Health care provider

more than 2.5 million people in the United States develop pressure ulcers (Berlowitz, 2014). “Skin lesions bring pain, infection risk, and increased health care utilization. Moreover, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid no longer provides reimbursement to hospitals to care for a patient who has acquired a pressure ulcer while under the hospital’s care” (Berlowitz, 2014, p. 1). Thus, pressure ulcer prevention has become a priority in hospitals. The first step in pressure ulcer prevention is…

Introduction: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) [i.e., pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT)] is a common complication during and after a hospital admission. Further, VTE is a leading cause of major complications and death after major orthopedic surgery. To avoid the development of VTE after orthopedic surgery, it is essential to reduce the onset of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and to diagnose DVT early. It leads to early diagnosis to find a risk factor of DVT from medical history of…

To promote higher quality care, teamwork and nurse’s accountability are the goals for bedside shift change report. Nurses can utilize different evidence-based practices when obtaining and providing patient’s care. However, an article by Maree Johnson and Leanne S. Cowin “Nurses Discuss Bedside Handover and using written handover sheets” made an interesting fact on determining the qualitative idea of bedside handover with both registered and enrolled nurses. The article focuses on bedside…

barriers to access health services and make alternation to policies procedures when and if necessary Information should be deliver in a format that people with learning disabilities can understand, services should work in partnership with families and external agencies, services and staff should have awareness about capacity, consent and advocacy. Service delivery should be follow by follow ups, individuals should be fully involved in the whole process around treatment and care. 5. Explain the…

and the continuation of care is not passed on to another health care provider (Morris, 2010). Patient abandonment may also occur when health care providers leave without notice or patient consent and do not give the patient enough time to find a replacement. Health care providers have an ethical and legal duty to avoid abandonment (Indest, 2012). Patient abandonment will be viewed as medical malpractice if the patient suffered harm as a result of the termination of care (Indest, 2012). It…

patients who need care and a large population being the elderly who have more needs due to comorbidities. Going forward, the care providers and the institutions have to adjust as the health care continues in its roll out process. There are areas to focus to include: a) Hospital readmission reduction program. In its implementation, patient discharge process should be harmonized and patient educated on how to care for themselves at home or link up any service required with home health team. Any…

to superior outcomes in relationship to the cost of care [Institutes of Medicine, 2010 (IOM)]. To address this ongoing concern the Patient Protection Affordable Health Care Act [PPACA (2010)] provides structure for fundamental reform in health care delivery. This new paradigm in health care delivery includes three integrated models of care that are patient centered spanning across the continuum [American Nursing Association, 2010 (ANA)]. The care models include the accountable acre…

Definition Provider-patient relationship is defined by Segen’s Medical Dictionary (2011) as “a formal or inferred relationship between a physical and a patient, which is established once the physician assumes or undertakes the medical care or treatment of a patient.” An article by Stein (2006) published in Journal of the American Dietetic Association define provider-patient relationship as a communicative relationship between provider and patient/client and “good communication…

is the most important profession in the health team care. The pharmacist is the only expert on drugs. Over the past 40 years, the pharmacist 's role has changed from compounding and dispensing medicines to one of "Drug Therapy Manager". The pharmacy profession developed nowadays and moved towards a patient-centered practice. This profession toward patient called pharmaceutical care. It represents a major transformation…

There were four big issues ( diagnosis, stigma, insurance and involuntary admission) during my mother’s 35+ years of mental health issues. The first was achieving a professional diagnosis of her mental condition and the second was the stigma of mental health. The diagnosis for mental health illness are statistically derived from a scoring system on a list of enumerated symptoms for each diagnosis as a conglomeration or array of variety of psychological functions such as memory, learning,…