...Course | Rhetoric & Writing Principles of Chemistry I Data Analysis for Health Science UGS 302 or UGS 303 (First-Year Signature Courses) Visual – Performing Arts | Freshman 2nd Semester (15 hrs) | Introductory Biology I Fundamentals of Nutrition Introduction to Psychology Global Health Masterworks of Literature or E316L, E316M, E316N or E316P | Sophomore 1st Semester (16-17 hrs | Human Microscopy & Gross Anatomy Intro to Medical Microbiology or American History Core Course Communication in Health Care Settings | Sophomore 2nd Semester (16 hrs) | Intro to Patient-Centered Nursing Care Health Assessment Skills Clinical Nursing Skills I Practicum Ethics of Health Care Vertebrate Physiology II Systems Physiology Lab II GOV312L, 312P, 312R (US) | Junior 1st Semester (13 hrs) | Mental Health Nursing Across the Lifespan Problems in Mental Health Nursing Adult Health Nursing I Adult Health Nursing I Practicum Nursing Research | Junior 2nd Semester (15 hrs) | Nursing Care of Childbearing Families Nursing Care of Childbearing Families Practicum Adult Health Nursing II Clinical Nursing Skills II Practicum Genetics in Health Care Contemporary Nursing Pharmacology | Senior 1st Semester (15 hrs)(Continued…) | Nursing Care of Child & Families Nursing Care of Child & Families Practicum Adult Health Nursing II Adult Health II Practicum Spanish for Health Care Professionals Interprofessional Collaborative Practice | Senior 2nd Semester (14 hrs) | Public Health Nursing...
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...I am writing in response to Laura Colarusso’s published online article, “The Five most outrageous Obama Care analogies” published on November 9th, 2013. Laura Colarusso believed that the topic of healthcare reform has inspired some decidedly heated rhetoric. This is why she has listed 5 examples of the most outrageous analogies. The focus of this article is to compare and contrast the negatives of Obama Care to negative events in world history such as slavery, and World War II. In my opinion, the analogies being compared to Obama care share several differences, which I will show by looking at each of the different analogy comparisons themselves. Many issues and concerns have rose by some of the analogy comparisons made by Laura Colarusso....
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...Women’s Health Movement WEEK 4/Tue Key Organizations • 1970 - Boston Women’s Health Collective publishes Our Bodies Ourselves • • • • 1971 - Feminist Women’s Health Centers 1973 - Committee to End Sterilization Abuse 1974 - National Women’s Health Network 1984 - National Black Women’s Health Project Ideology of the Grassroots Feminist Health Movement • Knowledge - critique medicalization • Empowerment / Authority • Consciousness raising groups “the personal is political” • Lay leadership • Refuse corporate sponsorship Carol Downer • Women’s Health in Women’s Hands http://www.womenshealthinwomenshands.org/index.htm Feminist self-help centers * women reclaimed power from the paternalistic and condescending medical community * women reclaimed the right to control their reproduction * women reclaimed the right to assume control of their own health 1969-1973 Chicago, “Jane” “This is Jane from women’s liberation. If you need assistance, leave your name and phone number and someone will call you back” Feminist self-help centers “Feminist” because: • Controlled by women • Health care seen as a highly politicized issue Common features: • information about women’s bodies • empowerment through validation of one’s own experiences • preference for female health care providers • critique of male- physician-controlled health care • critique of capitalist health care • challenge to impersonality and instrumentality National Women’s Health Network • envisioned...
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...shifting of our ideologies, highlighted in this weeks readings regarding our health care system, has challenged my own ideologies towards what our health care system should be modeled towards. I believe it is immoral to have a system that benefits from the chronically sick, but, what I think is even more disturbing is how this privatized model does little to care for its patients and instead treats our bodies health like a ‘routine’ or a machine. On the one hand our current system tells us to “take the blue pill and live with your chronic disease” while the other hand says to “take the red pill so we can see the effectiveness of our new miracle drug!”. What our health care system is lacking is a patient-centered health care model that cares for patients like human beings instead of test subjects. What I found most intriguing about this weeks reading is how we have been tricked into believing that the “New Right” ideology is morally based and has nothing to do with increasing the profits of big corporations. In fact some of us are led to believe that corporate interests lie within improving our lives with ‘fancy new medical machines’ and ‘high tech’ facilities, along with new miracle drugs that ‘make it easier to live’ with our newly developed chronic diseases. We have internalized the notion that our health care system is the best, and changing the status quo or returning to pluralist care systems (which are ‘socialist thoughts’ by todays standards) would be immoral...
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...learned and inherited traits and techniques. Most effective leadership is based on situational factors, but there are styles to leadership which help define its effectiveness in the organization. In order for hospital management to implement change within the healthcare we have to be confident leaders and be able to communicate to our employees what we know will benefit us as an organization. At Evans Army Community Hospital we are suggesting an integration of Behavioral Health Teams that are embedded within the Soldier’s Units and also embedded within each clinic. How this health care communication process might be updated, streamlined, or implemented The Embedded Behavioral Health (EBH) model is an early intervention and treatment model that promotes Soldier readiness (pre-, during, and post-deployment). EBH teams are able to provide multidisciplinary Behavioral Health (BH) care to Soldiers in close proximity to their unit area and in close coordination with unit leaders. Embedded Behavioral Health teams will work closely with the Patient Centered and Soldier Centered...
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...Mental health reform has been constantly changing to best fit the patient as well as society. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, involuntary civil commitment laws were in place in most states in the United States to provide care for mentally ill individuals that needed it, but could not realize their need for it (La Fond, 1994). During the 1950’s and 1960’s; however, there was fight against involuntary commitment (La Fond, 1994). The most prominent argument was centered on hospitalized patients’ ability to function outside in the social world, as most people thought “confinement in institutions created a dependency on their structured environment, diminishing patients’ ability to function in the outside world” (La Fond,...
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...(UAW) was proposed to be modified through the General Motors National Negotiating Committee. “An 11-member board of directors, consisting of six independent directors approved by the courts, and five UAW designees, will administer the VEBA” (Solidarity Jan212011). VEBA directors now have the authority to modify the benefits available to UAW retirees to match available funding sources as of Jan. 1, 2010, when the trust took over responsibility for paying benefits (Solidarity Jan212011). VEBA is a stand-alone tax-exempt trust which uses monies provided by the company to ensure employee health benefits. The monies can be primarily stock in the fore said company (Borzi 2). “The trust is expected to diversify assets to provide the greatest possible level of protection for UAW retirees” (Solidarity Jan212011). VEBA is an uncertain path for retirees for VEBA relies on the assets that it has to supply health benefits. If the assets diminish so do the existing benefits and benefit levels can change. The stand-alone VEBA will shield the retirees from any bankruptcy or further company financial problems (Borzi 3). With the depressed...
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...New Analysis Affordable Healthcare Act Com/310 Abstract This paper will explore three published news reports on different opinions regarding the new Affordable Health Care reform Obamacare. The analysis will be from three different news channels all regarding the same issue. The report however varies in their opinions for how each new station feels towards the new Affordable Health Care. Fox news does not agree with anything in terms of Obamacare, the station is completely against it and have nothing positive to say in regards to the new plan. MSNBC News on the other hand thinks the new healthcare is great and is working fine. CNN News is in the middle, thinks the new plan could use work, but in the long run thinks it will work out just fine. This paper will examine each news stations to suggest the stations opinions on Obamacare. Fox News Analysis Obamacare Fox News has thought Obamacare has been an issue since day one, in recent news they covered a story, “President ignores Obamacare horror stories as human, financial cost pile up”. According to Bent Bozell III (2014 Fox News) the Obama administration and many in the Democratic Parties are trying to peddle the story that Obamacare is now working because the healthcare.gov website is functioning better. Fox News claims for each success there are countless failures. The cost of empty promises and outright lies is enormous bit in human and in financial terms. Fox News claims what these people are experiencing is exactly...
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...How a Healthcare Bill Caused A Government Shutdown What to do about the rapid rise of healthcare costs has become a contentiously argued subject by the United States two major political parties. The finale of this debate sees us two weeks into a government shut down with a small but determined faction of ideologue republicans threatening to default on our nations debt unless President Obama scraps the biggest piece of legislation he’s gotten passed into law since his election in 2008, a healthcare bill, commonly referred to as Obamacare. The president, on the other hand, is saying he won’t pay a ransom to Congress in order for them to reopen the federal government. He’s making his case against his opponents in congress by siting his reelection as vindication that Americans overwhelmingly want this legislation to move forward. The two sides are using an overwhelming amount of social media to air their views and ideology to the American public. While the Republicans spread doubt and fear about the bill, the democrats, conversely, overselling the probable effectiveness of Obamacare. With all this information swirling around the national discussion it is difficult to know exactly what’s true about the bill and what isn’t. Perhaps the most important consequence of this political battle is that currently 500,000 government workers are out of work and not being paid while this shut down plays itself out. This furlough is not only hurting those workers and their families but also proving...
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...Affordable Care Act - Applying Historical Perspectives to a Current Social Issue The University of Washington, School of Social Work The Affordable Care Act - Applying Historical Perspectives to a Current Social Issue Universal health care for Americans has long been a highly contested hot button issue in the United States. It is no secret that Americans pay much more for medical services than other comparable countries, however these higher price tags do not necessarily translate to better care (Keller, 2013). For example, the average price of the allergy nose spray Nasonex is $108 in the United States, compared to $21 in Spain. In many developed countries, a basic colonoscopy costs well under $1,000, but in the United States a bill for this procedure would likely be closer to the $7,000 to $9,000 range (Rosenthal, 2013). In the midst of the debate, and while Republicans and Democrats alike may claim that they want the best health care available for all American people, in the media more often than not this argument comes down to dollars and cents. However, it is of course too simplistic to say that only the power of money and no other forces are at play here. In this paper I will present the case of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly referred to as Obamacare, as it relates to a number of different political and economic ideologies presented in readings and in lecture. The goal of the ACA is to increase the quality and affordability of medical care and health insurance...
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...Reforming Care and Support By [Author Name] [Institute Name] [Date] 1. Introduction Health law and policy making in the region of UK have been identified in a structural way with the functionalities provided by National Health Service (NHS) since the year 1948. There has been an access point of free access and being highlighted in a positive manner, clinical ideas and formulations have emerged as a greater tendency of force. There have been multiple changes implied and influences to the NHS structure over the course of time (Beresford, 2013). Since the 1970s however, the policy has been strictly related with the management of ever increasing requirement of resources and how to take into consideration multiple distinctions in population demands, availability of services and their qualitative comprehension across the region (Beresford, 2013). An array amount of measurements have been implied to target the distinctions including, in the most recent times, an enhanced implication of mechanisms that are market induced. Staffing requirements in the NHS have always considered it difficult to carry out a prediction and the accounts of professional staffing mechanisms have always signified between a surplus and shortage. Such alterations have occurred in a substantial manner against a background of rising expenses, along with NHS providing a spending amount of national income share in a doubled manner since 1948 (Beresford, 2013). The conventional focus of mental health services...
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...There are calls for more funding to be put into the mental health system. Mental health advocates fear more lives will be lost if more support is not given to the sector. Transcript LEIGH SALES: The battle over scarce government dollars is in its final weeks ahead of the Federal Budget on May 10th. The Cabinet met today to discuss what's in and out and tomorrow night, the Prime Minister will set out her framework for what's already being sold as a tough budget. Mental health advocates are concerned that promises to support their sector might not materialise. They say more lives will be lost unless billions of dollars in extra funding goes to mental health. Michelle Ainsworth reports from Canberra. DR ELIZABETH SCOTT, CLINICAL PSYCHIATRIST: I think the mental health system in Australia at the moment is really at a crisis point. PAULA KNOWLES, MOTHER: It is a parent's worst nightmare. PROF. IAN HICKIE, BRAIN & MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE: We know what to do, largely when to do it, but our shambolic system fails to deliver that for people in the greatest need. BRONTE O'BRIEN: Life was incredibly confusing and incredibly overwhelming and I found myself trying to mask my feelings through using drugs. KEVIN RUDD, FORMER PRIME MINISTER: We need as a nation to live our game. JULIA GILLARD, PRIME MINISTER: I want to be absolutely clear about this. Mental health will be a second term priority for the Government. ...
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...The Future of Medicine Andrew Hovey GEN 499 Eric Fox 03/03/14 In theory, the Affordable Care Act is a great plan but the execution has been terrible because People do not understand what the ACA even actually allows them to do. The ability to keep insurance that was already owned was a fallacy, and the ability of people to actually get insurance via the ACA has been mediocre at best. It does however, represent our best shot at a country where everyone has access to medical care at an affordable rate and moves us toward what I believe to be an eventuality and something that is sorely needed, socialized medicine. The reason that I believe it is sorely needed is due to the fact that the fiasco with the website marketplace rollout involved with the ACA has shown us that even the government is not capable of keeping track of all of the different insurance providers and quite frankly the only thing they have done is confuse people as to what coverage they can receive. This would not be necessary if there were one non-private entity that handled insurance for the people. Many European countries use socialized medicine and admittedly, there are varying degrees of success but our system is broken. Competing healthcare companies, different degrees of care and skyrocketing costs have made healthcare un-palletable for many. Just shopping for healthcare on the Heathcare.gov website, one can see how confusing and frustrating the search...
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...The purpose of this essay is to describe an example of communication from my recent clinical placement and discuss the factors that contributed to its outcome. A communication theory can be dated back to 300 BC, when Aristotle provided an explanation of oral communication through his ‘rhetoric’ theory. Here he stated that there were three elements to communicating; the speaker – the message – and the listener, and it is the person at the end of this chain that holds the key to whether or not communication takes place (Roberts, 1924). These underlying principles still remain in today’s modern models of communication, as the essay will demonstrate from looking at Berlo’s (1960) model of communication. The essay will also focus on the importance of communication within the nurse patient relationship. As Riley (2008) states, “communication is the heart of nursing”. (p.3) Firstly the essay will give two definitions of communication and a brief history of the expectations of the nurse over the centuries and how the role has developed to the professional nurse as we know today, and one that is expected by the public. It will then lead on to some examples of methods of communication and a brief explanation of their importance within nursing. I will briefly discuss Berlos (1960) communication theory and demonstrate how the model was used effectively to communicate with a patient with language impairment, which is a deficit in comprehension, production and use of language (Newman...
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...that Human Resource Management department involved in all departments an aspect of a business from performance management, insurance, compensation and benefits, training and development, employee relations, retention, and health and safety, involve also in hiring and firing of employee from what positions full time to part time packets in intake and outtake of employment of a business. The Human Resource manager typically plays three roles in an organization. These Human Resource manager roles are advisor, service, and control. Human Resource Management department involved in insurance compensation and benefits has evolved from small, medium, large and to the huge corporations have Human Resource managers and/or department have been evolving with the time from very simple to more complex benefit packages for their employees and play an important part of it is use as retention to keep employees. Human Resources Benefits- Insurance Human Resources management is the compensation and benefits are developing and maintaining a wage/salary structure, as well as a benefit system, Human Resources management department is responsible for ensuring that compensation and benefits are competitive, fair and motivating. Human Resources benefits are in insurances from health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance, and other benefits loss control, retention, pensions, risk transfer, risk avoidance, and employee education...
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