Standards for Better Health

There should be concern in rural areas which lacks a standard of healthcare. Society’s health is sometimes at the mercy of the local governing body when it comes down to care being provided. Many rural areas that deliver health care are challenged by the people who have little money and the people who have nothing. Those very same people we ask them to make choices. Many times leaving them to make hard and fast choices about their health or the only meal of the day, whether to eat a meal or…

Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), helps public and private providers work on building a better way to deliver health care for Medicare Beneficiaries through accountability and public disclosure. The system helps deliver improved care, while helping to reduce health care spending. CMS aims to deliver consistent high-quality care, promote efficient outcomes in the health care system, and ensure that health insurance remains affordable for the millions of Americans seeking and receiving coverage.…

association is there to make sure that the standards and expectations that the hospitals are looked to hold are meet. They helped create insurance and the Hill-Burton program. How the AHA plays a role in the health information field is that they hold the United States clearing house for the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. They recommend changes for codes, and they…

healthcare, living standards, consumer behavior, and economy. The U.S. healthcare system is unique among advanced industrialized countries. The U.S. does not have a uniform health system, has no universal healthcare coverage. Instead of operating a national health service, a single-payer national health insurance system, or a multi-payer universal health insurance fund, the U.S. health care system can best be described as a hybrid system (U.S. Health).…

certain expectations and standards in order to promote wellness, prevent illness, and provide quality care. However, with each nursing role comes a specific scope of practice and varying degrees of knowledge, competency, and leadership. When advancing from an LVN to an RN, one must be prepared to encounter some difficulty in transitioning. Although it is perceived that LVNs are able to do everything RNs can do, this assumption is naïve and wrong. When examining two standards of practice…

A part of any proficient safety program is the reporting process. Without reporting there can be no trend analysis or measure of success for implemented practices. The Occupational Safety and Health Act is no different. Recognizing the need for standardized reporting, 29 CFR 1904.7 outlines the general reporting criteria. The final rule clarifies the reporting criteria for all incidents of injury and illness requiring treatment beyond first aid. To simplify the definition of first aid paragraph…

she will come out feeling better, not worse. Patients also want to make sure that the personnel that is taking care of them has been well trained and certified. No one who goes to the hospital, wants someone without a degree to treat them because it is…

The activity was part of the NOD Continuity Binder –an effort by Ms. Smith and myself to improve the efficiency of the nursing supervisors at the facility. During todays practicum I grasped the importance of remaining flexible. Hospital administrators and even governing agencies can change regulations or expectations suddenly. As nurse managers we must be willing to adapt to change and to do so swiftly so that our units stay up to date with mandates. Ms. Smith’s flexibility and willingness to…

these issues, it is important to understand the purpose of midwifery philosophy and how it guide to improve for a better care. Philosophy concept of Midwifery: 800 Being a midwife means to be with woman, this includes underpinning the midwifery’s philosophy, work and relationships. Each individual philosophy all acts as a guideline which also supported by the NMBA (2006) competency standards and Page (2006) five steps in midwifery…

deeper sense of the professional and ethical standards necessary to uphold within a professional healthcare organization. The prime reason for this, after all, is that I, as a healthcare provider, am not only working with people (i.e. healthcare personnel and consumers), but I am serving an often vital role to those in need. Thus, my professional and ethical standards, i.e. my standards for how healthcare organzations should be run, and my standards for evaluating their quality and social…