This is troubling, because the different exemptions can cause confusion among stakeholders about how they would apply. Where, health care providers, regulators and insurance companies can be able to circumvent the law, under the exemptions of HIPPA Continue Reading...
Organizational Systems & Quality Leadership Strategies that enable a nurse on an interdisciplinary team to exert leadership Nurse leaders act as clinicians, managers and mentors to shape the future of healthcare and have positively impact patie Continue Reading...
O'Meara stresses that a system known as a Decision Support System of DSS can be integrated into existing it to identify potential errors that could be made on any given case and provide the staff with flags to help them avoid such errors. (December Continue Reading...
In this regard, it is vitally important that leadership communicate effectively with staff, with particular focus on the fact that quality improvement in patient databases means improved quality in health care. This is good not only for patients, bu Continue Reading...
Patient care and recovery statistics demonstrate that the United States has a medical care system with which Americans are less satisfied than other citizens in developed countries. There are many reasons for this: correlation between health and soci Continue Reading...
Only those that are supposed to have access to that information would have all of the correct keys to unlocking it. Advanced technology such as retinal scans, or fingerprint matching could be employed at the most sensitive levels. The implementatio Continue Reading...
Many advocates of the move feel that lower patient to nurse ratio would lead to additional savings because it would reduce nurse turnover rate, lawsuits, complications and length of stay. Nursing unions in the state of California have asked for a PT Continue Reading...
Organizational Culture and Values The alignment of organizational and nurse values can affect nurse engagement, and therefore patient outcomes. It has been well-documented that in many instances workers and the organizations for whom they work can h Continue Reading...
Samson is herself a minority and half of the nursing staff in the office are non-white. One of the senior doctors is Latino. Samson helped staff trace some of the office miscommunications to a lack of cultural sensitivity. Diversity issues are on th Continue Reading...
Business of Health Care This study highlights essential facts about health care and health in the local, national, and international health care delivery. Healthcare in the U.S. stands at crossroads between opportunities and challenges. Both the loc Continue Reading...
Financing Structuring Health Care Health Care Financing Over the last several years, the role of insurance companies in providing different health care solutions has been increasingly brought to the forefront. This is because costs have been rising Continue Reading...
Technology on Health Care Services: There are several promising breakthroughs that have been made in the health care sector in the past decade. These promising breakthroughs have emerged due to the influence of information technology in this field. Continue Reading...
ACA There have been many problems with the Affordable Care Act since its inception. When it was a bill, it was contested, and the final form of the law reflected a lot of compromises that weakened it. Then there was the rollout fiasco in the autumn Continue Reading...
Healthcare Reform "Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital" The case of Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital was a case that attempted to end the segregation of African-American and Whites in the U.S. hospitals and medical professions as a Continue Reading...
Application Process Improvement Models Organizations Systems A clinical practice improvement initiative The strategy of treating patients with dementia must be dependent on a thorough neurological, psychiatric, and general therapeutic assessment of Continue Reading...
Policy Changes in Healthcare Finance Healthcare Finance CPT Codes The American Medical Association (2013) developed the Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) codes decades ago in the 1960s. The first edition was published in 1966 and over the subse Continue Reading...
ethical hospice care is that it must be founded upon honesty. "Frank discussions about death and dying, clarifying knowledge of the underlying illness and knowledge of the dying process" is essential (Guido 2010: 35). However, this must be balanced Continue Reading...
UsingtheAACNSynergyModel AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care Case Study of a CHF Patient Sonya Hardin, RN, PhD, CCRN, CS Leslie Hussey, RN, PhD role as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS)/adult nurse practitioner (ANP). The advanced practice nurs Continue Reading...
Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012 was introduced by Senator Marco Rubio for the purpose of repealing the recent mandate that infringes religious freedom and conscience rights of religious organizations by the recent mandate within President O Continue Reading...
Privatization of Healthcare Services in China Since 1980s Empirical Analysis related to Primary level Changes Insurance Financing Policy Data Presentation, Observations and Analysis Obstacles faced by Private Clinics Future Outlook China open Continue Reading...
Competitive Advantage in Healthcare Through Competitive Pricing The healthcare industry is just like any other service sector that needs uniqueness and control over costs to excel. Since the cost of conducting business is increasing, there is a need Continue Reading...
com). A certain amount of errors is to be expected, but there should not be so many that it demonstrates a certain level of skewedness about the model in its entirety. Thus, if the NHI model is the one which is selected, then it needs to be tested ag Continue Reading...
"Studies of the relationship between managed care penetration in the health care market and expenditures for Medicare fee-for-service enrollees have demonstrated the existence of these types of spill over effects" (Bundorf et al., 2004). Managed ca Continue Reading...
sleeping under a rock the issue of health care in the United States has been on the minds of everyone. In a society where health costs have spiraled, employer sponsored health insurance is rapidly disappearing, and millions are going untreated the o Continue Reading...
Medicare: Healthcare to Protect the Elderly Medicare has been around for a long time, and is the main source of healthcare insurance for the elderly. If it were not for the government-funded Medicare, many elderly people in this country would have t Continue Reading...
Hisory of Palliatve Care Palliative Care Palliative Care Methods Palliative care entails assisting patients get through pain caused by different diseases. The patient may be ailing from any diseases, be it curable or untreatable. Even patient who Continue Reading...
Nurse-Patient Ratio on Care Quality Nurse Patient Ratio The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality It would be hard to understate the importance of a high nurse to patien Continue Reading...
Swedish Health Care System All over the world, governments approach their social responsibilities from a wide range of perspectives. For instance, for many industrialized nations, health care is taken to be an example of a social program tailored to Continue Reading...
End-of-Life Health Care Imagine this scenario: a patient has end stage heart failure, coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sleep apnea. She has refused any invasive treatments for many years, Continue Reading...
Primary Care Beard, C., Weisberg, R.B., & Primack, J. (2012). Socially anxious primary care patients' attitudes toward cognitive bias modification (CBM): a qualitative study. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy, 40(05), 618-633. This study Continue Reading...
Palliative Care Queensland is basically an independent not for profit body that represents the palliative care providers, consumers and their families. This organization is concerned with people who have an interest in palliative care in Queensland ( Continue Reading...
Standards of Care/Mental Health/Cultural Competence EMERGING STANDARDS OF CARE/MENTAL HEALTH/CULTURAL Sometime in 1999, the Surgeon General released Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Inside this report, it acknowledged that not every Continue Reading...
Financial Management for Nurses The modern healthcare industry is extremely labor intensive. To be effective, a modern nurse manager must balance patient care vs. staffing, procedures vs. patient load, and fiscal budgets in line with appropriate lev Continue Reading...
Hygiene Proposal World Health Organization, (2007) estimates that more than 1.4 million people suffer form one disease to the other and HAI (Health care-associated infections) are the most important infections that occurs globally. In advanced coun Continue Reading...
Standards of Cultural Competent Care Emerging Standards of Cultural Competent This research paper is established to explore upon the emerging trends of culturally competent care in general organizational settings. However, the scope of this care w Continue Reading...
Nurse Patient Ratios and Quality of Care This study reviews the broad level of issues that surround the nurse/patient ratio: a critical shortage of trained and experienced nurses; increased political and fiscal demands from all sectors of society; r Continue Reading...
" (2004, p.159) Activities have included: (1) Development and promotion of industry-wide standards; (2) Funding of research for investigation of the impact of IT on quality; (3) Provision of incentives that provide encouragement of investment in I Continue Reading...
Dialysis organizations would be another opponent to the change due to the cost. Raising the costs of treatment might be necessary to hire new nurses. Dialysis clinics, because of their small size, often have fewer resources than large hospitals and Continue Reading...
COPD Teaching Plan and Its Contribution to Healthcare: Nurses not only strive to restore health in sick individuals but they also seek to promote maximum health potential in healthy people. The major way through which nurses achieve this goal is thr Continue Reading...
Transitional Care of Older Adults Hospitalized with Heart Failure Experiment Naylor, M.D., Brooten, D., Campbell, R.L., Maislan, G.,, McCauley, K.M. Schuartz, J. Transitional Care of Older Adults Hospitalized with Heart Failure: A Randomized Trial. Continue Reading...
