Urgent care

infectious disease monitoring, health education classes, monthly immunization clinics, daily walk-in nurses sick call hours, and 24-hour medical emergency response. Many offenders never received medical care throughout their pre-incarcerated life and lack basic health knowledge. These gaps in medical care and education can be filled by the correctional nurse and IHS services if the inmate wishes to partake. When prison sentences are expired, correctional nurses work with the offender’s local…

cancer with one simple medication. Being in the nursing field would give so much joy to my heart to know that I wake up every morning to provide care for other people in need. Someone very special and close to me, almost two months ago was in a horrific accident and now is a TBI patient. He makes me push closer to pursue in my career and to be able to give care and provide the needs that he and others need. I love to communicate with others and listen and work hard with the people who are doing…

Standard 3, the foreign organizations in the health sector should coordinate with national and local health services, share information about the strategies and tasks. Standard 4 aims to provide the primary health care by educate people about endemic health problems, major health risks, the availability and location of health services, and behaviors that protect and promote good health. This information should be provided in an appropriate language, and should take…

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 care system considerably influence health, as…

separating them from each other. In an article published in The Gerontologist, a bimonthly journal issued by The Gerontological Society of America, researchers stated that in one of their studies, environmental factors greatly influence the end-of-life care for a person. This enables the elderly and their family to have a quality time with one another, during the remaining time of their elderly relative. Another factor that shows the lack of privacy in a nursing home setting is the procedure in…

shall also look into the process of policy and the thought that goes into them. Literature Review The purpose of the article Why the Nation Needs a Policy Push On Patient-Centered Health Care By Epstein, Fiscella, Lesser, and Strange is to help describe patient-centered care and why it matters. Patient-centered care ultimately derives from…

their toes daily and 17.2 % reported they dry their toes sometimes, while 20.7 % reported they never dry their toes. Similarly 56% of people reported they wear inappropriate shoes. A study demonstrate that foot ulcer can be prevented by promoting self- care, which requires appropriate health education (Smanioto, do Carmo Fernandez Lourenco Haddaa & Rossaneis,…

American soldiers were sent to reinstate the country’s democratically elected government, and to strip away power from the military junta that had deposed it and ruled for 3 years (pg.3). Politics can affect the health of Haiti. In chapter 1, the hospital refused to treat sick prisoners. Nine soldiers are clearly not even to try to govern 150,000 people in Haiti. The health of the people will not improve with so little of help. The farmer felt that there was no point to apply principles of…

Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest recorded in history, killing over 11,000 people. The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is responsible for the global urgent call response. The troubling question is, at what extent will GHSA respond to aid a disease epidemic? Many lives could have been saved in West Africa if there was an urgent response to the virus outbreak. The Ebola virus disease (EVD) first started…

Access to Healthcare is important in maintaining one’s health. With changes in the law and policies that govern healthcare such as the Affordable Care Act recently enacted, more and more individuals are being afforded the opportunity to obtain health insurance and seek medical attention. Over the years however, an area in the healthcare industry that has been left behind in seeing significant changes in regards to healthcare access is in Mental Health. Although today more Americans have access…