Health care

related bills or acquire health services. Therefore, such individuals are rendered into deplorable conditions due to their inability to find for themselves and their families. Subsequently, their families suffer from similar conditions, and the chain goes on and on until an entire house-hold is unable to receive any health assistance. Medical needs of the disabled population are up until now in need of further considerations. Although there have been modifications in health care designs to…

For the major focal point of this discourse, as explained before, advance directives are used to convey the patient and families’ preference in treatment, including to do or not resuscitate when the patient may suffer from cardiac or respiratory arrest after. The aim of CPR is to save the patient, but the evidence shows that the implementation of CPR does not ensure a high rate of survival to hospital discharge (Enohumah et al., 2006; Landry, Parker, & Phillips, 1992; McNally et al., 2011). Due…

Diagnosis can be helpful in certain circumstances, for example health care insurance reimbursement (Enns, 2004). However, current diagnostic labels lack the important evaluation of the whole picture. The practice of categorizing and labelling people experiencing psychological difficulty takes away from the reality that each person is an individual with unique life experience, by categorizing people and judging them against a perceived measure of societal normalcy. Ballou and West explain,…

Health Care Need With an influx of older patients due to the baby boomer generation, I can predict that there will be a increase in the amount of patient care we will have to deliver to a vastly aging population. Not only that, but due to increased medical technology and advances in medicine, people are living longer and surviving injuries at better outcomes and rates. What does this mean for us? We are the next wave of nurses that are going to be employed at facilities that are going to care…

There are inequalities which are not resolved by enabling patient choice such as age, language, social standing, income and education all of which make it difficult for older adult or less informed people to access choice in the health care system (Fotaki, 2014; Harding, et al, 2014). Fotaki (2014) suggests that patients do not receive the information needed to make choices or choose providers. However, Harding, et al (2014) and Wilson, et al (2014) argue that people must be “willing”, have an…

The researchers investigated which determinants such as health, dementia, gait, and age would be among factors associated with nursing home residents have a higher number of falls. Researchers, Kröpelin, Nevens, Halfens, Kempen, and Hamers (2012), analyzed eight articles explored why nursing home residents…

One of the foundations of our modern healthcare system is that all things are equal with no involvement of harm or risk of third parties in regards to the patient’s overall well-being. Moreover, every individual that is considered competent and well-established, has the privilege to want or refuse any medical treatment or nursing intervention (Kluge, 2008). This case study presents a competent individual, who sets in place an advanced directive with directions to refuse any blood transfusion,…

possible for health care practitioners, health care facilities, manufacturers of medical equipment and products, and others when medical outcomes are not acceptable. So, it is important for care providers and health care professionals to understand medical ethics and law. Therefore, it is important for health care workers to understand the ethical scenarios and medical law while providing the patient care. Current Ethical Difficulties in end-of-life (EOL) Care and Challenges to the Health Care…

Another obligation of health care workers under discussion is isolating themselves if they suspect themselves of being infected even if it is not definite. In other words, they have the duty to isolate patients and also are obligated to isolate themselves when needed. In the front line, heath care workers have the closest contact with Ebola patients and they account for about 10% of the current Ebola patients number through contact without correct infection control precautions and inadequate…

Diversity in Health Care As the ethnic and racially diverse populations of the United States continue to expand, so does the need for cultural competence. Health care providers are continually challenged to deliver care that meets the physiologic and cultural needs of the patient. In view of this fact, initiatives to increase and improve the awareness and effectiveness of cultural competency is at the forefront of health care initiatives (Purnell, 2013). Application of universally accepted…