National Healthcare Group

Throughout the project, our group worked very well together. The groups were chosen randomly, which gave me the opportunity to work with some people in our class that I had not worked with and would probably not worked with them if it was not for this project. On the first brainstorming day when we were grouped together, we started out the meeting with general discussion about the topics that interested us most. I took the leadership role in the group discussion and lead the topics. I helped…

My group members for the Civic Proposal Presentation were Alexandra Alaniz and Gabriela A. Martinez. I chose to work with them because I had worked with both girls in previous group class assignments. I think we worked very well together since we all expressed our opinions and were open for any change if someone had a different view towards any slide of the presentation. One issue we experienced was time, we all had different schedules that intervened with the times we could meet. In this Civic…

The Triple Aim is an initiative created in 2007 by the Institute of Health Improvement with the purpose of strengthening the United States healthcare system by improving the health of the population, the patient experience navigating system and reducing the cost associated with healthcare. Attempting to achieve all these three goals at the same time is no easy task, mainly because the accomplishment of one aspect often compromises the others. With the Triple Aim as the focus, health care…

from cultures with lower stress levels that promote healthier lifestyles because of strong familial and societal networks (Venters and Gany, 2009). The eventual decline in immigrant health could potentially be explained by the lack of access to healthcare services. Immigrants lacking access to health services are likelier to have poor health outcomes. According to research studies, many…

inequality within healthcare is not acceptable. It is, however, clear that health policy has the ability to reach several vulnerable populations. Progress can be seen through the implementation of community healthcare clinics, Medicare, Medicaid, and most recently, the ACA. In order to continue to providing for individuals who have been denied and neglected proper healthcare, it is the duty of the APN to become involved. This can be done by combating the influences of interest groups in the…

field can help to increase preventative measures and treatment efforts. Discrimination and stigmas often go hand in hand in how they create barriers to care and health equity. These barriers often go unseen or become neglected. It is important for healthcare professionals to look past the biomedical model…

Healthcare Trends. In the 1980’s there was a shift toward privatization of health care as corporations began not only to integrate the hospital system, but also entered many other health-care related businesses and consolidate control (Evashwick, 2005). In 1981, the first assisted living opened in Portland, Oregon as an alternative living options for older adults who were unhappy with nursing homes. It provided a type of elderly care that offered a level of attention and independence less than a…

Health Organization convened a meeting of a consultative group on the role of the pharmacist in the health care system, in these organization the pharmacist serves as a member in team but the profession can only be an efficiently organized element of the health care system. We were carried out this study to comprehend the observations and desires of the other health care…

Importance of Nursing Informatics Healthcare is an ever-changing system that requires adaptability to the most up-to-date patient care advancements and improvements. Informatics specialized nurses are dedicated to the advancement and improvement of nursing, information, computer and cognitive sciences that are vital to the enhancement of patient health. Informatics specialized nurses collect, manage and disseminate essential nursing “data, information, knowledge and wisdom” to provide superior…

Human healthcare is set on a path of a continued development evolving through drug discovery and innovation in medical technology. In spite of new molecules being discovered frequently, most of them fail to convert into a potential treatment. A small percentage of those that do, face the ever-increasing challenges of the healthcare systems, which further makes it difficult for them to reach the patients. In a developed nation with an evolved regulatory landscape like the United States, it is…