Freedom to make healthcare choices

Nurse managers have the right to make sure that patients are safe as well. Hiring qualified, high performing nurses to care for the patients in their time of need, making sure no harm comes to them in the process is a responsibility of the nurse, manager and the facility as a whole. Nurses not able to manage work life balance are a concern. As it is possible at times to rearrange schedules to ensure time off of work for rest needs is given, it at times is not able to accommodate for issues…

Placing a loved one in a nursing home may be the most difficult and heartbreaking decision one will have to make. The reasons for admitting someone into a nursing home is usually because they cannot provide care for themselves, their caregiver is no longer capable, or they require full-time medical attention. Peace is typically found when one realizes it is the best option for the individual and there will be a quality health care team to support and comfort them. Susan was admitting into a…

One way of getting the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle and improve their health is through health promotion. Health promotion is defined by Tones and Green (2004) as; the process of enabling people and communities and giving them more control over their health and its determinants, thereby improving their health with the individual’s involvement. Tones and Green (2004) further stated that health promotion is any combination of education and related legal, fiscal, economic, environmental and…

Joseph Yourshaw a 93-year-old suffering with a variety of painful illness: end-stage diabetes, heart and cardiovascular disease, stroke, kidney disease and arthritis. His several conditions had made his everyday life misery even taking a breath for air makes excruciating pain ripples throughout his body. Although, few of his disease are curable, with his age and body any surgeries mean, will only worsen his situation and will only increase the current state of pain. Yourshaw would often tell his…

Writing is an everyday tool many people take for granted. Some do not realize how important writing truly is. Writing is a key skill necessary at every age, but becomes extremely important in college. I was naïve freshman when I first began college in the fall, without warning of how difficult school was going to be. I discovered that my writing style was majorly flawed, but contained the right ideas. English 1101 helped me improve my writing style while still expressing the same ideas. The…

Weeks et al.’s (2008) state that “literature on rural veterans' health care needs warrants expansion and investment so that policy makers can make informed decisions in an environment of limited resources and competing interests.” In general, it’s understood that studies of access to care found that rural veterans have less access to care and were more vulnerable to travel barriers than their urban counterparts. Weeks et al.’s (2008) “conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature that…

rapidly expanding population through the instatement of the one-child policy limited the freedoms of the people and placed additional burdens on the average citizen that one would never…

on tedious and redundant tasks in factories. This “deprives the work of any interest,” separating man from himself (Capital, 409). Having people do many small jobs increases the productivity, but it calls for a lot of people to work, and therefore makes, “overpopulation a necessity of modern industry” (Capital, 424). It would be rational to think since there are so many people that they would be able to work together, but even still workers are separated from one another: “Laborers are isolated…

hospital in the U.S. From professional interpreters who speak more than 30 languages, to convenient curbside wheelchair service, the staff members treat every patient with special, first class care. The Johns Hopkins Hospital offers guest services that make your visit to the Johns Hopkins Hospital comfortable and secure (Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2015). However, there is very long list of medical services offered at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as well, including inpatient/outpatient services. In…

Christian David Green and his family, doesn't have to pay for health care coverage of contraceptives prohibited by its owners' religion. Women are again fighting for their rights and are still having to justify that having sex is not immoral and doesn’t make us bad people. Seth Rogan’s tweet on Twitter this summer says exactly how I feel, “The people at Hobby Lobby are assholes and those who voted to let them be assholes are also assholes.” (Rowles)…