HAP 392-2 Lina Gant 11/09/2015 Compensation Project The Beal Street Neighborhood Clinic is an independent not-for-profit outpatient facility that serves the health care needs of a South Chicago community. With 32 full time and 2 part time employees Beal Street Neighborhood Clinic is funded by the government and has annual revenues of nearly $7.1 millions. The CEO of the Beal Street Neighborhood Clinic expressed his concerns about the annual salary rate for the Office Manager’s position. With 14 years in the same position as an office manager, employee’s current annual rate is $56,100.…
Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center is a non-profit organization, which aims to fight hunger and poverty. The organization itself have only three paid employees: the social worker, Vicki Anderson, the executive director, and her assistant, Rachel. Almost all of the volunteers in Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center were elderly. Organization offers a variety of services and sports to residents in need from Mystic, North Stonnington, Pawcatuck in Connecticut and from Westerly in Rhode Island. Some of the programs and activities Pawcatuck Neighborhood offers are: Active Aging at the PNC Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center offers a lot of free classes for seniors: Zumba, painting classes, strength and balance, tai chi and line dancing.…
U.S. Supreme Court: United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes Inc. 474 U.S. 121 (1985) The developer Riverside Bayview Homes was filling its property, which was located next to Lake St. Clair, Michigan, with fill material. The Army Corps of Engineers filled a lawsuit against the developer to prevent this from happening, as the Corps felt that this area qualified as a wetland and the developer would then need to obtain a permit from the Corps as required under Clean Water Act § 404. The district court held that this area was considered a wetland under the Corps’ definition. This was then reversed in the Court of Appeals, which stated that the Corps’ must avoid taking without just compensation which violates the Fifth Amendment, thus giving the developer the right to fill their property without a permit.…
The care planning meeting revolved around an 11 year old named, Katy, who was/is subject to care order. The rules around contact with Katy had been made very explicit to Katy’s mother and her Aunt, at the time of the care order being made. However upon receiving the case I learned that Katy had been having unsupervised contact with both her mother and her Aunt, as a result of a lack of adherence to the care order by Katy’s foster carers. As a result Katy had been moved from her previous foster carers to new residential home. Unfortunately Katy’s move from her foster carers to her new residential home was not perfect and may have been a cause for anxiety for Katy due to the uncertainty of her…
The current study was a longitudinal study that assessed data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). I chose the HRS data because it includes participants that are over the age of 50 and their health status. Age is generally important to the current study because strokes typically occur in older age (Dries & Hussein, 2015). The HRS study began in 1992 and consisted of 12,652 participants that were eligible for interviews and had a response rate of 81.6% (Health and Retirement Study, 2015). This study surveyed individuals over five separate waves, with the last wave consisting of participants that were born between 1948 and 1953 (Health and Retirement Study, 2015).…
Patient advocacy does not require nurses to agree, promote, or tolerate any demographic on a personal ideology. What nursing and healthcare does require is professionalism which dictates “[c]ulturally competent nurses…..recognize the harmful effects of ignorance, hate, ethnocentrism, prejudice, and bias on the health of their patients”. (p. 113) Advocating for Lia would necessitate an examination of her social determinates and propagate care that would produce the best patient outcome even if it requires a variance from normal practice.…
Ms. Delcina Augustin Doreus continues to commit to the VA mission, honoring America’s Veterans by providing outstanding care to improve their health and well-being. She is a Master’s Prepared Nurse who is now attending Walden University to obtaining her doctorate within the next years. Her commitment to the mission and dedication to the upward growth of the nursing profession is constantly exemplified in her day-to-day work ethic. The following examples highlight her contributions to date: As a Clinical Nurse Educator and a member of the Veteran Health Executive Committee, Ms. Augustin Doreus collaborated with the members who were from many disciplines to develop a guide to facilitate performance improvement and staff engagement events’ planning.…
Plaintiff Yvonne Palacio appeals from the trial court’s order denying her motion for class certification against defendant Jan & Gail’s Care Homes, Inc. (Care Homes). Plaintiff contends the trial court erred in finding she failed to establish a well-defined community of interests among class members. At hire, employees of Care Homes are required to sign an agreement waiving their right to uninterrupted meal periods in accordance with the facility’s standard operating procedures. Plaintiff argues Care Homes was obligated under the Labor Code to inform employees they have the right to revoke the agreement at any time.…
Even with the vast amount of advances in the healthcare field, we continue to see restrictions limiting availability to patient care. With the growing population, there is a shortage of primary physicians especially in rural areas. Advanced practice registered nurses collaborating with physicians to provide care has had a positive effect on the health care system, yet there are barriers that still exist. This paper lists issues with collaborative agreements, restrictions to APRNs scope-of-practice, and benefits of allowing APRNs to practice at their full scope-of-practice. Issues with Collaborative Agreements The nursing profession has grown exponentially since the 1970’s, when nurse practitioner education advanced from…
I have been working in a nursing home for a little over a year as a dietary aide and have witnessed many problems within the dietary department. The root cause to all of the problems in the dietary department is bad management from my former manager, Sara. Sara was the dietary manager whose job was to manage the kitchen staff, order food and supplies, and plan out meals and snacks for special events at the nursing home. Bad management existed in the kitchen because Sara gave overtime to her employees like it was candy. The kitchen was understaffed for the past couple of months and so the only way that Sara resolved this issue was to give out overtime.…
Care conferences are held for every person receiving health care at home or in a care facility. They help the “care team” ~ everyone involved in the person’s care ~ share information and work together to meet the person’s needs (1). In this case study, I am the LPN who is responsible to organize a care conference for three of the residents in the residential home that I work with. To organize this care conference, it is imperative that I will fully know the goals for each of the resident.…
Care-Corps Currently, over half a million people are homeless in the U.S. right now. What most of us don't understand, is the grind that homeless people go through everyday for their daily needs. Lots of us take a bed, a soft blanket, a warm house for granted. This is something homeless people don't have, but a great program in Fremont, Nebraska has provided these services for them. Care-Corps provides: housing, life skills program, food, hygiene products, medicine, prevention program, counseling, and provides a plan for a client to get healthy, happy lifestyle.…
They evaluate the requirements of the national and state health policies, research current technologies and evidence-based practices, and analyze the local medical demands and economic constraints in order to make appropriate health care decisions for their community. They serve a vulnerable population, which includes a large amount of seniors over age 65, and a significantly low-income population. By making as many medical services accessible and affordable, they hope to best serve this community so to limit the need to travel to urban centers to receive care. They provide a Level 3 Trauma Center, labor and delivery, a large variety of specialty care units, and many outpatient services such as home health, rehabilitations, laboratories, and diagnostic…
Plan members must select a primary care practitioner which could be a physician, physician assistant or a nurse practitioner. The primary care is responsible for coordinating health delivery for plan members. Receiving care by a specialist physician will require a referral from the primary care provider (PCP.) This cost containment strategy is intended to avoid service being duplicated by the PCP and the specialist. (www.amjc.com)…
The Community Nursing (3QQ3) course has been an eye opening journey for me in to the world of community nursing. At the start of the initial course doing the practice tools I was quite apprehensive and had no idea what to expect. It was hard in the early few weeks to see how this course would evolve. But, as I became oriented and more familiar with the community the bigger picture began to form. Indeed, the windshield survey was a great tool to assess our community.…