International healthcare accreditation

Throughout healthcare, professionals endeavour to deliver safe practice to all patients. However it is inevitable that occasionally unintentional incidents will occur where a patients’ care causes, or has the potential to cause harm to them. In these circumstances implementation of the duty of candour (DOC) (CQC,2015) is crucial to protect patients, preserve openness within healthcare services and maintain public trust in healthcare professionals (Griffith,2015). This essay will explore the…

2. Introduction Prevention as defined by Martin Bloom (1996) as “coordinated actions seeking to prevent predictable problems, to protect existing states of health and health functioning, and to promote desired potentialities in individuals and groups in their physical and socio cultural setting over time.” According to standard working group effective prevention programs which holds multiple fields such as child welfare, public wellbeing, juvenile integrity, substance exploitation and mental…

Cultural diversity is increasing more and more each day in all healthcare systems around the world. This reality requires health care providers to show a high level of cultural competence. One of the biggest factors that has contributed to the increasing cultural diversity is immigration, and it has led to complex interpersonal connections. Consequently, there has been a big cultural and demographic change that has made healthcare providers manage these differences effectively. Differences are…

Each individual must strive for a healthier lifestyle which can be challenging because one will have to eliminate certain favourites in life whether it be diet or hobbies. As defined by World Health Organization (WHO), it is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” REFERENCE HERE. There are many chronic diseases which affect people today in society, one of which is hypertension. Hypertension is also known as a silent killer,…

were achieved with task-shifting from doctors to nurses, or from healthcare professionals to mid-level workers or lay health workers. However, most of the identified studies were underpowered to detect any difference. Three studies were identified on the cost implications of task-shifting. Task-shifting resulted in substantial cost and physician time savings and concluded that task-shifting from doctors to nurses, or from healthcare professionals to lay health workers can potentially reduce…

by employing the palliative care in addressing the problems that such patients and their families may be going through. As such, there is the need to have a better understanding of palliative care and the role that it plays in ensuring that the healthcare wants…

accessed, and used (Hebda & Czar, 2013). With the government supporting the concept of electronic health records (EHR), there has been an increase in hospitals implementing the EHR system, as the use of paper medical records no longer meets today’s healthcare industry (Hebda & Czar, 2013). The EHR system was implemented with efforts to improve providers’ decision making and overall improved safety; however, barriers are experienced with this adoption. There are several barriers that are said to…

On the basis of the theoretical approaches (from sociology and social psychology areas) and health (health care) models presented in Chapter 1“Health and Illness. Sociological and Social-psychological approaches” I managed to reveal some major ideas. As evaluative concepts, health and illness can be largely viewed as ways and mecha-nisms in which a certain population perceived health upon specific value system, cultural as-pects, social norms and attitudes of this population. On the other hand…

Multiculturalism is important in nursing because healthcare providers like us are faced with greater proportion of patients from various ethnic groups. Galanti explained that the United States hospitals are trying to achieve the objective of having a diverse staff, serving diversified population. Since the United States is well known for the modern technologies when it comes to healthcare, people from various countries with different cultural backgrounds come here to seek medical treatment.…

Strategic / Career Plan Student’s Name Date Job expectation There exist a number specific paramedics based on role. Intensive care paramedic (ICP) as an example is an advanced medical practitioner who among paramedics, provide clinical assessment, treatment and attention outside the hospital environment for patients with significant injuries or illnesses (Curtis & Ramsden 2015). This particular group, (ICP) implement targeted management plan for with major challenge to normal…