Around 595,800 establishments make up the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry varies significantly in staffing partners, size, and organizational structures. Even though hospitals make up only 1 percent of healthcare organizations they provide work for 35 percent of all workers in the industry. 76 percent of the healthcare organizations are formed by offices of dentists, physicians, and other health practitioners. The healthcare industry is designed to administer care 24 hours, respond to needs of patients, diagnose, and treat. The purpose of this industry is to combine the human touch with medical technology (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010). For this essay I chose a pharmacist, podiatrists, and a clinical social worker. These three professions are practiced at the Wai’anae Coast Community Health Center at 86-260 Farrington Highway, Wai’anae, HI. 96792. The consumers own WCCHC and it is not unionized. Rich Bettini is the head of the organization. The main points of this essay will be about the nature of work and job professions, education and training, shift and schedules, and earnings of each profession. The first profession is a pharmacist and it falls under the pharmacy department in the Wai’anae Coast Community Health Center. A pharmacist is among many healthcare professionals that provides service and care for a wide range of people. A pharmacist in a community pharmacy dispenses medication, gives advice to patients and physicians on the dosages, and interactions and side effects of their medication. A pharmacist also advises patients about their general health topics such as: diet and exercise, stress management, and provides information on other products their patients might need. Some of ... ... middle of paper ... ...s depending upon the need. The median annual wages of a clinical social worker in May of 2008 was $46,650. The industries that employed the largest amount of clinical social workers were: general medical and surgical hospitals, home health care services, local government, nursing care facilities, and individual and family services. This information was given by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Works Cited Psychology Career Center. (2006). Medical Social Worker. Retrieved from http://www.psychologycareercenter.org/medical-social-worker.html U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2010). Social Workers. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos060.htm U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2010). Pharmacists. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos079.htm U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2010). Podiatrists. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos075.htm
Working in the pharmaceutical industry, there are different types of environments you could possibly work in. There are chain pharmacies, like any kind of grocery store or CVS. There are franchise pharmacies, which are also known as apothecaries. Also, there are community pharmacies, which are also known as retail pharmacies. Some of them are independent pharmacies, which is usually owned by a pharmacist or a group of pharmacists.. There are hospital pharmacies, in which are in the hospital. There are many more different types, these are only a few.
This group is more focused on satisfaction, access and quality of care. Providers, or practitioners, are also key stakeholders within an organization. The term provider can encompasses not only physicians and surgeons, but also nurses, physical and occupational therapists, technicians, and other members of a clinical staff. Providers fall into two categories, primary, which includes hospitals and health departments and secondary, which includes educational institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Providers are focused on the best treatments for patients and are involved in delivering health services and products. The final element of the MCQ model is the employer who by far is the largest paying and purchasing stakeholder of an organization. The employers focus is primarily on their return on investment within an organization. Cost and quality is a focus for employers when choosing health benefits but are mindful that access is just as important. Within the Patient Healthcare model, MCQ explains the interactions between the four elements of employer, patient, provider and payer while the Iron Triangle focuses on the factors of cost, quality, and access. The Patient Healthcare model charges healthcare leaders with the task of balancing satisfaction with the stakeholder (employer, patient, provider, and payer) in relation to cost, quality and access. This may be very difficult since stakeholders may have competing priorities. Changes and variations made in how healthcare organizations operate may have profound effects on how stakeholders perceive the quality, access and cost. For instance, a patient may consider cost to be a top priority when seeking healthcare and at the same time the healthcare organization may consider raising costs and therefore devaluing access and quality. Patients who begin to incur high out-of-pocket costs may begin to perceive a financial
For this report I will compare and contrast two health care professions. The two professions I have chosen are Nursing and social work. In my report I will discuss education and registration, principles of the care profession, continuous development, the framework of clinical governance, code of conduct, parameters within professional practice and ethical issues and boundaries.
Being a nurse practitioner is a good career. A nurse practitioner is a registered nurse with an added education of two years, which gives them added advantage like those of a doctor. A nurse practitioner is different in his/her own way. He/she works along with other health professionals like doctors, pharmacists, and therapists. A nurse practitioner has mandates to treat the sick, prescribe drugs, and order for laboratory tests (Iglehart, 2013). The reason nurse practitioner is attractive is because I have always wanted to help people and the job is more challenging giving me the potential to grow. In this paper, I will discuss the duties of a nurse practitioner, the skills and education needed, pay range and the lifestyle.
Today healthcare cost is constantly rising. It is important to ensure that patient 's health are maintained and supported outside the clinical settings such as their homes and communities. Healthcare organizations play an important role in serving people to provide an effective health care and improve the patients ' outcome. They focus on activities and strategies to provide a high quality care for many communities. This is their way of helping people and their community healthy. Organizations have a way of improving the patient 's outcome through monitoring of patients especially those who have high medical needs.
The nursing profession is the largest and most diverse medical profession in the United States. The myriad of specialties and sub-specialties are unmatched when compared to any other medical care occupation. It is projected that by the year 2024 there will be a 16% job growth for registered nurses. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015)
O’Brien, J. M. (2003). How nurse practitioners obtained provider status: Lessons for pharmacists. Retrieved from http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/464663
The health care industry has become enormously powerful. Hundreds and thousands of physicians, nurses, health specialists, and many more non-medical workers have been employed in hospitals, health facilities, and even at home (Princeton, 2013). In our State, Florida, the healthcare industry is the most coveted field (Princeton, 2013). Everyone wants to be a nurse, a chief executive officer, a doctor, or a physician. It is a field that if chosen, we are set for life; unless we get tired of it or our license is revoked.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-17 Edition, Medical and Health Services Managers,
Job Description: Pharmacists ensure that medications are used appropriately, and that they bring about the best results. Their responsibilities include professionally interpreting and reviewing the prescription orders written by doctors, dentists, and other authorized health care providers, and also for giving out the medications accurately to patients. The main goal of pharmaceutical care is to improve the quality of patients? lives by the use of medications that have been prescribed in order to accomplish specific results.
Pharmacists have a very tedious job because it requires a lot of attention to detail. Pharmacists dispense drugs and provide information to the patients about medication. Not only do they provide information to patients about side effects, but also they inform physicians of the ever-changing selection of drugs and dosage. Weighing, measuring, mixing drugs, finding the identity and purity, and strength of medications is also an important part of the job. Pharmacists must be sure not to dispense drugs that will have a negative reaction to the other medications that the patient may already be taking. Pharmacists work in clean, well-lighted, and well-ventilated areas. They work with dangerous materials and sterile pharmaceutical products, which require them to wear gloves and masks. Many full time, salaried pharmacists work at least about forty hours per week. Community pharmacists research and dispense information and help for diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, and high blood pressure....
A pharmacist plays a very important role in health and patient care. They are responsible for many commitments in the medical field. This includes filling prescriptions with the proper amount of medicine that the patient will need, giving advice on medications that the prescriptions should or should not be taken with, and matching the right prescription with the patient’s illness. They also superintend pharmacy technicians and make sure that they are doing their job properly. Pharmacists contribute to the medical field in many ways that are essential to patient needs. (“Chapter 40: Pharmacists,” 2003).
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition, Social Workers
I helped the pharmacy as a clerk first while studying pharmacy technician. After having the pharmacy technician certification, I was able to help more as a pharmacy technician intern. I learned how to read prescriptions, how to pick the right medications with the right forms, how to mix liquid drugs, how to calculate the amount of drugs to dispense, how to receive new shipments, and how to store, label, and distribute them to each patient. More than that, working here gave me an insight about the importance of community pharmacists and their difficulties. I saw pharmacists significantly increased the safe use of medications and save many people from harm on a daily basis. Many doctors did not use the electronic prescribing method, and many of them wrote illegible prescriptions. Because medications names were very similar to each other, pharmacy technicians could create many typing errors when entering orders. Besides, doctors did not always thoroughly understand the drugs they prescribed. They also did not always know all about the drugs their patients were taking. To make sure the right medications to the right patients, pharmacists had to call the doctors, verified prescriptions, and made advices. However, many patients did not want to wait for medications. Thus, I saw the challenge of community pharmacists was that they had to work accurately, quickly, and efficiently while being caring and diplomatic with patients and doctors. I also recognized that a pharmacist was both a drug scientist and a business person. The work challenge and a variety of roles a pharmacist plays attracted me to be a
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