Essays on Inpatient

Medicare

What are the purposes of Medicare regulations other than the one mentioned above? Medicare was signed into law in 1965 with the intention of providing better healthcare to the citizen through medical insurance. It provides protection to its recipients, and it is a government program intended to provide insurance to the aged and people living with certain disabilities (Moon, 2006). It is mandated by the law to provide hospital insurance, medical insurance and cover drug prescription for its recipients. How will the federal government enforce compliance in the Medicare Advantage program? Which two other Medicare regulations do you think ...

There are times when a nursing problem arises as a result of a number of findings, and these findings are pulled together into a summary in order to see the big picture created out of these findings. This act of pulling together is what Brown & Ochs (2018) calls a systematic research review (SRR) or systematic review, which helps researchers identify “what is known with certainty, what is tentatively known, and what the gaps in knowledge are regarding an issue” (p.175). It serves as a link between the individual studies performed and the decision making done in order to create ...

Introduction

Operation performance of the organization influences significantly the satisfaction of the patients and the financial progress of the hospital. Evaluations of the metrics that determine the operation performance in the healthcare are critical in determining the quality of the healthcare given by the hospital to the patients and the influence of the quality of the healthcare to the satisfaction of the sick and to the financial performance of the clinic. The leaders of the Healing hand hospital had realized value-based quality of healthcare was the key driving aspect in the healing industry. Determination of the performance of the clinic ...

(Student’s Full Name)

The scene in the movie that I would describe as a hallucination is when she hears the voice of her mother saying, “You broke it!” after she breaks a bottle at her art class (Uenospower Sybil). The scene in the movie that I would describe as a delusion is when Sybil believes that Dr. Wilbur, during a session, wants to harm her in the same way that her mother did when she was growing up. As a result, Sybil tries to attack her with a pair of scissors. The type of therapy that is identified ...

Introduction

Cerebral Palsy Cerebral palsy is a physical disability that results from damage to the brain during development that negatively impacts the functional development of children14. Characteristics of cerebral palsy include an inability to control the body’s motor functioning with a potential to affect speech, learning, environmental exploration, and the skills required for independent living. In addition, these patients have delays in reaching milestones for gross motor development with problems moving such as weakness, spasticity, and impaired selective motor control27. Children born with the disability have varying levels of impairment, and while it usually develops by age three, it ...

Introduction

The term managed care refers to various healthcare insurance plans used in the United States, which are aimed at moderating the cost of providing care to the citizens. Essentially, the techniques used are intended to enhance the quality of patient care provided in the medical facilities. The approaches also include the systems of financing the enrolled organizations under the managed healthcare concept and techniques. In this essay, three types of managed care plans will be discussed. Furthermore, their impact on the way services are delivered at Healing Hands Hospital will be included. The paper will identify the changes that ...

Effectiveness of Supported Angel Heel Treadmill Rehabilitation on hip fractured patients

Physiotherapist DECLARATION I, the undersigned Fatih Serkan YILDIRIMER (print name), a student of the Faculty of Public Health of Debrecen University, being fully aware of my legal liability, do thereby declare and certify with my signature that my thesis, entitled

EFFECTIVENESS OF SUPPORTED ANGEL HEEL TREADMILL REHABILITATION ON HIP FRACTURED PATIENT

is my own original work and that the printed and electronic literature referred to in it was used in accordance with the international rules of copyright. I understand that in the case of a thesis, it is considered plagiarism when: ● quoting word for word without quotation marks and referring to literature without proper citation. ● referring to content without citing ...

Hershey and O’Rourke (2009) argued that the CMS reimbursement changes on “never events” had not only payment implications but also affected the liability risks of inpatient healthcare providers whether there was involvement of the federal payer or not. As a result, the inpatient care providers had to adopt new strategies in the mode of service delivery in the institutions to avoid liability. Some of the shifts in the patient care delivery model include the following. Inpatient providers have increased precautions when handling “never event” complications that have led to an improved safety culture associated with the high-reliability organizations ( ...

Nantsupawat, A., Nantsupawat, R., Kulnaviktikul, W., & McHugh, M. D. (2015). Relationship between nurse staffing levels and nurse outcomes in community hospitals, Thailand. Nursing & health sciences, 17(1), 112-118. The study examines the relationship that exists between the staffing levels of nurses and the subsequent nurse outcomes whereby the study was conducted in various community hospitals in Thailand. According to the author understanding the various factors that influence nurse outcome especially job dissatisfaction as well as emotional exhaustion could enable policy makers as well as hospital administrators in developing strategies to enhance the satisfaction of nurses and minimize emotional exhaustion ...

Introduction

The two types of healthcare system in the United States are Medicare and Medicaid. These two are however very different. Nevertheless, a person can qualify and also receive coverage for both healthcare systems. However, one needs to meet different requirements so as to be eligible for each program. Being qualified for one program does not mean that one is qualified for the other.

Medicare

The Medicare healthcare system was created with the purpose of dealing with the high medical costs which are faced by the elderly citizens in comparison with the rest of the population. It focuses on the elderly ...

Rapid Appraisal

The impacts of nursing inputs on the quality care provided in nursing homes was investigated and found that mix staffing process can effectively optimize the organization standard and reduce the patient adverse outcomes (Hendrix, 2001, para.25). The statistical outcomes of this study present valuable data that is relevant to the proposed issue. The study outcomes demonstrated that the costs of care for decubitus ulcers significantly reduces with the presence of RNs and NAs while it increases with the LPN presence, indicating the significance of delegating appropriate staff for appropriate work as it can effectively improve patient outcomes and reduce ...

Law and Practice

Law and Practice Civil commitment is the involuntary commitment of an individual into an inpatient treatment facility for the safety of him/herself or others (Greenley, n.d.; Testa & West, 2010). This process can force an individual to submit to psychiatric care because of the inherent risk the pose to them. In a civil commitment situation, a person is deemed to be unable to make a reasoned and well-informed decision about their own welfare. This is not unlike insanity pleas which some states allow in criminal defense. Similar to those cases, and despite what a person says about themselves and their ...

About 43.6 million or 18.1% of American adults were diagnosed with various mental illnesses in 2014 (NIMH, 2014). However, not everyone seeks or adheres to treatment, which is a prerequisite to mental health recovery given the chronicity of mental illness. Recovery is a particularly important goal in mental health nursing because it means empowering patients to achieve self-direction, better health, and wellness (US DHHS, 2016). In so doing, patients are enabled to attain their full potential. There is also a need to promote recovery through best practices that enhance care quality, increase treatment rates, and reduce inpatient care costs. ...

Literature review

Kaasa, S. (2015). Is Cancer Pain Control Improved by a Simple WHO Pain Analgesic Ladder Approach Combined With Tumor-Directed Treatment?.Journal of Clinical Oncology, JCO647537.

Article summary

This article takes into consideration the role that the WHO analgesic ladder plays in addressing cancer pain in palliative care patients. The authors identify that cancer pain occurs in 90% of cancer patients but only half them are under proper pain management. To this effect, therefore, there is the need for applying opioids under the WHO ladder guidelines as a way of addressing cancer pain in oncology care patients.

This is a narrative qualitative research ...

Overview of the Product or Service

Providing quality care is one of the primary goals of every clinical setting (Alvarado et al., 2006). Regardless of the clinical setting itself, patient care must remain the main focus for the organization: however, maintaining cost-effective procedures is also a key component of good clinical practice. Good patient care relies on the ability of the staff to communicate, as well as the ability of the organization to meet the specific needs of the patients (Alvarado et al., 2006). For clinical care centers that are open twenty-four hours a day, there can be problems with patient care when staff changes ( ...

The healthcare system has been on a continuous process of change informed by the need to improve patient outcomes. The nurses are trained and prepared to manage patients based on their needs and the environment within which they pursue a livelihood. However, it is evident that despite a standardized curriculum having been adopted over time, there are varying differences across various healthcare facilities and institutions on how care is managed or delivered. The big question that one may ask is how these differences emanate while we have a curriculum and a code of ethics as well as scope of ...

Introduction

As a diabetic educator nurse responsible for the health of the general society as well as that of individuals. My professional goals are to promote, restore and protect health. As a diabetic educator, I possess sufficient knowledge and experience on diabetes management, diabetes prevention and pre-diabetes. My role is to support and educate people who have diabetes. My career is in alignment with preventive measures which is in alignment with health reforms to reduce costs in the healthcare sector. My mission statement is to assist individuals living with diabetes manage the condition as well as educate the society on ...

For elderly hospitalized patients (P), does the adoption of hourly rounding for nurses (I) as compared to daily baths with chlorhexidine gluconate (O) reduce the rate of incontinence-associated pressure ulcers (O) over a six month program (T)? The cases of pressure ulcers among the elderly population within the inpatient settings or homecare settings tend to be higher than those in other inpatient or similar settings. This is mainly attributed to the fact that the elderly population has other health issues that affect their functionality and these could range from physical to cognitive issues. On one hand, the physical ...

Executive summary

Introduction It is apparent that the modern-day healthcare system is faced with a myriad of challenges that require constant and relentless application of evidence and best practices in order to remain true to the central mandate of healthcare, which is, provision of safe and quality care. This implies that as healthcare providers, there is the obligation to be agents of positive change that would ensure both organizational and healthcare objectives are met in an effective and comprehensive manner. In this regard, this paper represents an executive summary of quality improvement program “fall prevention”, intended to reduce the number of ...

Healthy Work Environments and Nurse Burn Out (4)

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critique of an article on the topic of work environments and nurse burn out. The article to be critiqued is a large cross-sectional Swedish study that examines the associations among nurse practice environment, family/work conflict and burnout (Leineweber, et al., 2014). The intent of this critique is to provide evidence that the nurses’ working environment has an impact of personal psychosocial factors. The data for the study was retrieved from the survey-based Swedish section of the RN4CAST, which was multinational EU 7th Framework project. The original project involved RNs employed ...

Introduction

Healthcare is an integral part of a nation’s well-being. Despite its importance, there has been an increasing trend in the costs of health care. With the current high national debt, health care reimbursement should be part of the equation ("Healthcare Reimbursement | Knowledge Hub | athenahealth", 2016). The policy makers, physicians, and patients are well aware of the steps they need to take to reduce the costs of health care by considering health insurance plans. The insurance policies enable the doctors and other health practitioners to provide quality and efficient health care to the people. Health insurance payers are provided ...

Abstract

The healthcare systems comprise of many services that can lead to the successful delivery of treatment to the patients. Patients can receive their treatment and then the member or the hospital can contact the third party payer to reimburse them. There are numerous reimbursement methods and clients chose one that they. The methods include; the Value-Based Purchasing Medical Reimbursement, pay for performance, fee-for- service and episode-of-care payment. Each method has both its advantages and disadvantages to either the patient or the hospital. An acute care hospital which provides quality treatment to the patients within a short period utilizes the ...

Introduction

The outcome of the treatment process in health facilities is dependent on several factors among which is the safety of the facility. There is a need to ensure that all the systems and facilities in the health facilities are safe to enhance the treatment procedures, services delivered and the quality of care. The principles behind the accreditation process are very influential to achieving the status described above. The purpose of the accreditation process is to ensure that the health facilities can not only identify but also formulate resolutions for the problems identified. The accreditation process also aims to inspire ...

Karen appears to have a very positive attitude about her future. She seems to have realized that the end of her relationship wasn’t about her but was about the lack of commitment on her partner’s part. Karen’s strengths lie in the fact that she is positive about her future and that she is making plans for that future. She has an optimistic outlook on her dating future and is committing herself to a gym membership. This indicates that she is moving in a forward direction. Karen could be afraid of the stigma that can be attached ...

Healthcare settings are supposed to be at the forefront in making sure that the services which they provide to patients are of high quality and also meet the minimum requirements of patient safety. Such a realization is also extended towards the prevention of adverse conditions which are considered to have severe adverse effects on the wellbeing of individuals receiving inpatient care (Joice et al., 2013). These conditions have come to be referred to as ‘never events’ since even though they are serious, they can be easily prevented. Additionally, these conditions have been found to be of significant concerns to ...

The institutional affiliation

MEMORANDUM INTRODUCTION Medical marketing has grown an increasingly complicated cause of the fast developing business of healthcare organizations. The old model of focusing on just patients and physicians stopped working. So, it has become incredibly important for doctors to market their medical practices in order to build their own brand, gain new patients and improve business from the current ones. Nowadays, marketing teams need to broaden their consideration horizons and focus on the following criteria: Patients, Physicians, Professional Healthcare Administrators, Payers and Policy Makers (Mycek, 2015). The Texas Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic and New York-Presbyterian Hospital will be analyzed ...

Industrial gloves

Introduction The healthcare sector is one of the most fundamental sectors to a country’s economy. Many investors are looking to invest in the sector due the increased demand of health care services across the globe. Qatar has experienced a vast growth in its population which has failed to match the expansion of the country’s health care facilities. The government has made major amendments to its regulations which are aimed at encouraging foreign investors to invest in the country, most especially in the health care sector. The government is also paying a lot of attention to quality assurance ...

The EBP process is accomplished to the fullest when the recommendations and the evidence are utilized to cause a change within the organization. The EBP process is the interplay between research, education and practice and therefore forms a core for the implementation and adoption of change within an organization. It is the process that offers a viable plan to accomplish a change in respect to a particular research question or problem that has been identified within the setting (Dearholt & Dang, 2012). EBP is concerned about the specific interventions to a specific situation based on tangible evidence and data as ...

Physical Therapy following Stroke

The purpose of this paper is to review a study by Kim, Kim, and Kim1 on the topic of physical therapy following cerebrovascular accident (stroke). The paper will summarize the study, comment on the relevance of the article to the field of physical therapy, and the importance of the study to other stakeholders. Finally, the paper will add recommendations for future research based on the results of the study. 1. Summary of the study The aim of the study was to determine if there was a relationship between stroke survivors’ quality of life and their ability to accomplish daily ...

Human Resource Management,

RE: Request for Job transfer I am an expert Registered Nurse working in the acute psychiatric unit. I have been working for the hospital for five years in the inpatient mental health. I began my career in July 2011 as a new grad nurse in psychiatry. I chose to start off my nursing profession in psychiatry because I wanted to follow my passion for mental health. However, I realized I need and want the medical base a new grad nurse typically undergoes so that I can become the best nurse for both the facility and my patients. I have ...

Stroke can be termed as a therapeutic emergency and care delivered within the first hours in determining a patient's long-term prognosis and recovery. Substantial evidence has demonstrated a considerable reduction in mortality and disability with timely response in acute stroke care, comprising antiplatelet treatment stroke unit. Uptake of evidence-based care is inconstant of frequently less than optimum. For instance, among patients suffering from ischemic stroke, levels of therapy with venous recombinant tissue-form plasminogen activator are comparatively minimal in Australia (7%), and US (5%) compared with Canada (12%) and specified European countries (Middleton & Grimley, 2014).

EVALUATION

Method This was a data ...

Instruction:

Heath share of Oregon ACOs The phrase ACO is an acronym for Accountable Care Organization. This term refers to groupings of hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare providers. The involved parties voluntarily come together to give high quality coordinated care to Medicare patients. Essentially, ACOs came up as a result of the poor service delivery in public hospitals. It is worth noting that patients have for a long time complained about the high cost of Medicare. Furthermore, they also experience reduced healthcare delivery that is not flexible to their needs. The legacy system adopts a “one size fits all healthcare ...

Mental Illness Among Criminals

The prison systems have been over populated by many criminals in our country. The increasing rate of prisoners who have been diagnosed with mental illness is increasing. Many criminals have either been diagnosed with mental illness before being arrested and put into prison or they were diagnosed with mental issues after being incarcerated. The inmates with mental illness while committing crimes may have done so because of their illness. The people who were incarcerated and then diagnosed could have had mental problems because of the prisons system they are now living in. It can cause inmates to become depressed, ...

Flu is a viral disease that influences for the most part the nose, throat, bronchi and, once in a while, lungs. Disease typically goes on for around a week, and is portrayed by sudden onset of high fever, hurting muscles, cerebral pain and extreme disquietude, non-beneficial hack, sore throat and rhinitis (WHO, 2016). The name "flu" started in fifteenth century Italy, from a plague ascribed to "impact of the stars." The principal pandemic, or overall pestilence, that unmistakably fits the portrayal of flu was in 1580. No less than four pandemics of flu happened in the nineteenth century, and ...

I. General pathology information

A. Other Names

1. Urinary tract infection 2. Inflammatory disease of the kidney

B. Causes

1. Vesicoureteral reflux 2. Altered bladder function 3. Congenital urinary tract anomalies 4. Renal calculi C. Incidence rates 1. In females, annual rates for outpatient treatment are 12-13 cases per 10,000. 2. In females, annual rates for inpatient treatments are 3-4 cases per 10,000. 3. Among males, outpatient annual rates are 2-3 cases per 10,000. 4. Among males, inpatient annual rates are 1-2 cases per 10,000. 5. Incidences are highest among young women, followed by infants and the elderly. D. Signs ...

Violence and Aggression

Introduction People express different types of behaviors that represent their physical, psychological, social, and emotional wellbeing. Two main concepts assist in explaining the behavior of a person. These are violence and aggression. These terms have a lot in common but differ in meaning and application. Violence refers to the use of physical force with an intention to cause harm or destroy property belonging to the opponent. On the other hand, aggression represents the violence behavior (Anonymous, 2016). Experts in the field of social psychology have done a lot of studies and observations to determine the relationship these two concepts ...

SUMMARY:

Implementation of an Evidence-Based Patient Safety Team to Prevent Falls in Patient Falls Medical Units Falls cause death and harm for people of all ages, but risks of falls raises noticeably with age. Falls have numerous shortcomings to both the facilities as well as the patients; for example, emotional repercussions for patients and the facilities having to incur more operating cost as a result of unanticipated surgeries. The increasing numbers of falls has led to the creation of a Patient Safety Team. Literature review has it that the Patient Safety Team program is working magically- it has reduced the ...

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO), 2010 noted that recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD). Early recognition is one of the major challenges with this overwhelming mood disorder. The main focus of this project is to provide easy access to educational materials to aid in the screening, assessment, and treatment of women who experience depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PPD was amended by The American Psychiatric Association, in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), to peripartum depression and specifies that the onset of mood disturbance can ...

Medication errors have been one of the leading causes of iatrogenic illnesses in patients, and they are said to cause harm and results in additional costs to both the patient and medical facilities. Every year, 3.8 million inpatient admissions cases are reported with preventable medication errors whereas 3.3 million outpatient visits are reported (Runciman et al. 2003). These errors occur as a result of dosing errors, high volume of medications that are dispensed to the patient and also due to harmful drug interactions and drug allergies. These medication errors can be prevented if some steps are taken in incorporating ...

A majority of Australians suffer from various mental health conditions. Recent researches have shown than quite a number of citizens diagnosed with mental related problems stands at 50% as at 2015 (Perkovic 78). The government is therefore tasked to offer vital mental treatment to protect the productivity of its people and improve the quality of life. Introduction of mental health system reforms have been spearheaded as a means to allow more people to access timely treatment unlike the past where inpatient system dominated the treatment corrido. Government allocation on mental health care has tripled over the past decade. People ...

Article Summation

Burns et al., (2014), in their research work, offer a critical appraisal on the uptake of health care services for childless low income adults who have just been enrolled into a public health insurance scheme. Eligibility for Medicaid (the U.S a governments’ insurance program) witnessed an expansion for eligible adults to include adults who fall below the federal poverty level (FPL) of 138%. However, the Supreme Court’s ruling which made this cap an option for states rather than an obligation meant that states could now extend the limit for persons to be covered under Medicaid Insurance. Among these ...

The Joint Commission (TJC) describes Critical Access facilities (CAHs) as hospitals that meet three primary conditions as follows. First, the hospitals should not maintain more than 25 beds, including swing and acute care beds. Second, they should keep inpatients for not more than 96 hours. Finally, such hospitals should be under authorization from the state government to become CAHs. My change project looks at reducing the length of stay/excuse days for patients in CAHs. It is my hope that reduced length of stay following TJC accreditation not only improves the quality of care but also reduces the cost of ...

Impact of ICD-10-CMS/PCS on MS-DRGs

Introduction Procedural and diagnosis codes, as well as their associated descriptions, play an important role in numerous health care processes. For instance, both hospitals and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rely on coded information to help run primary care activities. Such activities include reimbursement management, care optimization, and population health monitoring among others. As this happens, there is a need for constant technological changes and upgrades to facilitate accuracy and completeness in data transmission. The recent movement from the ICD-9 code set to ICD-10 is a perfect example of such upgrades. This paper shows that the ...

The sources I have found so far are adequate. They have provided information on the political history of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s, the various parts and service provisions of Medicare as well as the relationship between healthcare and civil rights. The sources are:

Health Care, Human Services, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by FindLaw organization

Medicare and Medicaid by Thomson Gale The 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid: Providing Hope for the ACA’s Future by Justin Morgan Reaction Notes In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments that resulted in the initiation of Medicare and Medicaid in America (Morgan par 3). Previous attempt to introduce accessible ...

In recent years, the health sector has become a very competitive field. Health institutions have been forced to develop effective strategies to counter the competition. The only solution has been to improve the quality of health care and create a good rapport with the customers. Gaining ground on the market is not an easy affair in health care as it is a delicate balance between ethical issues and business strategies (Ward, W. J., 2004). Krona Community Hospital is on a mission to remain competitive in the health care sector within this region through ensuring effective delivery of quality care. A comprehensive business strategy ...

Continuous Improvement Projects in Hospitals: A Systematic Literature Review

The continuous improvement projects i.e., CIP, are the short term systematic mechanisms based on team work in order to reduce the variations and eliminate the waste from the systems and processes without any investment of capital in the organization. CIPs play a significant role in the hospitals, by addressing major issues in the hospital such as the efficiency of the internal process, quality of the healthcare delivery, service cost, coordination, and communication. The hospitals that are implementing CIPs are obtaining remarkable results, but as a matter of fact they lack the ability of sustaining the CIPs. Reference analysis and the content ...

This report is on a 19-year-old high school student (male), who has come to the centre for rehabilitation from alcohol abuse. He was previously treated for this context but of not much improvement in his drinking habit. So he is now admitted in the inpatient department for rehabilitation. I am a specialist on the subject and will be analyzing key observations from responses of the patient.

Section A

Q. Who has referred you in this centre for inpatient withdrawal management? My general practitioner has referred me. Q. What is the main substance you use? (Brickham, 2012) Whiskey and vodka and ...

In the case study examined, the patient was vomiting intermittently in postoperative care while receiving Morphine intravenously. The patient’s nurse Pamela is not responsible or trained for prescribing medication, so she decides to seek advice from a senior nurse. The senior nurse Jane orders Pamela to cease the Morphine administration and changes the protocol to 10mgs of Metoclopramide. While Pamela stops the Morphine administration, she refuses to administer Metoclopramide without a prescription. Despite the warnings against administering regulated medication, Jane proceeds to act on her decision and administers the Metoclopramide intravenously, which causes the patient to respond with an allergic ...

Chapter # 1 Introduction

Introduction The studies conducted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute predicted that every year about seven-hundred and eighty-five thousand and four-hundred and seventy thousand US people experience new coronary and recurrent attacks respectively . The diagnosis and treatment of chest chain are imperative because this syndrome exposes dangers to the life of an individual. The advent of overcrowding in hospitals is a significant problem and it is gaining momentum with the passage of time. The overcrowding at Emergency departments (EDs) confirms insufficient quality care and established a systematic issue pertaining to patients that have the right to quality care ...

Position for Opiates: The Benefits to the Community, Cost Savings in the Long Run

This brief summarizes recent analysis examining the advantages and costs of material opiates therapy. An estimated $275 billion dollars yearly goes to investments in the U.S. on healthcare costs, lost work productivity, costs associated with drug-related criminal offenses, and on other costs relevant to drugs like opiates (Doweiko, 2011). The approximately $18 billion dollars invested yearly on substance therapies is funded primarily by public money, and studies to address the affordability of these therapies are growing. Issues arising include the extent to which therapy applications fall under the cover of healthcare benefits and the come back on these financial ...

Patients receiving acute care typically go through different levels of care encountering numerous health care providers in the process. For example, a stroke patient who undergoes cranial surgery will be admitted into the PACU. Once stable, he is admitted into the medical-surgical unit and then discharged into long-term rehabilitation. Prior to being sent home, he is advised to see his primary care physician for follow-ups. Throughout the many transitions in each health care experience, handoffs occur between health care professionals working in each unit during changes in shift. Handoffs also take place between providers of one unit or level of ...

Patient Advantage. (2009). Proposal for a pilot study to identify cost saving measures in management of muskuloskeletal conditions. Patient Advantage.

The proposal gives details the methodology, objectives and expected outcomes of a pilot project aimed at identifying the opportunities for saving cost in the management of musculoskeletal problems, with a particular focus on myofascial pain. The literature reviewed in the proposal identifies myofascial pain as a major underlying factor in many cases of chronic musculoskeletal pain and yet it is grossly under diagnosed and under treated. This justifies the need for the study using the action research modality. The proposal identifies different methods used to measure the cost of healthcare which include direct costs, indirect costs, claims cost and goes on to ...

Introduction

The Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for the administration of various key federal health care programs with a main mission of enhancing the timely delivery of quality health care to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and ensure that these programs are administered in an efficient manner. The agency also ensures that program beneficiaries are aware of the services they are entitled to receive, and that those services are accessible and of high quality. To achieve its mandate, the agency has adapted policies, actions and legislation that ...

Physical therapy is a challenging and demanding career. Working in conjunction with other health care professionals, the role of the physical therapist is indispensible to improving the quality of life of a patient who is otherwise incapacitated in some respect. The corpus of knowledge that must be attained is quite large and covers the entire range of human physiology, and consequently further specialization exists to learn an heal more specific ailments that afflict the patients.

My interest in Physical therapy became evident during my academic work towards the Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science and Sports Medicine. Following my degree, I ...

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 ...

Introduction

What is the problem?

The dilemma in which nurse Munoz is, instead of nursing units to be organized and split up for better services. This increases effective and efficiency in services and care of the patient since they are independent in their environment of work. This is opposite of what she have been reading in leadership theory which she was expecting to be of inspiration by the new knowledge and find out better ways in problems solving. This bring up a total dramatically different from what it is stated in the theory. According to many articles they call for motivation ...

During the last 20 years, comorbidity has had a growing prevalence in psychiatric disorders. Comorbidity refers to the overlap of more than one psychiatric disorder. Dual-diagnosis is a more specific diagnosis of a substance use, which can be drug or alcohol use, and other psychiatric disorders (Stinson et al., 2006). Such is the case with the subject Ken, who is presented for this paper. Ken’s sleep disturbances and lack of appetite indicate a diagnosis of depression to fulfill the psychiatric end of the dual-diagnosis. Using alcohol, underage, as a tranquilizer warrants the substance abuse diagnosis. His distraction, restlessness, and difficulties interacting with others ...

Indirect Health care cost of obesity

Total Cost of obesity

In this research presentation the author will discuss how obesity in United States of America impact health care costs. This topic will be approached from the perspective of direct and indirect costs. Direct cost is related to treating obesity as a health disorder in itself without accompanying complications. Indirect costs emerge from associating medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, heart failure and arthritis among other serious diseases medical science is now discovering. These add up to what can be considered the total health care costs of obesity in United States of America.

Research Paper: Impact of Obesity on Health Care Costs

Introduction

Obesity in United ...

Introduction

It is essential that nurses understand the issues related to health care, which are local and state financing, national healthcare policies, and initiatives that affect healthcare delivery. As a patient advocate, the professional nurse is in a position to work with patients and families to access available resources to meet health care needs. Nurses also have an ethical responsibility to be fiscally prudent in all practice settings to eliminate inefficiencies, and to promote best practices. 

Task: Scenario 1: Note: For parts A and B, the suggested length is a combined total of 1–2 pages. 

Mrs. Zwick, a 77-year-old widow and permanent resident of the United States, was admitted as an inpatient and hospitalized for five days following a mild stroke. She was ...

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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 ...