Standards for Better Health

Patient Care Handoffs Brooke Grider Indiana University Kokomo School of Nursing Patient Care Handoffs Scope of the Problem When working in health care there are many responsibilities that need to occur to ensure patients’ health, safety, and happiness. Many of these obligations include informing the patients, making them feel important, and taking precautions when regarding their safety. One major area of importance that has lead to a multitude of patient accidents and problems is what is…

Health care is a special service which contributes to quality of life. It becomes the focus of considerable interest in both developed and developing countries. Especially, in developing countries, health care is one of the special development strategies beside poverty reduction and economic growth. In order to improve health care quality and health outcomes of people, the government has been putting efforts to upgrade the facilities, improve capabilities of medical staff and provide better…

Health care is a vast industry that is full of various providers of care, types of care and locations in which it can be provided. In order to provide consumers and employers a means of determining adequacy and continuity of care, professional agencies have been enlisted. They work to provide a standard of care and accreditation to employers looking to ensure compliance and funding requirements. “Accreditation is a process of review that healthcare organizations participate in to demonstrate…

Healthcare in Canada is governed by Canada Health Act of 1984. The federal government is responsible for funding and facilitating data gathering, research into regulating prescription drugs and public health while continuing to support the nationwide dimensions of healthcare. A CHI (Canada Health Infoway) report estimated that provincial and territorial government…

providers with the necessary tools to facilitate the sharing of healthcare information that leads to a more active role of the patient in managing their own healthcare and making well informed decisions about their care choices. In addition, public health initiatives will be enhanced by the influx of massive amounts of aggregated data that can…

Health forecasting is a unique region of forecasting, and an important apparatus for foreseeing future health occasions or circumstances (Lewis, McGrath & Seidel 2011) for instance, requesting for health services or social insurance needs. Forecasting, encourages preventive pharmaceutical and social insurance intercession systems, by pre-illuminating health providers to take suitable alleviating activities, which minimize chances and oversee request. Health forecasting requires reliable…

Raising the minimum wage will reduce the help of government for social programs because higher wages cut the need for assistance for services like food stamps. Millions of Americans rely on the government for basic needs. These needs include child care, health care, food services, etc. Most of the people who rely on the government already work full jobs and still struggle to get by. The government has to spend money to help these people when they could be spending their money on education or on…

Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society (Heiman, Smith, McKool, Mitchell & Roth Bayer, 2016). It provides the context in and framework in which health care and public health systems operate. Most of the design and operation of the nation’s health care system is intertwined with the national economic and political environment (Williams & Torrens, 2008). An explicit health policy can achieve…

medication administration. The legal and ethical issues are discussed in relation to the documents NZ Nurses Organisation Guidelines for Nurses on the Administration of Medicines (2014), Nursing Council of NZ Competencies for Registered Nurses (2016), Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, Local…

Abstract In the ever-changing world of health care, organizations are constantly being compared to one another and falling short of patient’s expectations or standards. Most health care organizations have implemented changes with trends and attempted to insert quality of care where necessary. Then there are organizations that self-evaluate and expand their current continuous quality improvement measures. Through the use of a transformational model, a health care organization can become a…