Essays on Health Care Provider

Information and Communication Teachnology

ABSTRACT As telemedicine is used throughout the rural parts of Africa, there are many professionals and patients who find the entire process very beneficial because there is an allowance for a decrease in transmission of highly contagious diseases such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). If there are clinics that are found in locations surrounding rural Africa, there are strong concerns that patients will be able to transmit their diseases to other people who are otherwise healthy. With the use of telemedicine, the patients and the health care providers can see each other through a confined space and there is ...

Part 1

Objective: in this critical analysis, you are expected to demonstrate an understanding of public health ethics and legal issues. Also, you are required to actively engage with the subject and come up with a substantial perspective on it.

Introduction

This critical analysis will outline the main purpose of the public health ethics and legal issues for protecting and upholding public health. Public policies and social programs are some of the aspects that constitute a good public health. Also, some patients with distinct issues contribute to the wellbeing of the public health, especially in a situation of unethical event regarding health ...

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Chronic pain is a condition of pain caused by an unresolved injury. Usually, a pain is considered chronic, if it persists for more than 3 months. It is not only a symptom of other problems but can be a syndrome having both physical as well as psychological dimensions. In order to evaluate the chronic back pain, detailed history of the patient has to be taken and thorough physical assessment has to be done (Buttaro, 2013).

Evaluation of a patient with back pain

Pain assessment can be done by the use of a mnemonic device, PQRST. P is related to provocative-palliative factors such as ...

Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity: First Draft

Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity Abstract During delivery of healthcare services, providers come across varied cultures and population of patients. Provision of health care requires the nurses to take care of their patients, not only for their medical needs but also for their spiritual and cultural needs. It means that a broad understanding of different cultures and faiths is required if one is to become a nurse or a healthcare provider. This paper analyzes two different religions, Christianity and Buddhism, along with the author’s own spiritual beliefs, and assesses their respective views regarding illness, prayer, medical care ...

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Health and hearsay

Legal actions engage health records as evidence are geared to buttress or strengthen or on the other hand vilify the testimony given at a trial. “Evidence” is understood as “testimony, writings, material objects, and other things presented to prove or disprove a fact.” Health record can be used as proof in either civil or criminal actions as well as in administrative hearings. However, before a party can use health records as evidence in any proceedings, the party seeking to use these records must first determine whether these are admissible; to be admissible, these must be determined as relevant ...

North American Nursing Diagnosis Association –International (NANDA-I) and Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) are medical classifications, of which NANDA-I refers to enumerative system for nursing diagnosis and NIC refers to nursing terminology used generally in medicine. Hence, NANDA-I and NIC are recognized by all the nursing, medical and vocational systems in the entire North America as the acceptable terms for diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes (Butcher, et al., 2013). They are fundamental in the determination of adequate nursing care and cover standardized classifications of diagnoses, interventions, and results. Both systems referred to above are crucial for the maintenance and, promotion of ...

If to speak about Judaism, human life is considered to be the most important component, so the maintainance of health is supported and encouraged, because it enables a person to live long. Though the abortion is prohibited according to the Judaism, there is a danger for a mother’s health sometimes when abortion is prescribed by a doctor due to some significant problems. As a health care provider, I would encourage such a woman to go to a rubbi, explain the situation and get a permission, because mother’s life should also be a priority, not only the child’ ...

Indications for Each Type of Device

Fetal monitor The main indicators for the fetal monitor include the heart rate and rhythm that establish the fetal condition during labor and delivery. The health care provider involved in the labor and delivery process has the mandate of ensuring that the fetal heart rate and rhythm remain constant to identify any forms of distress on the fetus.

Internal fetal scalp electrode

The internal fetal scalp electrode is used as an internal monitoring device that helps in providing health care providers with a clear understanding of the fetal heart pattern. Usage of this equipment is important when dealing with cases where the external ...

Innovative and new ways have been opened by the widespread use and adoption of mobile phone technologies. These technologies have improved health care service delivery tremendously. The mobile applications can also help individual patients in the management of their wellness as well as health. Their adoption has been as quick as their development. These applications are believed to be the main methods of ensuring delivery of high quality healthcare services. Despite all the advantages, the mobile phone health applications present certain risks as well as limitations that must be addressed. The relevant authorities need to regulate the use of ...

Over the last decade, the American Healthcare system has increasingly undergone major transformations. Ideally, the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) has made significant strides in addressing major healthcare challenges (Obama Care Facts, 2015). Besides, the U.S has been spending approximately 20% of its Gross Domestic Product to improve healthcare (Healthcare provider’s, 2015). This post summarizes the current American Healthcare System in receiving patient care. Also, it suggests changes to improve the system and briefly describes some of the current healthcare improvements that have been reported.

Current American Healthcare System

Universal Healthcare System Primarily, the United States health care system lacks a universal ...

Heath care ethics and law are disciplines with overlapping concepts. However, each discipline has an independent parameter and distinct focus. Clinical ethics is defined as a methodology for considering the moral inferences of medical technologies, treatments, and policies with extraordinary to determine what must be done or avoided in the delivery of health care (Corning, 2009). Thus, each profession has adopted a code of ethics to regulate the conduct of its members. A code of ethics set up by a profession body, upholds a particular image in public (Mahar, 2013). On the other hand, the law is defined as ...

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. ...

With increased competition in marketing, healthcare providers recognize the significance of marketing in the industry. Healthcare providers are emphasizing on educating and engaging patients through marketing on their growing function as health care clients. Marketing impacts are only achieved if the right marketing strategy and channel are used. This paper analyzes the direct impact of marketing to an elderly care facility, the strategy the health care provider will use to ensure their products and services are used and finally the marketing strategy that will be effective for the organization. Marketing in health care organizations has led to various benefits ...

Summary of the teaching plan

Health promotion is a vital activity across the lifespan of an individual. Thus, older people are not too old to start exercising, change their diets or stop smoking, etc. This teaching plan is aiming to teach older adults about the prevalence of diabetes, the risk factors, and the available prevention measures. It will focus on the teaching strategies to be adopted by the older adults so as to accommodate for the typical aging changes. This is because chronic illnesses tend to increase after 50 to 60 years old and hence, there is a need for seniors to focus on ...

Abstract

The essay looks at the social problem of racism in society. Racial and ethnic minorities are seen a poorer quality of health care as compared to the White non-minorities. Although the sources of these disparities are complex, they are rooted in historic inequities. Racism in health care industry involves many participants and at different levels, such as the healthcare systems, healthcare professionals, and the patients. Stereotyping, biases and uncertainty contribute to disparities in the treatments provided. Minorities experience a range of barriers when accessing health care. The purpose of the essay is to study the social problem and what ...

Medical Laws and Ethics - Information Technology

Introduction Because of modern technology, it is no surprise that doctors and other health care workers use electronic devices when they are catering to their patients. Managing modern day medical information has been easier thanks to the involvement of information technology and other resources. Health informatics systems can modernize medical care and also reduce or duplicate procedures and tests done to the patient. Many believe that information technology can also help improve patient education as they can easily access their records and they stay informed about the health care process. However, the health care system is still facing some ...

Program Objectives

The primary objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of the state-funded clinical school-based health centers (SBHCs) and their influence on the students’ health, school attendance and the costs students spend for the health care. In general, the program is aimed at comparing health outcomes and health care costs of the students who have the abovementioned centers in their schools with those students who don’t.

Research Design Utilized for the Evaluation

Parents of 1134 students allowed their children’s participation. Moreover, 1027 parents agreed to take part in the survey. Those parents who agreed to take part in the evaluation received a ...

Abstract

This study analyzes the benefits and challenges of implementing an electronic medical system in both hospital and clinic environments. The overall research problem addressed in this study is determining how to effectively manage and communicate expectations associated with perceived benefits and challenges derived from a new install of an electronic medical record. The purpose of this study is to analyze perceptions associated with both the benefits and challenges derived from installing an electronic medical record system. This problem is relevant to many such as those who ...

Discussion

Patient care centered towards providing healthier relationship offers better outcomes to the patients as well as the health care providers. I believe that the patients have all the rights to know about their health information and it’s the duty of the health care provider to communicate with the patient. I understand that the patients are more comfortable with the female physicians as this gender is inclined towards emotions as they try to build a positive partnership with the patients. I cannot be completely sure that all health care providers follow the rules of a healthy communication as some of them ...

- Telemedicine

Telemedicine refers to a diverse concept that entails the utilization of telecommunication media for the transfer of medical information. Telemedicine can be categorised on the basis of the type of type of information exchanged between patients and the interaction between these two parties. Telemedicine has its merits and demerits. The merits include: research has shown that telemedicine is an adequate tool for follow up visits in up to 99% of the cases. Follow up done through telemedicine is cheaper than face to face clinical visits which is particularly beneficial. Given the ease with which patients can currently access the internet, ...

The need for an insurance plan is necessitated with the need to have timely and proper medical care in the event of an illness or an accident. In this respect, there are three basic types of health insurance medical plans that are utilitarian in serving different purposes. These health insurance medical plans can be differentiated from one another with regards to their salient features. This paper canvases the differences between Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and Point of Service (POS) plans. The paper also seeks to institute some of the pros and cons of the above ...

Introduction

Health Care Management affects more than a billion people every day all around the world. Therefore, it is very important to understand how the health units function. The evaluation of the health units is based on mainly three factors-Efficiency, Effectiveness and Equity. A look at the efficiency of Hospital operations will bring to the front the factors that cause a Hospital to fail in providing proper care to its patients. Once the Hospital analyses where it is going wrong, it can adopt some best practices to improve upon its services.

Causal Factors for Health Care Management

Health Care Management is a highly competitive field, and the survival of a ...

Abstract

Working in a multicultural health care setting calls for a workforce that clearly understand the ethical and legal considerations that exist in relation to culture, beliefs, background, as well as knowledge. While physician and nurses have the upper hand in ensuring quality health care as well as life sustaining measures, the patient holds a very critical role in dictating the care procedures that they prefer. Bioethics studies have had differing approaches to the issue of making informed consent to health care procedures. However, there is one thing that remains untouched. The greatest responsibility is the life if the patients and the satisfaction ...

Health care providers have the obligation to provide for those entrusted in their care, to the extent of their authority that services or items provided or ordered benefits the recipient. The obligation to offer care and act in response to suffering is intrinsic to all heath care providers’ code of ethics. Heath care professionals also need to consider demands from their proficient role with other opposing responsibilities to their personal heath, to folks and friends (Thompson, 2006). Heath care providers often face considerable challenges connected to the distribution of resources, expert liability, scale of practice, and office conditions. ...

This study aims to answer the research question “How can we identify, effectively manage, and communicate realistic expectations associated with perceived benefits and challenges derived from a newly-installed electronic medical record (EMR).” The most appropriate means for data collection for this research is the survey, and the method for data analysis is the chi-square statistic.

Sample

The survey method was utilized to collect primary data from the health-care industry population. These are individuals who are involved in the healthcare industry. The sample comes from two kinds of respondents; the industry participants and the non-industry participants. A total of 50 individuals answered ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive nursing care plan in relation to a case study. The nursing care plan is a structural framework that is developed by a health care provider for the purpose of ensuring harmonized communication that will eventually result to secure and valuable care for the patient (Doenges, M. E., Moorhouse, M. F., & Murr, A. C., 2005). Maternal health care is a sensitive area of health care provision as it involves handling two lives at once; that of the mother and the unborn child. In this case, developing a maternal care plan requires adequate familiarization with the psychological, ...

Introduction

Diabetes mellitus is a serious metabolic disorder, with a complex of symptoms, such as hyperglycemia, as a result of dysfunction in producing of the insulin, its synthesis or secretion. (Stöppler, 2014). This disease may lead to serious complications. The major risk factors that raise the prevalence of diabetes are hypertension, obesity, pressed immune resistance to the infectious illnesses and even cancer. (Bilous, 2002.) Patients with diabetes are more probable to develop neuropathic vascular diseases (National Diabetes Education Program NDEP 2000). Self-management and educational programs for this group of people can greatly increase their level of life. (Department of Health, 2005). According ...

Human Resource Management

Abstract This study will provide a compensation package of consumer goods industry such as Procter and Gamble. The research will provide the salary, bonuses, health care plans, and different kinds of compensation for initial entry employees, middle management and senior management. The compensation package will include minimum salary, bonuses, health care, retirement plans, vacation, sick leave, holidays, and paid time off. The organization that was chosen as the subject matter of for this study is Procter and Gamble, which belong to the consumer goods industry. The mission statement of the company is to uplift the lives of global ...

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (EHR) definitions are confused a lot. Electronic Medical Record is an application environment that comprises of clinical data repository, clinical decision support, pharmacy, computerized provider order entry, and clinical documentation applications. It contains the patients’ electronic medical records in inpatient and outpatient environments. Healthcare practitioners also use it to record, monitor, and manage the health care delivery within a medical Centre. All the data in the Electronic Medical Record is the legal record of patient experience in that medical facility. The information is the property of the medical facility (Gabriel, Furukawa, Jones, King, & ...

The United States of America has witnessed increased cultural diversity in the last few decades. Unfortunately, research has indicated that there is great disparity in the quality of health care disseminated to different cultural groups in the society. Evidence is increasingly showing that people belonging to minority communities particularly receive less quality health care. Contrary to popular belief however, the low quality of health care among minority communities is not simply attributable to their economic status but can be attributed to an aggregate of several factors. Efforts aimed at eliminating these disparities should be focused on understanding cultural contexts ...

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Discussion about patient communication

Studies have shown that while many patients call their health care provider by their first names, a smaller percentage still prefer to use titles and last names(Moore, Yelland, & Ng, 2011). Sometimes it is difficult to judge which name a new patient wishes to be addressed by and until the patient and the health care provider are comfortable with first names, it is prudent to use last names(Gillette, Filak, & Thorne, 1992). I talk to my adult patients/clients ...

Health care provision is a critical aspect for the growth of the nation. Quality and efficient system ensure that timely and convenient medical care is given to the people. The plan has to be formulated that incorporates the concerned parties in the field of health care provision services. These include the physicians and financial advisors to provide guidance on better payment plans. Once the plan has been created, several aspects that determine the success of the plan must be clearly stated, and necessary measures taken to ensure that they are achieved.

Difference between Patient Centered Medical Home and Health Management Organization

The need to improve services and health condition of ...

Diverse Faiths

In this paperwork, I am going to perform an intensive research on three diverse faiths, namely the Sikh, the Buddhism, and the Jehovah’s Witness. The paperwork requires me to compare the philosophy of providing health care from the perspective of each of these three faiths with that of the Christian perspective and giving my own personal perspective. Comparing and contrasting the different belief systems will also be included in the paper. It is of significant essence for the health care providers to let go of their faith and integrate the beliefs of the patients in medical care. ...

Cultural Sensitivity and Competency in Nursing

The health care is a diverse undertaking that as requires the nurses and health care practitioners have a high degree of competency and be culturally sensitive. Cultural aspects like lifestyle, beliefs, religion, age, taboos, and the general life of people is important in the nursing practice. Cultural sensitivity entails knowing the diverse nature of a people’s culture and adequately preparing in order to accept and adapt to them. In nursing, it is important to be flexible. Many aspects including culture will change yet a nurse is expected to perform at the best level. Communication is one of the parts that health care ...

Cultural Sensitivity and Competency in Nursing

The health care is a diverse undertaking that as requires the nurses and health care practitioners have a high degree of competency and be culturally sensitive. Cultural aspects like lifestyle, beliefs, religion, age, taboos, and the general life of people is important in the nursing practice. Cultural sensitivity entails knowing the diverse nature of a people’s culture and adequately preparing in order to accept and adapt to them. In nursing, it is important to be flexible. Many aspects including culture will change yet a nurse is expected to perform at the best level. Communication is one of the parts that health care ...

The choice of a health care provider is usually very hard for consumers. There are a variety of options available owing to the large number of health care providers in the United States. In addition, the choice is predicated upon the consideration of other factors like personal budgets, personal needs and preferences. On the other hand, health care systems are always complex, inconsistent and complex. It is the ever growing competition between health care providers that offers motivation for organizations to invest in innovation in a bid to meet the demands of consumers. In this paper, we investigate the efforts undertaken by ...

AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF SENATE BILL 863

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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. ...

Abstract

Modern science and medicine have influenced the healthcare industry in many ways. Modern science believes in the intervention rather than focusing on the spiritual factors that are associated with the disease or illness. It is important that the modern medicine realizes the importance of spiritual healing. With advancements in spiritual healing over the last 3 decades, spirituality has been introduced in modern intervention. General physicians and healthcare professionals are seeking more focusing on the spiritual needs of patients. Clinical studies have found that spirituality when combined with modern medicine improves the quality of life and increases the survival rate ...

The health care practice has always been confronted by many ethical challenges owing to the diversity of the values of individuals within a pluralistic society characterized by different cultures. This brings about a moral conflict with respect to what should be done in various situations. It is due to this that guidelines have been formulated to deal with ethical issues in a manner that is universally acceptable. The context of clinical cases is quite complex as there are many variables involved and this makes the applicability of ethical principles situation dependent.

Ethical principles

In healthcare provision, there are four fundamental principles that have been ...

Among the four principles of ethics, beneficence is considered as the most important. Non-maleficence, justice and then autonomy, in that order, then follow it. This is because beneficence is a key pillar of ethics in health that considers the patient as the centre of attention (Morrison E. & Furlong B. 2014). The care given should purely focus on the maximum satisfaction of the patient. Since the patient is the centre of attention, as much benefit as possible of the health care provided will thus derived from the health care model (Pozgar G. 2011). If all the health care services provided conform ...

HLT-310V Spirituality in Health

Different faiths and religious beliefs have different avenues to the issue of health care. Emphasis is placed on the location and the personality of the individual offering the service. There is a need for nurses and other members of the professional team to displays a good understanding of the different faiths with a view to understanding their position on the matter of health care provision. Some religious groups have no belief in healing from health care providers, whereas some others believe in both healing from health care providers and their own faith in healing. It is therefore imperative for the health care ...

Effective communications are those that adhere to the following five standard elements: complete, concise, concrete, clear, and accurate. Thus, all questions are answered, only relevant statements are included, the words used are specific and well-considered, short, familiar words are used, and the language avoids jargon or inappropriate expressions (Murray, Hidebrandt, and Thomas, 1997). By abiding by these standards, any exchange of information is more likely to result in a shared understanding of the situation and in some instances, a shared course of action. One difference between these general effective communication rules and communication within health care is the result of ...

Introduction

Different faiths and religious beliefs have different approaches to the issue of health care. Emphasis is placed on the location and the personality of the individual offering the service. There is a need for nurses and other members of the professional team to displays a good understanding of the different faiths with a view to understanding their position on the issue of health care provision. Some religious groups have no belief in healing from health care providers, while some others believe in both healing from health care providers and their own faith in healing. It is therefore imperative for the health care ...

Traditionally, health record was maintained by the hospital or managing physician. However, with the advent of managed care, health care service providers have had to keep patient's data in their custody. Moreover, in recent times, with the advent of smart phones, the potential for the client to generate personal health data has been made prominent. More than ever before, it is now possible for the health consumer to monitor their blood pressure intensively (for instance twice a day) and forward those details to their managing physician who, in turn, includes such information in the electronic health record of the individual ( ...

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Abstract In the medical field, health care providers interact with people from different faiths, meaning that caregivers should adapt to the beliefs of people. The Buddhists, Shinto, and the Baha’i present three examples of the faiths in which a person must adapt well to work effectively and efficiently. This paper looks into the unique features of the three faiths with the view of opening the health care providers to the opportunities existent in the three faiths’ arena. The paper also explores the unique similarities and differences of the three faiths and Christianity in relation to health care provision. ...

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Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)

ACO aims to facilitate cost effective and quality healthcare to individuals through developing appropriate linkages between different categories of healthcare systems, providers and institutions with the patients who are willing to be channelized through these entities. In order to ensure that the patient receives the right healthcare treatments and benefits especially with regard to cost and quality, there is need for integrating and sharing lot of specific information regarding the patient and associated aspects to and from multiple sources. The different instances of data exchanges required for integrating healthcare institutions, financial providers, insurance providers, etc with individuals ...

Issues for Healthcare Organizations

Lesson 3:1- Antitrust Lesson 3:2 - Health Information Management Lesson 3:3 - Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance Abstract This document contains answers to lessons 3 units 1, 2, 3 pertaining to Issues for Healthcare Organizations. Unit 1 explores antitrust management; unit 2 - Health Information Management and unit 3 Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance. Issues for Healthcare Organizations Lesson 3:1- Antitrust

Question 1: Antitrust regulations - Sherman and Clayton Acts

- Mergers, consolidations and acquisition components of Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts like any other corporate legal intervention endorses regulations regarding purchasing; selling, dividing and combining with other companies that offer different ...

Having been involved in several cases, Daniel Groll’s intention to provide a lasting solution to this problem intensified. His intentions are to develop a model for understanding disagreements in a clinical setting. Groll at providing insight into what doctors can and cannot plausibly be said to know regarding what’s best for their patients. Groll deals with this by developing taxonomy of clinical disagreements. Groll’s secondary aim is to show that Robert M. Veatch’s theory on what on what clinicians can and cannot about their patients’ well-being is overly skeptical and limits the role. In the article, Groll presents a ...

While arguably one of the best health care systems in the world, the U.S health care system faces a myriad of significant challenges that have highlighted the need of reforms in the system. There is sufficient evidence to prove that the citizens of America do not get the care that they need despite the fact that the American government spends a lot of money per person on health care more than any other country in the world. This means that there are many inefficiencies that have not been addressed by the government and the relevant stakeholders in the health care field. ...

Management

The privacy rules of HIPAA are defined as the right of any persons to have an access to all protected health information that is of him or her and controlled by an entity that operates in a primary paper-based surroundings. Protected health information is been converted from paper records to electronic forms through the help of health information technology. There is a massive adoption of electronic health records in most health institutions to create quality and efficiency in healthcare delivery. The health IT highlights the measures that individuals can request electronically for their protected health information. The critical role of ...

Niacin as a Complementary/Alternative Medication for Cholesterol Management

Cholesterol accounts for a certain portion in the cardiovascular profile. The properties of molecules that help in transporting cholesterol through the blood, known as lipoproteins, give vital insights to the development of atherosclerosis. The magnitude and density of the lipoproteins are the two major properties that are responsible for cardiovascular risks. Niacin has been observed to result in significant benefits by altering the composition of cholesterol. It is particularly effective in increasing the levels of high-density lipoproteins (HDL also known as “good cholesterol”), but in comparison to the other cholesterol lowering drugs, niacin is less effective minimizing the low-density lipoprotein ( ...

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Health Care Ethics Principles and Problems (Medical Ethics)

Chapter 1 Briefly describe the differences among ethics, professional ethics and health care ethics. Ethics is concerned with the way people ought to live their lives. It must not be confused with religion even though they may tend to advocate the same values. However, ethics are distinct interrelations among human which can be considered acceptable or unacceptable. Professional ethics embody regulations pertaining to how persons function within a discipline. It specifies right and wrong actions based on morality. It does encompass principles of being, but the authors of this text ...

In the USA, the law protects medical records confidentiality. Doctors, medical receptionists and nurses are trained to ascertain that the contents remain top secret. This paper therefore details the rights of patients as regards their medical information. It also shows how to correct or amend a patient’s record. In essence, it sheds light on whether a patient can request restriction on use of his medical information as well as who should own the medical records.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule gives a person the right to his/her medical records. HIPAA Privacy Rule is basically a convention that gives patients the right to access, ...

Spirituality in Health Care

HLT-310V Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity: First Draft Introduction Spirituality plays an important role in both physical and mental healing. Physical healing may be achieved through modern medicines and technology but However, if it is not accompanied by mental healing then the whole healing process may take longer than expected or . it may even end up complicated. Prayer, meditation and strong faith are often considered as critical components for healing. Most of all the religions in the world believe that all things known and unknown are connected to God. The ever changing world economy and health ...

1.0 Introduction Medicare fraud refers to obtaining money from the Medicare system under false pretense. Many Americans cannot afford to pay for health services. As a result, the Social Security Act in 1965 gave rise to Medicare in order to finance diverse forms of medical care for the vast number of Americans who cannot afford medical insurance. Different forms of Medicare fraud have evolved in the recent past but the bottom line for all of the forms is to illegitimately collect money from the Medicare system. Medicare fraud is just a fragment of the much bigger and intricate web of ...

Introduction

Over the years, there has been a lot of research to establish a link between stress (maternal stress and fetal stress) with premature births. A normal human pregnancy will take between 37 and 42 weeks. A preterm labor is one that starts when the 37 weeks of pregnancy have not elapsed. Premature deliveries are usually caused by many factors depending on the environment the mother lives. Stress is one of the causes of preterm deliveries and also one of the most common. Pregnancy is a period when a woman’s body experiences so many changes. The woman’s emotional functions and ...

Early psychosis intervention program is a community-based assessment program that is designed especially for outpatients that are experiencing first episodes of psychosis. It is however important to note here that there are a myriad of other conditions that might manifest themselves in similar manners as psychosis and correct and incomparable determination of psychotic cases is crucial. Immense research work has shown that early diagnosis and intervention on psychosis has had positive outlook in that the condition becomes relatively easy to contain unlike in late diagnosis where other complications might have arisen for example intense schizophrenia among others. It is for this ...

The implementation of online systems by organizations has fundamentally changed the method of transactions and issuing of services by institutions. These systems have revolutionized information systems as decisions are made from information analyzed from the system. The information systems have been utilized to enhance planning and control, it also aids in decision making. On the other hand, such systems require constant monitoring, to ensure that they are up to date and that they produce dependable results. This paper considers certain aspects of the clinical information system that is utilized by CEND to manage medical records of patients. The paper ...

Overview

Consents taking and documentation is a vital part of legal and medical ethics that guides medical practice. It serves as a tool for effective patient management. It is meant to be taking before any form of treatment simply because all patients capable of understanding of such form of information has the right to receive accurate information regarding his or her illness/condition, the physician treatment plan, associated complications and effect, and other available treatment options. It is the responsibility of the physician to ensure this is achieved and properly documented before any start of treatment.

Improper taking and documentation

The issue of improper taking of consent ...

Introduction

In pediatrics, several conditions could present with abdominal pain hence becoming a medical emergency. Intussusceptions are a pediatric ailment, which could also become a medical emergency if not manage properly on time. Intussusceptions can be described as a disorder, which present with "telescoping or invagination of a proximal portion of intestine into the more distal part and subsequently leading to bowel obstruction" (Irish, 2011). The proximal portion of the intestine is termed the intussusceptum while the distal portion termed intussuscipiens. This gastrointestinal condition result into inflammation and obstruction. The related concept or factors considered in this case for the diagnosis is the triad ...