research, collected data, and nurse-led solutions, the IOM created an informative report in 2010 called The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, which provides specific recommendations on the improvement of the nursing workforce and the healthcare delivery system. The report is directed towards various entities; individual policy makers, national state and government leaders, licensing bodies, educational institutions and consumer advocates, are just to name a few. Three particular recommendations
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Future Trends in Health Care Schell D. Caradine HCS 533 March 3, 2014 Suzanne Paone Future Trends in Health Care Long ago patients relied on their doctor to provide them with information about his or her health condition. The patient took what the doctor told him or her at face value. When doctors began to implement computer systems in their offices, they would print off medical information for the patient to take home to read in order to have a better understanding of the diagnosis given
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Lillian Bentley Administrative Ethics Paper HCS/335 June 2, 2014 Professor Beryl Keegan Administrative Ethics It is important that each person working in the health care field knows their role and the functions of their job title. In some cases, employees may be tasked with extra job function, but it is important that they are properly trained for the role they are tasked with, because patient privacy can be at risk. Many times if the employee was not properly trained management can
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(DHHS) • Medicare • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) • Center for Disease Control (CDC) • Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) • Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) • Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) In the following table, describe each of your choices and explain their functions and roles within the health care field. Your responses should total at least 50–75 words for each choice. |Service or System
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VA Northern Indiana Health Care System Stephanie Dubois WGU Indiana Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) is part of the Global War on Terror. The US has sent a lot of soldiers to Afghanistan as a result of the events on September 11, 2001. Some of those soldiers sustained injuries and trauma from incidents while in Afghanistan. When those and many other uninjured sol soldiers were returned to the US, and being released from whichever military branch they had been serving, they were then left
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expectations of the original objectives set forth at its inception. Currently, the NHS is credited as being the single largest publically funded health care system in the world. In 2010, the Commonwealth Fund declared that “in comparison with the healthcare systems of six other countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand and USA) the NHS was the second most impressive overall. The NHS was rated as the best system in terms of efficiency, effective care and cost-related problems.
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at religiously affiliated hospitals, health clinics, or HMOs is determined by the dictates and principles of that religion, not by medical guidelines or the needs of the community it serves. Healthcare delivery at Catholic health systems is governed by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services (Directives), a document developed and promulgated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Directives address general principles governing the nature of patient-physician relationships
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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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Grand Canyon University: HLT-310V Spirituality in Health Care 06/09/2014 The healing hospital paradigm focuses on a holistic approach to healthcare and encompasses treating the patient as a whole and their well-being and their families along with the hospital staff rather than just the illness. It also includes the architecture of the building and the aesthetics surrounding it. Certain specific designs of buildings can produce calm and stress free environment for
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