HEALTHCARE TRENDS This week’s assignment centers around a report released by the centers for disease control (CDC) back in 2011. Within the report we are asked to focus on two specific topics; mortality and morbidity. In addition to reviewing the data, there were some accompanying questions that will be addressed. Before delving further into the topics, lets first start with a good working definition of both. According to Webster’s Online Dictionary, mortality is defined as the quality or state
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Future Direction of Health Care There are many challenges the health care system faces in the future. In moving forward in a strategic direction challenges they face are: access to health care, technology advancements, maintaining a skilled workforce, health care reform, legislation, and rising costs. These areas present challenges and there is much need for changes and reforms. In this paper I will address five areas with challenges in health care and strategies organizations can adapt to
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The Future of Nursing through Education, Practice and Leadership Grand Canyon University Nursing 430 Professor Jude Belmonte Raeanne Shope December 15, 2013 The Future of Nursing through Education, Practice and Leadership In the 21st century the focus of healthcare and the way it is disbursed needs to change to fit the needs of an aging population. As the face of healthcare changes, nurses must change and become more involved in all aspects of patient care. Nurses must step out of
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Health Care Spending Paper HCS/440 Health Care Spending Health care spending in America is at an all-time high. The baby boomer generation is reaching retirement age and its dependence on health care is greater than ever before. This burgeoning demand for health care services has put a huge strain on the infrastructure of the health care system that was originally designed to accommodate far less Americans than it currently supports. Many financial experts predict a drastic increase in
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the nursing line of work. The nursing range of practice is broadening; this has necessitated highly learned nurses (Van Leuven, 2014). Just as suggested in the IOM report, the nursing practice’s future ought to have additional skilled and merited nurses. The report sought to brighten up the nursing future. The proposals offered in the IOM report included ensuring that the nurses in baccalaureate level rose to 80% by 2020 with the doctorate-level nurses rising by 100% besides encouraging continuous
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In today’s society heath care will forever and always be a necessity and priority. In the United States alone there are several healthcare facilities nationwide that exemplify exceptional healthcare providers. One facility that I ran across doing research is Johns Hopkins Hospital. It is one of the most prestigious and prominent hospitals in America. Johns Hopkins is ranked in the top 10 hospitals for over twenty years and doesn’t show any signs of plummeting lower. Since the hospital was opened
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Omega Health Foundation Finances play a major role in part of decision-making of any industry that can have a conclusive affect on the processes of the business. Most health care organizations have significant changes within the industry; this is specifically because there are new trends available in the market industry which are impacted by the finance organization and the decisions that must be made. Most of the decisions within the health care industry are primarily reliant on the demand for
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Philosophy Threatens the Economy and Health of Millions Medicaid is a federally funded program that insures disabled, elderly and low-income Americans. While all 50 states have yet to opt-in to its expansion per the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which would add 21 million people to its rolls, or half of the nation’s uninsured, many states chose to opt in following the June 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision which deemed the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA) constitutional (AAFP)(Mears)
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Education Saturday, December 23, 2006 ADN vs. BSN Education Nursing education is bound by its contract with society to prepare nurses with the knowledge; skills and values that enable them to provide quality care within the contemporary health care system. Implicit in this process is that a layperson will be transformed into a competent professional (Lindeman, 2000). When addressed to nurses, the question of educational preparation into professional nursing practice has long
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Future Trends in Health Care Future Trends in Health Care The use of a telemedicine can be incorporated in any electronic health record system, with the proper applications patient can be seen face-to-face or in person with a documented assessment or evaluation being conducted simultaneously. The important use of telemedicine is to increase productivity however, many health care professionals can evaluate just as many patient via EHR as they can in person without
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