Infarction Clinical Scenario The acute care nurse practitioner on the cardiology service treats a 67 year-old-male admitted after recovering from an acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). His risk factors include obesity, Type II diabetes mellitus, and family history. Upon exam the patient asks why he has not been started on a beta blocker yet. He explains further that when his brother had a “heart attack” in 2005, he was immediately placed on a beta blocker because the cardiologist
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Conflict Resolution at General Hospital Dr. Lu Leadership and Organizational behavior- BUS520 November 27, 2011 Discuss the conflict that is occurring at General Hospital. General Hospital was developed as a non-profit hospital in 1968. In the 1980s, General Hospital had a high success rate with 90% occupancy in rooms. However, with the emergence of greater medical technological advances, General Hospital lagged behind a nearby medical center and lost
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Project and Proposed Intervention Yvette Sanford Hall Loyola University of New Orleans Fall 2011 Community Health Project 2 This paper discusses the summary of the community health project carried out in the Eastern New Orleans Community in New Orleans, Louisiana, to encourage health promotion and disease prevention. This discussion includes a profile of Eastern New Orleans Community
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specialty brings their own personal skill let learned from on the job training and from educational studies that equip them to handle various patients in various settings such as hospitals, acute care, long-term care, and outpatient facilities. This paper will look at two different allied professions and how they interact together to provide high quality care to their patients. . Allied Health The allied health profession makes up for about 60% of the health care workforce. They work collaboratively
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Reimbursement and Pay-for-Performance Paper Patricia Vandermark HCS/531 November 3, 2014 Connie Melton Reimbursement and Pay-for-Performance Paper The arena of health care has always been constantly fluid, dynamic, and extremely challenging. As health care providers we struggle with the increasing demands of our institutions, the increasing demands of our patients, and most recently the demands that are a direct result of today’s health reforms. Since the inception of The Patient Protection
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plays a significant role in cancer; however, the knowledge of the relationship to all cancers and the overall health effect of excess weight in terms of total mortality from cancer is limited (Calle, Redriguez, Walker-Thurmond, & Thun, 2003). In this paper I will examine the research available on obesity and its relationship to breast cancer (in post-menopausal women), endometrial, colon, esophagus, kidney, and pancreatic cancers, and briefly mention a few other cancers currently being studied for a
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producing a report that would make recommendations for an action-oriented blue print for the future of nursing (IOM 2010 para. 2). Nursing Education The argument on the entry level of nursing has been ongoing since 1965, when the American Nurses Association published its paper declaring the Bachelor of Science in Nursing should be the requirement for the professional nurse. The unavailability of university programs and qualified instructors to advance this proposal has stagnated and lead to a much slower
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everybody signed in. He trained me, taught me customer relations and most of all how to do a good job with treating everybody with respect. As much as I wanted it to seem like a movie, there I was in the middle of the emergency room giving out dispatch papers and making sure my patients listed were content. I had voices coming from everywhere “when are they calling me “, “Can I go and see my daughter “, “I’m waiting to leave, how long till I can go”. Many of these patients quickly caught on to
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