Healthcare

Teamwork and Collaboration in Nursing and Healthcare Hector David Velazquez Broward College Teamwork and Collaboration in Nursing and Healthcare The core competency of teamwork and collaboration is one of the most important topics in the nursing industry. According to the Massachusetts Nursing Core Competencies (n.d.), teamwork and collaboration occurs when there is mutual regard, open communication, and shared decision-making that ultimately improves the caliber of patient care…

Many organizations are moving cultural diversity toward cultural competence in Healthcare (Galambos, C. M. 2003). Under the direction of the National Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, standards for practice from a cultural competence perspective were developed and adopted by the NASW Board of Directors in 2001 (NASW, 2001). “The standards mentioned above by the NASW Board of Directors in 2001 provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence, and cultural competence and may be…

Information Technology Advisory Committee in the United States issued its report, which focused mainly on how to resolve the problems of healthcare delivery in the US by incorporating information technology into healthcare. Furthermore, the United States president in 2014 laid out plans to implement electronic medical records a standard in the healthcare industry. Healthcare industries were mandated to apply technologies and innovations in a way that furthers the best practices of…

professional knowledge and special expertise and skills from various healthcare disciplines, discuss and explore problems that out of ordinary boundaries and provide good quality of healthcare for patients (Health.nt.gov.au, 2016). MDT will give a new understanding for team members and help them handle problems under complex situation. The core elements of MDT are continuum, which provides the descriptive function for each type of healthcare delivery teams; common principles that sets the…

Health care data standards are the primary information needed for verification from the national health data structure. This information is important because having common values makes it cohesive for clinical and patient safety systems to share data, provide uniform service, report information, and represent the image of the company (Chapter, 2016). Therefore, the standards of financial management will be discussed since this is an important area in health information management and it is a…

By using the ethical principle of justice, discuss how a healthcare professional is legally and ethically bound to provide care for a patient who has been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. The Healthcare Professional is legally and ethically responsible for providing the same standard of care for all patients whether HIV positive or not. The duty of the healthcare community is to build a trusting relationship with this population through consistent education and offering all necessary services to keep…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), helps public and private providers work on building a better way to deliver health care for Medicare Beneficiaries through accountability and public disclosure. The system helps deliver improved care, while helping to reduce health care spending. CMS aims to deliver consistent high-quality care, promote efficient outcomes in the health care system, and ensure that health insurance remains affordable for the millions of Americans seeking and…

Although many policymakers, payers, healthcare providers, and healthcare organization have attempted to put forth great efforts into improving our health care system, the battle remains as rising healthcare costs soar and the undertakings to improve quality of care remains inconsistent (Porter & Lee, 2013). Therefore, in order to achieve desirable outcomes, health care organizations must establish quality improvement programs that will provide optimal patient care at an equitable value (Roussel,…

Management degree. Then, I address the impact that completing this degree will have on meeting the greater social good in my industry and within the community. Lastly, I explain how the pillars relate to the Christian mission of Grand Canyon University. Healthcare management that utilizes servant leadership, ethics and entrepreneurism presents a unique opportunity to provide the medical community with tangible and intangible benefits. “Servant leadership has its origin from religion; servant…

governance plays very critical role in any organizations and healthcare organizations are not different. One of the most recent instance of system failure in a healthcare origination is the system failure at the Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina which resulted in thousands of people being enrolled to wrong healthcare insurance plans. I have selected the particular case because it demonstrates how the system failure at the healthcare insurance provider can put the people’s life at risk…