Ambulatory care

is the only accredited Heart Failure hospital within the 100-mile region of Abilene, Texas. In order to accomplish accreditation, Hendrick Medical Center has engaged in the difficult re-evaluation and refinement of the cardiac care processes to integrate the health care industry’s prosperous practices and the most up-to-date paradigms into its procedures for caring heart failure clients. The processes would integrate local Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and the Abilene Fire Department, and…

Cost Effectiveness, Quality of Care, Sample Calculation The purpose of this paper is to present the references supporting the cost effectiveness, and quality of care provided by nurse practitioners (NPs). The paper will also provide sample calculation of NPs proposed cost effectiveness in comparison to primary care physicians. A systemic review of 27 studies comparing the effectiveness, quality, and safety of care provided by NPs to that of physicians concluded that similar or better health…

A major benefit of using Allscripts outside of prescription writing is that it utilizes an already established area network within a physician’s office. This permits the secure sharing of patient information from the physician’s hand-held device to an office computer. The server, which connects to the vendor’s computer via a high-speed access device, permits drug information updates securely. In addition, the physician’s computer sends all patient prescriptions directly to the designated…

Practitioner A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner is a challenging but extremely rewarding career, not only do they care for infants but also care for children and young adults. They play a special role in each one of the children's life from a young age. A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner is known as a graduate level nursing education, clinical training then Master’s graduate, which they are able to care for an age range of newborn to twenty one years of age. The first thing that someone needs to do to…

Evaluation Electronic Medical Record In the early 1990s the Institute of Medicine (IOM) started lobbying the health care community to consider embracing the use of the electronic medical record (EMR) as standard practice (Haupt, 2011). IOM’s premise for EMR usage included improve health care by increasing safety and efficiency thereby promoting overall better quality of care. Initially, health care systems were excited about the idea of having patient’s information readily available via…

REASON CHIEF COMPLAINT: Progress note for speech therapy and feeding therapy. S Patient continues to come to ambulatory care once a week for his feeding and speech therapy. He has participated in five speech therapy session since his initial evaluation. O Status of Goals: 1. Patient will correctly demonstrate a yawn/sigh to reduce tension in the vocal mechanisms during 5/10 trials. 2. Patient will all response to let the air out slowly when imitating: A. Phrase level utterance. B.…

same, caring for patients, there are many differences between a hospital based nurse and a community health nurse. A community health nurse is one who works with the community and focuses on disease prevention through home care, state and local health departments, ambulatory centers, and schools (Nies & McEwen, 2015). A hospital based nurse focuses on reinstating health while patient during admission, while a community health nurses often work with populations that are high-risk or at risk…

is an about 7% of the older population. The program achieved the primary outcomes of Congress which led to an overall better health of the older people’s population. Participants were better nourished, increased their levels of socialization in ambulatory and homebound settings, and decreased nutrition risk while being cost efficient. Funding for this program included one quarter of home delivered meals and congregate meal costs. Other resources, which were nonfederal, came from community…

Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma), finding that 11,416 people had died of snakebites [4]. First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert, but trained personnel to a sick or injured person until definitive medical treatment can be accessed. Certain self-limiting illnesses or minor injuries may not require further medical care past the first aid intervention. It generally consists of a series of simple and in some cases, potentially…

Ms. Catherine Ferrari had a challenging experience with our Ambulatory Clinics. Jeffrey Labadie-Mendes decided to step down as our Ambulatory Administrator, to pursue a career in our surgical department. Prior to Jeffrey stepping down from his role, he was having a difficult time with both Julia Mitchel and Dr. Lyn Lam. According to Jeffrey, the relationship between the three of them was toxic. Catherine spoke to me about Jeffrey’s behavior, and at which point I spoke to Jeffrey about his…