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which eventually directed me to medicine. Like many, I feel a sense of accomplishment when I can fulfill my duties at work and if my duty was to bring ease to my patients and I couldn’t then I would feel uneasy. However, As I spend more time in the hospital and through shadowing, I see limitations persist at every level in healthcare. There will always be patients that I can’t fully heal because of my scope of practice or because of the inappropriate resources. Through this realization, I am…

When a patient is admitted to a hospital, one expects to be cured and protected. However, this unspoken vow has been broken. Throughout the United States, hospital professionals have unintentionally exposed patients’ information. Today, there are currently no laws prohibiting how one obtains cloning information in hospitals. Human hair and skin left in an environment are free to be collected and used without permission. Furthermore, physicians can sell unidentifiable patient information to…

MRC is Mississippi’s only comprehensive rehabilitation hospital, featuring programs specifically designed to treat people who have has a stroke, brain injury, or spinal cord injury. They also provide services for people with neurological and orthopedic illnesses and injuries. MRC has, twice, been the only hospital in MS to be names one of America’s Best by U.S. New & World Report as well as, twice, named one of only 16 Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems in the nation. They have gained…

Article critique 3 Hospice is an important philosophy of care for people searching quality of life in the terminal level of illness. Supportive services that hospice provides to dying people including medical, social, emotional, and spiritual services as well as helping for the patient’s family. The major aims of hospice care are helping the patient to be as comfortable as possible and managing a patient’s pain and other symptoms. However, culture and ethnicity determine thoughts and ideas about…

fifth leading cause of death in the United States. These deaths can be prevented by the reduction of medication administration errors (MAEs) in the healthcare environment. Dr. Jean Watson implemented several simple caring practices at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta, Ga in 2009. The intention of these practices was to implement small changes on the nursing floor during the times of medication administration in an effort to eliminate distractions and interruptions of the nurse. Some of the…

use the Internet or papers to accomplish the survey, usually patients provide a more honest response by using the Internet, and using survey by the internet allows the patient to add more comments. The Internet survey is an efficient method for the hospital with reducing the cost of post mail and provides a higher results to the survey. Functional Status audit measures the amount of improvement the patient practices after receiving a medical treatment, and using the audit determines the…

Patient satisfaction is one of the most important things in a hospital setting. It is important in ensuring that patients can come back to the same institution in the future. Additionally, the healthcare institutions are concerned about their reputation through the patients. Whenever patients are satisfied, they are likely to give positive reviews about a particular institution. On the other hand, when they are unsatisfied, they are likely to give negative reviews about the institution they…

Hospitals are constantly facing challenges due to patients being frequently readmitted that is driven mostly by poor discharge planning, and inadequate follow-up care. The increase numbers of readmission put a higher demand on the hospitals, administration, and staff to find ways to reduce readmission by identifying patients’ barriers on admission. The program that I am presenting is Care Coordination. In an effort to decrease readmission rates, this role was created to combat the challenges…

outcomes of patient care while decreasing the length of stay and finally lowering costs to both the hospital and patients. Dashboards in Healthcare The Issue In the case study Executing Strategic Intent in the Era of Value-Based Care, Doctor Rich Boehler the president and chief executive officer of St. Joseph Healthcare from Nashua New Hampshire presented a webinar titled…

TRIPLE AIM AND A RURAL ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC: IT MATTERS Introduction Currently I am in a group practice situation alongside four other orthopedic surgeons in our practice. I am a nonsurgical sports medicine physician by profession and trained in evaluation and management of musculoskeletal conditions using non-surgical modalities like exercise, physical therapy, using braces/splints, and injections. This model of sports medicine physician and orthopedics surgeon has mutual complementary benefit…