Prison Health Care HCS/430 February 13, 2014 Prison Health Care There are many facets in the health care industry. Examples include hospitals, urgent care centers, physicians’ offices, medical labs, and more. One not really spoken about, is the prison health care system. Prison health care is the medical treatment of inmates in the United States correctional facilities. The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) is a federal agency that oversees the medical needs of prisoners
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Explain why employing a patient classification system, such as ENEPSS, would be of assistance to a health care facility.200 words The Expert Nurse Estimation Patient Classification System (ENEPCS), is a patient classification system that can greatly assist a health care facility. The Expert Nurse Estimation Patient Classification System can provide flexible and effective staffing, balancing patient assignments, and preparing budgets (Kuhns et al., 2006, p.76). Using the information that is
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Personal and Professional Healthcare Communication HCS 350 May 12, 2014 Kristina Alums Personal and Professional Healthcare Communication Communication is the act of using words, signs, sounds, technology, symbols, or emotions to express or exchange information about one’s ideas, thoughts, or feelings to someone else. Health care communication is information that can be exchanged in the same ways but its main point is to enhance health. It is a necessary element of interaction between nurses
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AMA Codes of Ethics ACHE v. AMA Codes of Ethics The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Code of Ethics is a list of principles set forth to guide healthcare executives in their daily practice. The Code of Ethics clearly defines the behavior and performance standards required by those performing the duties of healthcare executives. The ACHE Code of Ethics is designed in a way that clearly directs healthcare executives in their interactions with patients, employees, and the community
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Long Term Care Facility Study Outline Long Term Care Facility Study Outline I. Introduction Team B chose to cover Emeritus at Harbour of Pointe Shores, a senior community located in Ocean Shores, Washington. The team was interested in learning more about an assisted living and rehabilitation facility. It is also an opportunity to uncover the differences from an assisted living community and a skilled nursing facility. Emeritus at Harbour of Pointe Shores provides retirement and assisted
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It’s been a great pleasure communicating with you all and can’t believe it’s time to say goodbye and move forward. When I started this class it reminds me of taking statistic as a requirement in obtaining my BSN and was upset because I thought there was no correlation between the two, by the end of the course I found it was a necessity. I have similar experience with Nursing NR 500 Foundational Concepts and Application. I was upset and thought this is another money making scheme but at the end of
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alter this shift in healthcare we will provide advanced quality care, decrease errors and provide better safety. The call for the advanced degree practitioner (APN) and physician assistant (PA) is vast; the IOM report is calling for advanced degree practitioners (APN) and physician assistants (PA) to be able to practice to the extent in which they were trained so that they may be able to take some of the burden off the shrinking medical profession and an already fragmented healthcare system. The hope
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and concise then there will be resistance. Meaning if it is not made abundantly clear to leadership and staff (steering team) how the (in the case of Memorial Health System) Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system will be used to improve healthcare and reduce medical error, the initiative will be doomed from the very start. TO ABATE OR AVOID THIS POSSIBLE OUTCOME Ensure that all employees whose jobs will be directly affected by implementation of the CPOE are thoroughly informed of goal
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University: Transcultural HealthCare February 28, 2016 Applying Purnell’s Model What is cultural competence? To be culturally competent healthcare provider one needs to understand their own world outlook and those of their patients, at the same time avoiding stereotyping and their own biases. Cultural competence is obtaining cultural data and then relating that knowledge. Cultural competence is a conscious ongoing process. Cultural awareness allows a healthcare provider to see the entire
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Sample Letter to Sponsors or Partner Organization Please note: You may want to manipulate this file to include your own branding, logos or images. This document is a starting point and language should be updated to represent the activity or event, and local issues, appropriately. Your name Organization (if applicable) Address Phone number Email address Website (if applicable) [Date] To [insert contact]: As a valuable member of our community, we would like to invite [business/organization]
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