...Health Care Interview Amanda Nava HCS/235 February 26, 2013 Jennifer Hitt Health Care Interview For my health care interview assignment I chose to interview Mayra Cruz, Certified Nurses Assistant. She works at Cuidado Casero Home Health and Hospice at 1617 E. Missouri Ave, El Paso, Texas. In my interview with her she described her job duties, her patients and how she interacts with others in her environment. In addition, she identified the length of time she has been in her current position, her career path that has led her to this position as well as her experience in the health care industry. Her education and what requirements were necessary for her certification. She also wonders if the education she received proper and adequately prepared for her position. Conclusively, she have me her recommendations for the educational preparation necessary to become a CNA and she discussed the necessary attributes for success in a career as a CAN. Finally, she described her role in the context of a broader healthcare industry. Cuidado Casero Home Health and Hospice is set in El Paso, Texas. Their hospice team consists of the patient’s physician, nurses, social worker, home health aides, clergy, therapists, and trained volunteers. Together this team provides comprehensive palliative care aimed to relieving symptoms and giving social, emotional, and spiritual support. Mayra’s customers at Cuidado Casero Home health and Hospice are patients that are dying and suffering...
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...Health Care Interview Brandon McCormick HCS/235 September 6, 2012 Dr. Robert Perdiue Introduction This paper is based on a conducted interview of a licensed employee of Accolade Home Care. This paper will provide an overview of Accolade Home Care. It will describe the targeted department, type of work conducted in this department, and specific information that makes it unique. Furthermore, this paper will describe any responsibilities and will consist of questions answered by the interviewee. Overview of Accolade Home Care Accolade Home Care is designed for those patients who need slight assistance with activities of daily living. This Accolade Home Care is a assistant living facility. In this facility, patients are free to bring their own furniture, pictures, and other mementos to make themselves feel more at home. This facility offers a variety of services which include but are not limited to; assistance with medication, meal service, house keeping service, assistance with dressing, and linen services. Accommodations at the facility include recreation room, vending machines, game room, reading are, barber/beauty shop, and a self service laundry room. Although most patients in this facility only require slight assistance, there are some patients that require more. The facility is divided placing those who require more assistance together and those who require less together. Targeted Department The targeted department is the section where...
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...Health Care Interview Paper For this assignment I interviewed people about their health insurance from three generations, Janet Dudley, aged 71, who is on Medicare, Terri Miller, aged 55, retired state worker with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield NJ Direct and Jaimie Cramer, aged 26, is on her father’s insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield. Through personal interviews I have put together how their insurances work and how they feel about changes in the health care. Janet R. Dudley – Age 71 – Insurance: Medicare with Supplemental Insurance Mrs. Dudley seemed happy with her overall insurance and the primary physician that she sees now. Mrs. Dudley did change doctors a few years ago because the doctor she was going to, the office waiting time was about 3 hours and that was with an appointment made weeks or months in advance, and had to wait a couple of days if she had a cold or another problem for an appointment. The doctor she sees now is a lot better. Usually in and out in hour if not sooner, and can usually be seen the same day if she needs to see the doctor. This is a private practice office with just one doctor. Her primary doctor takes care of the usual problems, colds, flu, ear infections and maintenance visits for medications for her cholesterol and thyroid. If the doctor thinks there is something wrong, she is then sent to a specialist. Over the years she feels that this has pretty much stayed the same with the how the doctors operate, though she feels...
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...Health Care Interview Paper vanessa connor week 3 Professor Hasting When asking a baby boomer or even a generation x about health care they have been provided throughout their lives ,they have a different picture .Even young people will note the big difference in the use of computers in the doctor’s office and other health facilities. The one thing that is agreed is healthcare has become about money ,rather than the caring of the patients . The problem is when this happens less people live and less respect for the physicians come to play. Access to healthcare, 1880–1930 Baby Boomer When i interviewed my friends grandma and grandpa on this matter ,all that was said "I remember when i could see a doctor and they would fix whatever ails me ".Further states ,"as a kid, the Insurance man would come to the house and take the premium of $10 a month, and then would write out a receipt,.Bill says" We didn't have all these hassles that today brings me". Gertrude said that she can't afford to go into a nursing home and her kids were too rotten to take care of her . As funny as she is the actual problem still lies that she can't afford health care even with medicare.Bill states ,"The doctors today don't care about nothing but their pockets".When my parents were out of work for time to time ,the insurance man would pay the premium...
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...Interview of a Health Care Leader The health care leader to interview was chosen because of expertise knowledge, patience, honesty, integrity, strong leadership skills, and is a health educator. The healthcare leader was born in the city and raised to farm life with her grandparents and enjoyed helping her grandfather with the animals on the farm. She knew as a teen she wanted to be a nurse. If she could help animals feel safe and secure, she believed she could do the same with people. The healthcare leader is hard working and never asks anything from anyone she is not willing to assist with or do herself. She has energy and is a goal achiever. Individuals who know or work with the leader know her determination. She has a vision and strives to achieve the goal of that vision with her team of students. The result is always for the benefit of the patient, the organization, and the team. She currently holds the position as program coordinator for the practical nursing program. Student: You have achieved a position of leadership in the nursing community as a health educator. Could you tell me a bit about your background and the role that you have today? Leader: “Graduating from high school I entered the practical nursing program at Saline County Career Center (SCCC). I graduated from SCCC as a practical nurse. After obtaining licensure, I worked in long-term care for two years. Deciding I wanted more, I returned to school to continue my education. I wanted to teach and share...
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...Case Study Elder Abuse (outside of the nursing home): A 72 year old gentleman who lives with his daughter and needs a significant amount of care. His daughter however has to go out of town for the weekend for work. She arranges for her brother to take care of her father. On Friday morning she gets her dad dressed and assists him into his recliner in the living room. Her brother arrives to take care of their father and she leaves for the weekend. On Sunday evening she arrives back home to find her father in his recliner, still in the same clothes that she placed him in on Friday. He has water and a sandwich sitting next to him. She also notices that there is a strong odor of urine and feces in the room. She asks her father if her brother had been there to take care of him. Her father states that he was there and had fed him. She attempts to get her father up out of the chair and discovers that her father is covered in dried urine and feces. When she asks her father about the use of the bathroom, he states that he has not moved from that chair since she helped him into it (2 days prior). She immediately calls 911. This patient is taken to the hospital where he is discovered to have 2 stage III Pressure ulcers on his buttocks, as well as the skin in his inguinal area has been eaten away by maggots. The patient is severely dehydrated and very...
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...Health Care Interview Lisa Smith HCS/235 February 17, 2014 Instructor: Eugene Burwell A career in the health care field is a growing profession. Unlike many different avenues of career choices, the health care field is projected to grow rapidly in many years to come. When a person decides to obtain a health care position they are able to literally live anywhere and still be able to find a job. There are numerous options of working anytime that fits into the daily routine of a person’s schedule. Also, the choice of deciding whether or not to work alone or work on team, depending on which path is chosen. I have had the pleasure in interview a licensed practical nurse name Rosa Witcher. A licensed practical nurse, LPN, is, “a member of the medical profession that does their duties taking care of patients while under the management of registered nurses or doctors. The LPN does what is considered essential care, which means they help patients to eat, dress, walk, take a bath, comb their hair, etc. They may also give them their medicines, take their temperature or other vital signs, and do other similar duties.” ("What Is A Licensed Practical Nurse (lpn)?", 2013). Rosa Witcher is not only a respected LPN, but she is also my mother. Rosa has been a licensed practical nurse for over 25 years. The choice to become a LPN was certain for her when she was 12 years old. At the young age of 12, her grandmother suffered a massive heart attack in her arms. Her grandmother complain...
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...AN INTERVIEW WITH A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL 1 Health Care Interview Sylvia Taylor HCS/310 July 9, 2012 Jennifer Hitt AN INTERVIEW WITH A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL 2 Health Care Interview Health care interview is quite an experience for the first timers. For some it is an opportunity to learn the adventures of questioning and interviewing someone and the curiousness of a person’s answers to the questions asked. It is a new learning experience to ask someone about a person’s career and definitely learn something from it. The interviewee has an amazing learning milestones, achievements, and the vast knowledge of her entire career. The neurologist is the interviewee who is a medical doctor treating the brain and the nervous system disorders. Below are some of the findings, informations, and the discussions about her strong career in neurology. A Description of the Targeted Department or Facility This targeted department or facility is an outpatient clinic in neurology, getting referrals on patients with complaints of headaches, seizures, falls, neck, and low back pains, dizziness, memory loss, strokes, brain tumor, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and many more. Guerrero et al. (2011) “Headache is a common cause of medical consultation, both in primary care and...
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...Week 4 Health Care Interview June 3, 2013 Week 4 Health Care Interview For this assignment, I am interviewing my cousin who happens to be a nurse in Arizona. The reason I picked her instead of someone local is because she was someone who I never would have thought would ever become a nurse, much less graduate from high school. She was always getting into trouble, causing trouble, and just seemed as though her life was headed nowhere. She ended up married and pregnant at 18 and a couple of years after that she was working as a nurse at a Sharp Hospital in San Diego before moving to Arizona. I am so proud of her because not only did she turn her life around, she really does know her job inside and out. If I have a medical question, she is always the first person I think of to ask. I interviewed D.C., a surgery licensed nurse who works at Arizona Medical Group in the Out Patient Dept. She has been with this clinic for the past five years and has no plans on leaving anytime soon. This clinic performs out-patient “elective” procedures such as colon surgery, hernia repair, gallbladder removal, mastectomies and other breast procedures. They also do vascular procedures to improve circulation, out-patient wound care, and minor in-office procedures such as lipoma excisions. Needless to say, they cater to the geriatric population, though they do on occasion have younger patients. What I found interesting was that the doctors she works closely with trust her judgment in...
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...Health Care Interview Denise Palmer HCS/310 July 16, 2012 Martha Plant Health Care Interview The following summary is based on the information that was obtained from an interview of Mrs. Rayshondal Merrell a Licensed Practical Nurse for 9 years and enjoys everything about the job. Mrs. Merrell work at a state prison in a 21 bed infirmary as a Licensed Practical Nurse. The infirmary is designed to house inmates with acute illnesses as well as inmates who have returned from hospitals for more serious illnesses. Licensed Practical Nurses will conduct routine checks of these inmates or a daily basis. To become a Licensed Practical Nurse one must attain a high school diploma, and have completed and passed a nursing program with a Practical Nursing Diploma. Once the diploma is obtained the student must apply to the state licensing department and pass the state test. The student must also pass a physical and criminal background check. They should also have the love and passion for this profession. The Licensed Practical Nurse must perform duties that are within her/his scope of practice. The duties include, but are not limited to management of acute illnesses and injuries; treat medical problems; perform physical assessments and perform EKGs. The Practical Nurse must review that care of the patient with the physicians. The Practical Nurse can order prescriptions for all medications and medical devices. Prior to order medications the Practical Nurse must consult with the physician...
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...name UNV303 December 20, 2013 teachers name Professional Experience Paper Introduction Today I will be conducting an interview in the emergency department of a hospital. Emergency departments are different but most are the same. The one where I live operates 24 hours a day. The thing I find the best about them is they take any patient no matter race or problem or money. They can see someone with a toothache to a gunshot wound. The doctors are usually working long hours and they bounce from hospital to hospital. Patients are treated due to the severity of their illness. I found out that my local department is equipped with state of the art technology and all there equipment is led to a central unit. I find this department to be the most unique because they deal with a variety of problems. It’s one of them jobs where you never know what’s going to happen next. So they have to be ready for everything at all times. I knew that my hospital was doing some upgrades and they still are so I asked about what they were doing. They expanded to 24 private rooms including 3 trauma rooms. 10 general examination room and 6 express care beds. I learned that this is a small hospital compared to most. There primary objective is to register a patient and check there weight, blood, etc. And sit them to wait for the doctor if that’s what is needed. I would honestly love to work in a busy emergency room. It doesn’t want to make me choose it as a career path though because I’m not a big...
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...Health Care Interview David Walker HCS/310 Jennifer Hitt September, 18, 2013 Everyone’s job/career is important to him/her. Many people perform their daily tasks with gusto while others see their jobs as the way to make a living and pay the bills; but one will never know what the various employees have to endure on a normal work day. Status, the area of specialization, where one works and the population with which one works can cause pleasure or distress. Ever since I was a young child I always wondered what it was like working in a prison; I did not get the chance to do so, but the opportunity presented itself for me to interview a full-time prison employee who worked as an Emergency Medical Technician. I was somewhat mesmerized by some of the information I gleaned from the interview. On the 12th September, I had the privilege of visiting a state prison facility and talking to an EMT Professional about his job. Peter as this employee will be called said he has been working with that facility for eight years. I enquired why he was employed at that place and he just shook his head and laughed so loudly my ears seemed to ache. Peter claimed that he liked his job immensely, but there were times when he was overwhelmed. He worked on an ambulance prior to working at this facility but it was not challenging. He declared that working here one never knows what to expect as some of the inmates were “off the hook”. Peter declared that he was not afraid...
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...Interview of Health Care Leader Lori Raulerson NUR/492 April 30, 2012 Berthenya Dunbar Interview of Health Care Leader In today’s rapid changing world, leaders are very pertinent, especially in the field of nursing. Good nursing leaders have the ability to provide direction, facilitate structure to reach goals, and cohesiveness throughout team members. Leader by definition is “someone who uses interpersonal skills to influence others to accomplish specific goals” (Sullivan & Decker, 2009, p. 329). On the other hand a manager is different. Their goal is geared toward being responsible and accountable for the goals of the organization. Below is the summary of an interview with L.A. Patient Care Manager of Endoscopy/ Special Procedure Room. I have written down her exact replies to the questions. BACKGOUND L.A. began as a Neuro ICU night-shift nurse for 15 years. During that time she was the manager for two years and then given the G.I. Lab to start from ground up and she had no experience in G.I. With a lot of hard work and many hours, she was able to complete this task successfully. In her next position she worked at Barnes Jewish hospital in St. Louis, MO, which is a top ten hospital. The position title she held was patient care manager over the GI and Biliary Lab, and minor procedure center. She was a leader in this facility overseeing 75 full time employees, while also serving as director of workshops and training. The current position she holds today is...
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...Interview of Health Care Leader Kei'Shia C. Bowers, RN NUR/492 July 16, 2012 Janice S. Cochran Interview of Health Care Leader As a nurse who is well-rounded with experience in many areas of the field, I wanted to get a fresh perspective from a health care leader in an area that I do not know much about. I interviewed KM, a current Director of Nursing Services for a Home Healthcare Agency who is preparing the agency to be Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP) certified. KM has a triple Master’s Degree and is preparing to complete her Doctorate in pursuit of a Strategic Planning career path. She has been a working nurse since 1974 with humble beginnings as a Nurse Aide. A leader’s task is to use acquired skills to encourage and motivate others to accomplish a specific goal. “The leader is important in forging links—creating connections—among an organization’s members to promote high levels of performance and quality outcomes” (Sullivan & Decker, 2009). Her insight into the field of nursing, nursing leadership and the fields of home healthcare and acute care provides a level of expertise that not very many have the opportunity to seek and acquire knowledge. As healthcare costs continue to rise, the government is seeking ways to cut costs and provide care more affordably. “Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are entities that accept responsibility for both the cost and quality of care provided to a defined population of patients and provide the data...
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