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This is just charging the government multiple times for just a service. False Claims Settlement in Healthcare Setting Every health practitioner and healthcare administrator is familiar with the False Claims Act. If served with a lawsuit under this Act, the survival…

Chapter 1 1. Discuss current and emerging challenges face by healthcare leaders. Healthcare is evolving very quick as a leader you have to find ways to adapt to the changes we face. Change leaders face is a quality of care. Patients want to know that they are going have quality care from the facility/provider they choose to see. The facility is becoming more customer-driven. Leaders need to ensure that patients are receiving quality care. One important factor is patient safety. As a leader,…

their intended policies available to the general public. This is done to aid the voters in making an informed decision when it comes time to cast a ballot. Potential voters are encouraged to research each candidate’s stance on a given topic, healthcare for example. Knowing where a candidate stands helps the potential voter to vote for the individual that best represents their ideals. In the upcoming election the candidates representing the two major parties of the United States have very…

Benefits of Marketing Goals, Strategies, Objectives, and Tactics The importance of marketing within the healthcare industry has grown over the past few years and will continue to grow. Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as “an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders” (Kotler, Shalowitz, & Stevens,…

Healthcare system is transforming and the role of the nurses is also modifying accordingly. Also nurses are expected to adopt the role of advocacy in this transformed healthcare system. Everyday nurses take care of patients and feels the need of some changes in the policy in order to take care of patient effectively. Nurses are obligated to strengthen skills that enable them to influence public policy so they can better serve patients. It is very important for the nurses to assess their…

The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment tool helps to describe the uniqueness of a particular culture to better deliver culturally competent care as a Nurse. The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Model postulates that each individual is culturally unique and should be assessed according to six cultural phenomena: (a) communication, (b) space, (c) social organization, (d) time, (e) environmental control, and (f) biological variations. (2) The faith of Muslims is important to…

Cell phones have significantly modified the route in which we speak with each other, access the web, conduct business issues, and now even manage medical conditions. Innovation has dependably been a main thrust behind upgrades in the medical field and the production of Smartphones and tablet PCs has empowered application and program designers to make some stunning creations to push us forward yet again. Notwithstanding the majority of the positive progressions at we've made due to the cell…

with dementia (OR 1.4, 95% CI 1.3-1.9) and to depression syndrome (OR 1.7, 95% CI 1.3-2.1) (Lang et al., 2010). Nevertheless, taking the revised Beers’ criteria into consideration has been proven to resolve this problem (Lang et al., 2010). In the same vein, the use of biotechnology in the pursuit of human enhancement rather than to treat disease has also created ethical implications (Hotze, Shah, Anderson, & Wynia, 2011; Delaney & Martin, 2011; Wasson, 2011; Drabiak-Syed, 2011). Literature…

person in care. Early work to define ethics in nursing focused more on the virtues that would make a good nurse, which historically included loyalty to the physician, rather than the focus being on nurse's conduct in relation to the person in the nurse's care. However, recently, the ethics of nursing has also shifted more towards the nurse's obligation to respect the human rights of the patient and this is reflected in a number of professional codes for nurses. Ethics pertain to the “rightness”…

In “Justice and High Cost of Health Care”, Ronald Dworkin takes a broad view of health care and addresses how much should be spent and how it should be distributed among society. He argues that we should approach health care allocation using his “prudent insurance” model as a guide. By making us sensitive to the financial balance between health care and other goods, Dworkin explains why his model is superior to the traditional “rescue principle” which definitively places life and health above…