Essays on Medical Technology

Medical technology is fast changing the healthcare setting along with the varying practice patterns of physicians. Integrating technology in healthcare is crucial for the health of individuals and optimal life quality in several regions. A majority of research suggest that the current medicine practices are integrally reliant on technology. The occurrence is possibly centered on the interpretations that the healthcare practitioners utilize a broad scope of technology in the diagnosis, treatment and assessment of their patients’ care. The current technology in healthcare is highly innovative, highly efficient, and in most situations, very expensive (Evans, 2010). Additionally, there are the ...

Values Clarification and Ethical Legal Case Analysis

Values Clarification Values dictate the way people function both personally and professionally. In nursing practice, having clear values is essential in achieving moral competence (Jormsri et al., 2005). In completing the value clarification exercise, forty-two items were answered. Of these forty-two items, 15 responses were “mostly agree” and another 15 responses were “mostly disagree.” Six responses were “somewhat disagree”, three responses were “somewhat agree”, and the final three responses were “neutral.”

In a cluster that relates to issues raised by advanced technology, I had some agreements and disagreements. Giving extraordinary medical treatments to patients is essential, particularly when the ...

HCA 302. Health Care Organization

Introduction Health care systems are essential in providing security to nation-states world-over, which goes beyond health issues; entire economies depend on such vital system for security. One only has to imagine the devastation of a population by an infectious disease such as HIV/AIDS. Despite having some similarities, health systems vary from one country to the other. Notably, nations design as well as develop their health systems in line with their needs as well as the available resources. The United States and Canada share a border, and thus there is a natural inclination to compare the two health care regimes. ...

Introduction and Background

Abortion is a term that is used to define the premature termination of pregnancy. According to James E White, abortion refers to the intentional termination of the pregnancy before its conception (James 82). However, a pregnancy may fail to reach its conception stage due to natural causes. Thus the woman is termed as having a miscarriage. Miscarriages are acts of nature and beyond the human control. Due to advancement in medical technology cases of miscarriages have significantly reduced. Correspondingly, abortion does not necessarily cause the death of the fetus, but detaches it from its life support hence reducing the ...

Critique of a Quantitative Research Article

The critique of a research project is the objective and critical evaluation of the content of a research report for its scientific merit as well as application to practice. It entails asking questions about whether every step in the research process meets the set standards (LoBiondo-Wood & Haber, 2014). This paper will critique the research report by Caicedo (2014) entitled “Families with special needs children: Family health, functioning, and care burden.” It will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the study, identify the enablers and barriers to the project, discuss the expected outcomes of the project, and evaluate the overall ...

There is a lot of pressure in today’s organizations. Identification of a few of these pressures includes globalization, technology changes, competition, alliances, changes in organizational structure, methodologies of work assignments, employee priorities, capabilities, abilities and demographic factors. These factors call for the Human Resource function to help navigate the company during the transition in the organizations and the same function, finding ways of propelling the organization forward even further. The real plus the perceived value of the HR function will have to be upgraded. The HR function has been shifting from the personnel aspect to that of Human ...

The economic uncertainty, the increasing regulatory pressure from the government and other entities as well as the rising competition leads to the escalation of merger and acquisition in the health care industry. In recent years, the health care industry has been affected by new federal and state laws that aims to improve health care services. While new health care policies and regulations has become beneficial to patients, it has caused a great economic strain, especially among smaller health care entities. This leads to the decision among many hospitals and health care institutions to align with other health care system. ...

Technology has made a great jump into the future. The evidence of this is the successful inventions in medicine. Helen Thomson, who discussed a method of focusing acoustic waves that excludes the need for some types of invasive surgeries claims that “invasive surgeries are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to a clever way of focusing acoustic waves”. It is about no scalpels, no blood, and pieces of flesh or bone as Helen Thomson states. The method was used on a woman named Phyllis who had brain surgery for the treatment of neurological disorder. The finding is that, ...

There are many health concerns for the majority of the people in any community. Individuals in the community have different health issues. Some of the common health issues of the people are those that are related to nutrition and physical activity, overweight and obesity, HIV/Aids, substance abuse and mental health. Various factors affect the proper running of a health organization together with its workers. There has been an increase in the spending of the health organization mainly due to the increase in the level of technology. Medical technology is a broad term that describes the processes, equipment and procedures ...

Background of the Problems

Theories Related to Successful Aging Bowling (2005) defined successful aging from a sociological perspective highlighting that "the substantial increases in life expectancy at birth achieved over the previous century, combined with medical advances, escalating health and social care costs, and higher expectations for older age, have led to international interest in how to promote a healthier old age and how to age successfully" (p.1). To this end, some research studies have outlined theories which can be applied to successful aging. DeLiema & Bengston (2015) examined both the activity theory and disengagement theory. Specifically, these theories have been stated to be ...

The recent developments in technological advancements and scientific breakthroughs have presented modern ways of doing things. One such development relates to the introduction of technology-based medical procedures, which have made it possible to achieve feats yesteryear medical scientists could only dream about. This introduction has however resulted in debates concerning whether controversial medical procedures should be allowed to play their role in society without external interference. In Lisa Belkin’s article, The Made-To-Order Savior”, the author describes how modern medical technology makes it possible to genetically modify a human being at conception so as to increase the chances of ...

The HIV/AIDS global epidemic has ravaged millions of lives across the world. In the past, prior to the discovery of effective control measures through medication such as antiRetroViral medication, the disease had infected millions of lives. At the present time, although the discovery of a vaccine has not yet been made, scientific research has made some leeway with regards to this issue. One would expect very low prevalence rate of the disease in the most powerful country in the world owing to the high level of medical technology and innovation systems available. However, this situation is further from the ...

1a. The Evolution of Hospitals in the U.S. In the mid-Eighteenth Century, hospitals in the United States were essentially isolation wards used during epidemics. Institutionalized health care was provided for the lower classes in charitable organizations such as almshouses, which also provided support for the destitute (Mann Wall, n.d.). Right into the Nineteenth Century, the upper and middle classes were cared for at home. Towards the end of the Nineteenth Century, medical technologies were advancing and institutionalized care was becoming a better choice than home care. Medical practices became increasingly professionalized and tended more and more often to take ...

One of the most significant tasks managed by Health Service Administrators is managing the legal and regulatory issues that face healthcare, and health care providers. Leadership is called upon to ensure that these legal premises are followed, in order to protect patients, health care providers, and health agencies alike. Ann Smith, CEO UK Healthcare was tasked to explain some of the leading legal and regulatory issues which impact the delivery and management of healthcare. She indicated that the most prominent issues listed in no particular order, from a legal standpoint, facing health service administrators include the application of HIPPA, ...

Innovation refers to the overall ability in application of creative solutions in given problems. This process acts as an effective application in the management of change in a given organization. The various unique approaches in adaptation of the philosophy and nuances in relation to change facilitate in a great way change management. Initially, after the change has been successfully effected, there is a tendency of resistance to the overall change. This is because many individuals have fear for the unknown. The fact that change and all that accompanies it is an inevitable phenomenon is an issue many individuals especially in the corporate ...

Nursing is a very important field and plays the role of defining the treatment which is to be given to a patient. Many hospitals in the world are faced with dilemma of dealing and providing total patient care and team nursing. This paper seeks to address the above issues and it comes up with a proposal of analyzing whether total patient care and team nursing is effective or non effective. The objective of the research will be to examine the concepts total patient care and the factors associated with its use in the team nursing.

Introduction

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The origin of the term abortion is from the Latin abortio, meaning to abort, miscarry or deliver prematurely. An abortion can occur due to a problematic pregnancy, health issues or conditions of the mother or several other situational circumstances, but normally the word applies to simply medically terminating the pregnancy. There two types of abortions: therapeutic, to spare the health of the mother and elective which applies to the procedure when it is performed for any other reason.

Although Roe v. Ward legally affirmed the right for women to terminate their pregnancies in 1973, this medical procedure has been hotly ...