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competition increasing in every field including nursing, it is not desirable for any professional nurse to just be content with a bachelor's degree in Nursing. It should be noted here that as the subspecialties and subfields are evolving with better 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...
Managed care and utilization review (UR) play an integral part in patient care and reimbursement (Mahmoud, E and Rice, G, 1998). Scott echoes it experts Brian P. Bloomfield, Rod Coombs, David Knights, and Dale Littler (2000), who say:
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Gonzalez (2007), discusses the company WellPoint Inc. that provides its members with the capability to develop their own personal health records, an option to receive test results online, provide a limited set of records to their providers and to al Continue Reading...
Health Administration
The purpose of this study is to show that there are many reasons why nurses leave their profession, but that financial reasons often rank very high on their list of concerns. Managed care issues and job dissatisfaction also pla Continue Reading...
Explaining the Differences in the U.S. and European Health Care SystemsHow can it be that the richest, most powerful nation on earth can tolerate 47 million uninsured, the highest health care costs per capita by far on earth, and health outcomes that Continue Reading...
Economic Surplus
The general topic that will be covered in this brief essay will be economic surpluses in the capitalistic context. To be sure, the way in which the surplus and largesse of society is managed varies widely based on the form of governm Continue Reading...
Financial Management
A major part and linchpin of any medical and/or research firm is the financial management aspects of the organization. Financial management of any major medical outfit would be overseen by the officers of the treasury and financ Continue Reading...
Health Disparity
Health disparities refer to a certain kind of health-related difference closely tied to economic or social disadvantage. They negatively impact groups of individuals systematically subject to greater economic and social barriers to Continue Reading...
Davis Health Care/QI Plan
Data Collection Tools
Explain data needed to monitor improvements.
There exist several data sources concerning Davis Health Care that one can utilize to aim at an aspect for improvement. Data sources vary from nursing hom Continue Reading...
risks associated with exchanging data with outside partners. The most significant risk is probably with respect to data security. A survey of people within the health care industry noted that within the industry there are a number of concerns expres Continue Reading...
Corporate fraud as a dishonest activity for organizations that is considered as white collar crime has serious legal implications. Though it can be difficult to detect and catch, it is important to prevent it by creating effective and efficient polic Continue Reading...
Nursing Philosophy
The author of this report is asked to offer three main points of discussion within this report. These three sections all related to nursing theory and they will be compared and contrasted to the personal philosophy of the author o Continue Reading...
Organizational Performance Management
Emergency Medical Services & Pharmacies Long-Term Health Care Physicians' Offices Hospitals This paper written organizations. • Discuss influence regulatory accreditation standards performance-manageme Continue Reading...
Health Care Management
The financial pressure points faced by firms in the health care business can be determined by looking at the flow of funds diagram. In this diagram, the health care organization sits in the middle, and as a result acts almost Continue Reading...
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Over the last several years, Riverview Regional Medical Center (RRMC) has been going through a number of challenges. This is because there were transformations in how different services are: provided, perceptions ab Continue Reading...
False Claims Act is a piece of legislation from the U.S. Congress that allows any individual with knowledge of a fraud being perfected against any agency of the U.S. Government to file a claim on behalf of the Government against the individual or bus Continue Reading...
Another solution that is being looked at is the idea of setting up medical homes that include dental services (Friedman, 2012). These consist of providers offices where patients and their medical histories are identified, preventive services and tre Continue Reading...
intext citations. Thanks First, there are several software development techniques that can be used in the development process. The waterfall approach proposes a sequence of phase whereby one phase is determined by the completion of the previous phas Continue Reading...
United States Health Care System
The objective of this work in writing is to answer as to what is working with the U.S. health care system and what is not working with the U.S. health care system. This work will address the needed reforms and the cu Continue Reading...
The Steps that Can be Taken to Address Financial and Reimbursement Issues
The most effective way for controlling costs, is to find out where specific waste and misuse of funds is occurring. This will help administrators to identify those areas whe Continue Reading...
Another way that media literacy messages are suppressed is by having them changed. When this happens, the message is not received as intended. The recipient of the message does not learn as much about media literacy as he or she should. This disrup Continue Reading...
Keeping staff medically informed so that they can best deal with the variety of cases seen within the context of an ER unit. Within the vulnerable population inside the ER are individuals who inappropriate use its services. Research states that "pat Continue Reading...
" (Congressional Budget Office Testimony, 2001) Complicating the problem is the fact that Social Security is not only a retirement program but in fact approximately 2/3 of Social Security beneficiaries are retired workers" with the remaining being di Continue Reading...
Naturally, this improves profitability for private enterprises but simultaneously shrinks the American production and labor economies. This is the type of stifling of growth that has contributed significantly to the current state of recession grippi Continue Reading...
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The health care industry is heavily regulated and has several special risk areas that need to be looked out for. An effective compliance program is necessary in order to mitigate these risks. In addition to the challenges that are associated wit Continue Reading...
There is confusion about laws which are subject to different interpretations and this result in critical information not being made available. This is caused by such laws like the "Educational Rights and Privacy Act -- FERPA, Health Insurance Portab Continue Reading...
Nationalized health care is the responsibility of a modern nation to its citizens as many of them are not able to afford the costs of healthcare in United States. The direct effects of the lack of provisions of healthcare by the government has led to Continue Reading...
Cultural Competency
Practiced for over 2,500 years in China, where it originated, acupuncture is an important part of the holistic system of traditional Chinese medicine. Acupuncture was first introduced in Europe about 200 years ago by Jesuit pries Continue Reading...
Nursing Home Facilities: A Solution for Long-Term Care
Introduction
Nursing home facilities offer a unique setting for long-term care of elderly persons. Serving as places of residence where the elderly person can obtain assistance with daily living Continue Reading...
Flooding in the Carolinas after Hurricane Florence in 2018
Introduction
Since the disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the poor response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the aftermath of the flooding in 2005, adequate and effective m Continue Reading...
Nurses in executive roles like Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) build bridges between various members of the healthcare team, between healthcare team members and patients, and also between the legislative environment and organizational practices. In a p Continue Reading...
Introduction
The concept of population health management refers to understanding and managing health outcomes at the population, rather than the individual level. Cousins et al (2002) highlight that risk levels for different ailments and conditions c Continue Reading...
A summary of the issue and the middle-range theory that could be used
There has been a disturbing trend of both surplus and shortage of nurses at different times throughout the healthcare workforce history in the US. There was a nursing shortage in t Continue Reading...
Issues Driving Change in Healthcare
Healthcare is driven by policy changes like those embedded in the Affordable Care Act, by shifting social norms and attitudes towards healthcare, and by demographic changes such as the aging population. The Afford Continue Reading...
Organizational Performance Management
Performance Data Scorecard:
Scorecard Category
Metric
Employee engagement
(HIV Testing and Diagnosis)
% of patients diagnosed on site
% of patients diagnosed in other medical facilities
% of patients diag Continue Reading...