Executive Summary Nurses do more than care for people. Ever since Florence Nightingale led the effort to improve hospital sanitation and became known as the founder of modern day nursing, nurses have been at the forefront of change in health care and public health. Nurses provide ongoing assessment of patient’s health. Their round-the-clock presence, observation, skills, and vigilance allow doctors to make better diagnoses and develop proper treatments. Many lives have undoubtedly been
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effective patient care to an extent. I believe without having Nurse Practitioners in today’s society not every patient that needed to be seen or had an illness would receive the care they deserved. Without these advanced practice nurses, our society would be in rough shape as those who suffered from ailments would not receive effective healthcare. References Kilpatrick, K., Lavoie-Tremblay, M., Lamothe, L., Ritchie, J. A., & Doran, D. (2013). Conceptual framework of acute care nurse practitioner
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how to get early diagnosis and treatment through a more primary intervention for those who already have or are susceptible to diabetes. The study is important because Type 2 diabetes and other forms of the disease are preventable. Patients can only be helped if they are diagnosed, understand susceptibility, and are aware of the health problem. There is a known fact that most patients visit their dental provider more often than a primary care provider (PCP), some reasons being that dental visits are
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growth in need for medically trained in America is disproportionately distributed in rural areas, thus barriers to providing healthcare in rural communities are resource limitations, serving in a low-volume environment challenges and “retaining health care professionals, and difficulty
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Emerging Standards of Care Paper Ron Perkins NUR/531 December 23, 2013 Jane Jacks Emerging Standards of Care Paper In nursing, we care for patients from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. This diversity is dependent on location, population, and nursing specialty and may change at any point. In order to properly provide culturally competent care, we must be educated about the individual culture needs and limitations. It's also important to be mentally open to looking beyond our personal
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Chapter 1: Introduction Executive Summary Associate will start a new pharmaceutical company in November 2003 at Singapore. The new company names as Body Health Care Private Limited Company (BHC). The main reason associate selects Singapore because this country has very large market potential. According to a research report from the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2000, Singaporeans on average consume around US$200 million of pharmaceuticals each year.1 The aims of associate are to provide
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from a single hospital and pair of clinics to a health network that includes more than a dozen hospitals, as many small clinics and four pharmacies. Riordan’s impressive growth has resulted from a combination of new expansion, partnerships and buyouts and driven the company to become the dominant health care provider in the region. Unfortunately, this rapid growth has led to a situation in which different network facilities have different SOPs governing patient care, record keeping, billing and human
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Effective working knowledge of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) A shadow chart (not part of the legal medical record) is a copy of original health record retained apart from the primary custodial area used primary by health care providers in their office or clinic setting. Independent databases are often created by researchers and may not include the same content as the original health record. In case of a late entry (addendum) in one, shadow chart or independent
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CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Background to the Study Health is central to the development of any human society, thus an adequate healthy society can improve the social status of the people (Akanbi, 2014). Though healthcare is a vital service, however, it is often treated from symptoms rather than the causes of the poor health. WHO (1948) affirms that, health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not mere absence of disease and infirmity. Health is a positive concept emphasizing
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Getting Started: The Anatomy and Physiology of Clinical Research Stephen B. Hulley, Thomas B. Newman, and Steven R. Cummings This chapter introduces clinical research from two viewpoints, setting up themes that run together through the book. One theme is the anatomy of research-what it's made of. This includes the tangible elements of the study plan: the research question, design, subjects, measurements, sample size calculation, and so forth. An investigator's goal is to create these elements in
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