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Lifestyle Profile of the Neighborhood of University of Illinois Hospital
Marketing research represents a crucial business activity, since it helps identify factors such as consumer characteristics, market size and nature, and nature of rivals, which Continue Reading...
Libertarianism
In what sense is Judge Napolitano's view of health care libertarian?
There are several reasons it is libertarian. First, libertarianism is against the healthcare mandate in that they would be against a person being forced to buy anyt Continue Reading...
Blue Cross Case Study
The author of this report has been asked to select a healthcare organization that has a network spans multiple state. With that in mind, the author of this report has chosen Blue Cross Blue Shield. With that organization in min Continue Reading...
medicine, long valued for individual entrepreneurship and physician control, has undergone dramatic change. Physicians now face vexing oversight of case and utilization management and loss of control over the allocation of health care dollars. Manag Continue Reading...
Caring for Body and Soul
Critiquing Research Report
Modern nursing practice has focused more and more on treating the whole person, through four domains (Chan, 2009). These are physical, mental, social, and spiritual. Of the four, the spiritual do Continue Reading...
Community Assessment: Atlanta
The purpose of this community assessment is to give an overview of the Atlanta community and its people. It provides a sense of the kinds of stores and businesses in the city and discusses the population’s accessib Continue Reading...
Vulnerable Populations: Low Income Adults
Low income adults in Wyandot County, Kansas City, Kansas, are vulnerable to the socio-economic factors that commonly have a negative health impact. These factors include low wages, unstable family life, risky Continue Reading...
The emphasis is on normal, everyday activities provided for residents. According to the authors, however, little research has been conducted to investigate the actual effect of such activities and settings upon residents. The assumption is that such Continue Reading...
Evaluation Plan for a Cardiovascular Disease Prevention ProgramIntroductionThe escalating burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among people of color in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, presents a critical public health challenge. In response to this, a tar Continue Reading...
Health Promotion Plan Addressing Tobacco UseIntroductionThis health promotion plan for tobacco product users includes a range of activities and strategies aimed at reducing the harmful effects of tobacco use. First and foremost, we want to provide ed Continue Reading...
When speaking of healthcare disparities, it is normal to speak of commonly impacted groups such as women or African-Americans. The diseases or disorders that are commonly the focus of such policy and strategy are things like diabetes, heart disease a Continue Reading...
Quality improvement within a healthcare firm is very important. Health care laws are continually changing and required a diverse and varied array of skillsets. One of which is a high standard for patient care. Antiquated systems, a higher insured pop Continue Reading...
Reduce Patient Falls in a Hospital Environment
Method of Obtaining Necessary Approval(s)
Description of Current Problem
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Implementing Change
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Risk and quality management is a Continue Reading...
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Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Patient safety
The issue of patient safety has been a concern to medics and the stakeholders in the health care system over many years. This has been propelled by constant emergence of life threatening injure Continue Reading...
professional staff view the environment differently than the management staff? If so, cite examples
In a healthcare environment, the professional, front-line staff members such as doctors and nurses are those staff members who interact directly wit Continue Reading...
Research CritiqueProblem StatementThe study seeks to address the problem of unmet health needs for colorectal cancer patients. Evidence shows that colorectal cancer patients often lack nurse counselling support to effectively manage symptoms and side Continue Reading...
Abstract
Opioid abuse is a problem in the US, particularly among the youth population. This is a health risk behavior that has arisen in the US for quite some time, largely due to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry’s push of drugs lik Continue Reading...
1. How does or can HIT influence costs, quality, or access?
Health information technology (HIT) utilization, in the words of Shekelle, Morton, and Keeler (2006), “has been promoted as having tremendous promise in improving the efficiency, cost- Continue Reading...
There are some situations and outcomes within the healthcare industry where it is important to pay attention to what happens, what could be done, what should be done and why all of the above is true. Indeed, one of those things would be the treatment Continue Reading...
Internship at NYU
At the NYU Langone Medical Center where I interned for 15 weeks from September 19th, 2016, to December 31st, 2016, I undertook several duties. While these duties varied and introduced me to a number of different activities connected Continue Reading...
stakeholders that have significant interest in a new organizational structure? What are their concerns, and how should they be addressed?
Any health care organization is made up of a variety of organizational stakeholders with a variety of often-co Continue Reading...
Promotion Strategies
In the field of healthcare, organizations are required to promote themselves in the same manner as any other corporation mainly due to the fact that many healthcare organizations are dependent on donations, promotion strategies Continue Reading...
Organizational Analysis and SWOTHuman resource is one of the most important departments within any organization that relies heavily on human capital and its subsequent development. Human resources allow organizations to attract, train, and retain top Continue Reading...
Drug Price Regulation
The United States is a country that values life, and one of the ways we express this is the premium we place on healthcare. However, statistics have shown that the price of prescription drugs -- an important component of health Continue Reading...
Unintentional Death
The role of patient safety in quality care should be front and center; however, as the IOM (2000) reported, too many patients are dying as a result of medical error. To protect patients, the IOM recommended several courses of acti Continue Reading...
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, the Healthy People 2020 Initiative was launched in 2010 in order to address a comprehensive assortment of health related issues concerning the American people and society (CDC, 2011). The initiative has Continue Reading...
rights EMTALA grants, to whom, when, and in what setting.
EMTALA is short for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. It was part of the larger Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, which is commonly referred to as C Continue Reading...
health is affected by behaviors, economics, and social structure.
Health is affected by behaviors in that if good habits are formed from the latter, the former is then influenced positively. However, if practices like smoking and excess alcohol con Continue Reading...
Ground Zero at Fukushima
The meltdown of the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in 2011 in Japan resulted in concerns of the spread of thyroid cancer among the population. The epidemiology of radiation has long been studied and the consensus opinion is that the Continue Reading...
Case Study 3
A veteran aged eighty, living alone, diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2D) twelve years ago, displaying normal renal functioning, and prescribed insulin injections besides other oral anti-hyperglycemic drug (OAD), reported hypogl Continue Reading...
Statistics and Research Method for Business Decisions
Potential of Fitness Industry
Fitness industries today are increasingly receiving clients from all sorts of demographics and ages. Human fitness is turning out to be an asset that people are taki Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act
What is the ACA?
The 2010 Affordable Care Act or the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - HR3590), nicknamed Obamacare, is the latest American healthcare reform legislation. The PPACA encompasses the Patient Prot Continue Reading...
Healthcare InequityHealthcare inequity refers to the gap between those who receive care they need and those who do not and that this difference is unfair (Artiga et al., 2020). The distinction between equity and equality refers to different approache Continue Reading...
Questions1. What does the environment of Middleboro look like?According to the case study materials the environment of Middleboro is calm, tranquil and sanguine. As a much smaller town the overall population is very smalls as compared to many of the Continue Reading...
Nursing: Healthcare ReformChanges in the healthcare system cause political and regulatory implications since the policies devised by the government to have to be followed by the healthcare professionals creating a direct impact on the quality of care Continue Reading...