Health care provider

aspect OM approach disregarded health care provider requirements, time constraints and delays in patient care, patient needs and satisfaction, and the integration of follow-on care requirements. The results of the experimentation and case study by Vos, Groothuis, & Merode, (2007) addressed the need to maximize floor space for patients based on a study of arrival and wait times, but failed to address deviations in wait times, and more importantly, deviations in care provider delays.…

When nurses have too many patients, they are constantly moving around the hospital, leaving no time for their personal health. Nurses have so many patients to take care of and paperwork to document, they have no time to sit and relax for a minute or even get a bite to eat. Constantly running around and not eating is very unhealthy for any ones body and leads to what is called nurse burnouts.…

Identifying the Problem After working in both Nursing Home and the Acute Care Settings, I personally have noticed the big difference in the care of the Alzheimer’s disease patients and the elderly without AD. Caring for Alzheimer`s disease patients is more challenging for both the caregivers and health care providers. It is as stressful for both the patients and caregivers as they try to maintain their cognitive intact and as caregivers strive to make the patients feel as normal as…

successful treatment for many mental disease in a different type of children , adult and elderly as well. Music therapy has major role in improving patients’ health in social skills and better life by using musical ways like, singing ,listening and playing. Music therapy is an active treatment for depression, which major mental health disease, has attacked more and more people every year because new lifestyle human beings have. This disease is changing patient's life and making it worse.…

Grace &McLaughlin (AJN, 2005), revealed on their study that people are most vulnerable when they are sick and health care providers often have a stereotype that they have better knowledge than the patient and they may unintentionally harm the patient. So, informed consent is very important to protect patient’s right and nurses are in an ideal place to play the advocacy role in different ways such as, a defender of patient’s right, .Johnston, M.J., (2009), also reemphasized the advocacy role of…

Patients are very aware of this standard that has been set so if they do not feel their pain was treated appropriately they threaten to call JCAHO to report noncompliance. This is what in my opinion has led to the abuse of the opioids prescriped by providers. This is a multi-organizational problem, in addition to JCAHO setting the limits it led to Press Ganey to add it to their requirements of hospitals…

Kennedy et al., (2013) CAUTI’s are identified as one of the most common healthcare related infections. As a result of the high incidence of CAUTI’s, in 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, stopped reimbursing hospitals for the costs of care for patients who develop a CAUTI during hospital stays (Kennedy et al., 2013). Unfortunately, there are approximately“One million catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) per year, associated with an additional cost of $676 per…

importance of communication as an aspect of partnership within current nursing care. As stated by Brooks & Heath (1985) cited in Bramhall (2014), communication can be described “as a process during which information is shared through the exchange of verbal or non-verbal messages” (Brooks & Health, 1985; Bramhall, 2014, p 53). Effective communication contributes to the development of a therapeutic relationship and overall improved health outcomes for the patient. To be able to communicate…

Huntington’s Disease Huntington’s disease is an inherited disease that causes degeneration of brain cells. It is a complex disease that affects specific areas in the brain, one particular is the the motor area. The degeneration of brain cells is caused from a genetic mutation in DNA during DNA synthesis. The defect causes cytosine, adenine, and guanine (CAG) to repeat over and over again in DNA sequencing. With each generation that develops HD the mutation may expand further causing more CAG…

Religious Objections to Medical Care The author says that understanding a person’s religion can help the pediatrician collaborate with the parents to make decisions that are beneficial to the child. Some religions choose not to have their child treated for severe illnesses like meningitis because their religious doctrines do not allow for it. Other religious beliefs that do not allow for preventative medicine like treatments for pregnancy. Failure to receive proper medical care can cause…