduce costs and advance patient satisfaction, while humanizing overall health care worker satisfaction. Working together as a team brings specific capabilities of each discipline that focuses on the care of patients and eliminates any weaknesses of other teammates. The interdisciplinary relations enhance fast and accurate medical performance. This relationship may include a physician and non-physician provider team and a physical assistant and a nurse practitioner. Interdisciplinary relationship becomes a compound process that needs deliberate knowledge passing and combined sense of for ...

Fraud and Abuse in Managed Care in America: An Introduction

The American government significantly knows more about health care reforms, and what requires to be put into practice to resolve the poor health care system. The major trouble the government is trying to deal with the considerable rise in health care expenditures that are creating a large number of patients that are registered all over the USA. There exist various factors that are linked to ...

In The Book “The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down”, The Author Anne Fadiman Tells A True Story Of Lia And Her Family.

Ms Fadiman a journalist eloquently documents the anguish of the worst epilepsy disorder in childhood. In early 1980, a large number of Hmong families fled oppression and war in Southeast Asia and came to settle in the United States. Lee family settled in an apartment complex in central California (Fadiman 3). Their settlement signaled an immersion in a cultural and social setting entirely different from theirs. Lia Lee was born to this family in 1982. At three ...

In a free market economy, businesses usually set their prices any way they deem fit. However, if potential customers see these prices as being too high, they may reject them, and instead opt for lower priced competitors’ goods or services. Thus, the majority of price regulations aim at ensuring that customers have full pricing information before the creation of the contract. In the healthcare business though, consumers often purchase medical services, more so the ones provided by the hospitals, without full pricing information. For care provided by the hospital, even the hospital is not aware of the exact amount the ...

Introduction One of the fastest growing costs for the hospital care and physician services in the economic health is the prescription drug costs. The main factors that influence the prescription drug costs are the price fluctuations, consumption, and drug types. In the U.S., Americans continue to utilize more prescription drugs to manage their health. Billions of dollars are spent on promoting brand name drugs in the cost and demand for these drugs continues to rise. Generally, the generic drugs are three times cheaper than brand name drugs. Many countries are spending more on healthcare because people are consuming more ...

The main objective of this study is to understand, evaluate and analyze the fateful sentinel event, which struck Mr. B, who was sixty- seven years old and was taken to the Emergency Department (ED) of a sixty bed rural hospital. Mr. B complained to Nurse J of rigorous pain in his hip and left leg after he lost his balance and fell after tripping over his dog. The ED physician and nurse after thorough medical check up treated Mr. B. However, within thirteen minutes of the treatment procedure, Mr. B's health started deteriorating. He was kept on ventilator and was ...

Literature Review

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Introduction

Between the periods 1980 to 1992, consumption of illicit drugs in the United States increased from 29% to 42% among 12th grade adolescence, and from 11% to 21% among eight grade students. Other statistics shows that in the 12th grade 80% are students on alcoholic. More than half of them have been doing it in the eighth grade; 75% had smoked cigarettes, of this group, 35% became habitual smokers. The greatest challenge is faced by families, who, no matter what their social or economic level, must devise strategies to help their adolescence. Studies have been done to prove ...

Hate crimes may be influenced by economic competition and even resentment towards a particular group rather than a generalization about a particular group of people. It is the case that hate crimes are a result of prejudice on the part of the offender against the victim of hate crime. In this paper, we argue that the economic strain and the concomitant resentment that may be felt towards certain minority group as the African-Americans in our case here are mostly based on false generalizations (Stewart). This is to mean that most of the reasons that attend the commission of this crime are predicated on ...

Hate crimes may be influenced by economic competition and even resentment towards a particular group rather than a generalization about a particular group of people. It is the case that hate crimes are a result of prejudice on the part of the offender against the victim of hate crime. In this paper, we argue that the economic strain and the concomitant resentment that may be felt towards certain minority group as the African-Americans in our case here are mostly based on false generalizations (Stewart). This is to mean that most of the reasons that attend the commission of this crime are predicted on ...

Implementing Standard Practice for Collecting Blood Cultures Among ER Nurses

Abstract Collecting blood culture samples is an important part of data collection for the process of diagnosis. The results of such a test can provide information regarding the presence of bacteria within the patient’s blood with great certainty. Therefore, it is an integral procedure for the verification of a prognosis. Unfortunately, there are a variety of factors that can lead to false positives of these tests. It mainly occurs due to the improper collection practices. This is most seen among the emergency room nurses. Because of the great risk associated with diagnosis and future medical treatments based on incorrect test ...

Abstract

Collecting blood culture samples is an important part of data collection for the process of diagnosis. The results of such a test can provide information regarding the presence of bacteria within the patient’s blood with great certainty. Therefore, it is integral to the verification of a prognosis. Unfortunately, there are a variety of factors that can lead to false positives on these tests. One way this can occur is through improper collection practices. This is seen amongst emergency room nurses to varying degrees. Because of the great risk associated with diagnoses and future medical treatments based on incorrect test results, it ...

Question One

In this case Dr. Drew is under obligation to study the ADA to understand why and when a leave of absence should be considered appropriate in workplace accommodation. He should do a research to know exactly how long such a leave should last and the implications of denying Charlie the leave. Dr. Drew ought to know if the request for a leave of absence is reasonable or effective before he decides to terminate Charlie from the employment contract. Employers are facing challenges tying to comply with the complex ADA and at times they are not sure about their obligations (Walsh) If Dr. ...

Introduction

The provision of an efficient healthcare system is the responsibility of any progressive government. In order to achieve a functional and efficient healthcare system, the government must mobilise the financial and human resources in a strategic manner. An efficient healthcare system promotes equality, access and coverage of its population. The United States of America and Canada are two countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with two structurally different healthcare systems. There has been an ongoing debate on the suitability of the universal single-payer healthcare system used by most of the OECD members compared to ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

Requirements for the Masters in Public Policy and Administration Degree The thesis of is approved by __________________________________

Chairperson

ABSTRACT California’s (CA) legislature has passed a series of Workers Compensation (WC) reforms during the past 15 years; the most recent, Senate Bill (SB) 863 passed on August 21, 2012. SB 863 was introduced and presented to the California public as a reform bill that would ensure better coverage and easier medical access for workers injured on the job. SB 899 passed during the early 2000s was shown to be better for California’s workers, than SB863. ...

Introduction

The Obama health care bill is aimed at reforming health care so that every person can access medical services without struggling. The bill will provide affordable medical care for all people in America from lower to middle income earners. The bill is also known as Obama care and it is aimed helping millions of Americans get medical coverage without struggling. The new law that is officially known as affordable care act is aimed at improving Americans health care system. The bill is aimed at addressing long term health care problems for the American people. Despite the efforts taken by ...

An Exploratory Analysis of Senate Bill 863

Finished Chapters 1, 2, 3 ABSTRACT TOC TABLES FOR FIGURES AND TABLES ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AB Assembly Bill CA California CCHSWC California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation DIR Department of Industrial Relations DIV Division of Workers’ Compensation

DWC Division of Workers’ Compensation

ER Emergency Room FEHA Fair Employment and Housing Act MMI Maximum Medical Improvement

MPN Medical Provider Networks

PD Permanent Disabilities PPD Permanent Partial Disability SB Senate Bill SB 899 Senate Bill 899 on workers’ compensation passed by the California legislature in 2004 SB 683 Senate Bill 683 for ...

Health care reform has been a bone of contention for decades in the United States. Democrats claim that Obama’s Socialist Health Care Plan is a remarkable event in the history of the United States. However, Republicans and other naysayers think that the health insurance package involves several drawbacks. The President wants to ensure affordable, high quality coverage to all Americans; and as he believes, this is possible only by enhancing insurance competition between the public insurance program and private insurance firms. The logic is that competition would force private insurance companies to reduce their premium rates in order to be ...

Describe the religious beliefs and remedies influencing the Latino patient in the USA

Introduction The term Latino is always referred to as a linguistic community, and not the one sharing one culture. This group is diverse with there ancestors originating from the Central American, Caribbean, and S. American countries (Stone, 85). On the other hand, the assorted use of Latino and Hispanic terms in literature is always attributed to diversity of sub-groups of the Cuban American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican populations within broader context. A regional and state difference that uses the terms are usually found or noted in Southwest. For instance, the identifiers Mexican American or Hispanic are mostly used ...

Emergency nursing deals with a wide range of responsibilities due to the diverse number of patients with unique illness. This profession tends to be dynamic because one is required to make every patient comfortable and well taken care of. One of the key responsibilities to many nurses is having a sense of humor, which helps in lightening the tension between the nurse and the patient. Thus, this paper will examine and analyze three articles that discuss the importance of nurses visiting new born babies, the relevance of elders seeking more health care than other ages, and the significance of burses having a ...

Torts Exercise—Fall 2013

1.) Issue: Is Dr. Intenzio liable for selecting Madison Outpatient Pharmacy? Rule: Under the principle of negligence, the law requires evidence that must show that there was a specific duty on the part of Dr. Intenzio to provide care for Adam and that he breached the duty of care, which resulted to actual and the proximate cause of Adam’s death. As a result, it entitled the estate of the deceased to recover for damages for failure of the parties to present an adequate defense. Application: In the case of Dr. Intenzio, he has the duty to provide care ...

The Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk (VIBS)

Abstract The Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk (VIBS) was established in 1976 with the core mandate being the aiding of victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse. Accordingly, VIBS has been dispensing its duties with the organization assuming an expansionary approach. VIBS has, however, not failed in its activities. It continues to offer humanitarian services. This is despite the financial challenges that it faces. However, even with the society being seemingly educated and informed, it is this paper’s contention that the organizational activities aimed at creating a state of awareness and empowering the victims are critical. In addition, ...

The patient was a 24-year-old black male who was brought to the emergency room via an ambulance on June 21 at 03:50 pm. The report indicated that it was a pedestrian versus vehicle accident. The state of the patient reported included acute lung injury, pulmonary contusion, deep road rash extending over right side of axillary region to the abdomen, deep avulsion to the right hip area and exposed muscles. Trauma alert team and the respiratory therapist were called to the bedside. The patient developed respiratory failure and immediately was intubated by the respiratory therapist with an endotracheal tube size 7.5 mm. ...

The other night, I was watching an episode of the Showtime series Nurse Jackie. This program details the life of an emergency room nurse who is a drug addict. In the past year, she has had her husband leave her and try to take custody of the children from her because of her habit and has worked hard to keep her life together. In this episode, a young African-American male is in the emergency room because of a car accident. He is unhurt, but he was carrying some drugs in the car with him to take to a party. To avoid any police ...

Overcrowding in an Emergency Room

My first visit in an emergency room was when I had taken my aunt who suffered a heart attack. On arrival, we thought we would be attended to immediately since we had called the hospital. A nurse, who first attended to my aunt, told us to join the queue for us to see a doctor. In the waiting area, there was a man who claimed to be suicidal. He waited for a counsellor whom he did not manage to see even after being patient for more than 12 hours; he just used his backpack strap and hung himself. It was very unfortunate since ...

Introduction

This essay outline paper seeks to analyze the considerable higher rates of utilization of the emergency room in the Canadian health sector compared to other industrialized nations. The analysis will be carried out systematic to identify and point out the current issues affecting the health sector in Canada. These issues are the ones that will be finally discussed in the final research paper upon approval of the essay outline.

Essay Outline

Thesis statement: The Problem of Emergency Room overcrowding in the Canadian Health Sector is significantly higher compared to other developed nations.

The structure of the Canadian health sector

- The structural administration of the Canadian health sector ...

Nurse Responsibilities

A nurse is a medical professional who focuses on taking care of sick individuals so that they can return to or improve their optimal health status (Philip, 2003). Unlike other medical professionals, a nurse has a lot of responsibilities. Some of a nurse’s main responsibilities include promotion of health, reducing the risks of a disease or treatment, and control of the spread of a disease. Sure there are a lot more responsibilities that a nurse has to fulfill (it may even vary from country to country) but this paper will only focus on these three.

Health Promotion

Nurses are considered members of the primary healthcare team. Primary healthcare ...

As the Hospital strives to offer quality patient care in a lucrative manner, reducing lengths of stay and hospital admissions in medical facilities, they continually are in the need to assess the appropriateness necessity and competent utilization of health care, facilities, services and procedures offered in the hospital. The goal of the hospital is to provide clients with software solution that will make possible the smooth operation of their performance and pride itself on the supreme levels of client support it offers. As the demand for emergency room services for patient persist to grow, the need to rationalize care ...

As the Hospital strives to offer quality patient care in a lucrative manner, reducing lengths of stay and hospital admissions in medical facilities, they continually are in the need to assess the appropriateness necessity and competent utilization of health care, facilities, services and procedures offered in the hospital. The goal of the hospital is to provide clients with software solution that will make possible the smooth operation of their performance and pride itself on the supreme levels of client support it offers. As the demand for emergency room services for patient persist to grow, the need to rationalize care ...

Legal and ethical issues pervade all sciences and disciplines. As such, provisions as well as revisions are often undertaken in avoiding catastrophes among management, client and service delivery agents. This document will explore legal and ethical issues faced by allied health practitioners in the daily execution of duties.

Part 1- Distinguishing between personal and societal values

Personal values many times conflict with societal and organizational interpretations of acceptable behavior. Hence, there is always a struggle in creating balance among these forces at play in one’s life. A classic example is how certain societies and cultures perceive physician assisted suicide in America. In Oregon it is legislated ...

Article Review: Modern Leadership Theories in Criminal Justice

This article discusses three modern theories of leadership: trait theory, style theory, and situational leadership theory. Out of the three leadership theories, the author, Caol McKinney favors the situational leadership theory. I disagree. I favor the trait theory. Let me explain why.

Trait theory assumes that good leaders have certain traits in common. I agree. Good leaders have the following traits: the ability to understand and work with a wide variety of personalities, the ability to organize work and people, and the ability to know their own strengths and weaknesses. Knowing their own strengths and weaknesses is important when it ...

Introduction of POCT

One of the most common diseases in the world today is diabetes. The statistics show that in the year 2000, it was prevalent in approximately 180 million people, and the figure is rapidly increasing and reaching epidemic proportions (1). This increase is constantly being associated with higher mortality rates. However, early diabetes and pre-diabetes screening may assist in the reduction of complications arising from diabetes. Point of Care Testing (POCT) is one way of bringing diagnostic tests and associated therapeutic actions to the patients, and thus aid in controlling the spread of diabetes (2).

POCT refers to any medical ...

1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

THMIS document gives the procedures for use by the emergency room wing of a hospital in planning and carrying out the design of strategies and operational plans for strengthening the health management information system available to emergency room wing in a hospital.

The document is designed to help apply and implement the concepts and principles presented in the Health Metrics Network frameworks and Standards for Country Health information Systems. The document is based upon the guiding principles defined in the HMN frame work for guiding health information system design, planning and implementation by using broad based consensus and stakeholder involvement and ...

I clearly remember the very moment I realized what I would like to devote my life to; the moment, which shocked not only me, but my whole family; the moment when we realized that the life of my brother was at stake. It happened in the middle of the night, when my deep and quiet sleep was interrupted by the tender but at the same time concerned voice of my younger sister Angela. She shocked my body lightly as she whispered these heart wrenching words: "Wake up!! Wake up! Something is wrong with Christopher". The next vague moment I ...