...I have acquired an insight into the fascinating and rewarding world of the medical profession through a range of experiences in health and social care. This together with my love of science has fuelled my ambition and determination to pursue a career in healthcare, more specifically nursing. My first introduction to healthcare was a rewarding week of work experience shadowing a nurse at Spencer Court Residential Care Home in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. I gained a better appreciation for how secondary care is performed and observed how empowering the role of a nurse can be. I have also obtained a greater insight into other aspects of healthcare through work experience at my local pharmacy. Watching and learning how medications are dispensed was...
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...Evolution of Health Care and Timeline Kary Tobine, Raevan Martinez, Rebecca Ornelas, Michelle Veasley, Malissa Krause HCS/531 Health Care Organizations and Delivery System August 17, 2015 Dale Mueller Evolution of Health Care and Timeline Managed Care’s Impact on the Quality of Care Theoretically, managed care was created to cut costs and improve the quality of health care. Reinhardt (1998) states, it was “designed to make the providers’ of health care more accountable for the quality of the health care they deliver.” Thus, selective contracting was initiated. Selective contracting gives health insurance companies the power to decide which hospitals and providers they want in their network (Jiang, Friedman, & Jiang, 2013). This method prompted competition among hospitals and providers to ensure they were always providing and improving quality health care for their patients. Realistically, managed care developed into a very complicated system, leaving many individuals displeased. Studies conducted by Lepolstat, Goldbeck, and Kostelnik (2009) explain, “The quality of health care in the United States has been critically affected by managed health care.” We believe there are three components that measure the quality of care. They are cost, accessibility, and services provided. One of the largest issues with health care today is affordability. Individuals who need health care cannot afford it. Lepolstat et al. (2009) state a third of the population...
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...Health Care Experiences A Health Care Questionnaire Lori Sorrells HCS/212 Professor McKinnon October 16, 2012 Health Care Experiences Health care resources are very important in today’s society. Everyone will need health services at some point in their lives. In today’s society health care is becoming a more common need for individuals. More people develop chronic diseases and diabetes than they did a decade ago. Through vast resources such as the internet, phone books, and family or friend recommendations, finding the health care you’re searching can be as easy as one-two-three. Know what your need, why you need it, and exactly how you would prefer to find it. My experiences as a health care consumer affect both me and the health care industry. As consumers we expect our health care services to be quick and easy. Through health care research making decisions and finding information about health care services are easier than ever before. Health care resources include any information used in providing health care services. Locating health care resources is easy in today’s society. The use of the internet today is widespread. Locating health care services has been easier than ever before using the internet. A consumer, such as myself, could simply type in local health care providers and/or a specific type of health care services and the search engine will pull up numerous practices in the area. The more difficult task is finding health care providers that take the...
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...Understanding the U.S. health services system (4th ed.). Chicago: Health Administration Press. * Course Text: Understanding the U.S. Health Services System * * Chapter 8, "The Health Services Workforce" * Chapter 9, "Hospitals" (Note: This chapter was assigned in a previous week; review it as needed with this week's focus in mind.) * Chapter 10, "Biomedical Research, Health Services Technology, and Technology Assessment" * Chapters 11, "Overview of the U.S. Health Services Delivery System" * Chapter 13, "Primary Care" * Chapter 14, "Secondary Care" * Chapter 15, "Long-Term Care" (pp. 349–369 only) * Chapter 16, "Tertiary Care" * Chapter 17, "Palliative Care" * Chapter 18, "The Care of Special Populations and Special Disorders" (pp. 399–406 only) * Chapter 19, "The Health Services Delivery System: How Managed Care Has Influenced Delivery" (Note: This chapter was assigned in a previous week; review it as needed with this week's focus in mind.) * Article: The Scan Foundation (2011). Improving the continuum of care: Progress on selected provisions of the affordable care act one year post-passage. http://www.thescanfoundation.org/improving-continuum-care-progress-selected-provisions-affordable-care-act-one-year-post-passage As you have learned, health care services are provided through a range of organizations. For this Discussion, you will consider how direct- and indirect-care organizations integrate...
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...Evolution of Health Care and Timeline Kary Tobine, Raevan Martinez, Rebecca Ornelas, Michelle Veasley, Malissa Krause HCS/531 Health Care Organizations and Delivery System August 17, 2015 Dale Mueller Evolution of Health Care and Timeline Managed Care’s Impact on the Quality of Care Theoretically, managed care was created to cut costs and improve the quality of health care. Reinhardt (1998) states, it was “designed to make the providers’ of health care more accountable for the quality of the health care they deliver.” Thus, selective contracting was initiated. Selective contracting gives health insurance companies the power to decide which hospitals and providers they want in their network (Jiang, Friedman, & Jiang, 2013). This method prompted competition among hospitals and providers to ensure they were always providing and improving quality health care for their patients. Realistically, managed care developed into a very complicated system, leaving many individuals displeased. Studies conducted by Lepolstat, Goldbeck, and Kostelnik (2009) explain, “The quality of health care in the United States has been critically affected by managed health care.” We believe there are three components that measure the quality of care. They are cost, accessibility, and services provided. One of the largest issues with health care today is affordability. Individuals who need health care cannot afford it. Lepolstat et al. (2009) state a third of the population...
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...Perspective on Health Care HCS/212 The history of health care has changed dramatically in the United States over the last 100 years. The most significant of those changes have occurred within the last 40 years. My personal interest in the history of health care is the advancement of technology and the progression of procedures to deliver adequate health care to everyone. Changing strategies to improve health care and access to healthcare for everyone is an area that I am interested in pursuing. I have experienced two different levels of healthcare in my life that have given me the opportunity of experiencing positive and negative outcomes to both levels. I will attempt to explain my experiences, opinions and research about the history of health care in the United States and the resources that I have found to be reliable. One of the biggest interests I have about the history of health care is the vast amount of changes and advancements that have taken place in recent decades. The origin of our modern system of healthcare can be traced to the beginning of the twentieth century. It went from an inadequate and primitive, but relatively inexpensive, health care service to a quality care that is far better and technologically advanced coming at a very high price tag. With advancement in the health care field, we have adopted more complexities in costs, insurance, and available coverage that is very confusing for many. Even though we have progressed in advanced medicine...
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...ASN Program Description Mission and Goals Our Mission Trinity College of Nursing and Health Sciences provides a quality higher learning environment preparing competent practitioners for health-care professions. Continuous quality improvement guides the educational process as students prepare to deliver culturally congruent health care, perform as responsible citizens within the global community and seek avenues for life-long learning. Our Goals Program goals for each department in the College derive from the philosophy of the College and the domain competencies, as follows: Knowledge • ability to examine and explain phenomena • ability to construct and organize knowledge • ability to integrate and synthesize knowledge • ability to apply quantitative and qualitative concepts Proficiency • ability to solve practical problems • ability to collaborate with multiple disciplines • ability to communicate effectively • ability to practice competently and skillfully in a changing health-care environment Culture Care Values • ability to preserve/maintain cultural identities • ability to accommodate/negotiate diverse life ways • ability to re-pattern/restructure health-care delivery methods • ability to apply ethical and legal principles to health care The Associate of Science in Nursing Program (ASN) is a two-year program of study combining didactic and clinical nursing courses as well as general education courses...
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...non-medical factors play a role in determining health outcomes. It can also be a challenge learning how to care for an underserved community which can demand dealing with patients’ needs creatively, in the face of limited resources. Yet, the very qualities which make working with a medically underserved community challenging are in fact the very qualities which draw me to work with them. Growing up in an underserved community has helped me gain the perspective necessary to understand how the welfare of some of the most marginalized groups very often slips through the cracks of our health care system. As a...
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...Running Head: Nontraditional Health Care Christina L. Seitsinger Grand Canyon University Transcultural Health Care November 13, 2011 Nontraditional Health Care When the words health care are thought about, it typically forces one’s mind to think of a doctor, nurse, or hospital. This is the typical Western idea of what health care is. The author has first hand experience of the typical health care, being she is a radiology technologist and works within a hospital. However, the author has research other forms of health care that are often put in a substandard category and looked down upon by Western medicine practitioners. These forms include natural and holistic approaches that use chiropractic, meditation, kineseology, homeopathic supplements, sound healing and holistic massage therapy, and energy medicine to awaken, heal, and transform from the inside out. Lotus of Light is global wellness boutique that use holistic massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and many other alternatives to help people reach optimal person health and wellness. The practitioners at Lotus of Light “are committed to bringing balance, wellness, and less pain through the wonderful world of therapeutic massage and other natural healing modalities” (Duffy, 2009). Lotus of Light is also committed to teaching their techniques to individuals who are seeking to learn and practice natural medicine. DONA birth doula training is one of the many training class the author found interesting. Debbie Lavin...
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...to decrease health disparities and improve population health brought home the point made by Butts & Rich in Philosophies and theories for advanced nursing practice (2015) “that nursing practice, by definition, is inherently and deeply political (p.140). In the original forum postings and subsequent discussions, group members reviewed a variety of methods DNP/FNPs use their educational preparation covering essentials II and V to improve not only individual patient care, but more importantly, improve large scale population health. In her post on May 26, 2017, Pavan Grewal, discussed how doctoral prepared advanced practice nurses in Canada involve themselves in healthcare politics and use their advanced level of professionalism and clinical expertise facilitate the advancement of nursing and advocate for change at a larger level through activities such as writing disease guidelines and participation on...
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...simulation exercise I had little to no idea how home care health and hospice care was regulated by health insurance companies and Medicare. They both have different goals. Home health care aids at improving the patient’s condition through administration of treatment and other services, which must be covered by Medicare. According to Stanhope & Lancaster (2014), Hospice care can be either “home-based and/or in-patient…focus on comfort, pain relief, and mitigation of other distressing symptoms.” The simulation was focused on three different scenarios; home health care, transition to hospice and hospice care. This paper will discuss my experience with each scenario, the debriefing process and how the experience changed my nursing practice....
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...Effective Communication: Dissecting a Health Care Experience Axia College of University of Phoenix Communication is an integral part of the health care interaction. Proper and effective communication can have many positive effects in all areas of health care from provider and patient interactions to inter-provider collaboration. Communication is the conveying of messages through speech, writing, and/or nonverbal methods to share a message (Oates, n.d.). This is a two-way process involving parties of at least two people in an effort to convey information with the goal of reaching a shared meaning (Oates, n.d.). Effective health communication can help contribute to all positive aspects of health care delivery such as disease prevention, health promotion, information sharing, and treatment compliance are just to name a few (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.). Often times, because of the high volume and high stress of the health care setting effective communication is commonly overlooked and is not considered a priority by many. Unfortunately, this can lead to a high amount of stress and anxiety for the patient and create a negative face for the health care industry. The wrong type of communication can actually have the opposite effect that is desired when caring for a patient. Improper and ineffective communication can actually lead patients to become wary of their providers and noncompliant with recommended treatments. One goal all providers should...
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...Perspective on Health Care Greg McLean HCS/212 July 10, 2012 Dr. Pamela Buckman Perspective on Health Care The author will discuss his perspective on health care through his professional experience. He will compare historical information to his personal experiences in health care and discuss how they may have changed his role in health care. He will also discuss what area he currently works in, how health care reform has affected this field, and his thoughts on the changes health care reform has brought about. Positive and negative outcomes linked to demographic indicators and available resources for finding information on the history of health care in the United States will also be discussed. As a child growing up with asthma in a metropolitan area, (Brooklyn, New York), in the 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s, the author can relate to changes in the health care field once he grew up and became a member of that field. Back in the 60’s and 70’s, the author would be admitted to the hospital and put in what was called an oxygen tent to assist with the opening of the airways and breathing. A shot of adrenalin was administered in later years on an outpatient basis which was more effective in alleviating the constricted airway. Now, depending on the severity of the illness, a patient could still be admitted to a facility but oxygen tents are a thing of the past. Breathing treatments and respiratory therapy are now in affect to assist the patient in opening the airway. The author...
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...According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, trust is defined as having a belief in something or someone that is honest, good, and dependable. Having trust in any relationship is vital but especially important in regards to the patient and physician dynamics. Certain past experiences can influence a person’s trust in the health care system and a negative experience can impact their ability to trust and receive effective treatment. Throughout history African Americans have been subjected to racism and discrimination in which these past experiences can be pasted down from generation to generation effecting their beliefs in the health care system. Experimentation on slaves and the Tuskegee Experiment are just a couple of negative experiences to impact African Americans and their trust in physicians and health care in general that continue to this day. Mistrust in the health field for African Americans stems from numerous events, one being that of the experimentation on slaves. Back in the day when the white population owned slaves, they were subjected at times to very painful and unethical experimentation. In the South African Americans filled hospital beds where they were used as dissection experiments to help doctors perfect their practice in the medical field (Harris, Gorelick, Samuels, & Bempong). They were also used to test new techniques and remedies. One such example is that of a slave named Fed. Fed was “secured in an open pit in the ground that was then covered and heated...
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...Alvernia University Ethnicity Matters: The Experiences of Minority Groups in Public Health Programs Abstract This article reviews the views and opinions of African Americans, Caucasians, and Latinos who are low-income as it relates to their opinions and experiences in health care. Emphasis is placed on cultural competency and how satisfied each ethnicity rated their health care experience. Ethnicity Matters: The Experiences of Minority Groups in Public Health Programs This article was chosen for many reasons. It holds an important position in regards to continuity of care and satisfaction of resources from three different racial groups. It is an ongoing debate of how each racial...
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