Primary health care

doubled in the past thirty years. Obesity may be caused from numerous things, from poor diet to media marketing, but it is an issue that needs to be addressed. Obese children may have serious health concerns, many of those concerns were only seen in adults. It is important for nurses to work with families and health care providers to help promote healthy weight in children and end this problem facing our youth. ("Overweight Children and Adolescents") Childhood obesity is a very real problem…

Reducing polypharmacy can be achieved through encouraging healthcare providers to review medication regimens for their geriatric patients. This type of intervention was evaluated in a study of older adults living in long-term care facilities in North Carolina (Trygstad, Christensen, Wegner, Sullivan, & Garmise, 2009). Pharmacists at each participating facility reviewed medication lists for harmful drugs, interactions, or unnecessary medications. They also reviewed new drug orders and addressed…

three years of being in health care, I have grown so much as a person, advocate, care giver, critical thinker and nurse. I started my journey as an LPN working on the medical floor as Saint Francis Medical center, I was employed there for 8 months and started RN school. I worked there throughout school and thought for sure I would leave after completing my RN. I decided to stay on the floor, where I am still currently employed because I like the variety of patients I take care of. Before…

implementing ICD 10,it was also meet with a lot skepticism by many in healthcare. International Classification of Disease-10 (ICD-10) developed by World Health Organization (WHO)is used as a diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purpose. ICD-10 is used for health information function in public, primary, secondary and tertiary health care settings. It is a classification system to categorize…

If it can work in these companies, it can work in healthcare and this is evident among many organizations who are already using it to transform the way they care for their patients and their staff in addition to reducing operational costs. I also feel that the insurance markets, pharmaceutical industry, and other powerful groups, would benefit from this system. As our healthcare system becomes more technologically…

crew also has the patient sign a release form that provides permission for the MIH/CP to contact the patient. The form also contains a Health Insurance Privacy and Portability Act (HIPAA) release. Appendix E contains the release form. This release form provides the MIH/CP the ability to begin a relationship with the patient along with capacity to contact all care providers that the Fire Department has established Business Associate Agreements (BAA) with.…

optimize primary healthcare professional practices in CLBP management by using evidence-based practice. To achieve this goal, the current proposal is designed to cover the Chronic Care Model (CCM) elements. CCM was developed and used to comprehensively improve and increase the quality of chronic disease care by identifying the essential components of a health care system [122, 123]. CCM provokes productive interactions between patients and health care providers, which are needed to improve…

(published in 2014), Glen Flores, MD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas explains how language barriers impact access to care, the availability of health services, the quality of care, communication between patient and physician, patient satisfaction, and patient safety. “ More than 1 in 5 Americans-equivalent to 61.9 million-resides in a non-English primary-language (NEPL) household, and 25.1 million (approximately 9%) have limited English proficiency, defined as a self-rated…

of patient care delivery (Case Method, Functional Nursing, Primary Nursing, and Team Nursing); include advantages and disadvantages of each. Case method is also referred to as total patient care (Yoder-Wise, 2014). This method usually involves one nurse responsible for the total care of one patient but sometimes can include care for two patients. Intensive career units are most commonly associated with this type of nursing care. Advantages of this include better holistic patient care and…

management of patients and their symptoms and reactions to medications and treatments administered, as well as accurate documentation of information. They work to sustain health, prevent illness, identify problems, teach others, consult, and assist in the delivery of health care. The nurse must be in good mental and physical health. Must possess a high school diploma and degree or diploma from approved nursing…