Health care system

The diagnosis of heart failure can create challenges to understanding the disease process and how choices in self-care regimen can affect ones self-care regimen. Heart failure is caused by structural and functional defects in myocardium that results in impairment of ventricular filling or the ejection of blood with the most common cause is reduced left ventricular myocardial function. Heart failure can also be the result of the dysfunction of the pericardium, myocardium, endocardium, heart…

America in Washington, DC (Smith & Parker, 2015). Clinically, Dr. Duffy has worked in intensive, coronary, and emergency care services, and is a cardiovascular nurse specialist. Currently, she continues her nursing research while teaching graduate level nursing as an adjunct professor at Indiana University (Duffy, 2013). Her experience has led her to focus her work around “maximizing health outcomes, particularly among older adults, through…

healthcare system in her work as a nurse. Towards the end of the article, she shifts her focus away from inmates and onto global healthcare. While Brown is correct in her argument…

When developing a care plan for Mr. Brownlee, it was crucial to not only incorporate the nurse’s knowledge of numerous methods of diabetes and stress management, but also to combine Mr. Brownlee’s opinions and beliefs in regards to the goals he would like to meet during this health journey. These goals included checking blood glucose levels twice daily, finding more time for physical activity, healthy meal planning, avoiding unhealthy snacking, and implementing coping methods to assist with…

provide a framework for which nursing is practiced. A nursing theory is “a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing that describes, explains, predicts, or prescribes nursing care” (Potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall, 2013). The purpose of theories in nursing is to provide a way to assess patients and data, make decisions regarding care, inductively and deductively reason, and critically think through problems. The theories are guidelines for nurses to follow in order to link the art and science…

The growing burden of chronic illnesses and the aging population have placed pressure on the healthcare system to improve outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance patient satisfaction. Not only do the individuals with chronic health issues experience higher admission rates along with high emergency department utilization, they experience premature death, disability, and increased cost of health care. These individuals are difficult to manage; however, by using a collaborative approach, with…

most meaningful was cultural diversity. This particular topic was not directly covered in class however, it was included in the book and briefly touched upon in our group presentation. Cultural awareness plays an extremely important role in reducing health disparities, and helps nurses understand the needs of a diverse group of individuals. While doing research for our group presentation, I discovered a lot of information in our book which focused mainly on cultural diversity and nursing. Even…

facing a drug epidemic within its borders. According to the website drugabuse.gov (n.d.), abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and especially illegal drugs has cost $700 billion dollars annually. Illicit drugs in particular are responsible for $11 billion in health care costs annually, and $193 billion in total costs which includes law enforcement, lost productivity, and healthcare. These growing costs and the recent heroin epidemic is prompting lawmakers to look into policy implementation to save money,…

Introduction In this assignment I will be evaluating the partnership of the health and social care about the case of Victoria Climbie. I will be explaining the advantages and the disadvantages between working among the partnerships and the improvement. The Victoria Climbié case was a disturbing and horrifying. Victoria Climbié is an 8 years old girl who was murder in London, she was tortured and murdered by her guardians (Kouao and Carl Manning) Her death was directed to a public inquiry…

timeline was set to 2030. These targets or actions include: eradication of extreme poverty everywhere; reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty; Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all; ensure that the poor and the vulnerable have equal rights to economic resources; build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations; ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of…