Veterinary medicine

Table 1 summarizes the fifteen articles studied throughout this systematic review. These articles offer a range of information regarding HIPAA privacy laws for health care facilities and discuss the importance of HIPAA compliance within health care facilities. Anthony et al. (2014) examined acute care setting large hospitals and discovered the importance of assigning a dedicated compliance officer as well as establishing institutional logics to the success of accomplishing a secure and private…

Graduation is rapidly approaching and it is time to figure out what I want to do after I leave Texas A&M University and move on to the next step in my life. I have wrestled with several different possibilities for my future career but I have finally decided that I want to be a nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a hospital and then eventually become a pediatric nurse practitioner in the PICU. As a nurse and a nurse practitioner, I will be working in a clinical setting of health…

Long term care involves treatment held by nurses, practitioners, dietitian service workers to support eating habits and needs. The physicians of a specialty and or counselors are also working in this model. Some therapists are also assigned to support the elderly in life progression and decision making. These people hold vital roles in helping people cope with life and receiving the continuing care of a person whom cannot no longer care for him/herself at a personal base or in a crisis or having…

Society and the health care community’s perception of health has greatly evolved over the past few centuries. The 19th century was regarded as a century of linear ideologies, especially in the biomedical field (Ogden, 2012). Illness was seen as the result of an invasion that causes physical damage to the body. Humans were the victims of illness and not the culprit; illness was out of the individual’s control (Ogden, 2012). Medical intervention governed by medical professionals was the only…

Various HMO models (Staff, Group, & Network) Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) have been around since the 20th century. They were not made to operate as they do currently in today’s world until the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 set federal rules on how the operations of HMO should be conducted. HMO’s have various models, but despite the model, in each HMO, the employer pays the monthly premium for the HMO service, which reduces the overhead for employees seeking medical help.…

VI. Interprofessional Communication & Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcome Communicating effectively with all health care disciplines is imperative for a conducive, civil work environment and to the safety of patients. My experiences in working in interdisciplinary teams were very different between my endocrine practice and operating room practice. The endocrine team that I had worked for consisted of two endocrinologist, nurse practitioner, dietician, office manager and two…

Articles and studies have shown to the public that errors are common in medical treatment arenas and patients need to become more assertive and involved with the direction of their care (Leape, 1998). Organizations such as the Institute of Medicine (IOM), (ARHQ), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), etc… have all come together to help patients deal with their medical conditions in the best form possible, with advance technology, sources for…

Family nurse practitioners are in excellent positions to help improve health and wellness on a daily and regular basis. The long term connection a FNP can make with patients and the level of care he/she can provide is both beneficial and rewarding to the patient. The altitude of knowledge and skill required to provide care for patients across their life span is beyond admirable. It is an honor to have the opportunity to be that provider and to advocate for patients on a much higher level than…

Less than one percent of all the water on Earth is drinkable to humans. Considering, then, that the Earth itself is about seventy percent water, even less than one percent is still quite a bit of water to work with; however, it does mean that humans are working with a very limited amount of drinkable water. It is very understandable, then, that contamination of that water should be a cause for concern. It has been found that pharmaceuticals are entering the water as pollutant, and there has been…

Freedom to Die Death is a waiting game that no one truly knows when it will occur. With physician assisted suicide that waiting game is not an obstacle to terminally ill patients. “Physician-assisted suicide is the practice of providing a competent patient with a prescription for medication for the patient to use with the primary intention of ending his or her own life” (MedicineNet). In 1997 the United States Supreme Court ruled that physician assisted suicide is not a constitutional right;…