travel time to an emergency room by 30 minutes. The Chilton County department of public health offers Bio monitoring for chronic disease management (for people whose sole source of insurance is Medicaid) such as diabetes, hypertension, and congestive heart failure (Alabama public health [ADPH], 2017, para. 6). The department of health is a major source in the community that provides medical services, inspections of food services, provides WIC, free immunizations, family planning, STD testing, tobacco
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comfort and free of pain, with the hope that they will live each day as fully as possible, allowing people to live the remainder of their life with comfort and dignity. Hospice services are available for people that can no longer benefit from curative treatments, and are different from other types of care. You may require more help than you are used to which can be both good and bad. The life expectancy for these individuals is normally six months or less, but sometimes they do live past six months. These
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Heart Valve Replacements: Requirements and Evolution Advanced Structural Aspects of Biomaterials Fall 2013 Sonia Travaglini 1 , Hao Ji 1 , Yangxin Chen 1 , Sofia Cafaggi 2 , Britta Berg-Johansen 2 C215 & 2 BioE C222 Advanced Structural Aspects of Biomaterials University of California, Berkeley 1 ME Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY---------------
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primary areas of concern in the health care system which are quality, access and value. There has been a shift in the health challenges facing the health care system. There is a increase in disease processes conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, mental health which affects almost ever 2 Americans(CDC,2010a). These conditions are expected to continue (DeVol etal., 2007) with contributing factors such as diabetes. The aging population has seen a rise in the extensiveness of chronic
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primary prevention of health promotion the focus is on prevention of disease processes. Secondary prevention focuses to identify the disease before the manifestation of symptoms become apparent and the tertiary focus of health promotion is the treatment of the symptoms of the disease process once is has manifested in the patient. (Grand Canyon University, 2011, para. 8- 10) The role of the nurse changes as the prevention focus changes. For example, a group of individuals living along the Texas/Mexico
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theoretical explanation’ (Carper: 15). This way of thinking is executed using Evidence Based Practice. I have been a nurse for the past 10 years and I believe that empirical way of knowing is most familiar to me. For example, my facility is using Congestive Heart Failure protocol (policy created by facility based on clinical practice guidelines CPG) for patients admitted to hospital with either new onset of CHF or exacerbation of the disease. Each patient with CHF has comprehensive assessments, symptoms
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bronchitis approximately 6 years ago and had an acute myocardial infarction 2 years ago. His pulmonary function studies 1 year before this admission showed severe airway obstruction and air trapping. He has a history of high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, chronic dyspnea on exertion, and chronic cough and he experienced two episodes of pneumonia within the last year. In recent months, according to a neighbor, he has become increasingly depressed. According to his daughter, his physical
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2012). With the advances in technology, the home is where more health care is being provided. Telehealth monitors used in the home can transmit blood glucose levels, blood pressures, weight, oxygen level in the blood, temperature, lung capacity, heart rate, and prothrombin time. Monitors can also be programmed to
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Pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium, which is the membranous sac that encloses the heart and great vessels. The inflammatory response causes an accumulation of leukocytes, platelets, fibrin, and fluid between the parietal and the visceral layers of the pericardial sac, thus producing a variety of symptoms, depending on the amount of fluid accumulation, how quickly it accumulates, and whether the inflammation resolves after the acute phase or becomes chronic. An acute pericardial effusion is
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1. Does the ACO experiment achieve the dual objectives of cost savings and coordination of care? Why or why not? Identify three reasons supporting your position, grounded in the literature. I believe that the ACO experiment has the potential to provide cost saving methods and coordination of care because of the structured care patient will receive from one managed group of physicians, who can collaborate and share data, the incentives the facilities will be offered for efficient and effective care
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