Health insurance in the United States

Inspector General (OIG) within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). That first program was designed for individuals and small group physician practices. Since that time, there have been an entire series of HHS OIG compliance guidelines addressing other segments of the health care industry that includes: nursing facilities, HHS research grants and awards, hospitals, pharmaceutical firms, ambulance providers, hospices, home health agencies, clinical laboratories, third-party…

Act. The signing of this statue was the beginning of change in health care in our country. For the first time since the implementation of Medicare in 1965 many Americans were eligible for affordable health care. How this act would change the future of nursing, let’s look at my nursing vision for improving care for my patients / clients. The problems of doctors and medical provider’s shortages for many patients in the United States and other…

Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century that identified deficiencies and trends in the United States healthcare system. In this report, the IOM outlined the essence of quality health care as safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable, paving the way to today’s health care quality programs in an effort to produce optimal care and outcomes (IOM, 2001). Kelly (2014) states that “health quality policy may be thought of as a subset within health policy… A…

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Rossi is a member of a committee responsible for determining what services are to be covered or excluded from a specific HMO plan. He is recalling the case of a 91-year-old former marathon runner in perfect physical health that requires a knee replacement surgery in order to maintain the level of activity he is accustomed to. The committee is dedicated to limiting replacement arthroplasty to those under the age of 90 years old with the assertion that any persons past…

Healthcare Act The Wrong Plan and the Wrong Time President Obama in March 2010 asserted the revolutionary Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) into law. According to Michael Marcovici in the article You Can Keep Your Doctor: What Nobody Told You About Obamacare, the law known as Obamacare, “came with two objectives.” The first objectives were to increase access to affordable health care services among the great American citizens. The other objective was to serve as check and balance to the rising…

Introduction Implementing the proposed change (wound care education for healthcare provider) requires an across-the-board involvement by different members in a hospital setting. The change squarely touches on all organizational units, including clinical and non-clinical, accentuating the need to attract stakeholders from all these areas as a way of fostering an overall change mood. These stakeholders will play a leading role as change leaders and champions within their respective…

patient’s advocate. It means serving as a reliable and principled liaison to their recovery, both physically and spiritually. It is about establishing an honest relationship and learning just as much about who that person is, as you do about their health issue. It’s about treating the heroin abuser with the same respect as you would the faultless war veteran amputee or stroke victim. It is about compassion, reassurance, and guidance throughout the process. Nursing is an honorable profession that…

Communication between a nurse and patient is an important part of healthcare. Not only is this the time the nurse provides education to the patient, but it is also the period when the patient shares crucial information that could be beneficial for his or her health and treatment. This paper will review why good communication is essential in healthcare, what therapeutic communication is, what are the key components of therapeutic communication, and some factors that may facilitate and/or block…

Secondly, how poorly Walmart workers are treated is proof enough that the company is bad for America. Walmart is known to take advantage of their employees by offering them low wages, no overtime, poor health care, and are disrespectful of employees race along with gender. This corporation has been proven to guilt workers into working more for no pay leaving the employee with little to no money monthly. They simply tell the employees that they do not know what they are going to do because of the…

pan in which every American citizen will be granted access to healthcare, however there are several flaws in this plan when looking at taxes and getting a new tax plan passed. Sanders’ plan is to impalement a “single payer” plan which is a universal health care system where a “single payer” fund provides funding instead of private insurers. This plan sounds great in theory as Sanders claims in will save $6 trillion over ten years, but the way in which he plans on making this happen is a problem…