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Patient Recruitment: Recruitment is never easy, but if it’s not planned accordingly during planning phase it would be difficult to address the problem. As active recruitment begins, all the technical and logistical problem to be resolved on daily basis. Frequent re-evaluation may demonstrate a failure to maintain goals. Innovative methods to be identified and laid in place. Patients may be recruited based on the judgment of the physician who provides care Recruitment of patients by physician who…

Shared patient visits are becoming popular in the medical field throughout the country due to their successful methods, supportive care, and informative solutions to patients about various medical conditions and ailments. Doctors seem to benefit from shared patient visits as well. Patients seem to feel more at ease, supported, and motivated to learn about their health and are more prone to changing lifestyle habits. Would you rather wait an hour or two to see your doctor for ten minutes or…

Developing a single patient engagement platform across all care settings, with predictive healthcare management tools, will help empower patients to better manage their health and coordinate with all of their providers for improved healthcare outcomes. Although the healthcare organization may have an existing patient portal, this may not be offering the correct tools and benefits to the patient. Research previously discussed in this paper determined there would be positive outcomes of…

Social Distance, as an intrinsic moderator, refers to the number and importance of dissimilar between physician and patients. In this case, the patient is an Egyptian woman and the physician is White American male. The differences between them are gender and ethnicity, which led the patient feeling embarrassed about the physical examination by taking off clothes. Moreover, this female patient might misunderstand the purpose of this examination. The Family and Social Environment, as an extrinsic…

much. One concept that resonated with me the most was patient-centeredness, one of the 4 elements of pharmaceutical care. The practice of patient-centeredness is at the core of philosophy of practice and patient care process. When assessing patient’s medical problem and drug therapies, developing a care plan, and when doing a follow-up evaluation, we need approach it with the patient in mind. Patient-centeredness means considering the patient first, his/her wants being the driver of every…

purpose of the concept analysis developed by Leslie and Lonneman was to review literature of other scholars to determine if the development of trusting relationships between the patient and RN in the home health care setting resulted in better patient outcomes. The article, “Promoting Trust in the Registered Nurse–Patient Relationship”, was developed through the implementation of Rodgers evolutionary method of concept analysis, which she developed in 1989 (p.59). The evolutionary method…

role in the delivery of safe, effective patient care. When the nurse to patient ratio is at a manageable level, studies indicate a healthier outcome for patients. However, when the ratio is not at a manageable level patient and nurses suffer the consequences. Because nurse to patient ratio has such a large impact on the health of both the patient and the nurse, a public policy is appropriate for the nurse to patient ratio to establish minimum nurse to patient ratio. This can be done by requiring…

In a patient-centered care environment, clinical decisions are guided by the patient’s preferences, needs and values (Wolfe, 2001). In our hospital, some patients and family members have asked about the possibility of bringing family pets in to visit. Nurses will sometimes secretly allow these visits during less crowded visitation times such as evenings and weekends. However, as our hospital becomes more patient centered, and the requests quite possibly become more frequent, the need for an…

The patient is a 46 year old male who presented to the ED feeling SI with a plan to overdose on 10 of his Neurontin and paranoid. Per documentation patient has not been able to sleep, he has been afraid of what will happen if he stays at home, so he came to the ED.Per documentation patient states, " I guess I didn't take enough to end it all." Further he states, " I take my meds and do what I supposed to do but nothing helps. It makes me so mad that I can't get rid of all the negativity."…

care facility can contribute to a patient centered approach. According to Bechtold & Fredericks (2014), “Collaboration between the patient and the healthcare team, patient-centered care incorporates the patient’s values, beliefs, and preferences regarding overall health and well-being into the plan of care and implementation of all care activities”. There are patients’ that have been with their primary care provider for many years and the providers treat patients not only from a clinical…