Ethics Case Study March 26, 2012 HCS 335 Ethics Case Study: Jerry McCall Introduction Ethics are an important aspect of an individual’s personal and professional life, as ethics help people determine whether their actions are right or wrong, good or bad, just or unjust, and fair or unfair (Fremgen, 2009). Strong workplace and interpersonal ethics are essential to any career, but especially so in health care wherein professionals encounter people from all lifestyles, life and death situations
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Introduction to Rural Health Care According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in recent years, concern for rural populations has emerged in Congress and other upper levels of government. The creation of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) exemplified this new recognition of the significant challenges and difficulties facing rural residents in a rapidly urbanizing Nation. According to the 1990 census, there were over 61 million people living in rural areas. That
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Health Care Professionals 1 Health Care Professionals Leslie T. Moore Strayer University Professor Tataw August 9, 2011 Health Care Professionals 2 Abstract Health care professionals play a key role in the provision of health services to met the needs
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A healing hospital is one that focuses on the wellness of the entire human being, this take into consideration the patient and family physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual need to ensure the patient including the family is cared for. There are many healing hospital that promote a healing environment reporting high patient satisfaction rate, according to Laurie Eberst, there are three components, to a healing hospital, and these are, a healing physical environment, the integration of
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Daring Program In today’s hospital environment, our main focus is placed on technology, medications and treating a diagnosis. Often patients are wheeled from one examination to another with little personal interaction received from their healthcare provider. Patients are hooked up to monitors alarming endlessly due to staff being either unavailable to silence them or not having the compassion to comfort. Technology has become so dominant in hospital settings that we have lost sight of providing
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Institute of Medicine (IOM) to propose a partnership between the two organizations to assess and respond to the need to transform the nursing profession. The report covers the theory that nurses will be able to fill the new and expanded roles of the healthcare system. By reviewing these key points presented the transformation of the nursing profession, nurses must have the education to enable them to provide patient centered care with the safest and most effective delivery. Additionally, they must engage
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Healthcare Disparities amongst minorities Racial and ethnic minorities have a predisposition to obtain a lower quality of healthcare than those of non-minorities, even when access-related factors, such as a patients’ insurance status and income, are measured. The sources of these disparities are complex, and are rooted in historic and contemporary injustices, and includes numerous participants at several levels, including health systems, their administrative and bureaucratic processes, utilization
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Disease Best Practice Guideline & AGREE Tool Application Jessica Cruz Nancie Moran Coleen Smart University of Hartford Decision Support for Adults Living with Chronic Kidney Disease Introduction The movement towards evidence-based healthcare has been gaining momentum quickly over the past few years, motivated by clinicians, management and politicians concerned about quality, consistency and costs. Best practice guidelines, or BPG’s, are systematically developed statements to assist
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Healthcare Training and Development Measuring the employee competence is vital for healthcare organizations. This will show why training and education are important in the health care field. An organization will be able to track and evaluate how effective their training program is. Training and development programs will only make an organization and their employees stronger. Education Education is very important when it comes to working in the health care field. English and language skills
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nature of components in the health care system * The fragmentation of the health care system * The school of thought regarding health care as a free-market good * The school of thought regarding health care as a universal right The U.S healthcare reimbursement system is very complex. It involves private and public payers and changes in the reimbursement approach of one payer have implications for the other. One feature lacking in both type of payers is reimbursement linked to quality. Payment
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