Since I have been in the health care field for over nine years as a Radiographic technologist in an orthopedic center. I have seen many older patients receiving poor quality of care after surgery, especially from a nursing home. One incident that still plays in my mind till this day is a patient that has been seeing our doctor Mr. Gonzalez for years for chronic back pain. Mrs. Brown was a single but very social and active 62 year old women, until one day walking her dog, she slipped, fell and broke her hip. Luckily for Mrs. Brown that day doctor Gonzalez was on call that day and performed emergency surgery on her hip, because Mrs. Brown had hip replacement surgery she was admitted to a nearby skilled nursing facility to recover and receive rehab. A few weeks later after surgery Mrs. Brown was due for her postoperative appointment and no showed. After two weeks of her miss appointment Mrs. Brown showed up for her postoperative appointment, when Mrs. …show more content…
Brown skilled nursing facility is the three core model process. According to Kelly, (2011) “the three core model process represents the view of a health services delivered (pp.48-62).”Three care model process is grouped into three core categories such as clinical/ medical/technical process, operational and patient flow and administrative process. This model would help managers in the case of Mrs. Brown properly implement guidelines and train staff members on how to address the postoperative care process, when dealing with patients after surgery. Three core model process would also help an organization promote a patient focused orientation by helping managers recognize the need for aligning process and improvement efforts toward the needs of the patient, this would have helped management in Mrs. Brown nursing facility schedule per-diem nursing assistance to accommodate the shortage of staff and have records on who took care of Mrs. Brown during each shift
The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for gastroenterological and surgical procedures. In 1993, 2,500 cases where approximately performed and extensive maintenance of the equipment where needed before and after each of those cases. Despite the appropriate care of the scope, repair requirement where still needed. The total cost of repair that year was $60,000 and the repair services where done by an original equipment manufacturers in Ontario.
Health Care workers are constantly faced with legal and ethical issues every day during the course of their work. It is important that the health care workers have a clear understanding of these legal and ethical issues that they will face (1). In the case study analysed key legal and ethical issues arise during the initial decision-making of the incident, when the second ambulance crew arrived, throughout the treatment and during the transfer of patient to the hospital. The ethical issues in this case can be described as what the paramedic believes is the right thing to do for the patient and the legal issues control what the law describes that the paramedic should do in this situation (2, 3). It is therefore important that paramedics also
Linda is a 14 year old girl, who is in respite care. In my role as a carer I have observed that she was previously an outgoing and bubbly girl who mixed well but now appears quiet and withdrawn. I have been told by another resident who Linda confided in, that she was being bullied at school and not eating because of being called fat. This concerns me, as I have noticed Linda seems to have lost a considerable amount of weight. For this assignment I will need to identify who I need to communicate with regarding my concerns, recognise Linda’s physical, intellectual, emotional and social needs and then explain how I would use my interpersonal skills in doing this. I will obtain my information from books and the internet.
According to section 149(b) of national law, tribunal has authority to exercise any power under subdivision 6 of National Law if the practitioner admits it in writing to tribunal. Section 149C (1) (a) and (b) of national law empowers tribunal, if it is satisfied a practitioner is not competent to practice the practitioner’s profession, or a nurse is guilty of professional misconduct, to suspend or cancel the registration.
“Code Blue”, that the last thing anyone wants to here at the beginning or end of a shift, or for that matter at any time during their shift. With the development of rapids response teams (RRTs), acute care nurses and ancillary departments have a resource available to their disposal when need in uncertain situations. Many times nurses struggle to maintain a patient deteriorating in front of them all the while make a multitude of calls to the physician for orders or concerns. Having a set of “expert” eyes assisting you in these times helps alleviate stress and encourages collaboration amongst staff. (Parker, 2014)
Social care and healthcare are both included in the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill. In England, there are two bodies that handle matters relating to social welfare. The National Care Standards is tasked with registering bodies that provide social care. The performance and progress of the organizations are monitored by the Social Services Inspectorate. The analysis of the social aspects of care involves collecting data that is analyzed so as to identify the differences that cause variation in the health of different people. The data collected may not be simple to understand. As a result, it requires a deeper analysis so as to establish the social factors affecting health (Larkin, 2011).
“We can’t turn away from a patient’s pain just because it’s difficult” (chapman, 2015, p. 88). I know the path of least resistance is taking a path of ignorance. Easy, is to ignore or neglect the true pain patients experience in times of crisis. As caregivers I believe we all want to heal others or we wouldn’t be in the field of nursing, but there are only handfuls willing to be present during the healing process because sharing one’s pain hurts. As a surgical nurse, I find being genuinely present takes hard work on my behalf, not only mentally but emotionally. On a unit where patient’s needs and conditions are changing at astonishing rates, being present requires mental strength in order slow down enough to recognize the value presence
I have been a registered nurse for the past six years. I started my nursing career in a long-term care facility where I worked for a year and half . I always wanted to challenge myself so l left long-term care and went to work in the intensive care unit for four years where I saw how people with diabetes are suffering when the disease in not managed well. I am currently working in post anesthesia care unit(PACU) where I recover many patients with diabetes complications post-surgery. I am committed in the innovation in order to provide an effective care for the people suffering from diabetes. For many years the disease has been killing people and introduction of the control tools will help in making the condition manageable. The innovation
I was trying to do my home work 1 but I could not find the health care case study in course documents. Do I need to take the case study from internet?
Lewis, Sharon Mantik, Shannon Ruff Dirksen, Margaret M. Heitkemper, and Linda Bucher. 2014. Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems. 9th ed. St. Louis, MI: Elsevier Mosby.
in the health care sector and also about the skills which are necessary for the leaders to
The concept of Health Insurance and managed health care the inventions of the twentieth century that were started as prepaid health care. The early insurance concept was merely a way for people to pay medical bills not a way of protecting individual financial assets as the case is today. Overall the health care industry has endured significant changes since its inception.
1. What is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)? What is their function? Discuss this in detail.
Nursing is a noble profession where nurses are the front line carer of the patient. To provide competent patient care, nurses use their critical thinking skills in making a decision. In their professional practice, nurses and nursing students have the responsibility to comply with the guidelines provided by NMBA (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia). The given case study deals with the responsibility and accountability of nurses and nursing students regarding privacy and confidentiality.
The first step in solving any problem is to defining what you plan to achieve and how to get there. (Plan you work, work your plan - Les Brown) Several ideas on the way to reform health care in the past have been mired with potholes even before the plan was enacted. Sometime the administration knew about these potholes and attempted to cover them up, in order "just to look good", while their opponent (in an effort to do the right thing) pointed out these potential potholes ahead of time, but were put down as being "hateful opponents". It turns out, the opponents were RIGHT!