Health care provider

Katrina struck the city. Time, space, communication, and identity are portrayed throughout the book. These four factors are important in inter-ethnic relationships between patients and health care providers. Being able to identify these factors in a clinical setting, health care providers can provide more efficient care for all patients. Time Time is an important factor throughout the crisis. For instance, an anesthesiologist Paul Primeaux was at the helipad and gave a friendly…

and which evils are to be eluded (Baillie et al., 2012). As a healthcare provider a judgement of proportionality of good intended and evil risked are well-adjusted and a final decision on the chosen treatment is made. The law in the United States is adamant on obtaining informed consent, especially for any procedure or treatment that could involve risks to the patient. The effects of treatment on the patient’s life, health, religious beliefs, values, friends, and family are all factors that…

Current Issues in Informatics Nursing informatics has changed over the past 20 years in ways that help improve distribution of care by assisting nurses with the use of information technology (Daniel, & Oyetunde, 2013). There is a necessary transformation that the healthcare system needs and nursing informatics will help drive the system to success (Hebda, & Czar, 2013). Technology is becoming a great part of one’s every day life as well as his or her professional life especially as a nurse.…

making it the first long-term care facility to be 100% employee owned in the U.S. Medicalodges owns and operates over 30 facilities in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and we continue to be in acquisition mode. Medicalodges is located in Holton, Kansas and is a 70 bed facility. Approximately 60 -70 % of Medicalodges residents comes to us from a hospital setting, followed by assisting living facilities, or directly from home where a spouse or sibling could no longer take care of them. We provide…

• The incision in your shoulder capsule will be closed with sutures. The incision in your skin will be closed with sutures or staples and covered wtih a dressing. • Your arm will be placed in a sling. The procedure may vary among health care providers and…

type of barrier where one party, most often, the receiver, does not comprehend the sender 's message, which may lead to misunderstanding. Words and symbols also have different meanings to various people. In healthcare, information regarding medical care is often communicated to the patient (or the patient 's family member). This information often contains a significant amount of medical jargon or acronyms that non-medical personnel cannot understand thereby confusing them. As an example of…

Hospital readmission, a growing health care concern, causes a major toll in health care cost and Medicare spending for unplanned hospitalizations. With a variety of inclinations that account for the increasing cases of the elderly population at risk for hospital readmission, measures such as follow – up care, transitional care, and multidisciplinary interventions are implemented to reduce the risk of readmission among the elderly population. Readmission, a return to the hospital after discharge…

I have worked with a health care team that is collaborative in care and committed to ensuring and maintaining patients’ safety at all times. Therefore, I have gained a deeper insight into the importance of teamwork and laboratory quality control protocols in the delivery of quality care to patients. Also, I have been actively involved in the training of phlebotomy students on externship in our laboratory…

methodology of first giving an example of a case where a nurse practitioner was charged with running a pill mill due to her numerous prescriptions for opioid pain medication. This study went on to list multiple ways that nurse practitioners and other providers can prescribe these medications safely base off of recommendations from the Model Policy on the Use of Opioid Analgesics in the Treatment…

Change is a regular occurrence within the health care system. Lewin’s Change Theory Model was designed to relieve feelings of uneasiness, uncertainty, and loss of control during times of the intended change. According to Morrison et al (2010), guaranteeing accurate patient identification is crucial to avoid medical errors, but it can be challenging. The acknowledgement within the health care system that unnecessary medical errors cause numerous deaths each year has encouraged a patient safety…