Urgent care

My heart skipped a couple beats. Was this the call we had been waiting for? I was afraid to answer. Travis and I had been working on getting set up with Children’s Bureau, a private foster care and adoption agency, to help facilitate the adoption of a foster child. We had been jumping through all their hoops; like taking parenting classes, getting background checks, preparing for our home study, and even requesting reference letters. We had…

The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obama Care, was passed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The overall purpose of this act is so that everyone can have some sense of protection when it comes to their health. Despite the many arguments that come along with this issue, many do not realize how Obamacare actually works, and its advantages and disadvantages that come along with it. At first there was much controversy of this program and much of it came from the Republicans; even some…

Look back The intent of this reflective practice essay is geared towards my learning experience during my placement setting while working with my buddy nurse and under the continual direction of my clinical instructor. I was assigned to care for an 85 year old female patient who was admitted with Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) and Failure to Cope (FTC). On the clinical day before, I was told that she would be discharged the following day. I confirmed that information by reviewing her chart and…

Fall reduction program implementation plan Fall reduction program tries to explore ways of reducing patient falls through improving staff connection, communication, and problem-solving skills in promoting patient care in hospitals, Nursing homes and other health care facilities (Colon-Emeric, 2013). The fall reduction program will be implemented by introducing various changes that will go a long way in reducing patient falls. One of the changes will be launching education program in healthcare…

everywhere in urgent care facilities. Lab equipment, monitoring devices, X-ray machines—the list of different technology used by clinicians is diverse. Technology involves as well, along with new methods being introduced. Medical Practice Management Software (MPMS) is similar—the use of this health care advancement has grown manifold in the recent times! Discover Best Practices for Prudently Using Practice Management Software Practice Management Software is invariably being used by urgent care…

every person is different causing a different approach each person takes on how to treat or diagnose the patient.With such a wide variety of how different cultures look at healthcare and treat patients, they have all came to a basis of basic medical care. On the…

The coding professional reviews the health record and enters specific data into a computer database (Sayles). Abstracting is a clinical coding function that involves extracting data from the health record and entering information in an index. Index is a guide that serves as a pointer or indicator to locate something (Sayles). There are different types of indexes in healthcare such as disease, operation, and physician. A disease index consist of a list of diagnosis codes arranged by the code…

that climate change is a strong factor influencing generally the health and existence of humanity, it unfortunate that microorganisms are adapting to survive in the extreme climate behavior while humans are continuing in their destructive ways with a care of the pending consequences which is annihilation, the Such a insights into this potential adaptation options for climate change related health impacts is obvious in New Zealand. We may now have to start to use or identify these diseases as…

quality of patient care and overall health care status while decreasing healthcare costs is a major goal that keeps on being a challenge to many healthcare organizations throughout the United States. In this growing society, working with the community as a health professional in a primary care setting incentives can be created and implemented for positive patient outcomes. One of the biggest impacts in healthcare that has brought a significant change since Medicare is the Affordable Care Act.…

A strategic review of the organization’s service delivery Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) is one of the largest hospital located in Auckland city. It has a 1,021 general beds, 144 mental health beds, 113 intensive care and high dependency beds and 28 rehabilitation beds located in the Grafton Street. It is considered to be the largest clinical research centre in New Zealand (Auckland District Health Board, 2014). Its physical structure and facilities of the hospital is highly accessible…