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Ethical Decision making Case management is a collaborative process of choosing options and developing services required to meet the health needs of individuals. It involves assessment, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of such options with the aim of providing effective remedies. It exists in an environment that relies on it to solve or resolve problems in health care delivery systems. Proper communication and good resource management are essential factors in…

demographics, technology and the environment to globally promote the framework for nurses to acquire knowledge and practice. Together, these issues pose dangerous for health and diseases, increasing risks factors, contributing to the multifaceted confusion of interconnection, and portraying the current states of humanity and health. Business and private sector…

and International Nectrotizing Ratio (INR) Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) Urinalysis (UA) and Culture CT Abdomen/Pelvis Radiograph of Right Lower Extremity The given scenario leads this writer to pursue aggressive treatment for the management of sepsis secondary to the risk of necrotizing soft-tissue infection at surgical site. In doing so, this writer deems the following diagnostic tests necessary to initiate appropriate lifesaving therapies. First, this writer…

strategic planning process to frontline employees, medical staff, board of directors and the community. In every organization, the frontline workers are the backbone of an effective health systems. They constitute part of the community…

Manage care organizations (MCOs) are types of health insurance that involve the creation of provider networks as well as prevention benefits, utilization review for medical necessity and standards of care, and often care management (Kongstvedt, 2013; Medline Plus, 2014). The beginnings of managed care in the United States reaches back to the early twentieth century and continue to thrive, but managed care has not been born from a single force or entity but from many sources seeking differing…

Dilemma Description Ethical dilemma is a very serious and complicated issue to deal with in the health care environment because it had to deal with human beings, especially life and death. Ethical dilemma becomes an issue when patient, family members, and health care providers have different views or opinions regarding medical care. Sometimes, health care providers believe that a medically challenged or disabled patient will have such a terrible quality of life, that he or she would not want…

hospital without their little one; which can be one of the most difficult times for parents. NICU nurses are vital in the health care world. The nurses work hard to ensure that the sick/premature newborns receive the care that they need when they are there for days, weeks, and even sometimes many months until they are well enough to go home. “According to the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN), there are approximately 40,000 low birth weight infants born each year in the United…

Remote Patient Monitoring and wireless sensors technology Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is the use of mobile communication and information technologies to connect patients and clinicians in order to maintain continuous surveillance of patients and to improve convenience and efficiency (HIMSS, 2013). RPM is used in the outpatient setting for the management of chronic illness and promotion of aging in place. Events can be monitored in real time and can raise alarms when conditions exist that…

chapter 7- Cognitive Psychology for my psychological theory to read, evaluate, and review. Cognitive psychology studies and examines the way people control the information within their mind. “It studies perception, the intake of information; memory, the storage and retrieval of information; and thinking, the diverse uses of this information in reasoning, language, and other mental activities” (Fernald, 2008, p. 217). Now days cognitive psychology is commonly known as cognitive behavioral therapy…

Half of smartphone owners use their devices to get health information. One-fifth of smartphone owners have health apps on their devices” (Fox & Duggan, 2012, p2). In the facility where I am going to perform this capstone project, all employees and majority of patients use smart phones or other mobile devices. There are iPhone apps…