Escape Fire Analysis

The documentary titled Escape Fire really created the awareness for good quality care. I was really marveled and astonished as to how there were many loop holes in the health care system in the United States. It all made sense to me when I watched this video as to why when you go and see your doctor for a primary care visit, the Dr is already in a hurry to send you out to the door for the next patient. I was so shocked as to how the United states ranked number fifty in the category of average life expectancy in the world. According to the documentary the United States spent $2.7 billion on health care in 2011 but yet still no great patient outcome has been achieved. I t was also evident in the documentary that the main underlying principles of all these is politics. In 2010 congress passed the Affordable Care Act to extend health coverage to over 30 million Americans. As the name suggest “Affordable Care” meaning extending care to a whole variety of people with priority to quantity not quality. Since the passage of this law there has been tremendous health care coverage extend to many Americans especially people in the lower class who could not afford health …show more content…
Implementation of evidence based practice in our clinical settings results in improved health, safety, lower cost, decrease in patient mortality and morbidity (Melnyk& Fineout- Overholt, 2015). An example is the EBP of using acupuncture as a means to alleviate pain as seen in the video with the soldiers of war. Even though there is available evidence and literature about the outcome of using acupuncture, many people have the mindset that drugs are the only way to treat pain or other diseases. When patients know that their care is driven by EBP guidelines being implemented by their clinicians, there is an achievement of optimal outcome (Melnyk & Fineout- Overholt,