Veterinary medicine

Every since we were young, we were repeatedly told “ Work hard and get a good education and you will have a really successful and happy life”, while this is not true for all situations, it is most definitely true for working as an anesthesiologist. The practice of anesthesia is a very demanding, intense, independant job in which the anesthesiologist administers drugs to the surgical patient to keep them safe and pain free throughout the procedure. May it be from problems with the brain to just…

Informatics Needs Assessment Implementing a new electronic health record (EHR) system from a manual documentation will require administration to complete a needs assessment. During the needs assessment, the company will need to assess and determine the appropriate EHR for the organizational needs along with the needs and wants of the clinical and provider staff. We are going to take a closer look at how to complete a needs assessment and why it is important for the implementation of an EMR in…

Children’s of Alabama has medication precautions, fall risk precautions, and a “Do Not Use” list in place to protect patients. SBAR is used to effectively communicate patient and nursing needs to physicians. Pharmacy and the nursing staff verify medications before the medication is ever administrated to patients, to reduce errors. Call-lights are in place for patients to alert employees to wants and needs. Nursing Informatics help implement and educate employees on electronic charting.…

Dentistry around the Globe Dental care and the picture perfect smile is valued and sough after in some countries while in others the mouth becomes something that is not part of the body and oral health is not considered as part of overall health. The media has altered the world’s views on what it means to be attractive and, now that includes having a white, appealing smile. Dental treatments around the world have grown to be expensive for both developed and developing countries. The costs are…

Light At the End of the Tunnel Although Jeannette Walls and I share a common thread of being hospitalized at a young age, it is my belief after reading The Glass Castle that Jeannette had it far worse than I ever did. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette shares how she spent over a month in a hospital due to burns after she tried to make herself hot dogs. The time that Jeannette spent in the hospital was like a vacation from her crazy life and parents. She relished the time in the hospital because it…

Social Problem: Men do not have equal reproductive health coverage compared to women under the ACA Neo-conservative The government is at fault for the ACA coverage gap in reproductive health care between women and men. The government interfered with the health insurance market and distorted market forces by doing so. This is a social problem for American citizens and insurance companies who are forced to participate in the implementation of the ACA. Individuals are being impacted because they…

Medical treatment provided on an outpatient basis is terms ambulatory care service. Compared to hospitals, these clinics are usually much more convenient to use and less expensive than an inpatient hospitalization. The main feature of ambulatory services is that, patients do not stay overnight in these facilities. Ambulatory care is emerging to be the fastest growing segment of the health care market. There are many types and these included; Physician services, hospital outpatient, emergency…

During the first half of the 20th century, the world of medical research began to flourish. As new treatments for chronic illnesses were being discovered, physicians, researchers, and social reformers sought to improve women’s health. Despite racial discrimination and poverty struggles, the efforts made greatly improved women’s access to healthcare. Maternal and infant death rates began to improve along with doctors’ attitudes towards their female patients. During a time period plagued with an…

Honesty in the medical profession has always been a difficult issue, particularly in the case of the doctor and patient. Often, a doctor will be tempted to withhold information from his/her patient with the belief that he/she is sparing the patient from the distress receiving such information can cause. This justification is termed “therapeutic privilege” by the American Medical Association (AMA, 2006); and many physicians, such as Dr. Collins, defend the use of such practices. However, this…

Question 1 of 5 Under the HealthyPeople.gov website’s tab, “Implementing Healthy People”, five processes are listed under the acronym “MAP-IT”. Identify and describe these five processes. What is MAP-IT? This agenda has been used through evaluating the public health services to accomplish Healthy People 2020 objectives. MAP-IT could helpful to a healthy society and the country (Program Planning, n.d). Healthy people effort is to re-create and re-visit goal every 10 years. Health care, cancer,…