Nurse-managed health center

hospitalized) and the other is out-patient (those who do not require to stay overnight in the hospital). Acute care diseases such as pneumonia, upper respiratory tract infection, abscess, fracture and several others can be managed as out-patient services in the physician’s office, urgent care center, or the ER. However, if the severity of the disease increases and the need for constant monitoring of patient arises, then the hospital setting comes into the picture. For hospitals, managing acute…

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 organizations are able to…

Registered Nurse’s have opportunities to become specialized in many different areas throughout their careers. A nurse case manager is a specialty that is available to registered nurses with correct licensure and certification. Nurse case manager’s are directly involved with patient care as well as holding a leadership position in their work environment. Nurse case manager’s are the glue for the overall patient care and are responsible for updating all patient files/cases to ensure that all…

established throughout this paper, health care informatics has become an integral part of nursing care delivery and health care in general. According to Snyder and Oliver (2014), Medicare and Medicare are now pushing providers to incorporate Meaningful Use Core criteria into their practice. This is done through documenting important health care data into Certified Electronic Health Care Records. Though it may be challenging, implementation of Electronic Health Care records may prove helpful…

for nurses, standards for professional nursing practice, state regulatory boards’ protocols, and institutional policies. Currently I am not a member of any professional organization. I acknowledge that the nursing profession is continuously changing and requires lifelong learning. It is imperative to keep up to date with new innovations, skills and technology in nursing in order to deliver safe, professional, and quality health care. Once I get acquainted with my new job as an IV therapy nurse,…

Group also known as United Healthcare is an organization located in Minnetonka, Minnesota. This company is dedicated to the health insurance services. Fortune, the prestigious magazine oriented to describe the characteristics of the best organizations in different business categories, shows that UnitedHealth Group stands as the number one industry in “Health Care: and Managed Care” in the last six years (Fortune, 2016). The Organization occupies the second position in Global Competitiveness, and…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also known as the CDC is a federal agency managed by the Department of Health and Human Services (Rouse, 2014). Founder Dr. Joseph Mountain, visionary public health leader, had high hopes for what was at the time a small organization to prevent malaria from spreading across the nation (MMWR). The CDC targets many populations including local, state, and national levels to prevent and monitor outbreaks, put disease prevention strategies into effect,…

(1) Joint Commission This is the guideline on patient safety, such as Hospital National Patient Safety Goals-2016. It aims at the development of the patients’ safety. The goal of the commission is to simulate problems with health care safety and resolve them. 3.2 (2) The Centers for Disease Control This provides the information related to medication Safety Basics in the CDC and various guidelines, as well as information related to adverse drug events (ADEs) which guide the CDC’s national adverse…

discharge (Messina, 2016). The medical staff at the James A. Haley Veterans Administration (VA) Medicals Centers located in Central Florida recognized the positive impact of efficient education and post discharge interactions with CHF patients could have on their outcomes and the need for avoidable readmissions. As a result of a noticeable…

Introduction The nation is suffering from a shortage of school nurses. (Camera, 2016) This shortage has hit the Philadelphia area forcefully due to severe budget cuts and a large population of chronically ill students. Within the Philadelphia Public School System, the current laws regulating nurse ratios place the nurse to student ratio at 1 nurse for every 1,500 students. In many cases, this means that a nurse must travel between schools in order to provide care, even to the detriment of…