National Disaster Medical System

I personally wholeheartedly agree, credentialing is important in protecting both the patients and the institution from harm, but reality is that credentialing alone won’t address every conceivable action that may occur during business operations. Unfortunately, errors will happen or may occur due to a variety of unforeseen circumstances that may arise or develop during the process. I remember doing a paper in my undergraduate studies that focused on NASA, and one expects a high level of quality,…

three nights per week. In order to diagnose someone their “sleep difficulty is present for at least three months. Insomnia is not attributable to the physiological effects of substance such as drug or medication abuse. Coexisting mental disorders and medical condition do not adequately explain complaint of insomnia.” Population based estimates show that about less than a third of adults report symptoms of insomnia. Ten percent to fifteen percent of the population experience associated daytime…

other health-related events.7 In addition, it is very difficult for the FDA to verify and guarantee the safety of foreign prescription drugs,4 and that is a major health problem in itself. Another argument against this issue, is that, it is forcing patients to lie to their physicians about not following the proper prescribed recommendations.4 This is extremely dangerous, because physicians have no way of knowing what patients are doing in privacy to avoid the high cost of prescription drugs,…

As rapidly changing health care system is requiring nurses to advance their educations to meet the complexity of patient care. According to the article “Working to meet the challenge: More nurses with BSNs” (2015), the Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing Report came out in 2010 which promoted the advance and continued education for nurses. The report focused on “increasing the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020” (para. 3). Since then, many hospitals…

the doctors and their fight against the plague. We see too often the science behind it, and how doctors advanced their technology, but the thing that is surprisingly lacking is the effect that people had in the hindrance and the advancement of the medical…

experts that endorse policies for avoiding increased expenditure in Medicare. This board forms policies and if not overruled by a Congressional vote, the IPAB introduces comprehensive measures for controlling cost. This plan is a severe threat to our national entitlements; Medicare would be finished, the significance of social security would be destabilizing, and ACA would be repealed. Medicaid would be changed into a grant subsidy and would significantly decrease the federal disbursements to…

In recent years, the theory of global warming became a controversial topic in today 's society. Many dispute that global warming is due to humans and the many technological advances. Global warming could cause temperature increases, rising sea levels, glacier melting, and increased carbon emissions. The theory of global warming was introduced to the media in the 1900’s. The extreme amount of carbon dioxide was slowly corroding the ozone layer. It is stated in the environmental science reference…

The best prospects for success are likely to come through the leadership of medical specialty societies, which can identify ways to reduce waste without compromising care. These groups could draw from emerging comparative effectiveness reviews and provide guidance that physicians can use to determine which procedures are necessary, appropriate, equivocal, or inappropriate in various situations. Enhance patient safety. Medical errors cause needless complications, injuries, readmissions, and…

minor glitches. In Chicago, a bank had a problem transferring $700,000 in tax payments, fortunately the problem was fixed and the money was returned. Credit card companies created duplicate transactions because some merchants did not update their systems to the new Y2K software. Throughout Spain and the United States, there were seven nuclear reactors that experienced minor glitches. Due to a last minute fix there were major delays in airports all over the east coast in the United States. If the…

first brought to the forefront through its effects on Vietnam War veterans. In 1980, the disorder was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) (Friedman), the standard classification of mental illnesses used by medical professionals in the US (“DSM”). Its classification was groundbreaking because it recognized an external cause to the unusual behaviors many people experience after trauma rather than attributing that behavior to an internal weakness. While PTSD…