------------------------------------------------- term paper
Investigate patient’s rights. What are some of prevalent difficulties patients and providers encounter? Suggest some best practices solutions
December 6, 2015
HSC 3661: Communication Theory and practice for health professions
Fall 2015
December 6, 2015
HSC 3661: Communication Theory and practice for health professions
Fall 2015

A patient is the utmost vital being in the institution. A patient is not just reflected as someone who is under medical care or treatment but, also someone who is a client of any medical service. As a patient, an individual should be considered as a partner in your hospital care. With this being said, they have personal preferences and values that a medical establishment should encourage and respect. As a patient, one has certain privileges, patient rights, of which are basic rules of conduct between patients and medical caregivers as well as the institutions and people that support them. (patient rights, n.d.).
Once the entering of a medical establishment and being bombarded with a voluminous amount of documents during registration, how many of us are guilty of just signing and initialing our name at the bottom of the document without essentially reviewing it? Majority of the time, people tend to not realize their precise rights, as a patient, at the time of their care. When I asked one of my co-workers to list off their rights as a patient she barely knew anything. “To be quite frank, I honestly do not know my complete rights with the hospital. I just listen to my physician and leave it all in his hands. (Prince, 2015)” The reasoning behind this is; their rights where either never properly explained, not clearly defined or included in that bulky amount of paperwork. Indisputably, the healthcare provider plays a role in these misunderstandings conversely, a lot of