Essays on Health Care

In low and middle income countries, burns pose a significant dander to children and adolescent groups with statistics indicating that up to 95% of burn victims within this group ultimately die from the effects. Apparently, the management of burns in this group has been limited to the period immediately after the burn incident with no continued physiotherapy programs for the victims. This paper seeks to focus on the PICOT question “For children and adolescents who are victims of burns, does continued physiotherapy until full growth and development as compared to standard care reduce the risk of scoliosis and future ...

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Question: How International Treaties Interact with Emirati Law (Hierarchy and International Treaties Implementation) according to the Constitution and Main Legislation?

Abstract According to Kelsen, “‘international law and national law cannot be mutually different and mutually independent systems” (as cited in Harris, 2004, p. 67). Kelsen explains further that “both systems” of the law are perceived as to be “‘valid for the same space and at the same time’” (as cited in Harris, 2004, p. 67). Therefore, certain stipulations found in the national laws expressed in the United Emirates Constitution and the Main Legislation align themselves well with international law. The Emirati Law has provisions that interact with the stipulations of international treaties related to human ...

Management Case Study; the Midwestern Medical Group Journey

Introduction. According to Plsek, P. E., & Wilson, T. (2001), management is a collection of ideas setting forth the general rules on how to manage a firm, business or organization addressing how managers and supervisors should relate their knowledge of the enterprise to the achievement of goals and motivation of employees to perform to the highest standard. In the delivery of health services, the following management theories and can be applied as given by The Midwestern Medical Group’s Integration Journey. Models employed by MMG's management included: Selling MMG to an outside party, maintain status quo, with MMG as on ...

History of dengue

Dengue is described by the World Health Organization (n.d.) as a fast emerging pandemic viral disease with worldwide prevalence. The viral disease was initially traced to the epidemics in Java and in Egypt in 1779. Some literatures trace back the virus and its vectorsto the Chin Dynasty. It was hypothesized that the disease occured in the Western hemisphere in the midddle of the 17th century and believed to originate from tropical America. However, some researchers would point out that the accounts of dengue outbreaks were traced back during the 18th and 19th century in Southeast Asia.The dengue outbreaks in ...

The Expanding Roles of Advance Nurse Practitioners

The roles of advance practice nursing have continued to develop around the globe in response to the need for specialized nursing care offered at advanced practice levels (Kleinpell, Scanlon, Hibbert, Ganz, East, Fraser, Wong & Beauchesne, 2014). Kleinpell et al., (2014) also acknowledge the development of roles for advance practice nursing to encompass components such as to perform diagnosis, prescribe treatment regimens, prescribe drugs, perform and interpret tests to aid in diagnosis. These expanded roles are also recognized by the International Council of Nursing (2013). Their definition of advance practice nursing is the practice by a registered nurse who poses ...

Quality and Safety Practice: Prevention of Patient Falls - Literature Review

Introduction Whether an elderly person is living alone, with others, within a nursing home, or under care in a medical facility, falling is a major threat. For seniors older than 65 years of age living in a community situation, one in three will suffer a fall every year; for individuals over 85 years of age, the rate climbs to half of all residents (Cameron et al., 2010; CBO, 2004; Neyens, 2007; Tinetti, 2003). If an elderly adult is institutionalized, the possibility of falling in a year rises to 1.5 to 2 times (Dijcks et al., 2005) and a serious ...

The health care sector in the U.S has had predominant influences from the improvement of technology. This is one of the major reasons that has led to more involvement in the medical science field which is directly associated with the education of the health care practitioners. The health care system need to improve has been rising due to various goals and strains that have faced the American people. They include the need to check the costs of health care that are soaring, improve the quality of health care and cater to the increasing number of Americans in need of ...

The provision of quality healthcare whose value matches the health and safety needs of patients remains the biggest challenge for most health care organizations and centers. With dynamics in the healthcare sector and the introduction of healthcare legislation such as the Obama Care Act that emphasize on the provision of quality and equitable healthcare to consumers of healthcare services, most healthcare organizations have had to device strategies and come up with initiatives for ensuring quality in healthcare delivery to patients. Višnjić, Veličković and Jović (2012) define quality healthcare as one that meets and satisfies that health and ...

International Comparison of Data

With the help of the World Health Organization's “Statistical Information System database” the paper will compare two totally different countries. The comparison will be made between the United States and Nigeria. I decided to compare two countries with different political system, different geography and development. For the comparison three health indicators were chosen: “life expectancy at birth in years, under-5 mortality rate per1000 live births and total expenditure on health per capita”. All three indicators are a global indicator for deciding the health conditions, among others in the countries. Life expectancy at birth shows “the overall mortality level of ...

The Award. Eligibility

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award was established in the 1987 by the U.S. Congress in order to recognize the companies that managed to implement well-functioning quality management systems. An underlying aim of the Award is to raise awareness about quality management programs and promote their introduction by the U.S. companies. Importantly, the Award is part to the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program that is implemented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology that represents a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Baldrige Program is public private-partnership that promotes companies’ performance excellence (NIST, 2016). The activities, run ...

The concepts of health economics involve planned investments at per capita levels for following factors of the health stock, lifestyle, environmental factors, and health care. If I have a net fund of $1000 per capita for investing into health production, I will choose Mexico and develop the below mentioned plan of investment in all of the above-stated factors. $400 into Health Stock The health conditions for elderly in Mexico are found directly attributable to the socio-economic status of the individual right at the age of 10. Hence, it can be defined as the stock of health capital which returns ...

Take Away Messages

A cancer registry is an information bank developed for collation, management and interpretation of data pertaining to persons diagnosed with malignant or neoplastic disease. Three primary types of cancer registries include hospital registries, state registries and special cancer registries. Cancer registries gather, store and assess the data from cancer patients. They serve as an information bank for cancer research and offer information to aid public health officials and agencies. For instance, physicians access this data to gain more information and understand the cancer better prior to diagnosis . Cancer registries utilize coding applications and manuals to collate and abstract their ...

The contemporary world has seen the exponential rise of cancer prevalence in the aging population to somewhat alarming levels. This segment consists of individuals aged 65 years and above and is the fastest growing age group in the United States. Recent statistics indicate that one in every eight people in America aged 65 years, and above develops cancer, with women accounting for 58% of all cancer cases (Browner, n.d.). Since cancer risk increases with advancing age, the elderly account for 56% and 70% of all new cancer diagnoses and mortalities in the country (Browner, n.d.). The cancer burden in ...

<<Name >> <<Date>> The UMKC Health Career Fair featured many health care organizations and career opportunities. The Dream Works specializes in Home health, social services and therapy support. They were hiring for health workers to care for aging and disabled people. The duties included housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, shopping assistance and community integration. There were many open positions – like Personal Care Attendant, Direct Support Staff, Certified Nursing Assistant and Transitional Living Specialist. The second company I met was Kingswood Senior Living Community. Kingswood runs a Health and Rehabilitation Center in Kansas and takes ...

Higher education in the United States faces a number of challenges because of the opportunity gaps that exist in the society. The opportunity gaps stem from the increase in immigration of minority groups in the society and the lack of affordability for higher education in these minority groups. Despite the current arguments in the United States that there is the attainable American Dream, there are still those persons who cannot access or afford higher education. The truth is that children of lower socio-economic groups will have a more difficult time accessing higher education and this leads to the limitations ...

____________ University In recent times, Americans have experienced an increase in health care cost which has made it difficult for many citizens to gain access to medical care. Furthermore, the recession has raised the number of Americans who do not have access to health care because they are uninsured due to the reduction in their benefits or the loss of their jobs. Experts predicted that the number of uninsured citizens will continue to increase if there is not a solution in place that would help struggling Americans. As a result, America would face an economic crisis if there was ...

In Low and High Income Families

In Low and High Income Families The last quarter century has presented a new and very challenging epidemic that seems to have an effect on every population group throughout most of the modern world. Obesity, and more specifically childhood obesity, has become almost as detrimental to world health in developed nations as any other disease. In fact, childhood obesity, which almost always leads to adult obesity, typically plays a role in every natural cause of death, from heart disease, to cancer and especially diabetes type 2. If we want to continue to see newer generations outlive those that came ...

Nurse Home Visiting Programs

Nurse home visiting programs are used by public health nurses who work with families in communities. The nurses make visits to assess the needs, health status, and the environments in which the families are living in order to make the appropriate interventions and provide the available resources (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hanson, 2015). The nurses assess the environmental status, such as paint conditions, aged houses, and dangerous equipment in playgrounds that pose safety hazards. The families benefit from the visits by getting recommendations such as the installation of fire extinguishers and smoke detectors in the houses. The nurses also ...

CENTROMED WALZEM CLINIC

CentroMed Walzem Clinic is among the many health centers in Bexar County, Texas. It forms part of the El Centro Del Barrio Health Centers network, and it is operated all year-round. It primarily offers its services to the urban population in San Antonio and the surrounding cities (El Centro del Barrio d/b/a CentroMed, n.d.).

Vision

“CentroMed is an integrated health care system that provides accessible services of superior quality” (About us, n.d.).

Mission Statement

“CentroMed will be a leading health care provider and employer recognized for quality customer service, clinical excellence, comprehensive care, and responsiveness to community needs” (About us, n.d.).

Governance Structure -

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The recent outbreak of Zika epidemic has caused fear among citizens in most parts of the world. However, the public health sector (CDC) proposes capabilities that can be adapted to contain the situation and reduce fear among the citizens in the USA. The capabilities are community preparedness, together with community recovery, and emergency operations coordination as well as emergency public information and warning system. These capabilities will act as strategies for dealing with emergencies among the local and national health care systems. Community preparedness allows the local health care facilities to assess itself and that of the community to ...

Introduction

Osteoporosis is a health condition that affects bones. Osteoporosis condition makes bones thinner and weaker. The thinness and weakness of the bone increase risks of fall that may cause a fracture since a mild stress can easily bend and break the bone. Bone fractures associated with Osteoporosis occurs in wrist, spine, and hips. The condition affects both male and female of all races, but Asian and White women above the age of menopause are at greater risks of acquiring the disease. According to Peña & Perez (2012), the disease affects more women than men. More than 40 million Americans ...

Touted as solution to globally access patient safety, healthcare records and support and enhancement of quality measures for evidence based care provision, electronic medical record advent began with less reviews from all healthcare practitioners sectors. Nurses, who have been protecting their paper documents, have shown resistance to the change of abandoning papers for computers. We have many reasons for the difficulty of this transition, providing educators and administrators with both opportunities and challenges to expand comfort levels and knowledge base of nurses. Therefore, methods for enhancing computerization skills together with clinical software systems development and implementation involvement of staff ...

Answer 1

Chronic illness refers to that illness that lasts for a very long time and usually cannot be cured completely though some of them can be controlled or managed through proper diet, exercise and certain medication. Although these diseases cannot be cured, the context to which an individual life is of a great importance and thus the health policy needs to play an important role in ensuring that they promote the life health of people ailing from these diseases. The maintenance and health promotion related to this illnesses can be achieved through the combination of physical, mental and social well-being ...

A Capstone Presented in Partial Fulfillment

Master of Healthcare Administration KAPLAN UNIVERSITY Method This particular section will be devoted to analyzing and discussing the methods used for the overall project. Correspondingly, the purpose of this section is to discuss the methods of the research along with its appropriateness, its population, data collection and its further analysis. Just like it has been mentioned in the previous sections, the three main research concepts for the discussion are the effectiveness of ABA intensive measures in therapy treatment, the relation of the application of these measures with the development of social and personal characteristics related to understanding the adulthood ...

The environment in which Cambridge hospital is operating is one that is filled with competition from other health care providers such as Boston city hospital (Kennedy School of Government 4). These hospitals provide same services to people in the city and therefore, they all compete for same clients. The hospital’s external environment is not also certain since regulation governing the operation of the institution are often changed by the city council (Kennedy School of Government 1). Despite its reputation declining over the years, the hospital managed to earn back its good reputation from the public as results of ...

Kansas City Metro Areas

General overview The majority of facilities supporting the homeless are shelters, thus they may have the waiting list. Moreover, there is an eligibility criterion and the list of requirements, i.e., a candidate shall prove employment search, or have dependents.

HOMELESS POPULATION

(816) 483-9927 http://sheffieldplace.org/, Executive Director Email: ST Eligibility Criterion: single mothers and homeless families. Homeless mother with up to five dependent children, or in the third trimester of pregnancy. Services provided include housing and transitional programs for mothers, children and families. The organization is linking the homeless with employers and housing. Services are suitable for urban immigrants and ethnic minority ...

Part1

Critics have questioned the authenticity of medical-related to industries support towards reforms in healthcare reforms. One might argue that these industries have decided to forgo profits in the future to gain in regarding public relations rather than support the efforts being made towards providing healthcare services access to all. According to Brody (283), a conflict of interest can be seen clearly by examining the reaction of medical professionals to these reforms. Professional medical organizations have made no promises towards reducing medical costs. Ironically, some physicians have offered to support the reforms on the condition that their income is not ...

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Geriatrics refers to the study of health and care of older population. It is a branch of medicine or social sciences dealing with special care to older people by preventing and/or treating their diseases and managing their disabilities, so that they would be able to live a good life. However, there is no standard rule for considering someone to be in geriatric population. A physician, who specializes in geriatrics, is known as geriatrician. Several studies have been done to improve the quality of life of older people having different diseases or disabilities. One of the most ...

Analysis of the President’s Obamas Iowa Victory Speech

President Obama’s Iowa Caucus victory speech was an inductive argument predisposed on a given number of premises. These premises held the note of his speech and kept the public into a belief that his premise would be fulfilled upon assumption of Presidency in the USA. In as much as this speech was anchored on giving gratitude to the Iowa delegates and citizens for overwhelmingly endorsing his candidature as a Democratic presidential torchbearer, it was deeply entrenched on the following premises:

Abolition of tax breaks for companies that ship American jobs of overseas, and instigate a middle-class tax cut, ...

Electronic Health Record (EHR): Literature Review

Changes pertaining to EHR in the health care industry affect an organization: Current developments pertaining to EHR include enabling patients to access personal information relative to their plan of care . There were expected positive benefits from patient accessible electronic health records (PAEHR); yet the study apparently generated varied results. The findings revealed that “patients believe that record access increases their perception of control; however, outcome measures thought to create psychological concerns (such as patient anxiety as a result of seeing their medical record) are still unanswered” . Moreover, in another study, the usability of EHRs were evaluated and problems relative ...

Overall impression

The centrality of SAP in the provision of business software cannot be gainsaid. The company develops software programs which enhance productivity for various companies across the globe. SAP ensures efficiency and productivity in areas such as customer relations, human resources management, accounting as well as enterprise resource planning. Because of these services, SAP has become a global leader in the provision of business software. It is against this backdrop that the University of Houston-Downtown invited the vice president of SAP, Jeff Word, for a talk with its students. Word’s introductory message to the students encompasses the working of ...

Obesity has become a problematic trend in the America since 1980 with more than double the cases of adults affected and cases among adolescents tripling. Statistics further indicate that around 300,000 premature deaths were reported associated with obesity showing the perils of obesity and its deadly effect on the American economy. ("Big Fat Liability Case") As of 2012 the economy has had to deal with the spiraling costs of treating diabetes at a whopping $190 billion dollars annually and its effects on the health care system was catastrophic. The catastrophic cause of obesity in the country was simply ...

About the paper

Embezzlement, funds misappropriation, cheating! - Whatever the method or whatever the name you give it, corporate frauds are rampant and an ugly truth associated with the market around the world. As soon as the news of any such scandal is exposed, newspapers and social media turn aggressive on deciding what went wrong and who did it? Irrespective of the eventual outcome of such scandals, it is the shareholders that suffer the billion dollar losses and a lost faith in the Wall Street. Unfolding such events takes us to the traces of Enron and Wordlcom. However, there were also healthcare ...

Conclusion

Sweden and India, being developed and developing countries respectively, differ in a number of respects and in particular with regards to health care policy and health care system. However, apart from the quality of healthcare, the two countries also differ in terms of infrastructure, economy, poverty levels, and quality of education, literacy levels, per capita income, technological advancements, living standards and industrialization criteria. As has been established in the above discussion, the high quality of healthcare in Sweden means that the standards of living in this country are relatively higher than is the case in India with a struggling ...

Welch Allyn: Overview

Welch Allyn is a global manufacturer of medical diagnostic equipment and a leading provider of healthcare solutions ("Overview," n.d.). The company has a long history on innovative solutions for healthcare provider and patients at large. Welch Allyn has since continued to cater for medical practice needs by rolling out numerous patents including a classic, flagship invention of first direct-illuminating, hand-held ophthalmoscope in 2015 ("Overview"). If anything, Welch Allyn contributes to healthcare system by offering clinical and care solutions for practices, hospitals, clinics, community health centers and medical schools ("Overview"). Welch Allyn represents, or is part of, medical device industry. ...

It is widely known that to obtain the necessary medical care for certain population groups is problematic. This applies especially to the elderly and to the people living below the poverty line. Since such people are often unable to afford the paid medical treatment, they have to rely only on the state aid. And such instruments in need are the government programs Medicaid and Medicare. Although these programs are quite different, they are both controlled by the division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Together they performed a great help for the certain groups of people ...

The ‘individual mandate’ is a provision of healthcare reform that makes it mandatory to have a health insurance. The objective of this mandate is to remove free riders into the healthcare system in the state. In this paper, we are going to analyze how effective this mandate is going to be in solving the problems in the health insurance sector. In the first place the question that arises is that whether a free rider is a major factor responsible for the rising cost of health care. In this respect we should stress the fact that even insured people take ...

Global health

Underdeveloped countries face unique challenges that make it difficult to provide adequate healthcare services. One of these difficulties is the transformation of epidemiology caused by changes in global health over the past several decades. According to McQuiston, Parrado, Martinez and & Uribe (2005), negative epidemiological transformations are a major issue in underdeveloped countries. It is evidenced by an increase in the prevalence of lifestyle diseases, non-communicable diseases and cancer-related complications. The second challenge is the need to narrow sanitation gaps. Although sanitation inequalities have improved globally, many undeveloped countries still struggle with poor sanitation services, which is a leading cause ...

Introduction

Juanita Perez is an 84-year old Filipino woman who lives in Los Angeles, California, and who has recently lost her husband of 60 years. She came to the agency, seeking help on how she can deal with the grief and loss, as she has been having a difficult time coping with it. In the sixty years that they were married, they have never been apart. Juanita is a practicing Catholic whose primary language is Filipino and manages to speak a little English. She and her husband came to the United Striates as a result of the petition for immigration ...

One program that has been developed to help in the transformation of the work environment of nurses is Magnet Recognition Program. This program aims to establish a culture where excellence when it comes to nursing care and even professional practice is prioritized and valued. Survey results showed that there is higher satisfaction for nurses and a high performing work environment when a health care institution reaches the Magnet recognition (Morgan, 2007). There are 14 forces of Magnetism namely: Nursing Leadership Quality, Structure of Organization, Management Style, Policies and Programs, Professional Models of Care, Quality of Care, Quality Improvement, Consultation ...

Nurses play many roles in the delivery of patient care. One important nursing role is case management. However, consumers will not be able to optimize the health benefits of services from case managers if they do not understand this role and how to access related services. For this reason, access to information about case managers is paramount especially on the internet which has become a primary source of information for many consumers. However, it is important to appraise such information about case managers to determine the accuracy and ensure that patients have realistic expectations. The purpose of this paper ...

Governments’ ability to identify, finance, and provide desirable medical services is under increasing pressure from aging populations, consumer expectations, and escalating health-related technological costs. In the US, health expenditure is nearly sixteen percent of the GDP with bureaucracy consuming about thirty-one percent of the expense (Gorman, 2008). In addition, up to forty-five million Americans lack adequate access to quality healthcare. However, the principle obstacle facing the healthcare system is the shortage of well-educated medical doctors who are adequately prepared to handle the various challenges encountered in the profession (Gorman, 2008). Thus, improvements in the education and certification of doctors ...

The introduction of the HIPAA affected organizations. The Act brought a new order in healthcare industry. With the introduction of the Act, healthcare organizations were expected to evolve from a cottage type industry to a new industry contributing to advanced medical research (Califf and Muhlbaier, 2003). The healthcare organizations were either to comply with HIPPA or risk facing severe penalties including but not limited to criminal prosecutions and fines. Implementation of HIPAA guidelines came at a cost. Organizations had to invest a lot of resources and implement organizational changes to meet the requirements. For example, transitioning from paper records ...

I. Variation shows how the continuous or interval variables are spread around the mean value. The low value of variability indicates that the results are concentrated around the mean value; it means that the variables have values close to the mean value. The big value of variability indicates that the results are significantly spread around the mean value.

The key processes for health-care organizations are the number of patients visits, serious disease diagnostics rate, or hospitalization rate.

The common causes of variation are random factor and seasonality. The special causes of variation might be epidemic, political, economic, or demographic situation. The health-care organization business is dynamic and it changes over time since there are always changes over time ...

Florida

The Florida Legislature is seated in the Florida State Capital in Tallahassee. The Florida Legislature is composed of 160 state legislators. The state’s legislature is responsible for creating and amending laws within the state of Florida. In order to do this, legislators are responsible for proposing legislation in the form of a bill. If successful, the legislation goes through a review, readings, and requires a majority vote. Then, the bill is either signed into law by the state’s governor or the bill is vetoed. The state’s legislature also has the ability to propose amendments within the ...

The healthcare system has been undergoing transformation for the past two decades across technological, infrastructural, service provision, quality, safety and costs and research-based care techniques among other visible and hidden aspects. These changes have gradually led to a system that more than anything assures patients, families and communities of recovery, restoration and a high quality of life as well as prolonged lives as evident in the increasing population of senior citizens (Henriksen et al., 2008). Today, the aspect of patient-centered care has taken shape of how healthcare services are disseminated to patient groups. Within this perspective, the provision of ...

Chapter 5

According to the first scenario that is persons who have high cholesterol levels, the characteristics of the sick role does not apply. This is because in as much as the person has high cholesterol levels the person is not sick of heart disorders and therefore not exempted from the normal social roles in society are exempted from the normal social roles in the society (Weitz,2016). Looking at our second case persons who have genes that show high chances of developing breast cancer are not responsible for the condition in which they are. In our second case, the characteristics ...

Question one

A dilemma refers to a situation where an individual finds him/herself in a position where they are supposed to make decisions concerning particular subjects and which in most cases will result in outcomes that may have challenging connotations (Post & Blustein, 2015). The case presented above presents an ethical dilemma in which urgent decisions need to be made to save the life of a 6-year-old child who has been affected by a bout of meningitis. However, there are challenges to the plan of care that is supposed to be given to the child since the parents have got conflicting views ...

According to Blackpast.org, history of the African-American population on the territory of the future United States of America begins in 1494, when Christopher Columbus arrived in Hispaniola with the first Africans and continues to this day (Timeline Home Page). During this time, African-American population of the US has experienced both ups and downs, bearing all trials fate has presented. It is no secret that African Americans have to face with various attitudes depending on the sphere of life. Under the various attitude I mean the presence or absence of any advantages in such aspects of life as education, health ...

The implications/justifications of the RN's decision about the application of transmission based

The RN’s decision to ignore the transmission based precautions are not in any way justifiable and they further dampen the spirit and obligation of the healthcare professional to assure of quality and safe care within the clinical setting. This decision and the subsequent actions predisposes the RN to a high likelihood of acquiring infections and further, in their role and service to other patients exposing them to contact or communicable infections (Treas & Wilkinson, 2014). With the HIPPA guidelines clear on the role of the healthcare profession al and the healthcare facilities on preventing health acquired infections, then the ...

CAPSTONE REPORT

Dental carries were a health problem first identified in 1930’s by Beltrani and also termed as the black teeth of very young. It also assigned various terms like “nursing bottle mouth, nursing bottle syndrome, night bottle mouth, and baby bottle tooth decay . The common meaning among all these various terms is suggestive of the negative impact of baby bottle in the pathology and etiology of carious lesions . Oral health condition is a critical component of preschool children’s health and overall well-being. Early childhood caries has been associated with many factors such as prolonged/ recurrent nocturnal bottle feeding, ...

An Explorative Analysis of the Use of Mobile Device App for Communication between Physician and Patient in the Context of a Private Sector Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Introduction:

Mobile technology has produced many opportunities to increase the quality of health care services. The opportunity to mobile communication could create bountiful improvements in patient care but there are many questions left unanswered. Before a mobile communication app can be implemented the risks and limitations of the software need to be carefully analyzed. A hasty implementation could cause a great opportunity for patient care to fail. The proposed research program will ...

Part 1

Chronic diseases are the leading cause of deaths occurring in the country as far as the current statistics are concerned. The most common chronic diseases include; stroke, heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes and arthritis (CDC, 2016). Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that about 117 million people of the total adult population have at least one chronic disease (CDC, 2016). This statistic translates to one in every four adults having, at least, one chronic condition (CDC, 2016). In 2010, seven out of 10 disease-related death cases were as a result of chronic diseases (CDC, ...

The globalization phenomenon has led to increased diversity in regards to the type of patients that a nurse can come across while discharging his or her professional duties. Globalization has led to the breaking down of racial and cultural barriers which hitherto segmented various aspects of human interaction including the provision of health care services. With the increased patient diversity due to globalization, a need has thus emerged for cultural awareness training within nursing education and development realms (Campinha-Bacote, 2011). However, this is not the case as a majority of nurses who are churned out of the nursing education ...

U.S has one of the largest and costliest health care system in the world. Healthcare is the second largest industry in the country. In spite of this achievement, the health status of the people in U.S, does not match the cost and infrastructure put into it (HealthCare.gov, 2016). Both communicable and non-communicable diseases still continue to harm a large sector of the population, when compared to other developed countries. Unlike other developed countries, people in U.S were expected to obtain individual health coverages and pay individually for health services. The right to health was not treated as a basic ...

Abstract

The paper will examine the health care insurance it the United States, their benefits and costs to the employers and companies that provide health insurance to the workers. With rising concerns and raising the costs of the health insurance the companies have made various schemes on which to work on. Some companies provide health care, some do not. The others provide health care, but have different policies and different premiums related to the health risks among the workers. The best way to get into the issue is to look at the broader picture not just on the health care ...

Delivery date

A community can be described as a social group or unit usually of different sizes and resides within a specific group geographical location at a certain given time. People living in a community usually have common goals, social norms and values, are ruled by the same government, and have similar resources. Community health, on the other hand, can be defined as a discipline in the field of public health that is concerned with the study as well as improvement of health within a community. It focuses on a specific geographical area, not people who have similar characteristics. The community ...

Health policy analysis was focused on the examination of Medicaid health policy – the Patients Protection and Affordable Care Act – PPACA, known also by the name “Obamacare”. The policy expands the coverage, holds insurance companies accountable, lowers health care costs, and provides more quality of health care for low-income families and individuals. Coverage prevision is being expanded. The relevant evidence and quality concerning the effectiveness of healthcare services is crucial to policy question related to clinical care and practice (Medicaid.gov, n.d.). Methods will change with different approaches such as prevention; diagnosis, treatments and monitoring a clinical condition with improving the ...

Introduction

Patient safety is undoubtedly linked to health care quality; patient safety may even be considered as the cornerstone of health care quality. That statement alone, makes the ethical and legal concepts that are required of health care organizations in the delivery of high quality health care highly important when talking about patient safety. Quality health care is an umbrella term that encompasses many aspects. Moreover, many also consider patient safety as indistinguishable from quality health care. Nevertheless, a quality health care has indicators such as safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, time, efficiency and equity. The focus of this paper will ...

In this final paper, I would like to summarize all the previous information about handoff process. First of all, it is necessary to remind the definition of handoff. “Handoff - is the transfer of patient care from one health care provider to another or from one health care facility to another” (Medical dictionary, 2009). There are many kinds of patient handoffs, including: “ physicians transferring responsibility for a patient; physicians transferring on-call responsibility; nursing shift changes; temporary responsibility for staff leaving the unit for a short time; anesthesiologist report to recovery room nurse, nursing and physician handoff from the emergency ...