Introduction Terminal illnesses are usually revealed to the patient by doctors. Terminal illnesses e. g Cancer or HIV & AIDS cause patients’ emotions to change but this varies between different people. How a person responds to the news that he/she has a terminal illness determines how he/she lives afterward. This...
Introduction In the health care profession conflict of interest occurs when a professional in the field is under due influence from the financial benefit, personal, or other peoples interest either consciously or unconsciously that he or she be incapable of upholding professional ethics, code of conduct, and discipline. Conflict of...
Why there is Need for Health Care Reform in the USA The debate about health care changes in the U.S. has a long history. Potential changes in health care continue to be projected with remarkable debates of admitting single-payer schemes and a cutback in free service health care. The United...
Good health is one of the major backbones of every economy (Clever, 2011). There has been a lot of advancement of technology in the research area of drugs and disease diagnostics; this has led to the development of policies to suit the current changes in the health care sector. Some...
Hospital environments are always prone to many infections because patients who visit such premises suffer from various diseases. There is the risk of re-infections among patients who visit such premises if proper care is not taken. Should this happen, it would leave the patients in a worse situation than before...
Introduction Healthcare organizations have a mandate to improve their performance to safeguard the health of clients. These organizations have roles similar to other profit or non-profit organizations, and the issue of quality is crucial. The provision of quality services by health care organizations creates demand, and many people are willing...
Introduction Tobacco is a plant with whose leaves are used to manufacture cigarettes albeit the plant has been used for other different uses. Nonetheless, the most common use of tobacco is in the manufacture of cigarettes (Hampton). The main reason why the plant is used in the manufacture of cigarettes...
Introduction Hospital operations mismanagement has severe implications on the financial situation in a hospital; it also affects patients’ medical costs. Nonetheless, these effects are manifested differently among the two parties, and may cause cost-ethical conflicts among stakeholders. Financial implications of Hospital operations mismanagement Hospital context When hospitals are poorly managed,...
Introduction Fieldwork research was carried out in Little Havana, Miami –Dade County, Florida. The residents of the area are mainly immigrants from Cuba hence the name little Havana. The fieldwork research sought to establish several health concerns (Childhood obesity and Diabetes, lack of fresh fruits and vegetables, and lack of...
Pros The positive features of the system are as follows: The system features convenient, well-organized layout: all the frequently used icons and buttons are easily found. Icons images are successfully used to represent factual and documentary information. The colored icons appear lively and if showing, for example, people or landscapes,...
The origin of Coat of Arms (COA) can be traced back to 12th century when it was first used as a special identification sign in the battle field. It was later incorporated into societal and family values. In the case of nursing practice, our group has designed a COA using...
Shi and Singh (2011) define social determinants of health as non-medical factors that affect both the average and distribution of health within populations. The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH, 2005) affirms that the choice of policies globally and in individual countries not only influence the allocation of money...
One of the major issues related to safety in providing quality care is the staffing of nurses in a hospital. In most hospitals, the number of nurses is low due to budgetary issues. This has acted as a great challenge to nurses delivering high quality services. This is because it...
Health Promotion Community nursing is usually concerned with providing medical, advisory and educative services to a larger population like the children in schools or people of a particular community. Through programs such as Medicaid, different vulnerable groups within the community are able to access medical services. The target groups include...
Introduction Over 300,000 deaths caused by obesity-related illnesses in the United States are reported every year. The obesity epidemic is almost three times as smoking in the United States with only twenty-one percent smoking and sixty-six percent obese. A number of organizations have raised issues with the effect of fast...
Introduction Background information Obesity has become a global health problem. The crucial question to ask is why there is an increase in cases of obesity. The quests for wealth and changes in lifestyles have contributed to the rise in obesity. Focus has turned to the prevention of childhood obesity through...
Introduction Osteoporosis is one of the major health conditions that increase the risk of disability and poor quality of life among the elderly, especially postmenopausal women. Apart from hormonal deficiency, immobilization of limbs due to increased sedentary lifestyle also contribute to the decrease of bone density thereby culminating in heightened...
Summary Medicare is a social insurance program initiated by the United States government to cater for the medical expenses of her citizens above the age of 65. However, for those who are under the age of 65, they must be with permanent physical disabilities, congenital physical disability, permanent kidney failure,...
Introduce Caring is a fundamental concept in the study of human growth, development, and survival. When applied to nursing, caring is observed to have two aspects, namely activities and attitudes. The study of care in nursing is vital, to explicate caregiver and recipient roles in a variety of living and...
Before the 1960s and 1970s, the two countries in question had similar health care systems. However, between the years, the 1960s and 1970s Canada changed its system of health care from a per-capital basis to a public one. The states, therefore, have some similarities and differences in the way they...
Introduction Acupuncture treatment during labor —a randomized controlled trial is an article that appears in BJOG- an International Journal of Obstetrics and Psychology and was authored by Agneta Ramnero, Ulf Hanson, and Mona Kihlgren. All three are professionals in the field of obstetrics and gynecology: Ramnero is a researcher in...
Managing pain at the end of life is one of the most critical issues facing nurses. End-of-life care involves adherence to professional rules, such as the ANA codes of conduct. These rules cannot be alienated from certain ethical principles regarding end-of-life care. Ethics concerning end-of-life care tend to be influenced...
Introduction Life expectancy is on the increase; meanwhile, there is a general fall in birth rates in many countries today. In this light, the need for hospitals and long-term care facilities has become increasingly pressing. Long-term care facilities provide extensive, rehabilitative and medical care to people with severe health challenges...
Problem statement In the last three decades, childhood obesity has tripled. In the United States, obesity rate for children between the ages of 6-11 years has increased from 7 percent in 1980 to approximately 20 percent in 2008. Similarly, those between the age brackets of 12-19, which represent the adolescent,...
Introduction A number of changes have taken place in the current management system of health institutions. A significant amongst them is the computerized management system. This type of management system is pegged primarily on using the computer or an electronic source to store data of patients, and this aids in...
This is a pro essay focusing on the argument that ensuring all Americans have access to health care will result in low costs of healthcare, and subsequently promote access to regular and preventive care before the condition becomes critical. The majority of Americans support the concept of universal healthcare coverage....
Introduction Graves’ disease can generally be described as a disorder of the immune system which results in excess production of hyperthyroidism, thyroid hormones. Even though there are other disorders that cause hyperthyroidism, research indicates that Graves’ disease is the most common (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2011). Based on the fact that...
Current Knowledge Human hypertension has become a public health dilemma. The condition is one of the major public health burdens affecting approximately 1 billion people in the world. It is estimated that about 25% of the adults in the industrialized states are hypersentive. The disease epidemic has moved to developing...
Privacy and security issues are some of the critical contemporary issues that are common in the healthcare. The need for security and privacy of health data have significantly increased. Many healthcare organizations have been forced to use secured electronic data storage systems in order to avoid privacy breach of the...
Introduction Eating disorders refer to all those conditions that seriously affect the eating of meals. These disorders can be manifested in the form of a loss of appetite or having an extraordinary good appetite. Eating disorders are often prevalent but not limited to any age group. These conditions are often...
Aging The United States is currently rated third in the world as the nation with the largest population. According to statistics in the 2010 Census, this population stood at 308.7 million people, which is about 4.5% of the global population. According to the Population Reference Bureau, this population is changing...
Home care service is also known as domiciliary or social care. This refers to the health care or supportive care that is rendered to patients within their homes by healthcare specialists. Home care service can be formal or informal (Kornowski, et al, 1995). Home care service enables individuals with special...
According to World Health Organization requires medical facilities to offer quality, reliable, and affordable medical services; to attain the above requirement, medical facilities need to continually advance their quality management approach. This paper discusses future trends in medical quality management. The world is facing fast development in technology, medical facilities...
Currently, doctors in the United States of America are remunerated for every service performed. In addition, physicians are promoted and graded based on their compliance level in the provision of patient care. After thinking of the need to change the payment methods in America, President Obama introduced a health care...
Introduction Over the recent past, health care sector in both developed and developing countries have exhibited depressed information system structure (Porter &Teisberg, 2004, p. 4). Health Care structure is different from other sectors of the economy because of high degree of regulation, massive state investment and associated low demand for...
Introduction Mass casualty events are very common and unfortunately, majority of the health care professionals are not familiar with their responsibilities in this event (Gebbie & Merrill, 2009). As a result, this article analyses the roles and responsibilities of both the health care professionals and the community in emergency preparedness....
The Community Nurse In the community, different health issues require special attention and in most cases, a constant supply of health services and special care. This is usually common for children, the elderly, the disable and the vulnerable in different situations. Community nursing is a field of nursing and healthcare...
Introduction Communication is a very essential factor in life of every person because it enables people to share their thoughts, caution, and advice, instruct, command and at least pass information to the other person. In health centers, there has been written and verbal (face-to-face and telephone) communications for several years...
Introduction Health is a situation in which a person is psychologically, socially and physically well, and not essentially the absence of illness (Karoski, 2011). On the other hand, health services are services offered by the health facility to make a person well and it includes preventive, curative and rehabilitative (Karoski,...
Identity and Role of HHS The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is one of the largest arms of the federal government. The idea for such a department was mooted as early as 1923 by the Harding administration (Berkowitz, 2008). However, it was only in the year...
People face numerous challenges when designing information systems in health care. This is because they do not know the steps to follow when designing a health care system. People should consider various things when designing systems like the shortcomings of the other systems and the requirements. System design and analysis...
Introduction The integration of traditional healing and western medicine to treat illnesses draws its origins from the ancient times and is located across all cultural and philosophical divides (Shaw, 1998). Despite preference for western medicine because of its focus on pathology and treatment of disease, a great scientific inquiry posits...
Introduction Although the issues that people with learning disabilities (PLD) face on a regular basis when learning new information or acquiring new skills rarely become the subject of discussions in the everyday environment, the subject matter remains a problem in the modern nursing realm (Castell & Kroesse, 2016). In this...
Introduction A plenty of health care organisations from different parts of the world try to undertake as many quality improvement initiatives as possible (Strome, 2013). Still, despite their intentions to create a powerful health care system in the country, some organisations fail to introduce effective and sustainable results. Therefore, the...
Introduction Over the years, society has been divided into three classes; the upper class is associated with riches and luxurious lives. The middle class is associated with income levels that sustain their lives but are not sufficient to sustain a luxurious life. The lower class is associated with individuals that...
Introduction Since 2001, the rate of suicide in the military has more than tripled (Dittrich et al., 2015). Depression, Post- Traumatic Stress, and bipolar disorder share a strong association with suicide (Dittrich et al., 2015). These disorders are some of the causes of suicides in the military (for active and...
Introduction Concept analysis plays a critical role in the development of theories. According to Blessing (2015), Katherine Kolcaba developed the Theory of Comfort when conducting a concept analysis of comfort. She was interested in determining how nurses can ensure that their patients were comfortable for the entire period of medication,...
Abstract The intensive development of information and communication technologies influenced the progress within the health care industry. The information systems development within the industry today differs significantly from the situation during the early part of the 1990s. While comparing and contrasting the used information systems, it is important to focus...
Abstract The patient’s refusal of a blood transfusion procedure as the necessary treatment based on definite religious beliefs or personal visions should be discussed as an ethical issue that can be resolved while responding to the patient’s interests and viewpoints. The medical and nursing staff should follow the four major...
Background Although the health care reform in the United States can be traced back to the 1900s, the events of the past few years have been critical in shaping the future of the American healthcare system (Martin, 2015). These events relate to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable...
The past eight weeks have influenced my understanding of the nursing practice and helped me improve my skills and knowledge considerably. I have learned the worth of leading and promoting quality improvements and safety in healthcare delivery. The point is that organizational leadership is vital for patient care, and every...
In addition to the traditional bullying, parents, educators, and nurses are challenged with the necessity to discuss the effects of the development of such tendency as cyber-bullying. The problem is in the fact that the popularity of mobile devices and the active usage of the Internet changed the mode of...
What term is used to describe the benign condition that may have caused Ms. Barker’s breast mass? The mass in Ms. Barker’s breast might be fibrocystic breast disease. It is a common condition among women, and the fact of never having children might have had hormonal consequences leading to it....
Total Quality Management (TQM) The concept of total quality management (TQM) is widely used to ensure organizations embrace the best management systems (EFQM Excellence Model, 2016). There are various TQM tools used in different regions. One of these tools is the EFQM Excellence Model. This non-prescriptive was designed and promoted...
Introduction Ethics in nursing is essential because nursing is a career that requires high moral standards. The nurse knows that his or her work is to serve the patients diligently. Nurses must not have any boundaries when dealing with healthcare consumers. Nursing has no race, tribe or social class. In...
Introduction In delivering nursing care services to clients, nursing professionals may rely on different models. However, the approach used varies greatly from one medical facility to another and also depends on the condition of patients. Models used today include team nursing, primary nursing, and progressive patient care. This paper describes...
Introduction To acquire good leadership and management skills, it is cardinal for a nursing student to interact with experienced nurse leaders who have a good track record in the health care sector (Sullivan, 2013). Moreover, it is important for the student to report what has been learned from the leaders....
Abstract Therapeutic communication is essentially different from other forms of social encounters. It helps nurses to build therapeutic relationships with their patients. Healthy relationships can be built by being compassionate and respectful to the patient. Various communication strategies help nursing professionals to manage the therapeutic relationships. To build therapeutic relationships,...
Healthcare management has been defined in the literature as the profession that is primarily concerned with the provision of leadership and directions not only to institutions that deliver personal healthcare services but also to the various components, entities, and sections that are usually found within those institutions (Buchbinder & Thompson,...
Summary Nurse Practitioners (NPs) should “provide adequate care to clients with a wide range of health concerns across the life span” (Peterson, Phillips, Puffer, Bazemore, & Petterson, 2013, p. 244). Such practitioners should offer quality holistic care that can affect the lives of different patients, communities, and families. Lathrop and...
Family Nurse Practitioner Nurses working in different settings should use evidence-based ideas to deliver quality care to their patients. Advanced practice nurses (APNs) should possess the best competencies and skills in healthcare. Such skills will make it easier for them to achieve their potentials and objectives. My current goal is...
A nurse practitioner (NP) is an advanced registered nurse (ARN) whose function is to promote and maintain health through diagnosis and treatment of diseases and other conditions that afflict people (Naylor & Kurtzman, 2010). A NP holds a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing and is conversant with numerous nursing...
Definitions Nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) should possess numerous skills in order to support the health needs of their clients. However, such roles and skills might be inadequate towards the delivery of evidence-based care. This fact explains why Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) has gained a new meaning. Different definitions of...
Primary data collection is an important component of contemporary nursing research. Available literature demonstrates that using the right data collection method not only ensures that data are collected in a scientific and standardized manner, but also guarantees high quality research and credible findings due to enhancement of the accuracy, validity,...
The Role of the Nurse Practitioner A nurse practitioner assists with every part of patient care, as well as a verdict, description of the medical treatment, and sessions. They can labor in not only inpatient but outpatient situations as well; moreover, they can hold their practice self-sufficiently or as an...
Abstract The Affordable care Act was assented into law in 2010 with a view of increasing accessibility to quality healthcare services by the American citizens. The Act was sponsored by President Barrack Obama to deal with the rising healthcare needs against the backdrop of the rising cost of health. Under...
Introduction Screening is an important procedure in the provision of health care because it involves early identification of individuals at highest risk of a disease or individuals asymptomatic to a certain disease condition to allow timely health care intervention. Women are a vulnerable group because the social construction of gender...
Introduction Medicare and Medicaid are the US programs, which help particular population groups to get high quality and affordable medicine by covering some costs for health-related services. Although the central aim of these programs is helping the patients, they can also be beneficial for medical organizations. This paper explains what...
Introduction Today, financial management in healthcare organizations is vital for the overall running of the business (Gapenski 6-7). Specifically, the primary function of financial management in the healthcare sector is to “plan, acquire and use funds to optimize the efficiency and create value for all stakeholders” (Gapenski 6). Financial management...
Introduction There is no use denying the fact that the issue of nursing is very important nowadays. It is difficult to imagine the modern medicine without interaction with this very sphere of knowledge. It helps people to cope with illness and, that is why, the issue of nursing constantly develops....
Introduction For the efficient and effective provision of healthcare services, Sharjah Hospital uses the TrakCare healthcare information system to fulfill its objectives of managing administrative, financial, and medical operations in a fully integrated computerized environment. TrakCare healthcare information system provides the best evidence-based clinical healthcare services with patient involvement (Feng,...
Introduction Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a fast-growing model of health care provider program in developed nations around the world. In the US, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognizes the program. PCMH aims at outreaching communities that need primary health care services in their vicinities as opposed to...
Introduction The Tuskegee Syphilis experiment refers to a study carried out on a sample of African Americans to determine the effects of untreated syphilis (Brandon, Isaac & LaVeist, 2005). The study went on for approximately four decades after which it was terminated due to ethical issues (Loveridge & Cornforth, 2014)....
Nurses play significant roles in promoting the health of the public through fighting diseases, treating patients and educating people on the need and ways of staying healthy (Heath Care Workers, 2015). The role of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) is limited, and this does not allow them to utilize their...
Abstract The objective of this proposal is to present an evaluation study that will examine a quality improvement (QI) program of a 500-bed government hospital. This goal has been motivated by the need to evaluate the achievements of the QI program since its implementation since its inception in 2010. The...
Introduction Childhood obesity is a health issue that has caused taxpayers most of their hard earned money in the treatment of the condition. The number of children that are being diagnosed with obesity is very high. This is alarming as obesity is associated with many other health complications such as...
Providing high-quality care should be a concern for all social and health care service providers (Keleman 2003). Health and social care workers interpret the concept of quality in health care differently and as such, quality issues are fairly common in the provision of health and social care services. The most...
Introduction Research entails ingenious work conducted on a systematic basis. The primary aim of such an undertaking is to acquire in-depth knowledge on, among others, human, cultural, and societal aspects. According to Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt (2011), clinical research refers to studies that involve a person, a group of people, or...
The development of the implementation plan is a necessary step to guarantee the further effective implementation of the proposed solution to the problem of staff shortages in facilities. Emergency Departments (EDs) in hospitals are often overcrowded, and it can lead to the problem of patient dissatisfaction if the department is...
Introduction Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are infections of the urinary tract which are caused by certain organisms or bacteria and lead to the inflammation of the lining of the urinary tract (Schollum & Walker, 2012, p. 218). The UTIs can be divided into lower and upper urinary tract infections, depending...
Ethical dilemma in diagnosis of a genetic disorder In a case of diagnosis of a genetic disorder, the practicing nurse and I were faced with two ethical dilemmas as a student nurse (BSN) is a local children rehabilitation center, which is a pediatric acute care clinic. The first dilemma was...
Quality standard measures refer to the principles that define the desired outcomes of health and social care services. Understanding the relationship between the quality indicators and the standards of quality in health and social care is necessary for enhancing quality service delivery. The measurement of quality in both health and...
Introduction The article “Core Communication Competencies in Patient-Centered Care” explains why caregivers must embrace the power of communication. The approach will ensure nurses provide patient-centered care. The author “supports the use of inter-professional collaboration, patient-centered care, are informatics towards better patient care” (Boykins, 2014, p. 40). The author identifies the...
Abstract This project is aimed at introducing such a practice as bedside report which can increase the satisfaction of students. The proposed intervention can benefit each of the in-hospital patients. It should be noted that the dissatisfaction of patients can be explained by a variety of contributing factors such as...
Although nursing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has witnessed outstanding advancements in the core areas of education, workforce development, and practice, the kingdom continues to experience an acute shortage of local nurses, accompanied by low rates of retention (Almalki, FitzGerald, & Clark, 2011). As acknowledged by these authors,...
Introduction Childhood obesity and overweight are one of the major public health issues not only witnessed in Kuwait but also in major developed countries. Besides, the complications resulting from childhood obesity are severe. Moreover, there is the likelihood that obesity can continue affecting the child during adulthood (Barlow, 2007; Hagarty,...
Living a healthy life is the dream of every person in the whole world. However, at times, it is hard to achieve such a dream due to a lack of better health and facilities. Research has shown that the healthcare system suffers from unprecedented difficulties not only in Philadelphia but...
The research paper offers a detailed study of three independent studies that have been individualized based on childhood obesity. The causes and challenges of childhood obesity have also been discussed by the authors (Barry, Brescoll & Gollust, 2013). Both qualitative and quantitative study methodologies have been used to support information...
County Description Sarasota County is located in Florida State. The county is predominantly an urban area with a population of 379,448, as recorded in the 2010 census. The county covers an area of seven hundred and twenty-five square miles. Almost half of the county is covered with water. The main...
Introduction All hospitals in the country are legally obliged to provide healthcare to patients regardless of their ability to pay. Health facilities in South Carolina are no exception. It is estimated that about 764,000 individuals in this state are uninsured. The situation is one the reasons why hospitals in this...
The prevalence of trauma in women has become an issue of concern. Contrary to the notion that it is only endemic in regions with poorly developed health care systems, a trauma in women is widespread across the world. Its causes are diverse. However, pregnancy and childbirth are some of the...
Introduction Dissemination of information has become an important subject in the healthcare sector. The emergence of tech-savvy handheld devices has accelerated the flow of information. Healthcare facilities need robust methods of maintaining clinical records to improve the storage of information that pertains to patients. The medical history of a patient...
Relationship between Patient Activation and Social Support among People Suffering from Type 2 Diabetes The evidence-based research by Miller and Matteo (2013) revealed that about 90% cases of diabetes are type 2. Their study involved collection of both primary and secondary data to determine the relevance of social support on...
Summary of the Article The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on the Future of Nursing resulted in a campaign that would see the implementation of the recommendations in the report. Shalala (2014), in the article titled “Nursing Leaders Can Deliver a New Model of Care”, sought to find out whether...
Background According to the latest research studies, large-scale embracement and adoption of technology are evident across the globe in various healthcare settings (Jain, 2009). The use of both smart phones and social media is instrumental in the modern medical profession (Jain, 2009). Some of the perceived benefits of the aforementioned...
Introduction Although legislation is supposed to reflect the ethical norms established in the community, there are various conflicts between morality and law. To a great extent, these discrepancies can affect the work of nursing professionals who are supposed to make sure that every patient receives adequate medical services. More importantly,...
The Affordable Care Act is anticipated to have negative and positive impacts on American citizens. Citizens with low income will gain most from the provisions of the Act since they will access Medicaid, even though they may be uninsured. Conversely, high-income earners are likely to feel strained by the Act....
Introduction Epidemiology is an important part of public health. It is particularly imperative in the definition of the existence of a disease in a specific population. Epidemiology is defined as the science that studies disease distribution in a defined population, the causes, and patterns of the diseases, and the effects...
Introduction Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis are two forms of arthritis, which present the same signs and symptoms, and thus, they require a rigorous differential diagnosis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011), osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis as it affects 27 million adults, while...
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder, which occurs due to the inability of the body to regulate the level of blood sugar. According to the literature review,4 the insufficient amount of insulin in the body causes type I diabetes, while insensitivity of cells and tissues to the normal level of...