Essays on Medical Institution

Personal Statement

I am a dentist committed to the health and happiness of the people that I serve. When I was a teenager, I got interested in health and served people since the biology and health courses in school. I learn from that moment the complexity of the human body and the required knowledge and effort to learn the body parts, how to treat them and how to involve with the human being and make him feel comfortable. Secondary school was the determinant moment to define that the health sciences will be my vocation. My vocation for health sciences was not ...

SWOT analysis is one of the core instruments of company’s perform analysis. Understanding and identifying company’s strengths and weaknesses is a basis for any strategical development (Panagiotou, p.2). Core concepts of SWOT analysis could be implemented in both internal and external analysis of any company without size and industry constraints. As for my company, the major strengths of it are unique innovative product (special software for medical institutions), strong corporative culture, and stable financial indicators. Highly innovative products are totally should be considered as competitive advantages for any companies, because they bring a unique value that cannot ...

A hospital is not just an institution where one can get professional examination and treatment, this type of medical organization is also to provide excellence in medical research, patient case and medical education services. Some hospitals serve as outstanding examples of high-quality and well-planned health system management within a wide clinical network and are consistently expanding the range of multispecialty services. This paper reviews the policy and principal daily operations that relate to the area of ethical and fiscal responsibility of health care assistants (HCAs). Management system of any medical institution presupposes that HCAs are competent stewards of resources ...

Part A

Maintaining proper care levels among patients is an essential task for a hospital management. However, this task is best achieved if the medical personnel is conversant with the fundamental principles of Nursing-sensitive indicators. These provisions are developed by the American Nursing Association to assist the management of medical facilities in meeting the needs of the nurses and the patients (Matlock, Start, Aronow & Brown, 2016). In the current case, the nurses would be in a better position to offer appropriate medical care to Mr. J if they have a proper understanding of the nursing-sensitive indicators. The nursing sensitive indicators give ...

Introduction

The paper explores the impact of SES on medical outcomes of patients in the United States. It will describe three types of SES and how each affects healthcare. Furthermore, the best ways of dealing with the challenges will be discussed. The three SES types that will be discussed in the paper are education, income, and the availability of social and individual support.

Education

Lack of education as a challenge in the United States has contributed a lot to medical outcomes. People with little or no knowledge will always fail to follow prescription as per their doctor's. For instance, in a ...

ABSTRACT

Healthcare system of New Zealand is one of the most highly developed in the Pacific region (World Health Organization, 2001). The citizens, residents and guests of the country receive professional medical assistance through the network of publicly and privately owned medical institutions. In 2014, the total financial turnover in the healthcare services market amounted for $17.3 billion, making it one of the fastest growing industries in the country. The country spends 9.1% of its domestic gross domestic product on the healthcare needs of its population (Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2014). Another quickly growing industry in ...

Major Factors that Escalate the Costs of Healthcare with Emphasis on Frequent Admission

There are many things that can lead to the escalation of costs of healthcare. One of the most easily observable reasons would be the increase in number of patient admissions. Every time a patient pays a visit to a hospital or any medical institution, this patient incurs costs that would be billed to either him (i.e. out of pocket) or his health insurance provider. Among the total volume of patients paying a visit to medical institutions, only a small but still significant percentage has to be admitted. Usually, these are the cases where the patient has to be observed ...

Definition of the innovation topic

Electronic Medical Records are comprised of basic computer systems that allow storage, retrieval of laboratory data and clinical notes, thereby enhancing prescription generation, clinical physician order entry (CPOE), and medication documentation (Eisenberg, 2010). My innovation involves enhancement of the update system used to maintain electronic health records. It involves the configuration of the systems to retrieve patient vitals in real time and update the data to the central servers. This initiative enhances the accuracy of the data used in the generation of prescription among medical practitioners. The effectiveness of this technology is achieved through the integration of modern technology ...

Slide 2

Computerized medication administration has a wide range of benefits for both medical workers as well as patients. Clearly, the most important role of the medical institution is to be able to provide prospective patients with professional and safe environment.

Slide 3

There are different ways in which a computerized medication administration system can be used at our hospital. Some of them include the following: a bar-coded medication administration system ID bands and cards electronic medication administration records

Slide 4

According to the findings, a bar-coded medication administration system can be very beneficial for the medical institution. In fact, it helps to prevent the ...

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What does it mean to submit a clean claim?

Generally, a clean claim has no flaw, impropriety or special condition that includes incomplete documentations and forms that causes delay on the timely payment. A health insurance provider submits a clean claim by giving the necessary data elements on the standard claim application forms, including with the attachments and required supporting documents or additional or revisions to the data elements. Specifically, a clean claim identifies the health facility, health professional, home health care provider, lists the date and place of service and any identifying numbers. More importantly, it indicates the specific service provided using ...

Learning Exercise 1.11

In the case in Learning Exercise 1.11 in page 27 where I had to assume the role of a newly graduated nurse finishing a 3 month probation period at a first job in acute care nursing (as presented in the book) was a rather complex one because there were a lot of factors and variables involved, some of which were even unique to the situation and not commonly encountered by normal people. Considering all these findings, it would be unwise to solve the problem using a systematic or standards-based problem solving model because as mentioned, the factors and variables were unique to the situation and ...

The main mission of Trinity Community Hospital and all of the members that make up the entire organization is to be able to provide the highest possible quality of medical and health care services to its patients. The hospital aims to do this by employing some of the best management team and medical and health care team members in the field. The hospital believes that hiring the best people in the field is one of the surest ways how it can return the favor to its main partners, the patients. The hospital also invests heavily in key infrastructure improvements ...

- What is the Topic? The objective of this paper is to discuss a selected topic in the field of ethics. The selected topic to be discussed was the ethical validity of the principle that suggests that the good of many outweighs the good of one. This paper will revolve around this ethical dilemma and its applicability in Henrietta Lacks’ case, perhaps even in the case of her family. - How is Henrietta and her family involved? The bottom line that makes this paper relevant to the principle that suggests that the good of the many outweighs ...

Introduction

Ethical issues are very important for any organization to run successfully and gain the trust of its employees and clients. The healthcare section is one of the major areas where social and cultural ethical issues need to be taken seriously. Leaders in the healthcare section are the most victims of the ethical issues, and they challenges they face fall under dressing code, and nonverbal communications. Other areas where they face problems include the diverse beliefs of their employees, culture, location issues and Health informatics and health information. In the article, Ethical Challenges and Responsibility of Leaders, written by Squazzo ...

Objective: The objective of this research was to conduct an epidemiological study for the cases of miscarriages at the Emergency Department of the University Malaya Medical Center, as well as suggest ways to improve the efficiency of providing emergency responses to miscarriage cases presented at the medical institutions’ emergency department. Study Design: This study analyzed the information on the cases resented at the Emergency Department of the University Malaya Medical Center related to gynae problems, particularly those of the miscarriages cases. The time frame for the gathering of data was 8 months from October 2013 to May 2014. ...

Introduction

The growing popularity of information and communication technology (IT/ICT) has made it possible for medical institutions to virtualize their medical records. There are diverse advantages associated with virtualization, but there are also its pitfalls and challenges. These challenges are continuously addressed at present in order to make the service provided by medical institutions more efficient, have better quality, time and resource saving.

Discussion

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is the virtualized versions of medical records traditionally printed on papers. This virtualized information are stored in databases, maintained, protected and updated. Virtualized information has diverse issues associated with it. The most prevalent ...

Introduction

The policy issue in this regard is DNA exoneration. In regards to the history of the same, it was developed as a result of developments that were targeted to develop judgments in the criminal justice systems of states in the United States. The developments of this policy were purposed to assist defense attorneys and prosecutors in coming up with justifiable options that aided their briefs in the representation of their clients. According to the California Statute, the mischief underlying the spirit of the legislators in coming up with this rule was to assist convicts that may fall victim of ...

Corporate Negligence is the instance whereby professionals fail to reach or administer as per the provisions and guidelines that direct a certain profession. In the advanced levels of a nurse, may, a nurse will have opened his or her own practicing firm. At his instance, he or she may have employed other nurses. However, the principle that guides the nursing profession alongside the parameters of corporate negligence entitles the patient who falls victims as a result of unprofessionalism in the conduction of services to him or her to compensation. In essence, the owner of the nursing institution is vicariously liable for all the ...

In the past, patients have been exposed to a lot of dangers during the treatment process. There are various elements which may be the main causes of the dangers. Following the alarming rates of dangers that patients are being exposed to through improper treatment process, concrete support has been introduced. Following these, patient safety became a major element in healthcare. It aims at reporting, analyzing, and preventing any medical error that often causes adverse healthcare issues. The US Congress has been at the fore front in fight for patient safety. The Congress is entrusted the role of ensuring laws in ...

Value Based PurchasingIntroduction

2007 is considered to be a very important year in the medical field for both medical institutions and patients. This is a time when these Centers that provide both Medicare and Medicaid services (C.M.S) embarked on initiating a program that would ensure higher quality practices in the field (Dlugacz, 2009). The program was dubbed the value-based purchasing program (Dlugacz, 2009). This program was initiated I a bid to directly connect the efforts made by both Medicare and Medicaid facilities towards ensuring quality care for their patients. In order to measure and also achieve the higher quality expected, the value-based purchasing program was ...

The south Florida Jewish gastric center is a medical institution that already has presence in four foreign countries. In addition, the medical institution plan to open another 25 oncology centers outside the united states of America. This report directed to the CEO aims unfolding some of the issues which needs to be resolved before the program can be implemented to import new patients and residence. Some of the issues to consider before the program is implemented to import new patients include: Accommodation; accommodation is very important factor which should be considered before a medical program is implemented to import new ...

The success and prosperity of any economy or country has a great deal to do with the stability and efficiency of the healthcare system in operation in that particular country. Despite this, the healthcare system in operation in many countries is far from efficient. Wakefield (2004), notes that health care is plagued with inappropriate utilization of health services and errors in health care practice in the united states, a factor that accounts for a great deal of wastage and inflation of the cost on Medicare. In light of this, it is quite surprising to note that the adoption and use of high ...

Introduction

Performance management is a way in which steps are taken to ensure that objectives are constantly met in a well organized manner. Bench marking simulation software can be used to achieve this procedure. Nosocomial infections are infections that develop as a result of treatment in a hospital or a health unit. This type of infection is also known as hospital acquitted infection. The nosocomial infections have been found to be rising at Lenity Hospital for Advanced Care (LHAC). The rising rates have been caused by several factors in the hospital which need to be addressed urgently. If this issue is not addressed, then it ...