998 Search Results for Trends in Healthcare Benefits
Hypothermia Treatment Using Radiant Heat
Hypothermia
Critique of Postoperative Hypothermia Treatment Using Radiant Heat by Yang et al. (2012)
Critique of Postoperative Hypothermia Treatment Using Radiant Heat by Yang et al. (2012)
Perioperative h Continue Reading...
Routine Shaving of the Surgical Site
Select a preoperative procedure (e.g., routine shaving of the surgical site) that you would commonly find on a surgical floor.
Describe the process or procedure you have chosen and why you think it needs change. Continue Reading...
These studies demonstrate that there are several factors associated with patient noncompliance, regardless of the disease being treated. Medication side effects represent only one of these issues. Nurse practitioners could help to resolve many of t Continue Reading...
Financing Health Care in the United States
How do the rapid and dynamic changes in financing impact health outcomes within your practice?
Health is a very important part of human existence. We also live in very interesting times when there are new li Continue Reading...
For elderly patients who have no one to appoint as their proxy, completing a living will that outlines their wishes is preferable to not providing any information at all about care preferences. This is equally so for patients who want to provide the Continue Reading...
In 2000 legislation was presented by Ralph Klein to the legislature, demanding that provinces be permitted to allow private hospitals. That same year, more budget cuts slammed the health systems, when the "Federal Budget offers 2 cents for health ca Continue Reading...
Business Posts
(1) Finance
Balance Sheet
ASSETS
Non-current assets
$30,000
Equipment
$30,000
Current assets
$170,000
Inventory
$20,000
Accounts receivable
$100,000
Cash
$50,000
TOTAL ASSETS
$200,000
LIABILITIES
Accounts payable
$1 Continue Reading...
References.
"Epidemiology." World Health Organization. Viewed 13 April, 2013. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/topics/epidemiology/en/
2. Qualitative research, and qualitative understanding, is very useful in translating certain ideas into words Continue Reading...
APNs
Competency
Course competencies: APNs
The role and scope of practice of the advanced practice nurse (APN) in every field and sphere of healthcare has expanded in recent decades. There is "growing recognition that educational preparation must b Continue Reading...
…[…… parts of this paper are missing, click here to view the entire document ]……IMPORTANT: We are only showing you a small preview of the full completed paper. The file you download will contain the full (13)-page Continue Reading...
It has been found that in general, the elasticity of demand for health care is -0.17, meaning that for a $1 increase in the cost of health care there is a decline in demand of $0.17 (Ringel et al., 2005). Health care is a unique product. It would be Continue Reading...
Patients also say they want to awake and conscious when their pain is managed. The issue is that there are not many U.S. physicians and nurses who are certified to extend palliative care. There are only 33 physicians and only 41 nurses for every 10, Continue Reading...
(the pulse of health care is wireless: The future medical enterprise)
The Pocket PCs and the PDA's are just only the tools but it is the software that drive these hand held devices that allow for providing better health care services. Starting from Continue Reading...
Annotated BibliographyAbstractModern healthcare faces a range of challenges and opportunities, perhaps none more intriguing than the possibilities afforded the industry thanks to how advancements in technology transforming remote patient monitoring a Continue Reading...
, 2005). In addition, the workload on clinicians is often increased past the point of reasonable because it is too intrusive and time consuming to document patient encounters during clinic time (Grabenbauer, Skinner, and Windle, 2011). The amount of Continue Reading...
Organizational Assessment as Impetus for Change at a Vet Center
Organizational Assessment as an Impetus for Change at a Vet Center
Organizational Context. Every type of organization has, or should have, as a major goal, the need to optimize the pro Continue Reading...
This 1996 Act was part of a Civil Rights concern that as information became more electronically disseminated, it would lead to misuse of that information (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). Certainly, one of the benefits of electro Continue Reading...
HEALTH CARE ADVANCEMENT AND TREND PAPER Health Care Advancement and Trend paperTelemedicineOver the past year and a half, the healthcare industry has faced unprecedented disruption due to the COVID- pandemic. The healthcare industry's technology has Continue Reading...
S.A. It is worth noting that some of these parts that are left out can be very expensive at times particularly when the beneficiary has to pay the out-of-pocket premiums and deductibles as well, and these services could be inevitable like seeking med Continue Reading...
Immigrant Welfare Policy Summary & Critique
Immigration into the United States has historically come in waves, with the current upward trend beginning in 1965 and gaining steam through the 1980s, to the point where nearly one million immigrants Continue Reading...
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a project involving examination of health departments and CDC (Center for Disease Control) of a given State. PRAMS was unveiled in 1987. This project gathers data relating to the experience and a Continue Reading...
The majority of communities in Alaska are separated by vast distances and the distance from many communities to the nearest medical facility is equivalent to the distance from New York to Chicago (Indian Health Service Alaska Area Services, 2011).
Continue Reading...
These are questions dealing with attitude and are the most important questions when doing qualitative social science research to gauge relationships among events. In addition to construction questions about attitudes, it is important to have the que Continue Reading...
Business Intelligence
Creating, Implementing and Using Business Intelligence in Clinic and Resort Cases
In the process of effective decision making for improving opportunities and performance of a business, a vital role is played by Business Intell Continue Reading...
More times than not, a patient will argue that he did not understand what the physician stated to him; even amidst documented proof the medical professional and the patient did engage in an informed conversation. "The fact that a meeting took place Continue Reading...
…[…… parts of this paper are missing, click here to view the entire document ]…Research Proposal Option: Proposal to Conduct an Evaluation(Evaluation Template)Proposed Outcomes Evaluation of the Maryland Department of Housing Continue Reading...
Filling the Gap Wisely
Nurse Practitioner Workforce
There is no question that healthcare costs have been weighing heavy on policy makers, especially with an aging 'baby-boom' generation and passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Continue Reading...
Medication Communication
Cliff, Barbara (2012). "Excellence in Patient Satisfaction within a Patient-Centered Culture." Academic journal article from Journal of Healthcare Management, Vol. 57, No. 3.
This article can be used to explain how the sco Continue Reading...
Falls
THE ISSUE OF ACCIDENTAL FALLS
At some point, anyone who had learned how to walk has had the experience of falling down -- it is a universal experience for infants as they gain ambulatory ability. In hospitals, however, the accidental fall is Continue Reading...
Given the declining ratio of workers to reitirees, the level of increases to fix the shortfall would be too burdensome and would negatively impact consumption of workers who aren't retired.
Reducing the rate of growth in benefits for future retiree Continue Reading...
Of course, as Medicare beneficiaries increase because of the number of baby boomers, the Medicare program may adjust. However, current hospice figures demonstrate that only about twenty percent of all elderly individuals that die are enrolled in hos Continue Reading...
Another study found that there are many different strategies that are utilized when information technology is developed within the federal government and many of these tend to come not from the top managers but from the management instead (Gupta, Ho Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership
Modern nursing has become a multi-disciplinary career that encompasses a number of roles and requires more expertise than ever before. In modern nursing, there are a number of stakeholders: patients, families, the community, insur Continue Reading...
Sulzberger, A.G. (2009, August 18). Starbucks workers protest rise in health premiums.
The New York Times. Retrieved July 11, 2011 at http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/starbucks-workers-protest-rise-in-health-premiums/
Starbucks has lon Continue Reading...
Merrill, in the UK. Following his experience with heart surgery using innovating surgical techniques, the physician noted the problems he experienced in understanding all of his alternatives compared to a simpler earlier procedure, and finally trust Continue Reading...
Nephrologists are expected to play a role in this determination, but all too often the nephrologist, like other physicians, must be prompted to deal with end-of-life issues. If no one is available to do the prompting, the patient's death may be need Continue Reading...
Annotated BibliographyOriginal Research Question: Did implementing remote and virtual front desk services, including live representatives via webcam, impact staffing efficiency for underserved patients, especially patients with English as their secon Continue Reading...
Electronic Prescribing is a critical feedback loop that helps maintain master patient index along with routes inquires and allows enrolled pharmacies to route prescriptions to desired locations. The pharmacy receives the benefit of quickly receiving Continue Reading...