Primary Health Care Essay

Affordable Care Act (ACA) there have been many recommendations to improve the health care of all Americans. These recommendations are designed to expand coverage, hold insurance firms accountable, decrease the cost of health care, offer more choices, and enrich quality of care. While these recommendations are aimed at patients, nurses will inevitably be affected in the way they give care. The ACA has proposed three models of care that are designed to reduce costs and provide a value-based health…

state. Physician Assistants (PAs) who are considered mid-level providers and are also well known members of the medical field, are known for providing care for patients, and working under the authority of a physician. PAs were first introduced to the United States Health Care around the 1960’s. This profession was created to expand and improve health care for patients. However, in order to assist patients, PAs have a set of requirements that need to be completed. These requirements include a…

Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) received the name after many years of evolving through various roles and responsibilities of public health. In 1877 a bill was signed into law that created a State Board of Health to assist in organizing and improving the current health concerns during that time (“TDH”, 2016). In the 1800s, Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis and many smaller towns experienced life-threatening diseases that caused death and economic loss. The State Board of Health had…

treat adult patients across the lifespan. Although I entered this program planning to work as an FNP, experiences during the pre-specialty year have confirmed my passion for the adult patient. Specifically, I hope to serve rural communities as a primary care provider, focusing my practice on the management of chronic disease in older adults. My passion for older adults is rooted in the experiences I had throughout the summers of my undergraduate career. I spent my summers with a nonprofit in…

While reviewing the RWJF report, the Care Model Process really stood out to me. As a result of Health Partners hiring nurse practitioners in addition to physicians and physicians assistants, this model was developed. This model was developed to ensure quality care is delivered as a result of nurses roles transforming and expanding. This model was developed from a very popular and well-respected model called the Wagner Chronic Care Model (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2012). To facilitate…

great demand. Furthermore, this demand has left most nurses working long hours and exhausted. Moreover, the healthcare system transformation is usually done to meet the demands for quality, safety, and affordable care, which, therefore, would require rethinking of the roles of many health care professionals especially nurses. A two year initiative committee was appointed by Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2008 in collaboration with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) with the great purpose to…

Why people who are homeless face barrier to the health care? What are the strategies to facilitate the system in health care Canada for homeless adult? Despite the fact that Canada’s health care plan are universal, but there are some barriers that prevent the people who are homeless to access health care. What are the barriers? And why it exists in health care system in Canada? What are the principal strategies in order to overcome to those barriers? How and what need to be done in order to get…

Regional Medical Center is still standing and is 125 years old. The Williamsport Regional Medical Center is a not-for-profit hospital. According to the PA Department of Health, the hospital has 224 beds with 220 staffed beds, it has an occupancy rate of 59.9% and an average length of stay of 4.23 days (p. 4). According to the Health-Associated Infections in Pennsylvania report (2014), the Williamsport Regional Medical Center has a nosocomial infection rate of 2.41% (p. 41). The hospital has an…

2014). The countries are comparable across key health indicators such as infant mortality rate, crude birth rate, life expectancy at birth, and maternal mortality ratio (Table 1). Despite similar economics and key health indicators, tuberculosis treatment success rate highlights the health outcome differences between the countries. In 2013, The World Bank reported a tuberculosis (TB) treatment success rate of 59% in Ireland and 88% in the Netherlands. Health system differences across service…

As a part of my primary health care practice, I was posted in a rural clinical setting which is located in the North Island of New Zealand. The main objectives of my clinical setting are to provide patient-centered care, promote health and well-being of the patient and to provide support to the family/whanau as well (Registered Nurse [RN], personal communication, February 10, 2016). Primary health care services deliver a wide range of health services which include treatment, health education,…