Introduction Uwe E. Reinhardt writes about the exorbitant prices that the health care system, through the insurance agencies, charge the health consumers. When one draws the comparison in prices for health services between citizens in the health system outside the country and that of the American citizens, it varies with...
Introduction Nursing research is a terminology which explains the facts used in support of nursing as a practice. This research was carried out in the pursuit of finding solutions to the research question ‘the effects of hospitalization on children’ Discussion of the research problem In this case, this research focused...
Introduction The safety of patients and the healthcare providers is a vital element in the delivery of healthcare. It is the responsibility of the healthcare givers and administrators to ensure that measures are taken to prevent errors that can be detrimental to the patient and the risky practices that increase...
Health care demands novel approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of patients as well as the delivery of high quality and safe patient care. The cost of quality is evident as demonstrated by pay-for-performance and the financial penalties implemented in 2008 by the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS). Quality measures...
Nursing assessments Nursing profession is of paramount in the health care services industry; the quality of service offered in health care facilities is determined by the quality of nurses produced by the current teaching, evaluating, empowering, assessment, and licensing methods. According to Billing and Halstead, 2009, the role played by...
Introduction The Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a highly prevalent virus which acts by weakening an individual’s immune system. Without treatment, HIV may lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) when the immune system is unable to effectively fight off even simple infections, creating a high risk of acquiring of infections,...
Kilian, K., Salmon, A., & Ward-Griffin, C. (2008). Perceiving falls within a family context: A focused ethnographic approach. Canadian Journal on Aging, 27, 4, 331. This article was very informative in identifying the risks factors for falls that entailed; cognitive impairment, use of sedatives, multiple medication use, history of falls,...
Introduction: Transformational and Transactional Management COVID-19 pandemic had a significant effect on all the economic and social areas of society. Hospitals were among the first institutions to experience the need for change due to unexpected numbers of patients and the unknown methods of treating the new disease. Medical institutions experienced...
Nursing practice involves searching for relevant information able to help the specialists to make the process of decision-making more effective. Therefore, appropriate searching skills are of vital importance for modern nurses. The internet has become one of the most popular sources of credible information. Certain skills are needed to ensure...
Introduction Opioids are a wide class of drugs that includes controlled, illegal substance heroin, synthetic opioids (fentanyl), and subscription drugs for pain relief such as oxycodone (registered as OxyContin®), hydrocodone (registered as Vicodin), codeine, morphine, and many others. The primary effect of opioid use stems from the drug’s interaction with...
Counselors work with different individuals, including those who cannot advocate for themselves, such as children, the elderly, domestic abuse survivors, drug addicts, and gang members. When working with such clients, a counselor must consider three specific duties: ethical, professional, and legal. These three responsibilities allow them to treat the population...
The efficiency of any team and its results depend on the interaction and the level of mutual understanding between all its members. Specialists who provide care for a patient should be able to understand each other and know strengths and weaknesses of every teammate. Only under these conditions, they will...
Illnesses and Risk Factors of Farmworkers Farmers in developed countries today often do not receive enough physical activity due to limited responsibilities. For example, they may collect fruits or vegetables during their shifts without much walking or stretching. Some of the common illnesses they experience include obesity, hypertension, and diabetes...
Introduction The clinical practice scenario selected for this essay is a prenatal woman scenario in the Exam room of the Bloodvein First Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada. The guidelines and the clinical staff’s narration, where they describe their roles and demonstrate skills, help better comprehend the clinical functioning and organization....
Introduction- This exercise discusses various ways through which the two types of errors are committed. The importance of power and sample size in avoiding wrongfully rejecting or failure to reject the null hypothesis is emphasized. Body- Three examples of researches are given to expound on the various ways of committing...
Introduction This brief lecture is designed for community-dwelling people older than 65 years old and aimed at increasing their awareness of falls and effective fall prevention programs. I will provide some information about the size of the issue and risk factors. However, the major focus will be on prevention strategies,...
Cancer remains one of the leading death causes in the United States, and the pancreatic type is the severest type based on the mortality from it. Multiple factors such as race, gender, or environment affect the disease statistics, moreover, health conditions can be determined by factors like social status, income,...
Introduction This paper evaluates a nursing lesson plan for a course titled, “Essentials in Nutrition”. It is a lesson offered to nursing students to provide a scientific and background understanding of their work. It also aims to make them capable of coming up with informed decisions about patient health diagnosis...
Introduction Circumcision is now known as a “surgical vaccine” as far as the topic of HIV is concerned. The recent increase in the rates of heterosexually transmitted HIV in Australia has resulted in a proposed widespread circumcision of infants and minors as a measure of curbing the epidemic. This method...
One of the prime models of charismatic leaders is Lynn Britton, who is the President and CEO of Mercy. A charismatic leader has the ability to inspire and motivate employees so that they exceed their normal work standards despite hardship and personal sacrifice. By providing her own example of advocating...
Introduction In the health profession, particularly medical radiation science, there is a rapid and dynamic advancement of technology and innovation. In addition, health practitioners are expected to deliver the highest standards of professional practice and patient care. It is a professional obligation for any medical practitioner to adhere to the...
Research Design This study will use a quantitative methodology to measure governing board performance of two groups of hospitals. The quantitative methodology is preferred because the study will require specific data about the hospitals such as performance, governance and general management of the hospitals. A survey will ensure that all...
I have always been passionate about traveling and learning about different cultures. I would like to describe how my potential future role is going to contribute to overcoming societal influence that is often a source of challenges for healthcare providers in terms of establishing healthy behaviors. The role I envision...
Among the several global health care issues, infectious diseases pose the greatest challenge to most healthcare systems around the globe. Infectious diseases, also known as communicable diseases, have shown an increasing trend in the recent past. These diseases include tuberculosis, cholera, malaria, small pox, pneumonia, and measles among others. Other...
Introduction Health egalitarianism and health maximization are two viewpoints held over the provision of health care to all members of the population, both locally and globally. There are similarities as well as differences that exist between health egalitarians and health maximizers and these need further elaboration as is addressed in...
The design of the study, “The Effects of Optimism on Distress in Women with Breast Cancer”, is a correlation because the research arrives at a conclusion through the identification and comparison of the association between distress levels and acceptance as a way of coping with cancer. The study does not...
Submitting a manuscript to a journal involves a number of processes that must be strictly adhered to for an individual to be successful. Initially, one must identify an appropriate professional journal, which ensures higher chances of acceptance. Afterward, understanding the author’s guidelines is crucial to certify that the publication will...
With the continuously changing landscape of healthcare services, medical workers need to learn to implement informatics technologies into practice. Typically, to alleviate data transfer, clinicians started to exchange information via mobile platforms, and nursing informaticists have a critical technical role in this process (Tyler, 2019). This profession must be at...
Introduction Assisted reproductive technology has been introduced as a solution to various problems including infertility, alleviation of disease and improvement in the quality of life. Infertility is known to affect about 10% of all couples in the world, leading to psychological stress disorders like depression, social isolation and reduced quality...
Introduction Education of patients with congestive heart failure has proved to be an effective intervention that improves self-care and reduces cases of readmission (Boren, Wakefield, Gunlock, & Wakefield, 2009). Treatment and management of congestive heart failure are of great significance to the health care system because White, Garbez, Carroll, Brinker,...
Introduction Good Clinical Practice (GCP) procedures provide comprehensive moral, ethical and scientific quality rules on how to devise, conduct, assess, audit, record, analyze and report medical trials in an action research project. In addition, GCP ensures that the data and reports generated are accurate and reliable and that the integrity,...
Quality, Safety, and Costs The relationships among safety, quality, and costs continue to attract the attention of many health specialists. The first issue to consider when explaining these relationships to the director and staff is how they promote the best health outcomes. Health care should be treated as a multidisciplinary...
Introduction Healthcare institutions can use different clinical questions to formulate appropriate strategies that can promote the quality of care availed to their clients. Healthcare professionals can embrace the power of evidence-based practice in order to address the major issues affecting quality patient care (Nardi & Gyurko, 2013). Evidence-based practice is...
The cost of any hospital unit does not account for the quality of health care received by patients. Therefore transferring patients from university hospitals to community hospitals does not improve efficiency. In this case, the cost is determined by the quality of health care, as well as the nature of...
Introduction Biobanking is the process of collecting biological data for researches, clinical, and health improvement. Pandya, in her Forbes article, highlights that “medicine and the development of new drugs will play critical roles, so access to biospecimens from biobanks becomes fundamental.” Biobanking is an enormous opportunity for future growth: according...
Statement of Need Each year Cabarrus County Department of Human Services receives numerous reports of child abuse and neglect, or dependency. In 2014, there was a total of 2,493 reports received with neglect as the primary concern (“Cabarrus County North Carolina Preliminary Annual Budget,” 2016). Of those reports, there are...
Introduction To reduce human suffering as a result of diseases and complications brought about by the current nature of the health system, this organization has come up with a capital project. The project is about radiology telemedicine and is expected to go a long way in reducing challenges faced by...
How does the alternative-treatments design differ from the changing-criterion, withdrawal, and multiple-baseline designs? The alternative-treatments design (ATD) entails the systematic interchanging of two or more interventions over time and contrasting the responses of each variable to the intervention. ATD permits participants to be subjected to specific treatment conditions for equal...
Dynamics of Suicide Cases of suicide have been on increase especially in western countries. It is believed that people commit suicide to evade problems perceived to be worse than death (Conner, Britton, Sworts & Joiner, 2007). According to Conner et al., (2007), when individuals are in irecipitating conditions, they cannot...
Introduction Like in any other country, the healthcare system plays a major role in the economy of the United States. Based on this, there have been profound efforts by leaders, to streamline the sector through reforms, some of which have had serious implications on the country’s economy (Jonas & Goldsteen,...
According to a report released by King et at. (2012), the prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorders is more rampant with bariatric surgery patients. Bariatric surgery also known as weight-loss surgery is normally done to obese patients. The report point out that obesity being on the rise in the United States...
Common causes of right-sided congestive heart failure Right-sided heart failure is a common heart condition. Right-sided heart failure affects the right ventricle of the heart. Congenital heart disease is one of the causes of this condition. Blood clots in the pulmonary artery are also etiologic agents. Disease of the heart...
Health care refers to the actions taken to prevent, treat, and manage fitness of individuals. Professional practitioners and medical experts offer health care services. Procedures taken by these professionals are aimed at relieving pain and reviving body healthiness of the ailing. Health care procedures may involve surgery, lifestyle modifications, or...
Introduction The risk of infection that a patient is exposed to while in medical facilities has been recognized for years now. This risk is even higher for patients undergoing surgical procedures. However, effective antimicrobial agents have been developed and have consequently helped to suppress health care infections. Additionally, recent technological...
Introduction Caroli disease is a rare congenital health condition characterized by the dilation of intrahepatic bile ducts. These are ducts whose primary function is to transport bile from the liver. This condition exists in two forms – Caroli disease and Caroli syndrome. While in the first form bile ducts are...
Abstract Rising and standing is a crucial event in our lives. Through this event, an individual can be able to walk, run, and perform other daily activities. Compared to other fields in biomechanics, few studies have been focused on understanding the sit-to-stand movements. As such, in the last 50 years...
Introduction This paper explores mortality rate in South Africa. Most of the countries in Africa are developing countries which are characterized by high mortality rates according to majority of studies. South Africa will offer an interesting and a unique mortality study. The reasons are the following: First, South Africa has...
The primary goal of this study was to assess the connection and causation between the exposure to stress factors in female patients and the speed of brain activation in response to negative factors. The researchers compared the effects of negative factors on the level of brain activation between patients with...
Job Description Part of the job description of a sonographer is to perform and interpret ultrasound procedures. In this case, a sonographer is charged with the responsibility of gathering sonographic data to assist the physician make the correct disease diagnosis (Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography a, 2013). To do so,...
Introduction Diabetes is a global problem that has become prevalent in various parts of the world. This condition can be described as a metabolic disease where an individual has high blood sugar level. This can be due to limited insulin production or poor response of the body cells to the...
Abstract There is need for improved management of heart failure by identifying risk factors that influence readmission of patients within 30 days after discharge from hospital. Patient readmission to hospital after discharge is a major concern in contemporary healthcare provision. To manage the situation, the federal government has introduced various...
The integration of public health services and health care services ought to be put in place in order to achieve many gains in the industry of health reforms. There is no conceivable way that a concession can be reached in terms of compromising public health. Public health ought to be...
President Obama’s healthcare plan targets all American people. It’s a compressive health care reform that will enable all the American people to benefit from it. The presidents’ plan is to have everyone with a suggestion or idea on board in order to enable them to handle the health care crisis...
Introduction Hospitals, nursing centers, dispensaries and other healthcare organizations need proper financial management skills to boost their services. Therefore, these healthcare facilities ought to apply standard rules in order to meet this condition. In addition to proper management of healthcare finances, administrators must plan for long-term finances, monitor and appraise...
Healthy Habits: Mindfulness and Health I would like to start practicing mindfulness regularly and live my life more consciously. I experience a lot of stress in my daily life and sometimes fail to cope with it. I think that the problem is in my inability to avoid and manage stress...
Provision of nursing services is a complex process that is dependent on a range of factors, both internal and external (Bragadóttir, Gunnarsdóttir & Ingason, 2014). Information management, however, is one of the key elements that the nursing process hinges on (Toromanovic, 2012). Unfortunately, the principles of information management that are...
Introduction The Fugate family, living in a rather isolated territory near Troublesome Creek in Kentucky, was characterized by having family members with blue skin. To understand the causes of the condition, it is important to set hypotheses and examine the medical history of the family’s generations. Hypothesis on Why These...
Nursing is the very profession that requires ultimate theoretic and practical preparedness to health care provision, outstanding knowledge, and exemplary skills of work coordination, and collaboration with the colleagues (Buppert, 2014). Any omissions in the identified areas may lead to tragic developments. The following paper will address one of such...
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that is associated with a chronic hyperglycemic condition caused by inappropriate insulin action and/or secretion. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) has certain characteristic features. It usually occurs in people who are less than 20 years old and have normal body weight (Ozougwu, Obimba, Belonwu &...
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that occurs in young children and is associated with developmental issues, communication difficulties, repetitive behaviors and so on. Researchers agree that autism is a genetic disorder. However, in the late 1990s, a survey carried out by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues raised loads of questions and...
There is no use denying the fact that humanity continues its development constantly trying to find some new remedies which can make the life of people easier and secure them from the threats of the world. Resting on these facts, it is possible to say that scientific progress can be...
Introduction Modern technologies are making it easier for human beings to pursue numerous goals. The Internet is one of these innovations that have transformed a wide range of activities. The invention has led to the concept of cloud computing. Fernandez et al. define cloud computing as a paradigm in the...
Introduction Marijuana is an illicit drug derived from the Cannabis plant. Due to the physical and mental effects, the drug has widespread use for recreational and medical purposes. Marijuana has been the center of the public debate over its legalization in small amounts for public use. There is substantial evidence...
Why Social Class is Linked to Health Social class refers to a broad issue characterized by different issues of status and levels of living standards. These include employment, background, wealth, culture, habits and taboos etcetera. The relationship between health and social class is complex. Health inequalities exist even among families...
Introduction Provision of quality and affordable healthcare is the primary role of the healthcare department in any country. Arguably, the government must ensure that the citizens receive quality care in various medical facilities as a fundamental human right provision. Therefore, qualified and professionally competent medical practitioners must offer these services...
Abstract Electronic health records are essential in the current healthcare system, especially in the context of UAE where the administration of healthcare is segmented. The research paper was aimed at examining the state of EHR adoption and use in this country. By carrying out literature research in various databases, it...
Abstract Healthcare delivery systems, which refer to the way people, institutions, and resources are organized to offer medical services, address the diverse health needs of the targeted populations, and are paramount in all countries. Government agencies and institutions, as well as private organizations, strive to offer ideal health services to...
The problem of child abuse is widespread as it occurs in different communities. The issue is deeply rooted in socioeconomic, religious, and educational aspects. It is a very serious problem as it can lead to severe injuries or even the death of a child. Child abuse can take different forms...
Introduction Governments should implement powerful policies, regulations, and systems to deliver high-quality and sustainable health services to their citizens. These objectives are usually implemented using the concept of health care reform. This rubric is widely used by professionals in health care and politicians to discuss significant policy changes or improvements...
EHR Expectations According to a survey, slightly more than half of the public (55 percent) think that an EHR system can reduce the number of medical mistakes (Chapter 4, n.d.). The same survey shows that 60 percent of respondents think than an EHR system can make healthcare services less expensive,...
Introduction Richardson General Medical Center’s management is willing to acquire a new electronic system to improve internal operation, data capture, productivity, and the quality of patient care. The facility’s background needs to be analyzed to explore its current work environment and define why a new system is needed. Further, it...
Introduction Despite increasing awareness of the importance of public health education, countries around the world demonstrate different levels of success in addressing common issues such as obesity, hygiene, drug abuse, and injury prevention. The following paper aims at summarizing the important features of public health care programs in different countries...
The two hemispheres of the human brain process information differently and as such affect the way humans perceive and process information to affect learning process. However, the ability to function in information processing, learning and thinking varies greatly between children below 3years of age and those who are above 3years...
It is imperative to mention that the number of supporters of medical marijuana in the United States has been increasing, and numerous studies suggest that it has many benefits that should not be overlooked. The problem is that many individuals are against the legislation because they are too worried about...
History of the EHR Health organizations often face the challenge of accessing historical health records of patients in a fast and efficient way. To address this issue, health facilities in Australia are now resorting to the use of Electronic Health Record systems that facilitate the storage and easy retrieval of...
Introduction Though the population of the US has at all times encompassed an affluent blend of persons having dissimilar ethnic and cultural settings, it is presently turning out to be more dynamic (Derose, Escarce, & Lurie, 2007). Some of the patient populations in the US include immigrant, pediatric, geriatric, emergency,...
Introduction Numerous scientific studies have revealed that people who are actively involved in physical exercises have lower chances of suffering from some of the common forms of limitations associated with lack of exercise. Physical exercise is a comprehensive intervention strategy that is aimed at minimizing functional limitations that result in...