I pictured a nurse as just caring for a patient’s physical health and giving them prescribed medications. After practicing as a nurse I have developed a whole new sense of the term. Nursing encompasses the patient’s care. A nurse is there from the moment a patient steps foot into an Emergency Room until they are discharged home. Then they may still be involved in their care as a Home Health Nurse. We treat every aspect of the patient as a whole. Holistic nursing is based on healing the whole person. This practice recognizes that a person is not simply their illness. Holistic healing addresses the interconnectedness of the mind, body, spirit, social, cultural, emotions, relationships, context, and environment (Petiprin, A., 2016). All of these aspects combine to create the person, so in order to heal the person, the holistic nurse looks at all aspects and how they can affect the patient's health (Petiprin, A.,
The United States is in a constant state of healthcare reform at this time. With this reform comes the need for change. Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a new healthcare system for providing care to given populations. As the healthcare reform is in full swing at this time we will briefly review a patient population that is benefited by PCMH, what conditions are followed by PCMHs, who pays for the services provided, what type of insurance are included by PCMHs, what providers are in the PCMHs, how the providers paid in the PCMH system, and the results of the current progress of the PCMH.
Their conclusion was that improving primary care is the pillar to achieving the triple aim outcomes. The PCMH is an up-and-coming innovation, and the model is quickly growing. Stronger evaluations are needed to provide more information on how to clarify and target the model to establish that the ample efforts of practices needed to adopt the model are most effective. (Peikes D, Zutshi A, Genevro J, Smith K, Parchman M, Meyers D.
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers, who come together to coordinated in order to provide high-quality care to Medicare patients. The goal of coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, received the efficient, effective quality of care, and also avoiding unnecessary duplication of services and preventing medical errors. Moreover, while aiming to improve the quality of care and patient outcomes and lowering costs.
The majority of a patient’s care remains within the system, enabling maximum efficiency and coordination. Furthermore, research has shown that ACOS help reduce medical errors, eliminate duplicate services and facilities as well as provide financial incentives to demonstrate high-quality, patient centered care (Richman, Schulman, 2011). Several ACOs across the country are showing an increase in care coordination leads to a reduction in no-shows, improved medication adherence and enhances preventative and chronic care. For example, in a care coordination pilot performed by Trinity Clinic, which is part of an ACO, care coordinators boosted quality and revenue by reducing their no show rate form 4.5% to 2.8% primarily due to a previsit phone call set up by the coordinators (Mullins, Mooney, & Fowler, 2013). ACOS are not the entire solution, but these organizations are certainly a step in the right direction, putting patient satisfaction and quality as part of their fundamental
Innovative Care Delivery Models are generally nursing driven, or they are interdisciplinary care delivery models that carry a heavy nursing component and in an acute care setting, including transitional care to home setting. The model should be state of the art, it should focus on improving care making it effective, and cost conscious, it should focus on new roles for nurses and other interdisciplinary members. The model should show measurable improvement in quality, safety, cost, and patient satisfaction. (Joynt and Kimball 2008) Accountable care organizations and Medical Homes are both examples of Innovative Care Delivery models at work. These models show collaboration between disciplines, working together to give the patient the best possible outcome is always the
The PCC is a promising model that aims to strengthen the health care system. Leaders and other health care providers should work together to improve the involvement of patients, families and the caregivers in this health care system. Hence it provides a chance to the patient to involve in their own care, increasing the quality of life, clinical outcomes and patients’ satisfaction while reducing the health care costs. This enabled PCC to become a major goal for many HCO’s.
It will also have the opportunity to increase the patient satisfaction within the PCMH model. Most members whose health is managed through this system report a greater satisfaction. The PCMH model would allow the practice to have the most recent technology that will allow the patient to get the best care and allow for little to no gaps in their health care (Adamson, 2011). I would continue to provide administrative support for the practice and coordinate the other non- clinical departments to help ensure that both the non -clinical and clinical sides run
Patient satisfaction is an important indicator for measuring quality in health care and affects clinical outcomes, patient retention, medical malpractice claims, and efficient patient centered delivery of quality health care. While hospitals’ performance on national patient experience surveys gain greater public attention, and are tied to financial rewards, hospitals are making every effort to enhance the patient experience and delivery of patient centered care. The patient centered care model not only benefits patients to become more empowered and receive better care, but also assist hospitals by improving HCAHPS scores which increase hospital ranking; attain better financial performance; improve patient outcomes; respond
Patient-centered primary care is beginning to form the cornerstone of quality health care, although there remains to be a separation from ideal patient care and the reality of the situation. Health care services that are focused on the specific needs of each individual are an important step forward to making an improvement in overall health outcomes and patient satisfaction with health services.
Due to the dramatic increase in health care cost, health care experts advocates a team based care model in which health providers communicate and work together to meet the needs of patients, especially those with chronic conditions. Traditionally, patients visit multiple specialists, pharmacists, primary care doctors for different health issues. This norm has resulted in creating a complicated communication gap between health providers, as primary caregivers often are clueless to the other conditions or complications the patients have, confusing patients’ ability to follow clinical decisions, hence increasing hospitalization rates. In order to better serve patients’ needs, reduce hospitalization rates and ultimately reduce healthcare cost,
For over a century the improvement of health care has been championed by individuals and groups from Florence Nightingale to The Institute of Medicine (IOM). In the time of Ms. Nightingale, cleanliness and nutrition became the focus of improvement. Now, in the twenty and twenty-first century, the IOM has established guidelines and practices that bring the greatest balance between patient centered care and organized medicine since the early days of reform. Utilizing science to identify practices that produce measurable and quantifiable for the patient, six fundamental values called Aims, were developed to create a safe, effective, accessible healthcare system. Theses Aims state that Health Care must be safe, effective, patient centered,
Patient-centered care (PCC) is a health care model focused on actively involving the patient in all aspects of planning, implementation, and monitoring of care. It integrates respect for the patient’s needs, values and beliefs into the healthcare process. Important aspects of PCC are collaborative care, family-centered care, and comfort. PCC allows the patient to have autonomy and encourages active participation in making decisions regarding their treatment.