to be successful. Currently, research is underway for the use of artificial intelligence, supercomputing, and clinical support systems in the healthcare environment. This research will explore how these technologies are likely to change healthcare in the future, and the role of readership in making the integration of these technologies a success.
Overview
Currently, information technology is an integral part of the healthcare system. HIT refers to a variety of technologies that collect, transmit, store, and display patient data electronically (Hemmat, Ayatollahi, Maleki, and Safhafi, 2017). This makes it easy to send, review, and update patient information quickly and easily. The current list of technologies includes remote and mobile health technology,… Continue Reading...
In the U.S healthcare environment, the clinical practice guidelines are the effective healthcare protocol to enhance patient’s safety as well as achieving evidence-based practice. The clinical guidelines provide recommendations to the best available practice to assist clinicians and other healthcare professionals to deliver best and quality care. More importantly, the clinical practice guidelines are designed to optimize patients’ care using the systematic assessment and evidence based review to assess pros and cons of the alternative care options. The guidelines serve as the strongest resources to assist the healthcare professionals to make clinical decisions… Continue Reading...
norms and beliefs relating to the individual patient (Wayne, 2014). Given the nature of the modern healthcare environment, healthcare providers need to provide transcultural care, which is an individual-centered care approach that is culturally unique and based on effective communication. The conceptual framework for this proposed project is as shown in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1: Conceptual Framework for the Project
Professional Interpreter
Healthcare Provider/Staff
Individual Patient
Family
Implementation of Change
As previously indicated, the proposed practice in this project is the use of professional or bilingual interpreters during… Continue Reading...
of care delivery processes is better patient-provider communication. However, the modern healthcare environment comprises patients from different racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, which sometimes generate language barriers during patient care delivery. Language barrier is a major challenge to Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients seeking for primary and preventative care. Patient-provider communication issues have continued to face many elderly Hispanics suffering from diabetes due to language barriers. This project seeks to examine whether the use of a bilingual interpreter call during provider visits compared to utilizing family members as interpreters, enhance medication adherence over a 3-month period.
An important component in the… Continue Reading...
have shared with other nurses or healthcare professionals. She also focused on establishing a healthcare environment characterized by increased physician-nurse collaboration, nurse-nurse collaboration, and nurse-leader collaboration. This helped in enhancing the quality of patient care since the various care providers in the unit worked as a team during delivery of patient care. For instance, physicians received complete information from nurses relating to patient issues because of the increased collaboration between these professionals. At the end of the nursing shift, WW would sit down with the nurses to review the activities of the day and assess the effectiveness of care delivery processes. The reviewed helped… Continue Reading...
will be assigned specific roles that will help in the implementation of this project. The management team will help create a suitable healthcare environment through which bilingual interpreters will be allowed to provide interpretive services during the healthcare delivery process. They will also provide financial and non-financial support and resources for effective implementation of the project. The financial support from the management team is attributable to the fact that the project is designed based on the assumption that the provider will underwrite all direct costs relating to project execution. Bilingual interpreters will act as intermediaries between patients and providers with regards to provide linguistic interventions for language barriers. These stakeholders will communicate… Continue Reading...
2005).
Such research indicates that there are a wide range of benefits associated with building cultural competencies and training programs have been introduced in a range of healthcare environments. For example, there are at least five separate components of a cultural competency that been introduced to many baccalaureate of nursing programs consisting of different learning strategies, methods for evaluation, and recommendations for effective implementation for each component (Calvillo, et al., 2009). There have also been more hands-on approaches designed such as the community-based participatory research program that foster interactions with diverse community involvement which can also build cultural competencies quickly (Anderson, et al., 2007). However, despite these benefits, it should be noted that cultural competencies may not… Continue Reading...
the people and objectives of healthcare provision. Lateral violence is inappropriate and disruptive conduct by an employee within a healthcare environment. Such behavior may be directed towards an employee at the same level or a junior member of staff. Although, sometimes, such behavior is openly shown by certain employees, often, it is subtle, quietly meted and repeated. It gets worse over time. If observed in isolation, such behavior may seem harmless at first glance. However, cumulatively, the aggressive behavior and insults amount to seriously harmful practices to the nurses they are directed at (Christie & Jones, 2014).
LV shows a consistent pattern of behavior that is deliberately designed to… Continue Reading...
communication, healthcare providers.
Overview
Provider-patient communication is an important factor in enhancing patient outcomes in the modern healthcare environment. Elderly Hispanic immigrants and Mexican Americans are among patient populations facing relatively high rates of diabetes. Sentell & Braun (2012) contend that the prevalence of rates of diabetes among Hispanic communities for diagnosed and undiagnosed patients is approximately 18.3%. These populations are pre-disposed to diabetic disorders due to several factors including limited knowledge, lack of access to resources, and cardiometabolic mechanisms (Detz et al., 2014). Since most of these patients are Limited English Proficiency (LEP) patients, they experience tremendous communication challenges as they seek for healthcare services for… Continue Reading...
as possible, detailing times of day and other situational variables. Second, I will participate in the healthcare environment actively. The subjective conclusions I draw from the period observation will be combined and analyzed in conjunction with the systematic observations.
Description of Activities
1. Start of day. At the beginning of every day or shift, the nurse leader will perform specific routine tasks according to how he or she runs the unit, and the goals of that day's work. The initial observations will be critical for setting the tone for the rest of the day. Based on personal experience, it is expected that the nurse leader will… Continue Reading...
