Essays on Health Care

The aspect of quality management involves systematic approaches, specific techniques, and incessant actions that lead to measurable upgrading in the health status of target patient groups and in the provision of health care services. Quality in an organization is linked to its service delivery approach and incorporation of certain fundamentals that include;

Quality Improvement work as systems and processes

For improvement of health care outcomes it is ensured that resources in the care center and the activities carried out are aligned through process mapping in order to better understand the processes of health care within its practice system. For an organization to better understand the best ...

Why is healthcare/clinical experience more important for healthcare CIOs today than in past years?

The role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) in healthcare industry has changed significantly and quickly. Currently, Information Technology in healthcare is not only providing primarily function but also involved in strategy and business operations. As a result, CIOs has greater responsibility for healthcare outcomes and operational efficiency (McGrath, 2010).The healthcare CIO has to deal with many areas such as competitiveness and patient safety where they were never involved before. In addition, CIOs have to convince senior management about the benefits of new operations, quality of care, patient safety, improved accountability and simplicity, cost-effectiveness. All these responsibilities can be ...

Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996

Protecting individual privacy is a long standing tradition among the health care providers and public health practitioners. However, the shift of medical records from paper to electronic formats potentially increased the ease of access to other people, other than the health practitioners such as nurses. These are concerns that have been actively addressed by the United States department of health and human services. This has been achieved through the health insurance and accountability Act of 1996, which was done in a bid to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care system.

The implementation of this Act has ...

The Magnet Recognition Program is a program developed by the American Nurses Credentialing Centre (ANCC) that recognizes healthcare institutions for high quality patient care, innovations in the professional nursing practice and general nursing excellence. Consumers often rely on this Magnet designation to gauge the credentials for high quality nursing care provided by various healthcare organizations. The Magnet program derives its basis from the quality standards and indicators defined by the American Nurses Association (ANA) Scope and Standards for Nurse Administrators (2004). The stated intent of the program is to provide healthcare consumers with an ultimate benchmark which they can ...

The management of a healthcare environment is an intricate undertaking that requires individuals with the capacity of balancing between their internal constitutes and environmental health factors. Modern changes in a healthcare environment have especially complicated the entire process of managing healthcare institutions. The presented personality can largely enhance leadership in the modern healthcare environment. A leader who has the ability of balancing between environmental factors and inner personality can successfully spearhead the development in the modern healthcare institutions.

The slight preference of introversion over extraversion can hinder effective leadership in the healthcare environment. This owes to the fact that ...

There are several ways that healthcare organizations can use to capture data and use it for marketing purposes without violating any regulatory stipulations. This paper presents an analysis of two of such ways and how they might change in future.

The first way healthcare organizations use to collect data is patient-centered analytics. This method involves healthcare providers recording patterns of illnesses and treatment outcomes across a given patient demographic instead of focusing on a single chart at a time (Cummings, 2001). The data is recorded mostly in electronic devices. Health care providers try and collect data about the patient ...

1. Why is data standardization so important in healthcare? Provide an example of a problem that may occur when this is ignored. Data standardization involves ensuring that the data recorded in health care facilities is uniform. Data standardization in healthcare is vital for a number of reasons. Firstly, it enables data to be exchanged electronically across entities internally or externally. Internal data exchange involves exchange of information within the same organization. This can be witnessed when different departments exchange information concerning a patient. External data exchange entails exchange of information between two healthcare facilities. Proper data management is only ...

Public Health and Health Care

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA is a federal agency of the government that is responsible for the implementation and enforcement of safety and health regulations and under the Department of Labor. The head of the agency is the Assistant Secretary of Labor of OSHA who shall be under the supervision of the Secretary of Labor, under the U.S. Executive Department (OSHA, 2013). The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 or otherwise known as the “OSH Act” was created for the purpose of prevent work place fatality or to prevent the ...

Abstract

This paper discusses how collaboration among various players in a health care delivery process can be promoted. It initially emphasizes on the manner in which various tasks in health care delivery are interconnected. Approaches that a health care administrator can apply to foster collaboration among clinicians are discussed. Collaboration is depicted as an important way to minimize human error in order to promote patient safety while also reducing organizational risks. The paper also discusses how physician leadership can encourage initiatives to promote reduction of organizational risks and patient safety.

Delivery of health care services in the current world is ...

It would not be an overstatement to claim that technology has changed the world. We can learn at online colleges, conduct financial transactions without visiting the bank. We can stream high definition videos and videos at the comfort of our living rooms and talk to people on the other side of the world in real time. One vital component of the human life that has been changed by the technological innovations in the world is the healthcare sector. Technology has changed the way we get information on, and treatment for, our health and many other essentials.

The internet has ...

There is enormous evidence that the reduction of exposure to risk factors leads to a decrease in the morbidity and mortality related to chronic diseases. Based on such evidence has lead to many demands for a systems approach to public health which allows the incorporation of many disciplines, communities and strategies with a common goal of reducing disease prevalence. The systems approach is based on the knowledge that disease and health are as a result of factors beyond the biological and individual human behavior. For KS and PCP an appropriate program will involve establishing units in existing healthcare facilities ...

Qualitative studies are widely applied in nursing practice to generate data on the type of care offered. This is because qualitative studies can study people’s feelings, emotions and reactions to various issues surrounding health care delivery. In this paper, a qualitative study relevant to nursing is critiqued with emphasis on the problem statement, purpose of the study, research questions, literature review, and theoretical framework. The article that is critiqued is:

Bluemel, M. K., Traweger, C., Kinzl, J. F., Baubin, M. A., & Lederer, W. (2011). Expectations of patients, nurses and physicians in geriatric nursing home emergencies. Emergency Medicine Journal, ...

Healthcare of any nation is paramount to its success, growth and development. In the past 2 years, the healthcare has become a subject of debate in the United States. The recent “Obama-Care” plan has come into question with analysts and specialists looking for better and cheaper methods of handling health care. The Single-Payer system has been broadly discussed. In this paper I will seek to critically analyse this healthcare system or plan with reference to personal healthcare coverage.

The single-payer system is pegged on the fact that government, instead of private health insurers, should pay for the health care ...

Health Care Delivery/Integration

Managed Care Managed care, arguably one among the most common emerging trends in the field of health care, is exceptionally controversial as it has impacted differently on people and societies. Managed care is aimed at reducing the costs of accessing healthcare benefits. It lays emphasis on such techniques as preventive care and the use of financial incentives (Wolper, 2004). Looking at it from an micro-level point of view, managed care is associated with conflict of interest on the part of the physician. On the other hand, it makes it difficult for the physician to prioritize the interests of the ...

The national healthcare insurance plan

The national health insurance plan is one instance of the social welfare policies in the US. The major problem this act aims to solve is the painstaking cost of healthcare in many states of the US. A healthy nation is a wealthy nation according to many policy makers all over the world. For many years, the US has had no healthcare policy despite its industrialized sphere. Actually, the world compared the US to South Africa as some of the developed countries with no regard for their citizens. The most vital causes of the problem can be the lack of ...

How the technology of electronic records has altered healthcare administration and patient care

Over the years, there has been a lot of growth and development in various industries, particularly in the twenty first century, especially, owing to the fact that among the areas that have synonymously developed in the past years include the information and technology front. As a result, there has been improved efficiency in service delivery, accuracy, timesaving and also speed in carrying out of various tasks, and in bulks. However, the development of the technology department has had both positive and negative impacts, especially, with its implementation in the medical field.

Previously, especially in the earlier and mid ...

The cyclical process of Performance improvement

Performance improvement is a process through which an organization monitors its performance and ways of working using several methods. It also helps the organization’s management and staff to periodically change the way they work with the aim of improving service delivery and customer satisfaction. In other words, performance improvement involves monitoring the output and performance of a certain procedure or process. Thereafter, necessary and regular improvements are made so as to increase the output, efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. Performance improvement is a process and it involves a series of steps where each step is carefully thought ...

1. Healthcare Delivery on Micro and Macro Levels

Managed care is a healthcare plan or system that contract with health care providers and medical facilities to provide care for members at reduced costs. On the macro-level, managed care plans take into consideration on major issues such as system design and organizational structure. The funding system used by Managed care promotes efficient use of resources, such as payment using diagnosis-related groups or other care mix approaches to create an incentive to reduce length of stay and avoid excessive servicing during an episode of care (Andreou, 2011). For example, managed care ...

Bird, C. E. (2010). Handbook of medical sociology. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.

Gabe, J., & Monaghan, L. F. (2013). Key concepts in medical sociology. London: SAGE.

The writing Gabe and Monaghan is relevant to the topic of interest since it addresses the key concepts on the subject area. The main subjects of concern here is that sociological studies have become more oriented in not only social status of a community but further relate that to the health, illness and state of health care facilities in a society. It further lays emphasis on how the social distributions in health or disorders ...

Introduction

The health care sector is changing rapidly and to remain relevant, health care facilities must develop and implement strategic plans. A strategic plan incorporates historical values and current trends to determine a desired future position for an organization. In the health care sector, patient centered care is the latest trend in quality assurance.

Therefore, health care organizations need to align their strategic plans with the needs of their consumers. One of the situational management tool that managers use to align their organizations operations with the needs of their consumers is a SWOT analysis. SWOT is an acronym for strengths, ...

1. State Licensure Requirements

Medicare Advantage Plan is described has a type or branch of Medicare health insurance program, which covers healthcare expenses for the disabled, poor or less fortunate individuals, and the older population in the society (Brown et al, 2011) .This health insurance program is specifically provided by private health insurance companies under licensure from the federal government health insurance program or Medicare.

Before an organization is allowed to become a Medicare Advantage plan member, such an organization or institution is required by law to comply with various state licensure requirements and guidelines (Budrys, 2011). These requirements ...

Nurses face various challenges and these problems are getting worse due to lack of proper legislations to address them adequately. One of these problems is hospital staffing crisis where hospitals are understaffed and nurses are overwhelmed with patient care.

There are several reasons to justify why poor hospital staffing is problematic to nursing. Instead of hospital administrations investing in adequate staff levels, most of them are investing heavily in advanced medical technologies. To an extent, corporate greed seems to take priority over safe care of patients. According to Roux and Judith nurses represent the largest professional group in any ...

Description of the issue

The provision of quality healthcare is an integral part in the management of all progressive societies. Unlike in the ancient days when most societies were largely dominated by solitary cultures, the modern societies are extensively multicultural. Hosting significant populations of all nationalities in the world, the US is a classic melting point of nearly all cultures in the world. The intermarriages between these cultures have only served to create a complex multicultural society. The uniqueness of each culture in such a society presents challenges to governments and non-governmental agencies in the provision of services such as healthcare and education. ...

Decision making process is a fundamental element and a central function in the health care industry for efficiency in delivery of medical products and services. It is basically the process of determining of the best choice to be made in order to attain the set objectives of health care entity. This process demands for influence, necessary behavioral skills and leadership for a successful implementation to take place.

Patient autonomy vs. beneficence is the critical ethical dilemma in the health care industry as discussed previously that prompt the management to formulated possible solution. The solution will enable the decision making ...

Introduction

In a healthcare environment that is rapidly changing, clinical healthcare professionals are often faced with difficult choices regarding the well being of patients. Some of these choices sometimes become engrained in ethical dilemmas. In fact, these ethical dilemmas are the ones that often give rise to different or varying opinions when it comes to decision making in healthcare management. In this paper, I am going one ethical dilemma and then come up with a comprehensive plan to deal with this dilemma.

Ethical Dilemma: Patient Autonomy vs. Beneficence

One of the biggest ethical dilemmas that healthcare professionals are faced with is concerned with patient autonomy vs. ...

QUESTION ONE:

Communication in this health is an important tool for the transmission of information both within this organization. The most appropriate and effective methods have to be used in order to ensure proper transmission of information within an organization for purposes of faster service delivery of health care services.

The managers use electronic emails in the transmission of information within an organization in order to ensure instant transfer of data and information between healthcare managers. This will help to save time instead of moving from one department of the health care facility to another. This will also ensure help ...

In a general context, consumerism can be defined as a social and economic order that is geared towards encouraging the purchase of goods and services. There is no doubt that consumerism has huge impacts on various sectors of the economy. Particularly, the public health sector has come a long way in terms of advancement in the use of information technology in service delivery. This essay, besides outlining the role of information technology in public healthcare service, seeks to describe the impacts of consumerism in regard to I.T, claims management, and member services when dealing with healthcare providers.

Impacts of Consumerism

Health care ...

The health status of the employees in any given organization determines a lot the progress to be realized in the organization. It is always prudent for the top management to put place measures to address issue related with the health care status (Dursi 2008). Majority of the organizations are carrying out health promotional programs and this if well implemented works to the advantage of the organization. In that, it will be easier to improve the efficiency of the employees since medication will always be timely (Glied 2008). Again, employees will not have to dig into their pockets in times ...

My mission as a healthcare professional is to provide exemplary healthcare for every patient without bias. I promise to provide continued physical and emotional healthcare to every patient. I also plan to fulfil all the promises through equity in the use of resources. Furthermore, I plan on creating a work environment where each of my colleagues will be comfortable in.

I get a lot of satisfaction by creating genuine smiles on people. This is why I joined the healthcare profession. Ensuring that the health of a person is taken care of is the most effective way of touching people’ ...

Introduction

The governments through its ministry, authority, agency or officials have fundamental roles in making authoritative decisions, adoptions, or course of actions to be pursued.

Government should be instrumental in recognizing the existence of health problems, conducting public awareness on the issue, studying the problem and its causes, deciding the parties to be involved in fixing the problem as health care services or operations at that particular time are scrutinized according to (Abood, S., 2007). Health problems may be health care coverage/delivery, funding, administration Medicare ethics, maternal and child health etc. Exploring the alternative plans of actions to solve the ...

Introduction

Pedigo, W., Turner, L. T., Williams-Paisley, K., Pratt, J., Hence, S., & Emigh, M. (2011). Children's health crisis: Prevention. Nashville, TN: NPT.

The documentary talks about the cost of health care in United States that surpassed 2.3$ trillion in 2008 is expensive than any other state. It tries to explore how to improve the health standards of children through health care that goes beyond the common medical care. It addresses the problem of high cost of health care and the author tries to explain how accessible and affordable healthcare can be achieved. The issues of cost of health care administrators ...

Health care remains an imperative component in national development. Many states across the globe understand the importance of establishing health care system that offers quality, affordable and reliable medical services to the people. In order to attain this goal, nations across have invested heavily in health care system with the intention of improving quality of medical service rendered in public and private hospitals. Governments have addressed the issue of improving health care system seriously and have mobilized resources required in the implementation process. In a similar vein, government institutions have worked collaboratively with other nongovernmental organizations in advocating for ...

The lack of standard procedures set in healthcare management especially those related to decision making have given numerous problems to the healthcare industry. This in turn affected not only the healthcare practioners but their patients and clients as well. The healthcare industry has been getting the bulk of funding from the government. Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group shows that the healthcare expenditures of the United States is more than $2 trillion dollars budget compared to the federal government’s budget of $3 trillion (HealthCareProgram.org, 2013). This should include ...

Current reforms under the Obama Care are geared towards greater accountability in the U.S. health care system. The use of technology, including electronic medical record (EMR) systems, is essential in effectively adapting to such changes. A robust EMR system has the capacity to reduce medical errors, makes the documentation and communication of information more efficient, and enables the cost-effective storage of records (Harrington et al., 2011). It is a highly useful technology that will enhance the quality of care of patients, reduce the probability of lawsuits arising from medical errors and increase the job satisfaction of nurses. Hence, investment ...

Employers determine value from health plans through the health care reform law. The reform has ways, which ensures that the coverage for the employer health plan has minimal value. In 2014, the PPACA will grant permission to the individuals who have the health insurance so that they can receive the premium tax credit. They can benefit more if they are eligible to have affordable employer coverage that contains a minimal value (Ilyse, Littler 2012) . There are three approaches that determines the minimal value contribution and the first one is an array of design based-safe harbors formed ...

HIPAA

HIPAA initials for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act enacted in 1996. It was established by the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information with the main role of protecting the health information of patients. The chief objective of this act is to protect the health information of the patients while advocating for quality health care. The act also permits proper use of information while safeguarding the privacy of individuals seeking treatment and healing.

Privacy Rules

The Privacy Rule, also Administrative Simplification Rules, relate to health plans and to any healthcare provider who transfers health data inform of electronic ...

How will health care reform impact the small, medium, and large employer’s organization?

Major challenges to managing the enrollment information on a managed care plan.

An inefficient database system. This poses the major challenge for all organizations as the database system used influences the nature of information to be processed. The information system in place is a crucial factor that influences the nature and availability of information regarding to the health care enrollment information. Due to this challenge, the state of Illinois has developed various systems to help to store the data in regard to the particular patient. They include integrated care program and primary care case management program. Information backup systems. ...

In recent times, there has been an overwhelming amount of concern on ethnic and racial disparities in health, in the United States. However, there are still numerous amounts of questions that still need to be answered. There has been a variety of forums that present and evaluate evidence that indicate the relationships that occur between racism, ethnicity, diversity in culture and behavior, and socioeconomic status. Williams (2007) feels that “these statuses dictate the level of health concern, among many Americans”. The relationships depicted in these reports influence my opinion on racism, diversity, and health.

Disparities in health statuses reflect, ...

Article 1: American Society of Clinical Oncology Guidance Statement: The Cost of Cancer Care

Although the great advances made in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer have significantly mitigated cancer-related mortality in the US, they have been paralleled by significant increases in the costs of cancer care. The cost of overall health care as well as cancer care in the US is growing faster than the national GDP. The spiraling of cancer care costs is in part due to high prices and rapid assimilation of novel drugs and technologies. Conventional knowledge suggests that the high prices reflect the ...

Financing of healthcare and healthcare delivery systems are popular topics of study across the world. This popularity is due to the universal human need for health care, and also due to the various means of the delivery systems and financing around the world. The many differences depend majorly on each country’s history, political culture, and the level of wealth (Grieves, 2000).

Healthcare, as a sensitive topic, has been politicized in many countries. This has in sooth impact society in a negative way especially people who have no access to healthcare. This paper compares the healthcare system of the ...

Times are constantly changing. It is becoming harder and harder to stay up to date with all of the new electronic innovations that appear every year: the new phones, the new computers, the new handheld devices, and the list can go on. New vehicles are being released every year. The economy is changing, world events are shifting faster than is possible to keep up with, and as surroundings speed up personal lives are changing just as rapidly. Just imagine, then, how much the medical profession is changing! New cures for cancer are being researched; new antibiotics and other medications ...

In past years there was a constant increase in the health related costs. The expenditure touched $2.3 trillion in United States in 2008 alone which was just $714 billion in the year 1990. The expenditure was eight times more in 2008 compared to 1980. It accounts to $7681 per capita expenditure spent by US health care in 2008.Adverse effects has been observed amongst citizens and government due to unprecedented rise of health care costs. Obviously, US government is spending less in economic growth and more on health care. Concerns were raised by citizens and businesses to implement health care ...

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COVID-19, or coronavirus disease, is a highly infectious disease caused by the novel (newly discovered) virus of the Corona family. The first cases were registered in the Chinese city of Wuhan late in 2019 (hence the “19” in the name), but soon through human-to-human transmission, the virus spread globally causing the pandemic. ...

Racial discrimination remains an ongoing experience for a minority group in the America, despite the enactment of the civil right act that declared the racial discrimination illegal. Not only is the perception of racial bias damaging socially, but also new evidence indicates that the experience of racism may be detrimental to health care in the America. Currently, the racial groups are constructed to demonstrate the diversity in status, power, and resources. Racial classification is mainly experienced within the US context, African-American have been on the bottom while whites remain on top. Racism is reflected via the idea that inferiority ...

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Connected Health: A Review Of Technologies And Strategies To Improve Patient Care With Telemedicine And Telehealth

- Joseph Kvedar1, - Molly Joel Coye2 and - Wendy Everett3,* + Author Affiliations - 1Joseph Kvedar is director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare System, in Boston, Massachusetts. - 2Molly Joel Coye is chief innovation officer at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health, UCLA Medical Center, in Los Angeles. - 3Wendy Everett () is president of NEHI ( ...

OBAMA CARE

Introduction The term Obama care is more or less a derogatory term coined by the critics of the affordable care act put in place by president Barack Obama. The literal meaning of the term Obama care is quite disturbing to say the least. This is because it refers to the type of care that is more inclined towards president Barack Obama as opposed to the entire nation. The question thus arises as to the true nature of this Obama care and whether or not it favors the greater good of the nation or it is a desperate plan by ...

Introduction

In a world where the Pandora's Box opened a long time ago, every day new diseases are being discovered. New cases with new (or old) illnesses come up every day in huge numbers before the medical fraternity. While prevention and control measures safeguard the majority of the population from transmittable diseases, developing nations still find it hard to curb transmissible illnesses, thus increasing the incidences of illness or a disease in a household by manifold. In such a scenario, the point to ponder is how the citizens across the world, especially those of developing nations afford to pay for ...

An electronic health record (EHR) refers to a digital version of patients’ medical records. They give real-time, records that are based on an individual patient, which are made availed securely and instantly to medical practitioners with authorization. It presents different tools that can be used by health care providers to make decisions about a patient’s health (Harvey, 2011). EHR has several advantages and disadvantages; the advantages include enhancing patient data security and privacy. It also provides up-to-date, accurate and meaningful information on a patient at the point of care. Lastly, it facilitates efficient and coordinated care. For example, ...

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 ...

Letter to editor

Letter to the Editor and copy to Legislative Representative Health Care delivery measures require the imparting of high quality medical and paramedical care in primary, secondary and territory care. With the rapid advancement in the fields of medicine, surgery post-operative convalescence and long term geriatric or tertiary cure there have emerged more areas for making mistakes. With this emergence of new techniques and methodologies of health care delivery there have become possible several levels of care. Along with the provision of such care came the greater responsibility of ensuring the best possible quality of care. There are currently some ...

Difference between entitlement program and block grants

An entitlement program is one of the government mechanisms in which public funds are given to people who meet specific requirement. Good example of an entitlement program in the united state of America is Medicare program. In the Medicare program on the part of it would qualify to be an entitlement program. In this program, the people who are unable to meet their medical care cost are given some funds. Other may confuse an entitlement program with social security program during their working day, but this is not a form of an entitlement program. The only time in which ...

Improving Geriatric Nursing Care

Improving Geriatric Nursing Care The U.S. population is aging with the proportion of adults aged 65 or older steadily increasing. Older adults have unique health care needs relating to the treatment and prevention of comorbid illnesses, disability, and cognitive decline. The health care system must be ready to meet these needs in order to provide the best care and increase the quality of life of seniors. Innovations are therefore much needed and nurses are in the position to lead efforts by obtaining further training and education, engaging in research, and advocating.

Innovations Needed in the Senior Care Industry

Accountable care. There must be accountable care organizations ( ...

Burns, L. (2012). The Business of Healthcare Innovation. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

This book provides an extensive analysis of regarding business trends in the manufacturing sector of the healthcare industry. The author provides an overview of the innovative efforts aimed at improving the healthcare delivery. The book considers the effect of innovation in biotechnology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, platform technology, as well as information technology. Regarding each of the foregoing areas, the author looks at the sources and trends relating to scientific innovation, the regulatory measures employed in every sector and how the sectors carry out their function. Burns further evaluates ...

Trained medical professionals attend to patients of diverse ethno-cultural backgrounds, different age groups, different sexes, as well as patients with different educational backgrounds something that that makes communication between them more multifarious and difficult. Professionals in this field are required by law that they increase their communication competencies in culturally diverse healthcare contexts, where the cultural diversity of patients and staff challenges the professionals in the field. It is believed that the intercultural lens is appropriate for understanding the issue of intercultural communication, which usually involves miscommunication in hospital settings (Coiera and Tombs, 1996). The refresher course the medical ...

Following the American Psychologist Association’s Guidelines

The people of the United States suffer from several serious issues, all related to health care: millions go uninsured every year, health care is too expensive, and the quality of care is poor, especially for the price. The Patience Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as it commonly known as, began addressing these issues. While several of the act’s promises have not come into effect yet, it has managed to extend healthcare to the repetitively uninsured. While many of the accomplishments that the act has already made, and aims to make, are no small feat, there are ...

Question 1

Facility protocols refer to the plans and procedures in place to address specific issues that health care Institutions face. Nurses must understand their role in relation to the development and implementation of facility protocols. Discuss any health care facility protocol regarding reporting incidents, disaster planning and emergency response, and security plans.

Response 1

Protocols recognize the least expectations for the public health programs and services. In developing programs and services in excess of minimum requirements, where required to address local needs authorized by the boards of health. The accountability for the implementation of the standards that includes those protocols that are ...

Management

Health care management research has integrated several strategic measures in ensuring the wellbeing of the patients. It is projected to the customer's needs satisfaction in the health care in relation to the medical condition. The integrated practice unit (IPU) brings together the clinical and nonclinical issues that management should consider in the daily operations. It helps in the provision of full care cycle for the patients as well in management. Measuring the outcomes and costs that are involved to every patient leads to the management having a clear understanding of the entire health concern. The health care needs more ...

Background

The joining forces policy is an initiative developed by First lady Michele Obama in conjunction with the secretary of State Joe Biden. The initiative is meant to call attention to veterans of the United States who have gone to war for their country and are cleared to join the society after their service. The initiative stems from the moral obligation that soldiers who have come from war fighting for their country should not come home only to continue the war which this time has to do with fighting for job opportunities (AAN, 2014). The policy was developed prompted by ...

The importance of Health Information Technology (HIT) to the healthcare sector cannot be overemphasized. The availability of information as well as the ability to exchange this information is very crucial to the efficient delivery of care across all levels of the health care system. These levels involve different stakeholders that include the care team, patients, and health care organizations among others, which in totality comprise a political, economic system. The diagnosis and effective treatment of patients depend on the capacity of care providers, whether individual medical practitioners or large healthcare organizations to access three main types of medical related ...

Influenza Vaccine among Health Workers

Influenza Vaccine among Health Workers

Introduction

Evidently, the human body possesses a remarkable capability, which can however be jeopardized by disease. Influenza occurs as one of the widely discussed diseases whose influence on humans has and continues to raise immense concern across various contexts all over the globe. This can be accredited to the fact that this disease occurs as one of the leading causes of respiratory infections. In fact, influenza remains a significant cause of mortality amongst the elderly populations aged above 65 years. Worth noting is the fact that the pathogenicity of influenza is dependent on environmental factors; ...