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culturally competent nursing care for all patients with respect to their diverse cultural beliefs and to understand the view of illness from the patient’s perspective. For example, the Asian culture has a belief in yin and yang, which believes in three tenets of duality, involving opposites for the importance of holistic balance (Fang, 2011). Hispanics also have a similar belief in hot and cold theory, where the view of illness is as an imbalance between hot and cold within a person…

was signed to become one of the U.S. federal statutes on March 2010, and it was meant to change and help in the development of the healthcare system in the country (eHealth, 2016). The mission of the law was to ensure that hospitals and the primary physicians have transformed their practices in regards to finances, technology and clinical matters for better healthcare services that are motivated by lower cost and better distribution…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined health care as, “all the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore or maintain health” (Kruk & Freedman, 2008 p. 263). Under this definition includes childhood immunization, drugs for infectious disease, education relating to sanitation and proper dietary needs, and life sustaining medical treatment. Yet, in TWN almost 10 million children under 5 years of age die yearly from manageable diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia (10…

III. The pro/con point of view of the policy: The ACA is the largest health care policy in the U.S. with many advantages and disadvantages. One of the advantages of the ACA is that roughly tens of millions of Americans, who are uninsured, will have access to affordable health insurance coverage utilizing the marketplace. Another advantage of this policy is that more than half of the uninsured individuals are able to receive health insurance either at a low cost or no cost through the State 's…

Health Care Quality Today, we live in a world where health care is forever changing. As technology and health care improve people’s expectations regarding the quality of their health care increase as well. Quality health care is defined as “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge” (Huber, 2014, p. 293). The Institute of Medicine (IOS) defines quality of care…

behavioral and physiological factors. Population health management requires the distribution of health care services in the defined population to be grounded on health condition and need (Block, 2014). Deliver Healthcare with a Focus Healthcare organizations should deliver healthcare with a focus on population health because it allows for better health outcomes, care management, and emphasizes on the specific population. A population health approach indicates that elements beyond the health…

This essay will bring an understanding of the need for cultural awareness and competency in nursing practice in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait people, known as Indigenous people of Australia. Different factors responsible for chronic illnesses in Indigenous population will be explained and how nurses can help in conquering the gap between Indigenous and non Indigenous population in relation to health. Emphasis will be on how ethnocentric human nature can affect health adversely. It…

Lake Health is the chosen institution for a cultural competence review because Lake Health serves Lake County, Ohio residents in their healthcare needs. This organization has one mandatory class at the beginning of orientation to the hospital, but no further education relating to cultural competency for their employees. Lake Health has a vast amount of Hispanics come to Labor and Delivery…

be flexible yet consistent, and adapt to each individual’s requirements as well as circumstances. Relational continuity according to Burge et al. (2011), “a therapeutic relationship between a patient and one or more providers that spans various healthcare events and results in accumulated knowledge of the patient and care consistent with the patient 's…

Introduction Electronic health records is the process of replacing traditional paper medical records according to Shi & Singh (2013, p. 109). Electronic health records have the potential to save time, eliminate errors and duplications, as well as improve the quality of health care delivery. However with all these different possibilities come limitations such as accuracy and potential financial cost that immerge as concerns. HITECH Act, The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical…