Socialized medicine

VI. Interprofessional Communication & Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcome Communicating effectively with all health care disciplines is imperative for a conducive, civil work environment and to the safety of patients. My experiences in working in interdisciplinary teams were very different between my endocrine practice and operating room practice. The endocrine team that I had worked for consisted of two endocrinologist, nurse practitioner, dietician, office manager and two…

Articles and studies have shown to the public that errors are common in medical treatment arenas and patients need to become more assertive and involved with the direction of their care (Leape, 1998). Organizations such as the Institute of Medicine (IOM), (ARHQ), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), etc… have all come together to help patients deal with their medical conditions in the best form possible, with advance technology, sources for…

Family nurse practitioners are in excellent positions to help improve health and wellness on a daily and regular basis. The long term connection a FNP can make with patients and the level of care he/she can provide is both beneficial and rewarding to the patient. The altitude of knowledge and skill required to provide care for patients across their life span is beyond admirable. It is an honor to have the opportunity to be that provider and to advocate for patients on a much higher level than…

Less than one percent of all the water on Earth is drinkable to humans. Considering, then, that the Earth itself is about seventy percent water, even less than one percent is still quite a bit of water to work with; however, it does mean that humans are working with a very limited amount of drinkable water. It is very understandable, then, that contamination of that water should be a cause for concern. It has been found that pharmaceuticals are entering the water as pollutant, and there has been…

Freedom to Die Death is a waiting game that no one truly knows when it will occur. With physician assisted suicide that waiting game is not an obstacle to terminally ill patients. “Physician-assisted suicide is the practice of providing a competent patient with a prescription for medication for the patient to use with the primary intention of ending his or her own life” (MedicineNet). In 1997 the United States Supreme Court ruled that physician assisted suicide is not a constitutional right;…

The American healthcare system is much more expensive yet its results cannot compare to the cheap and effective Japanese healthcare system. Both systems are struggling, however, to maintain themselves. The American healthcare system is heavily flawed as the lower class cannot afford health care and more than 45 million Americans are uninsured. (Rosenthal, Medical procedures and drugs cost the most in the United States as compared to any other country, with drugs such as Lipitor costing $122…

Communication in Healthcare Efficacious communication among the healthcare staff is a necessary element that allows for the delivery of optimal patient care and is imperative for effective teamwork dynamics to transpire. When communication is disjointed, errors tend to occur and; consequently, inadvertent patient harm may ensue. According to Leonard (2004), communication failures are the leading cause of inadvertent patient harm. An analysis of 2455 sentinel events reported to the Joint…

The Oregon State Lottery There are still many improvements to be made to America’s health care system, but it has improved tremendously since 2010 thanks to the Affordable Care Act. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of uninsured people living in America has significantly dropped from 15.4% in 2008 to 10.4% in 2014. As this data and the Oregon health lottery case demonstrate, health care in the United States was either inaccessible or too expensive for many Americans and still…

Mental health is a state of wellbeing where every individual realises their potential, the ability to cope with the stress of life and can work productively (Who, 2016). In Australia headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation designed to provide early intervention providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year olds (Headspace, 2016). This has prompted Professor Anthony Jorm to write for The Conversation, Is headspace really improving young people mental health?…

While concerns were expressed and challenges and barriers reiterated by stakeholders regarding payment for these types of services during the many facets of the analysis process, of note, Texas is one of twenty states that have enacted parity laws requiring insurers to cover these types of services in the same manner they would for services provided in person (See figure 2). Thus, any solution implemented will not incur any additional associated fees or other costs to Haywood Memorial or its…