Neurological Disorders and Disorders Essay

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Outpatient Clinic

There are many types of structures and facilities when it comes to healthcare. For each type, there are a lot of details that matter. These include the staffing of the facility, the experience of those personnel and the details of the facility itself. The type of facility that will be focused on for this report is an outpatient clinic. The details of that type of facility that will be covered include a description of the facility, the populations that would use the facility, the key characteristics of the facility and why the author of this report has chosen such a facility. While inpatient service and care is sometimes needed for some patients and situations, outpatient services allow people to get treatment while also keeping up with their regular lives.

Analysis

The general premise and need for outpatient clinics is pretty basic. Outpatient clinics are those that allow for a person to get treatment without being admitted like with inpatient clinics and hospitals. There are situations where admittance is needed such as extensive drug rehabilitation, intensive treatment for certain diseases and disorders and so forth, many to most situations can be dealt with via outpatient clinics. A few good examples are medical management and psychiatry clinics, therapists, urgent care and neurology.
The adaptability and applicability of outpatient clients has extended and grown a lot over the years. For example, even rather serious and chronic disorders like HIV and such can be handled in an outpatient clinic nowadays (Sacamano & Farley, 2016). Other disorders have been treated out of outpatient clinics for a while but the methods and manners of treatment have improved a great deal in their own right. One disorder example would be Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its variants (Shakir & Sulaiman, 2016).

Given the above, it is clear that the populations treated at such clinics will vary based on the mission and equipping of the clinic. Neurology outpatient clinics would deal with those that have seizure and other neurological disorders. HIV/AIDS clinics would deal with people that have those disorders. The equipment, personnel and characteristics of the facility would vary based on what is being treated for, the supplies that are needed for the same and so forth. Any clinic that has the need to collect blood would likely have a staff of phlebotomists and a laboratory to process samples. A clinic that assists with….....

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