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Continuing Education Program Curriculum The mission of the American Red Cross Institute: The mission of American Red Cross Institute Certified Nurse’s Aide program is to enhance the quality of patient care through education to protect the public. Therefore, the Nurse’s Aide program prepared students from all walks of life with the knowledge and skills to function as a nursing assistant. The vision of the organization is to provide the highest quality of health care that integrates empathy…

. . [E]conomically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, the uninsured, low-income children, the elderly, the homeless, those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and those with other chronic health conditions, including severe mental illness.” This means underserved communities are the people who are desperate for help but do not have the source to get appropriate help. Throughout my life I have encountered with underserved population a lot…

The wording of contracts is very important because loopholes and misunderstandings can easily take place if terms are not clearly set. The article, In Contracts with Device Vendors, Mayo Clinic Emphasizes Security, is specifically about how contracts in healthcare between hospitals and vendors are very important for security. There needs to be a specific language used to protect the cyber security of a hospital from outside vendor’s technology. This article focuses on the Mayo Clinic in…

In the hospital setting, falls continue to be the number one adverse event, with approximately 3-20% of inpatients falling at least once during their hospitalization, and 30 to 51% of falls in hospitals result in some injury. (Oliver, Healey., & Haines., 2010). Leaders must be able to must be able communicated information about fall interventions throughout the organization, to included staff at all level of the organization, patients and their families that will that will have a positive…

While no official laws regarding the use of physical restraints in nursing homes and assisted living facilities exist, many elderly care facilities tend to have their own policies regarding the use of physical restraints. Most facilities are against the use of physical restraints because it conflicts with elderly care facility’s purpose of keeping a resident’s dignity intact. It is difficult to ensure the legal security of people with dementia because while they have protected rights and freedom…

I am currently reading the memoir, Hot Nights, Cold Steel, Life, Death and Sleepless Nights of a Surgeons first years. This book is a personal account of Dr. Collins, a medical doctor who narrates his years through his surgical orthopedic residency and the physical and emotional roller coaster it took him on in those 4 years. I have chosen this book because I am interested in medicine and I wanted to take a glimpse specifically into the surgical realm. Everyone knows that being a doctor must be…

extremely detrimental to a family. (p. 109) When properly treated, people may not result to abuse. The weaknesses of the medical model are that the environmental factors are not considered. Abuse is not often purely a result of disease or mental illness. Environmental factors such as poverty or previous abuse will contribute as well. These factors need to be taken into account. 2. The strengths of the public health model are that the medical and environmental factors are considered. (p. 113)…

Defining what consent is, according to NHS choices (2010) ‘Consent is the proposition that an individual must grant their authorisation based on preliminary clarification by a clinician before they receive any type of medical treatment or examination’. The rule of consent is a significant part of medical ethics and the international human rights law. This can be given in two ways verbally or in writing. For consent to be valid, it must be voluntary and informed, and the adult consenting must…

Health care information is important to handle with care, and anyone with access must ensure the records are protected and remain private. There is more to consider when health care information is being handled, and everyone involved should understand the implications associated with protected health information. The use of ethics when dealing with health care information is vital to determine if proper care is being issued with the information. Whether proper use of the health information is…

Have you ever dealt with so much pain in your body that will not cease? It happens quite often. There are countless adjectives to describe it; however; enjoyable is not on that list. I have rheumatoid arthritis, a ruptured disc, five bulging discs, a torn rotator cuff, and knees that suffice it to say, do not fit together correctly. We, as medical assistants try to prevent this kind of pain for a patient, although we are unable to prevent it for ourselves. I will also share with you the…