Tenet Healthcare

The inadequacy of the laws that govern advance directives allow for too much interpretation of the patient’s requests by healthcare workers. An example of this is the case of Werth v. Taylor. Ms. Werth, a Jehovah’s Witness, had signed a written preregistration refusal of all blood products at the hospital where she planned on delivering her twins. While under general anesthesia…

renal disease contribute to health disparities experienced by Black men. These diseases are linked to unmet healthcare needs and related to perceptions and confidence in the healthcare system and providers, willingness to seek care, health literacy and communication, and patient action. [2, 3][4, 5]Understanding Black men’s perceptions about health begins with having a dialog about healthcare. These dialogs need to take place in locations that they feel safe and can opening express themselves.…

Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist The clinical nurse specialist (CNS) offers uniqueness as a nurse who can move between numerous roles with expert skill-sets assisting facilities to enhance health care outcomes for patients. The CNS is a notable advanced practice nurse (APRN), who contributes to delivery of population health care and quality improvement. The CNS is an interpreneurial nurse and pivotal to meet the increasing needs in rural population health care. Purpose Rural communities…

Introduction Organisational behaviour (OB), refers to the study of the way people behave within a work setting, such as in ACT Pathology (Robbins et al., 2011). Several characteristics of OB, are reflected in my workplace. Nevertheless, these are dependent on the current conditions of the workplace for pathology service continuation (Wu & Hsieh, 2011). Characteristics like these are caused by the nature of the workplace and the workers themselves, the changes over time can affect the way…

efficiency of individual workers thereby allowing a company to become more competitive (Davis & Goetsch, 2010). The field of healthcare must improve its operations, technologies and human capital to ensure quality, competitiveness and ensure patient safety. Therefore, healthcare must adopt new and improved methods, technology and equipment to advance within their field. Healthcare systems have not been receptive to new technology and therefore have received products and services that were…

Group I: Question A PhRMA’s involvement in the health care reforms led by President Obama was a corruption of our democratic principles. “For years now, drug makers have been operating on the dark side, financially incentivizing doctors and health care providers to promote their drugs, and compensating pharmaceutical sales reps based on the number of prescriptions written by the doctors they call on” (Archer 2013). The Huffington Post cites how “Big Pharma has been systematically price-gouging…

Increasingly smaller medical practices with the solo practitioner are going by the way side. Physicians are faced with increasing government regulations, ever-changing insurance mandates and higher operating costs. With the ACA tying the physicians’ performance into variable payment reimbursement, maintaining the bottom line will prove more and more difficult. In 2009 the government passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to support the widespread…

The practice standards and entry-to-practice competencies are helpful for nurses in providing competent, safe and ethical care. The practice standards describe the role of all nurses and protect the public from any kind of harm (CNO, 2009). These standards support nurses to understand their responsibilities and outlines the expectations of nurses for the public (CNO, 2009). Also, the practice standards are followed by all nurses in their area of practice (CNO, 2009). The entry-to-practice…

introduce such models of care that can address the healthcare necessity of people with chronic illness in a coordinated way. For instance, chronic care model is a person-oriented approach that focuses on prevention and management as oppose to acute care model that is disease orientated and is cure focus (Johnson 2014). Similarly, chronic care approach empowers community by placing healthcare experience of individual in collaboration with the healthcare professionals, family and community…

communication and relationship management, professionalism, leadership, knowledge of the healthcare system, and business skills and knowledge to practice evidence-based health care management (Stefl, 2008). Terms ethics, morals, morality, and values are used for different occasions, but meaning is the same. Simple meaning of ethics is a right human conduct or behavior. Ethics is a totally inexplicit term to define in healthcare. Medical ethics are complex and need to be addressed frequently and…