to independent practices. In its entirety, this is what is referred to as the health care delivery system. Imperatively, numerous costs are incurred in rendering healthcare. The costs associated with the healthcare delivery system can be quantified into direct costs and indirect costs. On the one hand, direct costs more often than not signify the costs linked with the utilization of medical resources. In essence, direct costs are largely delineated as the expenditures that that can be traced back to a particular healthcare visit or practice. Imperatively, direct costs take into account all of the costs that are associated to hand-on or practical patient… Continue Reading...
the chronic conditions, we should also address other vulnerabilities by designing health care delivery systems. These systems should assess care to the subgroups of the population, including women's health care, geriatric care, and pediatric care. For patients with communication barriers and for those with racial and ethnic minorities, culturally-sensitive health care system should be made available. For patients with the location as barriers, telemedicine technologies, programs with incentives for practicing in rural areas, pre-hospital emergency services are necessary to improve health care delivery (Aday, 2001).
Health care resources that serve vulnerable populations
Health care models that meet needs of the vulnerable… Continue Reading...
safety concerns, among others. From history, the preparation of nurses for key roles in the health care delivery system is quite important and should not be overlooked. (Joseph & Huber, 2015). I am trained both as a clinical nursing educator and perioperative nurse. Clinical nurse educators attain that title after much experience in nursing. They mainly coach nursing students and the newly graduated ones. Perioperative nurses on the other hand are registered nurses who help in the surgical department in hospitals, day surgery units, physician’s offices and clinics. Their main work is to assist in planning, implementation and evaluation of treatment for surgical patients. (Turunen… Continue Reading...
