Essays on Physicians

Body Mass Index

Body Mass Index (BMI) Introduction Historically, the use of the Body Mass Index (BMI) has been the standard method of measuring obesity among the adults. The standards of BMI were created using population samples, which were calculated from the measurement of the weight and height of Caucasians. Recent research has proved that BMI alone cannot be an appropriate way of measuring obesity. The main reason for this is the differences in ethnicity and the genetic make-up of individuals. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has evaluated the trend of the BMI and the result is that the African ...

Critical analysis of The Influence of a Post discharge Intervention on Reducing Hospital Readmissions in a Medicare Population by Costantino, M. E., Frey, B., Hall, B. & Painter, P. October 2013 16(5), 310-316.

Interventions Reducing Readmissions

Abstract Discharging patients from a hospital is a complex and intricate process that should be handled with a lot of attention and care to avoid the unnecessary readmission of patients. The study states that some reasons cause hospital readmission in Medicare patients between 30 days of discharge and they may include failure to follow the physician’s directions, reoccurrence of the condition, lack of follow-up care ...

Issues at Kaluyu Hospital: Case Study

1. The case of Kaluyu hospital highlights a slew of anomalies in organizational culture and practices that demoralize employees. First and the foremost, there is a lack of transparency in rewards and performance system. The credit of the patient care usually goes to the doctors despite the fact that nurses do all the work. The partnership of doctor and nurses, one of the fundamentals of quality care, is in trouble. Research reveals that these types of conflicts often lead to serious long-term issues. If it continues unabated, it is likely that the organization will witness high turnover, low job ...

The Canadian healthcare and social assistance sector falls under the NAICS classification. The sector entails a publicly funded healthcare system. The sector is guided by the provisions of the Canada Health Act of 1984 (Belchetz). The sector, relative to its peers in most other countries including the U.S and Mexico, is unique. Its uniqueness arises from the fact that despite being predominantly publicly funded, most of the healthcare services at the point of sale are provided for by private practitioners. The Canadian healthcare and social assistance sector has been billed in many quarters as a model to be followed ...

There are so many nurses in the country, so people might think that their voice would be clear and heard out loud. However, that is not the case. It is not always easy to talk about issues, especially if it would have a direct effect on your job. I have to agree with Garon. According to Garon, it is important that nurses realize the need to speak up and be heard at work. It is important not just for the satisfaction at work, but also to have better team work and to provide outmost patient safety. (Garon 2012). I ...

The legalization of Euthanasia is an ethical concern in Canada. Euthanasia refers to the process of medical assistance in dying. It is one of the easiest methods to terminate the life of a person who may be having a terminal illness like cancer and HIV/Aids in their lasts stages. However, some people argue that the individual must be sure that they have to die in the end. Recently, the Canadian legislator changed the rule and advocated for euthanasia among the terminally ill patients. The law is unethical as most people do not identify with the effects of the law ...

Managed care is an essential system of delivering health care across the country that works towards the provision of a generalized structure necessary to focus on the use, access, effectiveness, quality, and cost of services offered. The management aspect creates a link to the patient, which deliberates on the provider services noted across the industry. Two main modes of managed care provisions include provider reimbursement as well as hospital reimbursement aspects. Working on these aspects requires a premium understanding of issues within the community. Provider networks attempt to reduce costs that emanate from providing better fees for the services ...

Breaking Barriers: Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care

Breaking Barriers Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care With more than 3 million in numbers, nurses comprise the largest section of health care professionals in the US. They spend a huge portion of their time to deliver healthcare services which makes them a viable force in ensuring and safety of care. A careful examination of the nurses’ capacity to support the health reform is essential, especially with the passage of laws such as the Affordable Care Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, among others, which aim to improve the design, financing, and delivery of health services (Sochalski ...

The year of 2016 became critical in means of assisted dying issue for Canadian society, legislators and, of course, health-care professionals. The law, known as Bill C-14 (Chochinov & Frazee, 2016), grants permission for assisted suicide to patients who wish for death. However, certain strict terms condition this permission. The limitation of the patients’ access to the discussed medical service is a widely debated question. Many see it as deficient, sub-optimal, since the law does not assure equal rights to all citizens and far from everybody has access to assisted dying. In general, assisted dying has become legal in Canada, ...

Capstone Project Milestone 2

Asthma is the most common cause of in-patient admissions in acute care hospitals. Poor education and training of patients with respect to self-care and symptom management has led to an increase in the number of asthmatic patients reporting to the emergency department (ED) or acute care hospitals. It is empirical to understand the cause or trigger factors that relate to acute exacerbations of asthma. Some of the common triggers that causes asthma include exercise, infections, allergens, smoking, infection, gastric problems, hear burns, and indigestion. Based on current evidence, food allergens are considered as the most common form of allergens ...

Diabetes in America: Research Proposal

Given the recognition and on-going research into the disease of diabetes, there has probably been thousands and perhaps millions of books and articles written on the subject. The most commonly recognized types are type 1 and types 2 diabetes, but others include gestational, monogeneic, and cystic-fibrosis related diabetes (NIDDK, 2017). It is impossible to determine how many people in the world have diabetes or how many will develop it. The estimates of the amount of money spent in patient care and research are only guesses, and the suffering by diabetes and their loved ones is incalculable. However, this paper ...

End-of-life care refers to the provision of care to patients with incurable terminal illnesses and patients who are in a permanent vegetative state, and that type of care is one of the most commonly debated ethical issues in contemporary health care for two reasons. First, because of the development and advancement of medical techniques and technologies, physicians and nurses are now able to prolong the patients’ lives, but those interventions do not always improve the patients’ quality of life or maintain their human dignity (Cherry & Jacob, 2016). Second, the human population is aging, so the prevalence of terminal illnesses ...

Introduction

Information technology involves a technique for the manipulation, assessment as well as the processing of data. Information technology involves the application of computer and telecommunication systems. Information in the current context means electronic data. There was an evolution in the information technology industry for quite a long period, with innovations taking place time after time. The information technology encompassed transistors and integrated circuits. The application of computer systems or servers in business in the contemporary era is rampant (Jones D, 2017). The servers interact with the client users as well as other servers that exist across business networks. The ...

Insurance for Arab women migrants v their counterparts in their homelands

In the United States, Arab migrant women are part of an immigrant population from the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) regions. Health insurance coverage for this group depends on their legal and income statuses. In essence, several thousand have gained coverage under the now threatened Affordable Care Act, with others covered under Medicare, Medicaid, or alternative sources of private insurance. This group majorly comprises of current U.S citizens of Arab origin (Amer & Awad, 2015). However, non-citizen Arab women migrants fall under the 21 percent uninsured residents. These individuals include both undocumented and legally present Arab immigrants. In essence, ...

Discussion Question

Discussion Question 1

Professional socialization involves the interaction between health providers and their colleagues and the interaction between the health provider and the patient, family, groups, or communities. In the healthcare workplace, professional socialization occurs through nurses working together in a specific department to ensure total and quality delivery of care that ensures positive outcomes. Nurses help one another solve health care problems, assist each other during shifts, and share knowledge and skills about on how to deliver quality care. On the other hand, professional socialization between nurses and patients occur when both have close relationships. The Orlando’s ...

Information and Communication Teachnology

ABSTRACT As telemedicine is used throughout the rural parts of Africa, there are many professionals and patients who find the entire process very beneficial because there is an allowance for a decrease in transmission of highly contagious diseases such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). If there are clinics that are found in locations surrounding rural Africa, there are strong concerns that patients will be able to transmit their diseases to other people who are otherwise healthy. With the use of telemedicine, the patients and the health care providers can see each other through a confined space and there is ...

Disinclination of some health care organizations to apply Electronic Medicinal Records

EMRs (Electronic Medical Records) are the information systems of medical that are electronic and they gather, store, and show the information of the patient. Even though there are a lot of favorable effects of the usage of EMR in the activities of medicine but, still the rate of implementation related to the above system is low and it also encounters opposition from the medical doctor (Clayton, 2005). One of the main barriers associated with the application of (Electronic Medical Records) is the financial issue as such issue is considered as the main factor for different doctors. The main questions ...

The basic facts derived from the case study that the company, GE Healthcare that is under the GE group. It is in the business of selling products utilized in the medical field such as diagnostic imaging, clinical systems and Intergrated IT solutions such as Ultrasound machines. It is the leading medical systems and service provider in India. The company earns more than 10 million dollars in sales and revenue of more than $15 Billion. The company employs more than 45,000 workers in the whole world. The company merger with Wipro Corporation allowed the business to achieve the majority ...

The statement regarding patient satisfaction is valid and critical in facilitating better health outcomes. Medical institutions have long since kept track of the satisfaction ratings of patients. Unfortunately, the ratings do not always bear much significance since most physicians are plagued by the mentality that “a doctor always knows best.” However, over the recent years, attention has been directed to providing exceptional patient experiences. The shift in thought comes with the rise of consumerism, increased interests of customers, and the need for transparency in healthcare. This essay examines the essence of designing medical care according to the satisfaction ratings ...

Recent changes to the healthcare system have called for a variety of transformations, spanning across the different aspects of health care practice. In the recent past, the nursing profession has been sidelined from major decisions regarding health care, leading to a limitation to the extent to which nurses can stimulate changes in healthcare. The Affordable Care Act is the second largest overhaul of the healthcare system in the United States since Medicare and Medicaid. The increasing need to align health needs of the American citizens with the transformations brought about by the implementation of the Act has led to ...

Following the case study of "healing and autonomy," while observing the Christian narrative; it involves a family of four. There are grappling with their son's acute illness that is kidney failure. The problem can only now be addressed through an organ transplant whereby in case it fails, he will succumb to the disease. The family comprises of parents Joanne and Mike and the two boys who are twins Samuel and James aged eight years. In the case, a spiritual conundrum and health care have emerged, and it puts the family in a dilemma in deciding what to do for ...

Introduction

Nurses play an integral, challenging, and complex role in the healthcare system. Nurses are considered as the backbone of the complex and diverse system that comprises patients and a multidisciplinary team of experts. Nurses are educated and trained to cater to a large group of patients and often seek continuing education and upgrade their skills and knowledge. It is only through clinical exposure that nurses learn and implement new strategies and techniques. Nurses are known to transform the healthcare system by acting as mediators between the patient population and the medical team (physicians and other allied healthcare members). Through ...

Introduction

Migraine is a common type of headache disorder which is characterized by moderate to severe recurrent headache. Migraine headaches are generally severe and could last up to 3 days, wherein the pain affects half of the head but the pain is pulsating in nature. People with acute migraine headache may have suffer from sensitivity to light, vomiting, nausea, and sensitivity to smell and sound. In some cases, the pain may become severe and worsen after physical activity. In 1/3rd of patients with migraine, a short period of visual disturbance or aura occurs which is an indication that the pain ...

Amoxicillin: A Review of Two Articles

The purpose of this paper is two examine two studies on the topic of the efficacy of amoxicillin or amoxicillin clavulanate as treatments for otitis media. The paper will describe the two studies, point out the major differences, and concludes with speculation as to why one study recommends the broad-spectrum penicillin antibiotic whereas the other recommends a wait and see approach.

Design of the Studies

Both the Dutch study, Damoiseaux et al. (2000), and the Finnish study, Tahtinen et al. (2011), used a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled design to test the efficacy of amoxicillin or amoxicillin clavulanate. The inclusionary criteria in the Damoiseaux ...

Should U.S. Provide Free Healthcare Coverage For All? Should U.S. Provide Free Healthcare Coverage For All? The healthcare system is an important factor in the success of any country. It is an engine for innovation, as it disseminates life-enhancing treatments for the citizens to have better health. The healthcare system can provide enormous benefits to its citizens. With continuous consumption of healthcare services by individuals comes a growing demand for healthcare services that provide happiness and satisfaction to people. For this, patient satisfaction has been labeled as “a complimentary measure of healthcare quality” (Browne et al., 2010, p.921). In ...

Discussion

There are definite rules and ways that the different generations and groups within the marketplace should be treated. Hence, it is essential for the physicians first to conduct a comprehensive study to examine the needs and interests of each group within the market. Afterward, they can configure their offices and schedule their hours in a way that will capture the interests of the different generations. For instance, the Boomers may not appreciate high technology as the N-Gen white collar employees. Hence, the market profile should take into consideration that the Boomers are resistant to changes and the N-Gen workers ...

Imaginary Clinic

The clinic is a general practice clinic. It provides person-centred, progressive as well as comprehensive whole-person health care to persons and families in their society. It encompasses the foundations of an efficient health care system (“Capterra” par.1).

Branches of the Clinic

The clinic is a stand-alone clinic. However, satellite offices will be opened in different towns within a year in an attempt to reach more people (“Capterra” par.1). The clinic has four physicians and 7 physician extenders. That is, four nurse practitioners and three physician assistants. More physicians and physician extenders will be recruited as time goes. The new physicians will be sent ...

Project 1: Quality Measurement and Assessment

Introduction This QI project looks into improving healthcare outcomes by reducing crowding in my hospital’s emergency department (ED) setting. This QI issue considers adequate staffing and staff education as the necessary drivers towards enhanced patient flow, thus reduced ED crowding. The initiative serves as an encouragement for the facility to grow and develop its staffing and educational requirements for nurses. The idea here is that skilled and adequately staffed nurses can reduce ED crowding, thus advancing care quality and patient outcomes. My hospital recognizes patients and the staffing unit as essential elements in healthcare service delivery. The facility ...

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 ...

Online or virtual visits is a trend that is gaining impetus in healthcare. For various reasons people are receiving medical care from their physicians through online platforms. This trend has benefits and concerns. The benefits and concerns differ depending on the perspective from which they are being viewed. From the perspective of a commercial payer, the online visits help increase coverage, especially in the remote areas (Herman, 2016). The scholar argues that the potential for increased coverage among the elderly population, many of whom live outside metro areas is part of the reason why commercial payers have embraced the ...

1. What is the plan year (effective dates)? The Aetna Student Health Insurance plan effective dates, which indicate annual policy year, run from 1st August to 31st July the following year. In the current annual policy year, the effective dates run from 1st August 2016 to 31st July 2017 (Penn State, para 4). There are two enrollment deadlines within annual policy year whereby the deadlines fall in 31st August while the spring enrollment deadline is on 31st January of the year that follows. 2. Whether My Plan Is HMO, PPO or Traditional Indemnity Type The Aetna Student Health ...

Part 1

Question 1 According to the World Bank Health expenditure per capita (current US$) report, Kenya’s health expenditure per person is 77.679 USD, which is higher compared to other countries in the region; Tanzania’s is 51.717 USD and Uganda’s is 52.294 USD. Additionally, it is higher than the East Africa’s average of 60 USD. The World Health Organization recommends a minimum of 36 doctors per 100,000 people which Kenya has not attained seeing that their current rate is at 17 physicians per 100,000 people (Gatura and Mbaluku 2). The number of physicians refers to ...

Physician-assisted suicide is a highly controversial topic which tends to polarize people’s views. Around the world, there is much debate in governments about laws regulating physician-assisted suicide, and several countries now allow the practice. There are many strong arguments on both side of the debate and taking all of these arguments into account is helpful when assessing the topic. Against this type of euthanasia, the slippery slope argument asserts that legalizing assisted suicide could lead to desensitization around killing, which could in turn lead to involuntary euthanasia being legalized. Perhaps the most important to a physician, the medical ...

Effectiveness of the Management

Ineffective Practices The organization is reliant on debt to finance its operations- overreliance on debt financing could cause challenges for the organization such as stifle growth and limit future cash flow. Since most of the operations are financed by debt in cases of failure to pay the debtors the organization is exposed to property repossession which could have a devastating effect on patient outcome. EMR system- there was lack of proper integration of the EMR system. Some of the inpatient notes were not included in the EMR system and a separate system was used to enter physician orders (Porter, ...

Abstract

The paper involves the study of the implementation of management accounting in the business environment as a way for companies to attain competitive advantage. The aspect of the paper is of high importance because every business needs to succeed or be ahead of a competitor and the only way to achieve that is through use of the competitive advantage. Competitive advantage can be difficult to obtain especially if a firm does not implement Porter’s competitive resources to analyse and understand the market environment. The paper will also briefly describe the aspect of management accounting and the activities it ...

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine various reasons why some people agree to participate in organ donation while others do not. Furthermore, the paper will discuss the death rates that have been raising Australia due to lack of organ donors. In this regard, the research points out that the most informed people have no problem discussing their death or organ transplants while those that are uninformed rely on fictional TV dramas and Ick factors to disregard organ donation. Religion has also been considered as a topic for this discussion because while other denominations believe in acts of ...

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 ...

"I need you", said Lisa, a patient of cervical cancer, and the mother of three children, to Rocco, a registered nurse employed by the First Congregational Church in Hudson. Rocco accompanied her to the doctor's appointment, arranged volunteers to bring meals and take care of children thrice a week during her treatment. "I do not know what would I have done without you," said overwhelmed Lisa. This particular care highlights the modus operandi of parish nurses. Parish nursing is a growing movement where nurses do not give first-hand care or shots but focus on prevention of illness and promotion ...

The Role of Advanced Practice Nursing

As much as advanced nursing practice has continued to develop over the years across the globe, there is a prejudice in regards to the qualification, education preparations, roles, and competencies that nurses gain to qualify them for independent practice. However, research has consistently shown that APNs give patient care that is better or equal to what physicians offer, and at a reduced cost (Jokiniemi, Haatainen & Pietila, 2015). In this regard, it is vital to encourage advanced nursing practice among all registered nurses so as to ensure they all utilize their full potential independently without physicians’ supervision. Certainly, this process ...

Importance of Nursing Theories

Importance of Nursing Theory Nursing theory can be defined as a belief or a set of proposed procedures or policies that must be followed concerning every nursing action. It is a set of frameworks of concepts that are developed to act as a guide for nurses. The theories were created to analyze and give meaning to the practice of nursing, guide the practice and offer a platform for clinical decision making (Masters, 2011). Nursing theories were developed through the collaboration of nurses with other healthcare professionals. In most cases, nurses use a range of approaches to carry out their ...

Medical genomic can be defined as the utilization of genome-based information in the making of clinical decisions. A broader concept, personalized medicine, is often used to describe the models of healthcare that emphasize the application of an individual’s unique environmental, genomic, genetic, and clinical information to the treatment and prevention of diseases (Brunicardi; Offit). In their practice, doctors combine the results of patient data, which include individual genomic information, family history, medical history, conventional test results, and symptoms. The combination of the data allows the physicians to diagnose diseases accurately and personalize treatment strategies (Alzu’bi et al.). ...

Services that the center should provide:

The center will provide mainly outpatient services including diagnosis and treatment. The location of the facility informs this decision. The facility is located in a mall. There are a number of advantages towards having the facility located in the mall. The biggest of these reasons is that a mall is convenient to its users. The design of malls ensures that a user can access multiple services under the same roof. It is therefore advantageous for the hospital facility to be located within the mall. Customers visiting the mall can access health services easily. However, the convenience of the mall ...

Introduction

The health of individuals and communities is dependent on many factors defined by the environment and circumstances. Among the environmental factors affecting the health of the people are disease and illness beliefs of some cultures and communities. The type of health and illness belief found in a specific group of people influences the outcome of the disease assessment process. The United States continues to experience high population growth rate leading to increasing diversity in the delivery of health care. Therefore, health care providers need more knowledge and skills on how to deal with people from diverse populations to increase ...

For some of my life I struggled with what I was going to do when I graduated high school and became an adult. I knew I would need to support myself and contribute to society, but a primary goal of mine was to be happy and fulfilled while doing so. It did not take long for me to find my niche in nursing. Though challenging and fraught with its own set of struggles, I do feel as a Registered Nurse I am able to give back to those in need while supporting myself and contributing to the world. I ...

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Abstract

The healthcare providers are focused to enhance the healthcare status in the country by means of remaining responsive towards the healthcare need of the nation. The public healthcare organizations address the healthcare need the residents at the national level by offering the effective healthcare services. The current paper has conducted the situational analysis by means of conducting PESTEL and SWOT analysis to assess the external and internal environment and it has been observed that Hamad Medical Corporation has the potential and resource to extend its healthcare services to address the wellbeing of the nation in a broader ...

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 ...

The two major systems of Health Information Technology (HIT) are Electronic Health Record (EHR) and the system of practice management (PM). EHR has become an essential tool of modern health care to meet the standardized criteria. The majority of the physicians conduct their practices on PM system. Although, both of these systems don’t perform the same tasks and are meant for different purposes. The primary functions that EMR performs are the clinical ones while PM system is meant for billing as well as scheduling functions. The similarity between these systems is that both of them go through the ...

Interview with a pharmacist

Interview:

Apparently, over the counter medications are those that can be sold to the client without necessarily having any prescription by the provider. The Food and Drug Administration has been at the forefront in monitoring the adherence to issues of over the counter medications so that pharmacists do not sell other medications not classified as OTC. Similarly, the FDA has over time made changes and reviews on the regulations and rules that guide OTC medication sales (West, Wilk, Rae, Muszynski, Stipec, Alter & Regier, 2015). One of the emerging issues that have affected the pharmacists is the introduction of a ...

Introduction

Health policy can be defined as a plan or decision combined with actions to achieve specific healthcare goals by implementing key strategies within the society (WHO, 2016). As per the World Health Organization (WHO), an explicit health policy is known to be associated with several success factors such as development of a vision for the future and establishment of key targets for the short and long-term. Health policies enable organizations, institutes, societies, and groups to define outline, propose new goals, and inculcate different roles across various healthcare sectors (Záliš, et al. 2016). Healthcare policies are known to unite ...

Introduction

Based on advances in mind-body research and the practicality of self-kindness and mindfulness, self-compassion offers a new way of thinking about the practical strategies for ending chronic pain. Self-compassion includes a stance of compassion, friendliness, interest, and open-heartedness toward an experience observed in the present moment. The management of chronic pain today incorporates both physical and psychological interventions because of the significance of self-compassion which relates to aspects such as acceptance of chronic pain, focus on individual strength, and lower levels of negative perception of the pain experience. A study in which an experimental vignette was used investigating the ...

Introduction

The emergency department provides the urgent services to the ill patients. In the emergency department, the doctors provide the enhanced care to the patients when they are in the critical situation. With the advancement in the technology, the health care professionals provide the advanced treatment to the patients in the emergency department (Petrillo-Albarano & Little, 2010). On the other hand, intensive care units are also called ICU. The patients who are in a critical condition are admitted to the ICU. At first, the patients are treated in the emergency department, but if they cannot recover from the emergency department they ...

Approaches in configuring Clinical Decision Support (CDS) System

The development of an effective CDS system to facilitate the healthcare delivery of a chain of hospitals and outpatient clinics warrants the systematic incorporation of clinical guidelines, documentation templates, patient summaries, HPI and medication history recording tools, condition-specific orders and diagnostic support system across the electronic health record (EHR) (CMS, CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT:More Than Just ‘Alerts’ Tipsheet, 2014). The association of these approaches in EHR is warranted in the context of incorporating the entire aspects of patient care to facilitate the patient outcomes across the clinical settings. The EHR across clinical settings requires the effective incorporation of the research ...

Assignment 2: Middleville Regional Healthcare

Assignment 2: Middleville Regional Healthcare

The Governing Board is objectified towards determining the organization’s strategic direction by means of identifying the external challenges and opportunities and utilizing the internal resources in such manner that it enhance the outcome and efficiency of the organization. The strategic initiatives are incorporated under the strategic plans that are developed by the board members which encompasses the strategies, budgets and responsibilities that are further delegated to the respective departments. In this manner, the continuous analysis of market and the forces that effect the organizational efficiency and productivity takes place and the Governing Board ...

Historical perspectives regarding the delivery of health care in the United States

The delivery of health care in the United States has undergone many reforms to improve the quality of care, efficiency, and develop universal access to health care. The first perspective focuses on the establishment of hospitals. America founded its first hospital in the mid-1700s. The hospital system became fully functional in the 1850s characterized by unskilled labor and hospitals owned by physicians who would provide care at their homes. The health care condition was deplorable as people went to hospitals because there was no other alternative. The second health care perspective is in medicine and medical education. In 1847, ...

• From your perspective, explain the role of nurse practitioners in clinical settings

It is also the role of the nurse practitioner to be a self-directed learner. With continued learning and professional development, clinical competency is maintained. Clinical competency brings satisfaction to patients. Aside from being learners, NPs are mentors and educators. They are also researchers and apply their findings to clinical practice. The NP often acts as a primary health care provider and work in private practice with little to no supervision from physicians. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that an NP is organized and independent. An NP should also be an effective communicator. NPs work together with patients in ...

Introduction

This scholarly paper identifies the advantages of pursuing a post graduation degree in advanced practice nursing through systematic exploration of evidence – based research literature. Healthcare facilities affected with an acute shortage of nursing professionals and resultantly the existing nurses remain overburdened with additional work responsibilities. Due to the limited scope of clinical practice of the nursing workforce, the autonomous administration of healthcare interventions in complex medical emergencies proves to be a biggest challenge that leads to the deterioration of psychosocial as well as physiological conditions of the affected patients. Therefore, skills enhancement of registered nurses is the need of ...

The American healthcare industry is possibly one of its kind in the world as it comprises of a whopping 3 million members as part of its nursing profession, and this makes it the largest workforce segment of the nation. The nursing professionals are in forefront as they interact directly with the patients and thus play a very pivotal role in the successful realization of the objectives of the Affordable Care Act 2010. This legislation is phenomenal in the American healthcare as it possibly represents the most comprehensive health care renovation since the introduction of the Medicare and Medicaid programs ...

The ethical issue is derived from whether doctors should have hard paternalism over patient autonomy when a decision could negatively affect the patient’s health goals. Some of the pertinent ethical facts in the case of whether Mrs. B may be taken off of life support is as followed:

Does Mrs.B have a living will and has her daughter inquired for it? If Mrs. B has a living will, some state’s jurisdiction will insist that any directions in it must not be compromised by her daughter's decisions.  Does Mrs. B's condition render the requirements necessary to prompt the ...

Serenity Daniels is a 28-year-old single woman with a long history of sexual and emotional abuse since her childhood. She has inflicted deliberate self-harm (DSH) on her body on numerous occasions. During these DSH episodes, Serenity usually cuts her wrists and uses alcohol as a way of numbing the pain. Besides, Serenity has problems with her self-image as she sees herself as “fat and ugly” and unloved. She also has frequent arguments with her co-workers and managers. As such, she does not hold job positions for long. This instability in moods, functioning, and self-image coupled with unstable relationships and ...

American nurses are guided by a code of ethics that has nine provisions. The first provision emphasizes on compassion by the nurse in carrying out their duty. The second is a nurse's commitment to serving the patient. Third in this code of ethics is the requirement that a nurse not only advocates for the patient’s health but goes further to protect it. The same provision points out the nurse’s duty to safeguard the patient’s rights. The fourth provision gives nurses authority and accountability for their practice, which makes them responsible for making the right decision in ...