1.0 Introduction The interpretation of quality health care varies with each person. Some place emphasis on the ability to access various treatments without interference. Others value the feature of being able to simply select one’s provider. Quality health care, according to the Institute of Medicine (2001), can be defined as care that is “safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable” (p. 3). Furthermore, it should account for, in detail, a patient’s medical history, and
Pediatric Nurse The nurse is one of the most important of the health team in caring for children. My aunt is going through everything to be a nurse and is almost there to graduate. I saw her love for nursing and everything shes been going through and her love of helping people. It changed my idea of going somewhere in life and choosing what she chose. Becoming a Nurse has been a goal of mine for several years because i love helping people. The history of Pediatric Nurse Pediatric nursing did not
I have been a registered nurse at UCLA for 18 months. One particular issue that has captured my attention is the utilization of palliative care in health care. Because nurses are generally at the bedside all the time, they have an important role to play in voicing the importance of its utilization and implementation in the patient’s care. In 2003, the American Nurses’ Association published a position statement regarding “Pain Management and Control of Distressing Symptoms in Dying Patients.”
quality. How does one reach this stage of well-being and control when it comes to their own health? Well, it all begins with medical transparency. All through the healthcare industry, there is a large demand for more transparency, but what exactly does transparency mean? The truth about transparency in health care is that it does not have one true definition. Transparency is just as complex as the health care system itself and may have different meanings to different people. To an individual who may
country in the world, but we fall short in one basic need: health care. According to Dr. Vincente Navarro who published in the American Journal of Public Health, “the United States is the only major developed country whose government does not guarantee access to health care for its citizens” (64). Of all the things the modern-day American worries about, healthcare should not be one of them. The United States needs to adopt a universal health care
the patient’s good or welfare. The nursing knowledge and skills that health care professionals apply must ensure that beneficence comply with maleficence – that which pertains to the non-infliction of harm. This practice takes the form of removing or preventing harm while simultaneously producing or creating good. Though simple in principle it may seem, ensuring that beneficence and maleficence are continually applied to health care, can be quite complex. According to Burkhardt et al. (2014), “Even
patients’ health information is considered sacred in the healthcare world. Maintenance of privacy and confidentiality is crucial to create a suitable environment for unrestricted exchange of sensitive matters between the physicians and their patients. Any breach of confidentiality or privacy could result in irreparable damage to the physician- patient relationship. Patients, due to lack of trust on their providers, may refrain from disclosing essential facts necessary for optimum care and even restrain
economics but also Health Care settings. In doing so, one will grasp a decisive understanding of "who gets what and why.” The objective of this paper is to explore and examine the pervasiveness of racism in the health care industry, while at the same time shed light on a specific area of social relations that has remained a silence in the health care setting. The turpitude feeling of ongoing silence has masked the treatment black patients have received from white health care providers... ... middle
chronic physical illness do not receive care while they are incarcerated. The population of prisons in the United States has quadrupled in the past twenty-five years, almost 2.3 million inmates rely on jailers for their health care, being mindful that these prisoners have a constitutional right to health care under the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, there exist talk that indicate prisoners access to health care and the quality of care is often lacking (Carlson, Garrett,
Access to Health Care Around the Globe In the beginning of this chapter, the unmet health care needs and the reasons for people not having met health care needs are discussed. The main issue as to why people are not receiving the health care they need is because they do not have health insurance: In the United States many people who do not have health care do not have it because their jobs do not offer employer-sponsored insurance. Unlike America, Canada is having issues with the extremely long
Assess the value of branding in health care. Specifically, under what circumstances do you feel that it is beneficial for health care organizations to use branding? Branding has been successfully practiced by consumer packaged goods companies for decades. But only recently have health care organizations begun to embrace this concept and hence, few of the well developed brands exist. Branding is beneficial for health care organizations because the rewards of branding can be great as it provides an
67% of the health care budget in Canada is spent on chronic diseases. “In a single year, they cost Canadians $190 billion; about $65 billion in treatment and $135 billion in lost productivity” (Elmslie, 2015, p.12). This detrimental impact is reflected in a recent study done by Doty, Squires, Sarnak, Schneider, and Shah (2017) where Canada’s health system ranked third last among other developed countries like France and the United
piece of health care information and what they need to be able to do so. I could still use improvement in making final decisions on one piece, but it has been getting easier. By using the course materials more, it was easier to form a checklist of sorts on what information needed to be covered. Knowing what a good health care website would provide based on the thorough reading of the paper from the American Family Physician on health literacy and using the guidelines from the Office of Health Promotion
In this paper, we provide some basics about open data and how this concept applies within the public health sector. Open data as a concept is widely applicable in several sectors and its importance have been articulated in a few commissioned documents as will be identified within this paper. Governments around the world are already creating policies to enhance data openness that is, providing detailed descriptions of how data relating to public welfare are managed. There are more emphases on making
The value of health care is immeasurable; access to quality health care should be regarded as a basic human right which is fundamental to one’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. The health care system in the United States is in dire need of transformation to drive improvements on access, cost, and quality. The first step is to assess its current state to understand where it fails to meet the primary objectives of a viable health care system. Next, the U.S. should look elsewhere for inspiration
Healthcare is an activity that involves early protection, quick treatment and taking care of illness as well as mental and physical status by offering the necessary services. The traits of a given group of people in an area commonly referred to as demographics includes: the age, the gender, the race, the income, the status of employment, the disability, level of literacy, and means of travel. Unity Health Care was established in the year 1985 to offer the first services to people with no homes and
questions have been presented in previous chapters, they are worth presenting again. What are the major federal laws and policies related to health care fraud? How have these laws and policies been used to control fraud, waste, and abuse in federal health care programs? • What are the impacts of these laws and policies on the war against health care fraud? To address the questions comprehensively, the researcher conducted a historical research that blended the research elements of documentary
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) pegged the expenditure for prescription drugs at roughly $29 billion in 2014. This cost is shared between individuals, private plans, federal government plans and provincial/territorial plans. Public drug plans pick up about 42% of those costs and 58% is paid by individuals, either through employer supported benefits or out of pocket. Prescription drug costs represent 13.4% of total health care expenditures. Any expenditure of this magnitude
specific community. The committee involved in the establishment of the proposed health care facility has to liaise with the immediate community that is most likely to be directly or indirectly affected by the facility establishment (Wallerstein and Duran, 2006). Some stakeholders suggest that the core purpose of establishing a health care facility is to help people enjoy life by quantitatively improving their health status and conditions in the society (Wallerstein and Duran, 2006). They further
Inmate Health Care Taxpayers pay for so many things like law enforcement, construction work, fire fighter services, and etc. Part of what they pay every year goes to the medical department in jails and prisons. Taxpayers should not pay for the health care of inmates. They pay for incurable medical conditions. They should not pay for inmates with mental illness. Lastly, taxpayers should not pay for their oral needs. They have so much to worry about; inmates and their needs should be the last thing