Essays on Health Care

Analyzing the film “Sicko”, by Michael Moore, one can identify that there are some problems of the U.S’ health care system that are being portrayed: the fact that there are many Americans, in a number that reaches almost fifty million people, that aren’t even covered/insured by the health care system; and the fact that the part that is covered are, in general misinformed by the insurance companies and led to cases of fraud, or even of red tape, thinking they have full coverage and then, when in need of health care, not receiving it for not being entitled to ...

Petrecca, L. (2012). 'Supersized' drinks on the way out in NYC. Accessed From http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/13/supersized-drinks-on-the-way-out-in-nyc/57775970/1

This form of law is almost impossible to regulate on individuals considering that even if the supersized drinks are reduced to the 16-ounce cap, consumers still have the choice to consume more than one cup. A person may also opt to buy sugary drinks from the grocery and convenience stores which would not be affected by such law. To drink or not to drink is solely a personal choice. As such, a law seeking to reduce the quantity of supersized drinks as a way to improve health is myopic. Instead the government should endeavor to change the mentality of the consumers through ...

Question 1:

Managed care has had a significant effect on the service delivery in the US. First of all, it has given the general population a chance to choose the kind of service they wish for and who they prefer to give the services to them. As such, the citizens have a chance to access the services of their choice. This is very important as it makes the people have both physical and psychological relief after getting teh services. This facilitates quick recovery. Managed care system has also helped in raising the standards of service care delivery. The different health personnel ...

The US is experiencing a shortage of primary care physicians. It is projected that by 2020, there would be a shortage of 45,000 primary care doctors (Novak, 2012). Current graduates prefer the subspecialties due to the compensation, working hours, and challenges in the profession. The annual income of primary care physicians ranges from $140,000 to $150,000, however, specialists earn as much as three times this amount (Novak, 2012). Primary care doctors are burdened with more work, especially administrative tasks (Chen, 2012). Medical students may feel that primary care is not as challenging as the cases they discuss inside ...

Introduction

In the US, the responsibility of covering healthcare has largely been left to the private sector. The private sector is able to achieve this through employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI). However, the ESI is marred by a number of problems, which have hampered its effective implementation. As such, the US has introduced certain reforms as well as observing the principle of justice to ensure that the health sector carries out its roles smoothly.

Problems caused by employer-sponsored health insurance

The first ethical concern is that employer-sponsored health insurance hampers transparency and accountability. Despite the fact that there are significant increases in insurance premiums, employers make only small ...

Educational institution

In the times of highly sophisticated computers, there are several fields in our everyday life that need the implementation of such technology. Healthcare system is among those primary ones that could greatly benefit from the development of information systems for an additional optimization, and further development of its own.

As the amount of health-related information is constantly growing, public health organizations will soon require well-designed information systems to simply function, and make optimal use of that stacking data. Healthcare system will rely on information systems in managerial decision making, program and clinic administration, public health planning, policy analysis, ...

Blogging Survey

Media Summary Part 1

Most of the posts (52%) in this story are supportive of Obamacare. Only 22% of the sampled posts are against the plan. In addition, a sizeable number (24%) gives neutral opinions. It is apparent that even those who are opposing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) do not have concrete arguments but are only opposed to the plan because it is from a government which is run by the Democratic Party. The general message in these posts is that Obamacare is achieving what Republicans thought it would not. The five million people and counting who ...

Trust and mutual understanding between the healthcare professional and the patient can be developed by following the important features of empathy such as listening and communication. Healthcare requires that the professionals understand the considerations and emotional state of the patients. To ensure that the problems of the patients are understood the providers must convey their understanding back to the patients. Some factors of listening that relate to empathy are paraphrasing, responding with positive body language, and finally, summarizing the facts collected by the patient. The information provided by the patients would be related to their illness and the way ...

Introduction

In Ontario Canada, the use of technology in nursing has advanced with developments in ICTs where nurses are continuously taking advantage of the opportunities that ICTs present in improving the quality of service delivery in the nursing profession. According to the Registered Nurses of Ontario e-health refers to the leveraging of information and communication technology to enhance professional practice in the promotion and the facilitation of the health and wellbeing of individual and families or patients (Registered Nrseses' Association of Ontario, 2009). The importance of ICT knowhow development in the nursing profession in Ontario is in the development of ...

The transition to of Electronic Medical Records - is a key factor in enhancing the quality of patient care. In contrast to the paper medical records, electronic form implies completely different methods of protection against forgery or tampering with data in the history of the disease, similar to other large-scale information systems containing important official data.

Slide 2

Electronic medical history is a natural result of the development of automation and computerization in health care and its appearance marked the transition from conventional preparation of history with the help of electronic documents. It is similar to a classical paper history, but it gives you ...

Slide 1: Mayo Clinic: Strategic Plan

- Mayo Clinic is the first and largest not-for-profit medical group practice - Established in 1883 in Rochester, Minnesota by Dr. William Mayo and his two sons. - Currently the organization has three clinics and four hospitals in three states. - The group has 3,800 physicians and scientists and 50,900 hospital staff. - In 2014, the group completed 150 years of continued service to patients.

Slide 3: Current Strategic Objectives

- Primary Value - The needs of the patient come first - Mission Statement - Treat everyone in the diverse community including patients, their families, ...

Hospital administrators need transformational leaders who can manage personnel crises in order to maximize staff retention and patient satisfaction. Transformational-leader candidates can be identified among students and graduates engaged in managerial studies, as well as among executives in other fields (Rudnick Jr., 2007). Hospitals’ administrative employees and working staff (doctors, nurses) also represent potentially significant sources of transformational leaders. They are familiar with the specificities of health care environments, and with the procedures of their respective health care institutions. While this makes them suitable candidates for hospital administration positions it is not sufficient for managerial positions, least of all ...

The high shortage of doctors in most parts of the world, especially developing nations, has resulted into many countries undertaking the concept of Physician Assistant (PA) as a strategy to train and employ health workers. PAs are medical practitioners licensed to carry out healthcare duties with the help of a qualified physician. The increasing health care costs and diversification in health care specialists, as well as the rising issues of health care needs, leaves most foreign countries with no option other than adopting the PA concept to offer solutions to these workforce issues. The concept of PA started in United States ( ...

Gordon, Michael, Jack Mintz, and Duanjie Chen. "Funding Canada's health care system: a tax-based alternative to privatization." (1998): Print. In this journal the authors cry that the health care which used to be funded by the government is currently under attack. Even though the Canada Health Acts mandated the government to provide a universal, comprehensive and equally accessed public administration, there are certain strains which are affecting the efficacy of the system which had served the Canadians so well (Gordon, Mintz, and Chen, 1). The healthcare is facing problems because of the governments urge to do away with the ...

All my life I have wanted to help people; I have always felt as though the most important way to accomplish that goal is keeping those around me healthy and safe. To that end, I have always been attracted to medicine and healthcare as a profession. I have known from a very early age that I wanted to become a physician, as my primary goal is to improve the health of the public wherever I am. Even when I was a child, my mother would let me carry around a little first aid kit, complete with fun little bandages, wet wipes, Neosporin and a few ...

Introduction

Physicians, health care centers; other health providers conduct their businesses of medicine provisions in a more efficient, and effective manner through engaging and managing their businesses and health care data documents to inform them of everything they do. When health care businesses engage their business using the information, technology they make their business operation more efficient and effective. Through use of health care It solutions, the health care providers make their health provisions quality. The results of using IT solutions in health care include improvement access to patient health care data. The data concerning patients such as their personal history ...

The Universal Healthcare plan fondly known as Obamacare has been touted and regarded as a game changer, historic, and revolutionary by many and rightly so. The act aims to change the American health care system and to bring positive change to the quality of lives of its citizens. The expansion of SCHIP program, digitization of health records and expansion of COBRA insurance to unemployed workers would indeed do a lot of good to the citizenry.

Moreover the act prohibits private health insurance companies to deny insurance for pre-existing or to drop coverage when a patient gets sick, a move which strikes ...

Unequal reimbursement to Nursing Practitioners (NP) compared to physicians.

I would like to address the state and federal health officials over the unequal reimbursement to Nursing Practitioners (NP) compared to physicians. The present situation is that NP are reimbursed up to 15% less for provision of primary care services while physicians get 100% of the total cost incurred. This is despite the fact that there is no clear justification for this kind of discrimination. NPs provide the same quality services, and in cases which require personal communication, even better care than physicians. The healthcare reimbursement system should be changed to promote equality and fairness among all primary healthcare ...

Speech: Leadership- Nurse as an advocate

Speech: Leadership- Nurse as an advocate

(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

Honourable Masters/Mistress of ceremonies, invited guests and friends, it gives me great pleasure to be addressing this gathering today. It is an honour to be chosen to speak about my role as a nurse and how the responsibilities make me eligible to advocate on my patients’ behalf, especially, when they feel helpless.

Therefore, this auspicious event of the ‘Nurses’ pinning ceremony’ is no better opportunity for me to express my sentiments concerning ‘Patient advocacy’ in our roles as leaders and twenty-first century nursing professionals. As such, the ...

Clinical information system (CIS) is a computerized information system that captures and organizes data for further effective and efficient decision making (Shortliffe & Cimino 2006). It stores medical information which includes a patient health history, a record of healthcare delivery and makes it available to physicians and medical care team to aid in administering treatment and access patient`s critical information. CIS helps provide better health services over other information systems through easy access of a patient data, sharing of information in a timely manner, efficient and effective health care delivery process through monitoring and evaluating services offered. However, there are several limitations associated ...

- Healthcare Data Quality

Data quality has become a center of focus for any organization when setting up data warehouses, putting more emphasis on the customer relationship management. This is true for healthcare organizations where cost pressures and the grave of improving patient care force efforts to incorporate and clean organizational data. This is due to the fact that data is a focal point to efficient healthcare and to financial existence. Data concerning the accuracy of diagnoses, the effectiveness of the treatments and the practices of healthcare providers is vital for any healthcare organization that works extra hard to excel ...

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 ...

Introduction

Transformational leadership is associated with a positive environment meant to attain organizational change, transforming the actual order into a more benefic one for employees, clients and other stakeholders. In the health care domain, transformational leadership stays at the heart of employees’ satisfaction, staff retention, strong hospital administration, with satisfied patients (Robbins & Davidhizar, 2007), likely to become loyal patients (Worman, 2008). Transformational leadership effects also include reducing burnout, decreasing the overall level of employees’ stress, while increasing the level of staff well-being (Weber, 2010). However, the nature of health care system is an atypical one, because, as Rudnik Jr. (2007) observes, it deals ...

The article reviewed in this paper is;

Rak, S., & Coffin, J. (2012). Affordable Care Act. The Journal of medical practice management: MPM, 28(5), 317-319. The paper was published in a peer reviewed journal and the authors have the capacity to publish this type of paper being affiliated to Georgia Health Sciences University.

Abstract

The affordable care act was enacted on March 23, 2010 with the goal of reducing the number of people without health insurance in America and extending the availability of health services through affordable costs. This is because the US health care system is ranked first in terms of costs, 37th in terms of ...

Mandatory continuing education aims to improve service delivery in the healthcare industry. It has over the years been implemented by the American Nursing Association, legalized by many states in the United States, since it establishes a framework to improve the quality of healthcare provided by the nurses. It upholds the fact that nursing has grown immensely and that mandatory continuing education can improve the quality of services being offered by nurses.

Despite the disadvantages of the program, it also has immense benefits in regard to competency levels of nurses. It improves the patient’s outcomes in health care delivery, and ...

The breach in data use causes billions of dollars in wastage. This risks the credibility in medical well being, and the future of most healthcare providers. To help protect the breaches, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) controls and protects the usage, transmission and storage of healthcare information. It protects both electronic and paper formats with the main aim of guaranteeing the privacy and security of healthcare information. On the other hand, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) came into law on February 17, 2009 mainly to improve and promote the adoption ...

I see Jehovah’s Witnesses as stereotyped unlikeness reversals, with predictions that always fail; people that have translated the Bible in the wrong way, former members face bitter treatment, forceful and dictatorial leadership. They refuse important medical services like blood transfusions, even in situations that threaten the life of the victim. There are many cases of sexual abuse to some members of this group, though the Jehovah’s Witnesses have always denied some of these claims.

Children cannot involve themselves in extracurricular activities like school parties and trips because ...

Lake, J., W. (2007) Textbook if integrative mental healthcare. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.

Western medicine has been leading the medical advances in the treatment of mental health for ages, but recently a revision of the of mental healthcare is required, for defining a more compelling and integrative treatment. This is the main substance of James H. Lake’s study – “Textbook of Integrative Mental Health”. The author explains how the western medicine, considered the most advanced healthcare provider due to its technological integration and scientific research, is currently not enough for treating patients suffering of mental problems. Besides, Lake ...

Management styles refer to ways by which the leaders ensure that day to day operations of a company or facility are done the right way and at the right time. The reason is to ensure that the vision, goals or missions are accomplished while satisfying the client. Nursing administrators and hospital use a persuasive style of management, which encourages feedback from all levels of staff in the organization. Managers encourage and value feedback because that is the way the daily activities are fulfilled and also it assist to rectify where there is an issue that could hinder work. The nurses who ...

Introduction

The major theme of this module is that most institutional healthcare providers are corporations however, sole owners and partnerships can also provide healthcare facility. The major discussion in this module is connected with corporate healthcare – the organizations, management, and liabilities they should assume and certain laws they should abide to.

Lessons learnt

There are a lot of lessons learned from this module. Detail knowledge of a corporation is learned in this module. Corporations are formed and are artificial beings and follow the rules and regulations as stated in the charter. Corporations possess unlimited liability, free transfer of ownership, ability to raise capital and ...

Abstract

Technological inventions in the healthcare sector are ever-growing. Healthcare providers are always looking for advanced technologies that will help in the efficient and effective delivery of healthcare. There are numerous technology-based healthcare solutions, and most are striving to reduce the common face-to-face practitioner-patient interactions. There are numerous benefits of this such technologies, as well as a host of limitations. Technology has modernized healthcare delivery because modern technologies help empower patients to be in charge of their health, and this in turn minimizes doctor consultations (Katz, Nissan and Moyer 2004). Technologies such as telemedicine, internet, robotics and telecoms have revolutionized the ...

Introduction

The nursing profession has experienced unendurable nursing shortage over the last years. Shortage of nurse does not only compromise the quality of patients’ health care but also has detrimental effects on the nurses themselves due to high patient-to –nurse ratios. For instance, the shortage of nurses leads to job burnout due to increased workloads and frustrations among the nursing staff. In addition, nursing the shortage leads to increased workloads and longer working hours that are the main cause of job dissatisfaction that eventually increases the turnover of nurse (Wyte-Lake et al., 2013). The purpose of this paper is to ...

Organizations in the health care industry give an extensive variety of medicinal services and social administrations through healing centers, specialists' work places, nursing homes, outpatient surgery focuses, and different offices.

The WHO states:

“There are 9.2 million doctors, 19.4 million medical caretakers and birthing assistants, 1.9 million dental specialists and other dentistry staff, 2.6 million drug specialists and other pharmaceutical work force, and in excess of 1.3 million group wellbeing laborers across the globe.” (World Health Organization, 2011)

The worldwide health awareness framework is progressively overburdened, with climbing quantities of individuals experiencing perpetual maladies and lifestyle-related conditions. Use ...

Introduction

The vast changes in modern and complex health care settings lead to face several challenges by nursing leadership (Reinhard & Hassmiller, 2012). To acquire dynamic roles the nurse leaders need more skills of management to carry out their professional performances. These nurse leaders are also responsible to provide a vision which will motivate the junior staffs and other employees that may help in survival of health care organizations and can achieve high potentials and increased quality in patient care (Spencer et al. 2009). Working in trans-cultural health are requires more skills and effectual communication among all departments and sectors in health ...

Introduction

Information or data regarding any subject plays an effective role in daily routine. Similarly, for the purpose of treatment and medication in the parameters of healthcare, there is certain clinical information use to be collected in order to encourage the treatment known as Secondary Healthcare Data (Health & Social Care Information Centre). According to Price Waterhouse Coopers, by the appropriate use of data in terms of secondary purposes, would be the most effective method regarding improving healthcare costs and outcomes (Coopers). The efficiency of secondary data can be observed in different dimensions such as in keeping ...

The healthcare sector is a crucial department in any organisation. Poor health of the workers leads to the reduction of their performance and overall economic loss. Health care providers have the mandate of ensuring that their services are of the highest quality. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) legislation were formed to ensure proper checks and balances in the mode of handling sensitive client information. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as Public Law 104-191[H.R .3103] / The Kennedy-Kassebaum bill, came into law on August 21, 1996. The US congress passed HIPAA for five main ...

- The plan is to reduce the demand of doctors by giving an online consultation and deciding whether the particular case needs a doctor appointment or the nurse can also solve the case. Hence, it will shift the demand of doctors to the left signifying decrease in the demand for doctors in the programme of E-See (Consumer Health Day). It will keep the supply constant since the programme will not alter the supply of doctors in any way. There will decrease in the charges of doctors because of their reduced demand in the healthcare and Medicaid. This will increase the ...

Coulter-Kern, Russell G., Paige,Coulter-Kern E., Aubree, Schenkel, A., Danielle,Walker, & Kelly,Fogle. "Improving Student's Understanding of Career Decision-Making through Service Learning." College Student Journal 47.2 (2013): 306-311.Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Feb. 2014.

This paper analyzes the effect of selecting a career path with the help of an experimental service-learning program designed for high school students to understand their career and make their career decisions. The researchers are proceeding with their study of college students that have attended the sessions on professional advising to get more information about their career goal. The research is based on two selected ...

Question 1

As a result of reforms in health care encapsulated in the Affordable Care Act, health care exchanges that are state or federally run have been established. The establishment of health care exchanges is bound to alter outpatient treatment as a concept in health care. Some of the benefits that those covered under health insurance enjoy include consultation fees paid to doctors including specialists and payment for examinations and tests requisite to the treatment of illnesses (Carey, 2010).

The implementation of health exchanges has organized the market, making it easier for people to purchase insurance. The ...

Capstone Project: Healthcare Administration

Introduction

Capstone project also called culminating project, the capstone experience, senior exhibition, and the likes. It refers to a multifaceted assignment serving as the culminating intellectual and academic experience for students during the final year of the academic course being pursued. It resembles a very great extent a college thesis, but capstone project has a wide variety of forms. The most common feature is the handling of long-term investigative projects culminating in a final presentation, product, or performance. Usually, students are to choose a topic, a social problem or profession of their interests. They conduct researches on subjects selected, maintain a portfolio of the results or ...

Abstract

Surgical Site infections (SSIs) can occur on the part of the body where surgery has been done. SSI is among the most important problems of healthcare organizations. Its rate has been increased 3% from July of 2013 until August of 2014. SSI can also represent quality care of patients taken care by surgeons. Healthcare experts are doing research on the pre-operative and post-operative strategies to reduce the problem of SSI. Prep agents such as Chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) and povidone-iodine (Betadine) can be used in preoperative surgical practices. Many studies have shown that chlorhexidine gluconate is excellent for both clinical ...

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 ...

Organizational culture is important for every healthcare organization. Organizational culture consists of various components including shared values, attitudes, meanings, norms governing work behavior, practices, behaviors, rituals, stories, attitudes, etc. Formalization of organizational culture is important, but alignment between organizational values and persobal values of all the employees is even more important. Organizational culture has a huge impact on organization’s ability to manage human resource and provide quality care to its patients (Wooten, Crane, 2003). According to various studies, there’s strong relations between organizational cultural values and norms and employees’ satisfaction, turnover intentions, knowledge sharing commitment (Tsai, 2011). ...

- In today’s health care environment is it better to approach the future with a compass or a map? Explain and defend your choice.

Maintaining one’s health should be both affirmative and exact. It is always necessary to know the things that should be dealt with prior to making decisions and actions. Health care had greatly evolved for the past decades and individuals seeking for health care assistance must know these differences. The advent of globalization and the innovational breakthroughs had pushed many health care providers to make maximum offers to the customers. To be able to know ...

Good health of the people is essential for the prosperity of the nation. The realization of national goals such as increased national income significantly depends on the good health of its people. Emerging trends indicate that the United States government has taken the initiative to ensure that it has established a comprehensive health insurance plan for its citizens. Given the three separate options, I will prefer the imposition of a 7 percent rise in the income tax. This is because this option of funding takes account of the relative differences in income earning among members of the society. It acknowledges ...

INTRODUCTION

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

The integumentary system consists largely of the skin and other body components that occupy the three layers of the dermis. The skin is the largest organ in the body and thus the healthiness of the integumantary system is crucial to the normal body functionalities. Older adults usually develop several complications with regard to the integumentary system. Thus it is important to have a defined, modularized and standardized approach towards addressing those integumentary issues to avert further complications that could arise in other body organs as s result of the integumentary complications. There are several characteristics that the skin exhibits as a ...

Question-1 – The Difference between Accounting Methods and Their Effects

These two accounting systems reflect the timing of the period in which the revenue stream and the operating expenses are recognized in the financial statements of a healthcare entity. The major difference between these systems is that the accrual accounting system recognizes revenues in the period during which they are earned regardless of whether the actual cash is received or not. Similarly, this accounting method reports expenses in the period in which they expire irrespective of the cash payment.

In contrast, a healthcare organization using a cash basis of accounting recognizes the revenue stream in financial statements only when the cash ...

1. Research the history of health information technology and trends in the management of health records.

Information Technology was introduced in healthcare in the late 1970s, when Medicare started to use computers widely in healthcare. Although punch cards and first computers were in use since the 1950s as well. Insurance companies can be considered as pioneers of Health Information Technology. It was in the 1990s, when the integration of computers with clinical systems was initiated. After that, health applications were developed by vendors to be run on integrated computers. After the evolution of LANs and WANs in computer ...

Introduction

This summary was created for the purpose of identifying real-life examples of “Technology Strategy”. Based on the reference book Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation by Burgelman, Christensen and Wheelwright, technology strategy is defined as an overall plan that relates to the use of technology for an organization. The plan will consist of objectives, guiding principles, long-term action plans and other tactical elements. Technology strategy focuses on the process and the people involved in the deployment of technology.

Real life examples presented herein are derived from web resources and are analysed by answering the following questions:

- Similarity of the definition described in the article to the definition presented in the reference material; - Description of ...

The review report will evaluate the methods and conceptual framework that the article published with the title of “Positive Psychology in Progress” discusses. I have searched the article from Google Scholar with the helping of inputting search terms “Positive psychology in healthcare”.

The article is a rather milestone in the field of motivational interviewing and psychological practice because it validates a very loud claim that modern psychology made in the recent years. They argued that psychological healing provides the basis for physical one. However, there was no scientific proof that can be produced in order to back up the value ...

Summary of the Two Journal Articles

The article discusses strategies for cost control in health care services paying attention to the issue of continues innovation in medical science. Three groups are classified based on qualitative assessment of the potential influence on cost reduction.

The provider’s businesses being based on fee-for-service payments, the question is how payment reform should be introduced keeping the services as usual. Budget-based capitation is the most potent form of payment reform in which providers receive fixed amount for all health services of a population of patients. New technology and new drugs should have strengthened ...

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 ...

Question 1

The nursing profession requires a high level of competency among the professionals. This is because competency could be the factor influencing the patient outcomes in health facilities. In my organization, competency is assessed based on the core competencies in nursing. Although there are no formal tools developed for measuring competencies in my organization, the use of these core competencies in daily nursing practice is closely monitored. One of these core competencies is ensuring that the care provided is centered on the patient (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2010).

This entails respecting the values of the patients, ...

Brazil is the largest country in South America and the world’s fifth largest country by geographical area (3,290,000 sq. mi) and population (192 million people) (US Department of State). With a population of 11 million people Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil. Other major cities include Rio de Janeiro (6 million), Salvador (3 million), Fortaleza, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte among others. Most of the Brazilians immigrated into the country. Indigenous Brazilians called Amerindians account for 0.3% of the population (United Nations Development Programme 5). There are several Brazilian cuisines that reflect the diversity of the ...

Language is an integral part of health care, and it’s paramount that the patient and the nurse have a clear understanding of each other. A healthy Communication between a nurse and patient enable a nurse to get hold of accurate information on patient's health history, symptoms, and any allergic reaction. With this information at hand, a health practitioner can formulate a treatment plan and evaluate the outcomes of the treatment on the patient (Kroll, 2014).

Therefore, it is paramount for a health practitioner to find a translator to make sure there is no miscommunication between the practitioner and the patient. This is because if ...

Introduction

Healthcare is one of the most essential needs of a human being .Lack of proper healthcare results in an unhealthy population that can be harmful for the growth and development of the population .Nursing practices comprise of theories that are used in the provision of healthcare for the patients .Caring is one of the theories that has been used in the practice of nursing .It involves providing interpersonal nurturing which results in the treatment of the patients .Lack of proper care can lead to the recurrence of a condition or the inability to recover from a particular ailment. (Donahue, 2010) This ...

2.In 2010, the American health care system was completely overhauled with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; amended later by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. In these changes, a broken system that left many American citizens uninsured will gradually become the means by which all Americans will receive health insurance, for better or worse. In this presentation, we will discuss the impact of the bill on everyone from individuals to insurance companies, as well as the varying arguments for and against the bill. We will also discuss where the bill is at ...

Introduction

Shortage of nurses and various other quality and cost related issues have resulted in a boom of research and studies, related to staffing alternatives. In order to develop a workforce that can actually help to overcome the obstacles faced by the nursing industry and to ensure quality management in nursing practices, there are initiatives like supplemental staffing which are being accepted widely. It is important to understand that addressing the nursing related issues will not only help to improve the quality of health care but will also help to increase the productivity and reduce the effect of shortage of nurses, ...

Identify a Culturally Diverse Population within Your Community

Attaining cultural competency is one of the major goals of health care institutions in United States. Achieving this goal creates a greater challenge to U.S. health care sector because of the higher numbers of diverse patients and health care providers. Moreover, most health care centers spend time serving diverse populations, which are associated with conflicts and violence among health care providers reducing the nature of patient care offered by medical professionals. Culturally diverse populations suffer high risks of poor physical, social and psychological health and often never get access to quality health care (Galanti, n.d). The following discussion focuses on ...