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Should Students Work Their Way Through College? Although the cost of education is taking a large uprising; fewer students are working while going to school. What is the cause of this? The majority of us don’t know. It can be that working while going to school can be hard to balance or that it causes a large stress load. Academics often trump working, at all costs. To achieve an enjoyable and knowledgeable college experience, students should not work their way through school. Students should…

Introduction The array of regulations that the healthcare industry is subject to is vast, and some would argue that this level of complexity contributes to a health system that is not only inefficient but also stifles innovation (Maliyil, 2016). However, one specific healthcare legislation, the HITECH Act has led to an eight-fold increase in the adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems by non-federal acute care hospitals since it was enacted in 2009 (The Office of the National…

such as graph analytics, machine learning and natural language processing (Shah, Pathak). An example of a healthcare provider that has implemented a big data analytics platform in various medical institutions to improve healthcare outcomes is Kaiser Permanente, which has contributed to an improvement in cardiovascular disease outcomes and saved approximately one billion dollars from reduced tests and office visits (Kayyali, Knott, Kuiken). Another example is that of Blue Shield of California,…

Review Of The Literature Literature search was conducted by putting the word and phrase in the search box; “Nurse Knowledge Exchange”, “bedside report”, “patient satisfaction” and “communication”. CINAHL and peer review were used to get results. Additionally, Google scholarly articles were also used for search. After reviewing the article, author has selected fifteen research articles that support the proposed proposal for the study. The article discussed about research design, methods,…

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE I wasn’t ready for college after I graduated from high school – I didn’t even now if I wanted to go to college at all. I was always somewhat “sickly” in school – lots of earaches and headaches. My parents took me to the doctors a lot – and I mean a lot – but the doctors could never figure out what was causing the problems. After high school, I wanted a fabulous job, money, independence and to live on my own in Los Angeles (the Big City.) Four months after High School I got…

Anxiety is something I have always been accustomed to, and even some of my earliest memories involve that anxious, nerve stricken feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was always the shy kid in the class, something to grow out of once I grew older, except that was not the case at all. Anxiety and I have grown closer over the years, so much so, that I developed several crippling anxiety disorders that shaped my life and how I lived it. It came on during my high school years and it affected my…

future DNP scholar, educator and a leader, I can bridge and narrow the gap between research and practice by using EBP to achieve the clinical effectiveness and benefit of the research (Burson et. al, p.60-73). Moreover, my role as a DNP leader at Kaiser Permanente would prepare me for the needed knowledge and skills to translate EBP into practice by improving the process that would benefit the much needed change in our health care system. These changes would not only promote cost savings but…

availability, high cost, and lack of insurance. Health care access is a major step in obtaining the American dream, because receiving quality care service leads to a healthier life of individuals and families in the community. In the area of Aurora, Kaiser Permanente provides health care benefits for its employees. Benefits offered are; life insurance, disability coverage, health and dental coverage, and many other services. While there are many that do not have access to these health benefits.…

Tobacco can be consumed through smokeless tobacco products, smoked tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices (National Cancer Institute [NCI], 2010). Each form of tobacco contains nicotine, which is a highly toxic chemical responsible for the drug’s addictive properties (NCI, 2010). The likelihood of developing tobacco abusing behaviors increases with the availability of tobacco products (NCI, 2010). As a result, tobacco is one of the most widely abused substances in the United States…

During my foundation year of the MSW program I provided individual counseling services to a 23-year-old female patient at Kaiser Permanente. This case summary analysis and reflection paper is based on the sessions I provided to this patient. During the intake session, the patient reported she was admitted into the emergency room for a total of three times in the last 3 months due to persistent panic and anxiety symptoms. The patient indicated that she began to excessively worry about "the…