I choose the medical coder because I enjoy the field of nursing. I enjoy helping the elderly in the nursing home. With the medical transcripts or coder a person can work from their own home, it really acquires some training, patience. Working at home generally get paid 10-15 per transcript that may take up to an hour to complete. Once a person gets the hang of it you may be able to knock out 2 easy ones in an hour the individual have to be reliable and get them done on time.
I choose this career choice because to help the insurance company to get right medical code on paper and on the patient chart. I have heard and read news article on misdiagnose of patient. Where a patient was schedule for surgery to get the infected right foot cut off. Instead of this he got his left foot cut off. The physician had to cut off the right infected foot. Now the patient is without both feet because of the physician mistake. ("Huffington Post", 2010)
The medical professionals have their own language because so the doctors, nurses and other medical professionals can relate the information to each party without having all the confusing. Learning the medical terminology is very impartment because to help the patient to understand their illness better. Also learning the medical terminology is given the patient the knowledge they deserve and to help with the medical claims to go faster with the insurance computer. To learn the medical terminology is to slow down all the errors to the medical words. (Land, 2003)
Sometimes learning the medical terminology is among the endless abbreviations used in medicine. Some ways we use the medical terminology to distance ourselves from unbearable degree of emotion. The benefit of using medical terminology it has own universal language, so different countries can communicate with one common language. Medical terminology is driven from the Latin and Greek.
The disadvantages I can think of are speaking to patients or others in a language that is foreign to them. There is a lot of adequate medical language study to prepare students for the extensive knowledge needed to communicate and comprehend the language effectively as they go though the educational process and they go though the function of the medical field.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported in 1999 that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die each year in the United States due to a preventable medical error. A report written by the National Quality Forum (NQF) found that over a decade after the IOM report the prevalence of medical errors remains very high (2010). In fact a study done by the Hearst Corporation found that the number of deaths due to medical error and post surgical infections has increased since the IOM first highlighted the problem and recommended actions to reduce the number of events (Dyess, 2009).
Using standardized terminologies in nursing practice has a wide array of advantages to the patients, the organization involved, the nursing profession and even the country using the standards. These terminologies aid the healthcare organization (both the care team and administrators) in deciding which nursing terminology or a combination of several that suits their needs. With these terminologies:
In my life I have seen how even while speaking the same language there can be communication problems. Adding the inability to speck the same language and then the complexity of describing medical conditions, I can see how the situation could turn out poorly and cause troubling effects. This chapter has helped me better understand why the Hmon...
The top priority of the medical interpreters is removing language barrier between the medical practitioners and the patients and helping the patients to treat properly. Indeed, impartiality can be challenged in medical setting. However, some articles are pointed out that the interpreter who is related to the patient is not always harmful to the patients and the medical practitioners. Therefore, when the medical interpreters take an assignment, they should consider what the best is for the patients and the medical practitioners.
In caring for patients in the hospital setting today one must look at variety of patients from various background. Healthcare providers should be aware of patients’ culture, beliefs and attitude to provide quality care. The Office of Minority Health of the Federal Government has developed a set of 14 principles called the CLAS Standards (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services), which are mainly directed at healthcare organization, and are mandated for all organizations receiving Federal funds. The focus is on the terms of linguistic services and efforts to provide information to patients in their own language through availability of brochures, interpreters, and other means. In this essay I would like to exam cultural considerations with emphasis on impaired verbal communication related to language barrier, because I feel that communication barrier can cause a reduction in healthcare quality and low patient satisfaction.
In summary, the common fictive relationships that are created, particularly in the biomedical community, served to different purposes. Maybe the most important one would include the correct learning of the medical profession that ensures the correct treatment of patients in the future. However, it also helps with new discoveries and researches and even as emotional support to the practitioners themselves, because it let them share their passion with individuals that feel it as well, and with whom they can have an intellectual exchange. Therefore, it would permit them obtain new ideas and knowledge that would help them become better and wiser, ending with the improvement of the patients care.
Nursing is a highly respectable and honorable profession in the field of medicine. Since the emergence of the field of medicine in the world the role of nurses is highly appreciated all around the world. With the help of their kind attitude and effective communication, nurses can help the patients get complete information about their morbidity and act accordingly. Nurses can also help the patients come out of the emotional trauma experienced by them as a result of the frequent episodes of illness. In addition to that, the good communication skills can help the nurses get accurate information about the detailed signs and symptoms related to the particular illness.
...Overall, this is an interesting career and if someone would like to enter the healthcare field, without doing the on hands patient care, this a good path to follow.
Word choice is very important for good, effective communication. When someone does not pick their words wisely while talking to the patients, it can make the patients feel like they should not be the person taking care of them because they are not professional. It also makes the patients feel like they do not know what they are doing. As a Medical Assistant, it is my responsibility to ensure my communication is clear and written properly. If my notes are not organized and written clearly, not only will the patient think in unprofessional, the doctor's will too. Also, if I use abbreviations, I need to make sure that they are correct. Some abbreviations look very similar to others so things can get confused very easily.
They allow for more effective communication between providers, patients, and electronic systems. For example, a patient may say they have a broken leg, while a provider may call it a compound tibial shaft fracture, and the computer system will call it 1000110101101. (That bit of binary is completely made up.) The computer would then express its assessment of the situation, which the provider would understand as antibiotics and a rod in their leg. The patient may understand that they have to have surgery and medications, depending on their level of familiarity with medicine. The point is that without a way to translate medical information between different languages, we couldn’t treat anything.
LaFleur Brooks, M. (2010). Exploring Medical Language, A Student – Directed Approach, 7th Edition, St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
This causes problems about the diagnosis as well as how nurses may tell patients about issues with their care. A way a nurse can overcome this is by having an interpreter when they know that a patient doesn’t know English, but this is not always the case for most nurses as there are not a lot of interpreters around. In health practice language isn’t always to do with culture but it can be the way a nurse or doctor speaks to the patients so they may adopt certain types of jargon and the patients may feel intimidated. Madeleine Leininger, who is the founder of transcultural nursing, says that providing competent care across all cultures and to be customized to fit patient’s different beliefs and traditions and different languages that a patient may speak. Divi et al (2007) claims that language barriers increase the risk of patient care and safety as they will find it difficult to understand what is going on with their care, so it is important for patients to have access to language services such as an
The health care is extremely important to society because without health care it would not be possible for individuals to remain healthy. The health care administers care, treats, and diagnoses millions of individual’s everyday from newborn to fatal illness patients. The health care consists of hospitals, outpatient care, doctors, employees, and nurses. Within the health care there are always changes occurring because of advance technology and without advance technology the health care would not be as successful as it is today. Technology has played a big role in the health care and will continue in the coming years with new methods and procedures of diagnosis and treatment to help safe lives of the American people. However, with plenty of advance technology the health care still manages to make an excessive amount of medical errors. Health care organizations face many issues and these issues have a negative impact on the health care system. There are different ways medical errors can occur within the health care. Medical errors are mistakes that are made by health care providers with no intention of harming patients. These errors rang from communication error, surgical error, manufacture error, diagnostic error, and wrong medication error. There are hundreds of thousands of patients that die every year due to medical error. With medical errors on the rise it has caused the United States to be the third leading cause of death. (Allen.M, 2013) Throughout the United States there are many issues the he...
For years, English has been the lingua franca in the field of medicine. According to an article in Spanish written by J.M. Remes-Troche in the “Revista de Gastroenterología en México” (Gastroenterology Magazine in Mexico) -which has its English version as well- the main language in the field of medicine has not always been English language. There are several reasons for English being the lingua franca in the field of medicine nowadays, but we will mention only two of them. Firstly, most of the research projects all around the world on this field are carried out in countries where English is the main language. Second, countries like the United States or England are more advanced on this field than other countries, and so the rest of the world has to keep up to date with the most recent medical
Surgeons have a lot on their plate when it comes to their work. Surgeons are doctors who are specialized in certain surgeries and operations. While being a surgeon there are many subspecialties that one surgeon could pursue (Field). Surgeons will diagnose and treat patients depending on their condition. They will perform a variety of surgeries on the every single part of the human body (“Surgeon”). It’s important for a surgeon to know everything about a patient’s medical history so they can perform their job to the best of their ability and also decide whether or not the patient needs surgery. They also ...