Relevance of EBP Model and the Health Care Plan The use of the Evidence-Based Model (EBP) has been in the advancements of technology to help develop The Health Care Plan. The changes happening in technology have significantly improved remote collaboration and this led to the improvement of the Villa Health...
Summary The article asserts that effective communication is the center of social work. Excellent communication is fundamental to professional relationships that demand compassion (One Education, 2021). Successful communication helps us understand people better, and it also allows us to recognize diversities and build both respect and trust. It can also...
Health care economics is a term used to describe the various elements that play a crucial role in converging, significantly influencing healthcare costs, expenses, and spending. The healthcare sector is responsible for understanding the individual parts, the healthcare providers, insurers, the government agencies, and the roles that both the public...
In recent years, the U.S. has adopted significant approaches to improve healthcare among its citizens. Nonetheless, recent studies have highlighted that less than seven percent of U.S. citizens are contented with the healthcare system (Bombard et al., 2018). This concern results from specific factors, including high costs, fragmentation of services,...
Introduction Social justice in the nursing practice is very critical to ensuring quality and equitable care. In recent years, the topic of ethnic diversity and cultural competence has attracted much attention in the nursing field. Healthcare studies have constantly found problems with cultural competency and racial disparities in the delivery...
The term “strategic planning” often refers to the management mechanism, as well as the process of choosing the goals of the organization and ways to achieve them. Thus, this mechanism provides a fundamental basis for management decisions and actions aimed at achieving specific goals of the organization, motivation, and control....
Thesis statement: universal health care should be free to everyone because health is a right, it saves lives, improves health care equality, and creates a healthier workforce. Introduction Do you know that deaths associated with lack of health care access now exceed those caused by common killers like kidney disease?...
Abstract Mental health considers individuals’ behavioral, cognitive, and emotional well-being, focusing on how they conduct themselves, think, and feel. Exploring the history of mental health theories, biases, and ethical and legal aspects associated with it is instrumental in understanding challenges linked to caring for patients and families in this field...
Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) operating in acute care settings are well placed and equipped to ease the financial burden for patients, providing the opportunity for career advancement for caregivers, addressing healthcare concerns, and offering improved treatment. APNs play a critical role in guaranteeing that hospital patients receive evidence-based treatment and...
Abstract Diabetes is a significant public health challenge that affects populations of all ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic groups. The disease requires daily self-management, and their caregivers’ control frequently influences the related habits developed by the affected individuals in childhood and adolescence. This paper explores if regulating parental involvement can result...
Sound is one of the environmental influences for all living organisms, including humans. Machines, propagating systems, and transport systems are easily argued to be the grassroots sources of loud sounds (Morillas 214). In nature, loud sounds are rare, and the noise is relatively weak and short-lived. The combination of sound...
The objective of the Hospital Quality Initiative is to improve the healthcare quality offered in hospitals and compute data about hospital performance. This gives consumers more confidence to discuss and come up with the best ideas for improving the care offered in hospitals. The CMS website has various tools used...
How Medical Error Impacts a Nurse’s Need to Use High-Level Clinical Judgment Clinical judgment is one of the excellent strategies that reduce medical errors in healthcare matters. Clinical assessment influences the ability of healthcare workers to provide safe and high-quality medical services to their clients. However, this is based on...
A chronic disease refers to a condition that lasts one year or more and needs ongoing medical treatment. Examples of such diseases include heart disease, diabetes, and cancer (Cardoso et al., 2017). In the U.S., chronic diseases account for the death of many individuals. About three trillion dollars, most of...
The United States of America is the pioneer in biomedical research, medical problem solving, medical technology, and hospitals. The country is focused on ensuring that every citizen has access to the healthcare system and is provided with quality care. This issue is of great concern to both the general public...
Introduction Safety and health care quality directly affect treatment success and patient satisfaction. This presentation discusses the medication errors issue as one of the health care and patients’ safety problem. Initially representing an overview of this issue, other questions are considered, such as necessity in nurses’ high-level critical judgment, current...
Introduction Within the hospital metaparadigm, incivility alludes to inappropriate, harassing, violent, and disrespectful workplace actions that negatively impact workplace practices and result in emotional distress. On the low-risk end of the spectrum, incivility may include uncomfortable and unpleasant procedures that can also be irritating, such as intimidation, extortion, unfair conduct,...
Euthanasia is an issue in medicine that poses imminent controversies cause of the dynamic ethical overview. The practice enshrines physician-assisted suicide among individuals to solve the ideological terminal illness condition. According to Callahan, it is offensive to implement the policy since it reflects allowance on conditional murder (52). The researcher...
Introduction Healthcare systems across the world are struggling to achieve the ultimate patient safety. One of the main factors in patient safety is medication errors as discussed in the previous assignment. Medication errors imply inappropriate use of medications by a patient under the care of a professional. The errors emanate...
Introduction Medication errors refer to the inappropriate use of medications, especially when the patient is under the care of a medical professional. Medication errors are a global healthcare problem common among medical professionals. They can harm the patient and, in extreme cases, cause death. The errors also introduce cost implications...
Introduction The health of any population depends on various factors, such as genetics, environment, economy, psychosocial aspects, and overall lifestyle tendencies. Consequently, epidemiological research about diseases must view the issue from several perspectives simultaneously to achieve considerable results. Diabetes, as one of the most significant modern health challenges, requires observational...
Euthanasia has been a non-ending debate that has been walking in society for many years. Individuals have argued from the religious, political, philosophical, and judicial approaches without an agreement (Barnett et al. 1). In a study on euthanasia among Turkish students, around 73% of them did not approve of it...
Social workers should assure that patients have access to health care through private or public health insurance. The majority of Americans obtain their health insurance through their employers (Darnell & Allen, 2019). However, populations of low socioeconomic status and senior citizens could use publicly funded health insurance if they are...
Limited Access to Healthcare is a significant barrier that currently affects the Geriatric population for different reasons. As a Geriatrics home care nurse in Long Island, NY, I come across a handful of individuals who do not have transportation due to several factors. For instance, the issues include the inability...
Breastfeeding is the main way of getting the necessary nutrients for the newborn. Breastfeeding is also an act of communication between the baby and the mother, which strengthens their relationship and affection. Healthy breastfeeding practices have multiple positive effects on both baby and maternal health. At the same time, it...
Introduction Healthcare is an essential element of the social sphere and aims to preserve and strengthen the health of the population through preventive, curative, and other types of activities of medical institutions. The fundamental role of healthcare as an integral condition of society is recognized in the legislative acts of...
Introduction Once a person advances in age, their immunity is likely to decrease, hence, become exposed to various health challenges. Mental health issues in the aged are not a new phenomenon in the health care sector as they suffer from issues such as anxiety, depression, and stress. Due to an...
Overview of the Organization The Centers for Disease Control and Prevent (CDC) is a national public health agency of the US. It is a United States federal agency operating under the Department of Health and Human Services, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The main objective of the agency is to...
Introduction Nursing professionals face multiple stressful situations daily that substantially affect their physical and mental health. This paper aims to investigate the issue of fatigue and stress in nursing based on a peer-reviewed literature review. The significance of this study is determined by the fact that stress and fatigue experienced...
The racial and ethnic composition in the United States is projected to change by 2060. Asian, African-American, and Hispanic populations are expected to rise to 9.1 percent, 15%, and 27%, respectively, but non-Hispanic whites are expected to decrease to 44.3% (Vespa et al., 2020). As the country’s demography becomes highly...
The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly exposed the healthcare sector to numerous situations that amount to an ethical dilemma. The nursing professionals have been on the frontline in the fight against the pandemic and as such have faced numerous ethical issues emanating from their line of work and societal demands. The...
Prolonged waits in emergency departments are linked with lofty patient deaths and unpleasant outcomes. However, patient calls for emergency protection have grown in numerous countries with aging people and more compound conditions. This extra pressure on emergency departments makes it harder to maintain brief throughput times. The United States is...
Jakimowicz, S., Perry, L., & Lewis, J. (2021). Bowen Family Systems Theory: Mapping a framework to support critical care nurses’ well‐being and care quality. Nursing Philosophy, 22(2), e12320. Web. The article in question reviews the application of the Family Systems Theory to the work of critical care nurses from the...
Healthcare policy is a set of decisions or plans undertaken to attain specific goals in care programs. The main features of the US health policy include pluralistic politics, government as a subsidiary to the private sector, piecemeal reform, and presidential leadership. These characteristics work separately or together to promote health...
Introduction By researching and writing essays, I learned how to find, read and study scientific research and articles. I need this skill in order to have up-to-date information received from professionals on the chosen topic, as well as to receive specific statistical data. I learned to work more carefully and...
Cultural competency is a crucial ability or expertise to provide services across culturally diverse groups. In nursing, cultural competency implies the capability of health care providers to deliver the best medical care to patients while demonstrating cultural awareness of their principles, race, and morals (Brathwaite, 2020). It implies possessing knowledge...
The percentage of Americans who are obese is continually increasing. According to Cooper et al. (2018), the rate of overweight persons has grown by 10% over the last two decades. Simultaneously, around 40.4% of the United States of America population is diagnosed with obesity (Cooper et al., 2018, p.1). Each...
This assignment aims to compare and contrast the definitions of the results’ statistical significance and clinical importance. In the wide sense, the statistical significance demonstrates the probability of happening occasion, and clinical importance illustrates the extent of the experience. Clinical significance is commonly more related to the practical applicability of...
Introduction Congestive heart failure is a condition that causes health complications and affects people in various ways. The condition happens when the muscle of the heart fails to supply enough oxygenated blood to the body (A. A. Inamdar, 2016; A. C. Inamdar, 2016). The main types of heart failure are...
Introduction Organizational culture is the collective way of discerning or sensation a given association. This culture generates the dynamic for a readiness to change and improve. In an organization where a dictatorial form of management is practiced, potential resistance is likely to take place, unlike where democratic governance is implemented....
Introduction The U.S. health care is one of the most advanced ones worldwide, and many countries aspire to build their own systems which would function as effectively. In 2018, the number of physician visits in the United States stood at more than eight hundred million (“Ambulatory care use,” 2021). Such...
Health Information Exchange (HIE) mobilizes health information electronically between organizations within a region, community, or hospital system. The participants in the data exchange are named in the aggregated health information networks. HIE provides the ability to move clinical information between different health information systems electronically. The goal of the HIE...
Introduction With the population of baby boomers continually aging, the number of elderly people increases across the United States. Consequently, the need for long-term care surges with such individuals requiring assistance to function optimally at their vulnerable ages. Long-term care thus provides aid for both medical and non-medical needs of...
Proposed Healthcare Information system A suitable health information system [HIS] for the organization is computerized provider order entry (CPOE). The computer application supports electronic patient information entry and sharing between providers, other healthcare staff, and departments logged into the system (HealthIT, 2018). CPOE takes over from the physical communication between...
As I currently am working in a psychiatric facility, I have defined several current trends within my employment setting. The first significant trend, which occurred due to the limitation of communication in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, is computerized approaches to psychiatry and wide use of digital communication. Moreover,...
Patient and problem Tom Hiddleston, a white 40-year-old man, had recent complaints about flue-like symptoms and ear pain. He suffers from nasal inflammation, thick colorless discharge from the nose, and nasal congestion that causes difficulty breathing through his nose. Moreover, he feels pain around the nose and eyes, accomplished by...
It is inappropriate that health care costs are provided by a mix of private over public sources. For instance, Anderlini (2018) states that high costs of medical care services affect patients and the entire nation and can lead the system implosion because of the unsustainable economic burden. People have different...
Case Summary Client’s Brief History, Presenting Issues, Family, and Social Context Miya, 35, is an African American woman with alcohol and cocaine stimulant use disorder and persistent depressive disorder. Lacking social support, Miya struggles to maintain sobriety and is ashamed of the things she has done to get money to...
For years, public health officials have used vaccines to prevent bacterial and viral infections and their sequelae. Recognizing the importance of vaccination, many governments developed mandatory inoculation policies to protect their populace from life-threatening diseases. However, despite federal and state efforts to reinforce this prevention approach, a part of the...
Healthcare professionals encounter numerous challenges and frequently experience enormous physical and psychological load in their daily workflow. In this regard, many medical organizations widely introduce various health information systems (HIS), such as CDSS, EHR, and CPOE, to support clinical staff in complicated conditions, avert potential errors, and alleviate the overall...
When it comes to the US healthcare evaluation compared to healthcare systems in other countries, there are many controversial issues related to the American system. It stands to reason that the US healthcare system is under the siege of critiques and arguments. This medical institute can not cater to all...
Classification of Psychological Disorders Psychological disorders are classified according to the following criteria of abnormal behavior: unusualness. incorrect interpretation of reality. tangible personal distress. self-defeating behavior. dangerousness. social unacceptability is a given culture (Nevid & Rathus, 2005). These are the criteria according to which abnormalities in the individual’s behavior are...
Quality in healthcare facilities is essential and needs to be achieved. Quality improvement is connected with enhancing safety, efficiency, and effectiveness in delivering care to patients. Thus, for healthcare to engage in primary care practices in quality improvement, it is essential to focus on improving patients’ health, promoting patient experiences...
An electronic health record system refers to the digital version representation of a patient’s paper chart. They are used in hospitals in retrieving and storing patient records and health information. They also aid in communicating with patients online and reminding the health care workers on scheduled activities and lab results....
Introduction Health is a universal human value, as important as happiness and welfare. Thus, health is essential in the life of every person. Also, it is a crucial aspect of national security. It determines the possibilities of achieving individual and social well-being and the prospects for sustainable development. In current...
Introduction Quality assurance methods are a practical guarantee that a project management framework is of good quality and develops over time. Mandatory drug error reporting may offer important information regarding faulty systems, preventive strategies, and evidence-based information about patient safety. This information is critical for hospitals to evaluate when assessing...
Critical thinking is considered an essential and mandatory skill in providing nursing care to patients. Critical thinking is a self-corrective judgment that employs cognitive tools such as interpretation, analysis, conceptual, methodology, evidence, and considerations (Carvalho et al., 2017). For effective decision-making, it is essential to observe major components and theories....
The health of the community is closely connected with the social conditions of the people. Five main social determinants influence the health of a person or a community. These are Economic Stability, Education, Health and Healthcare, Neighborhood and Built Environment, and Social and Community Context. All of these determinants are...
Introduction Abortion is the process of terminating pregnancy performed by medical specialists through medicine or physical removal of the embryo. Abortion is a legal act in all the United States of America. The legalization of abortion in America has become a controversial political issue America. The controversial and technicality of...
United States Healthcare System In the United States, health care is not universal. It is provided by both the private and public sectors. In America, 58% of the health facilities are non-profit community hospitals, 21% are government-controlled, and the remaining 21% are private profit-oriented hospitals (Berchick et al., 2019). The...
Introduction Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a federal law signed by then-President Obama in 2010 addressing the growing number of uninsured US residents. Gaffney and Waitzkin (2016) report that more than 41 million Americans under 65-year-old had no health insurance. The majority of them received low or...
Introduction An emergency of mental health is as essential as any other sort of emergency. When a crisis occurs, it is impossible to anticipate when it will occur. While there are warning signals and causes, a crisis can strike at any time. It still can occur even if a person...
Introduction It is a direct responsibility of a nursing professional to make decisions, which require a certain level of critical thinking. A nurse faces numerous types of clinical scenarios, all of which demand their full attention and competence to deal with the issues a patient or their family might have....
Introduction Any work with people is inextricably linked to the process and communication difficulties; it permeates healthcare workers’ professional activity at any level. Nurses play a crucial role in communicating with the patient and determining plans of care to address wellness problems at various levels. In this paper, a hypothetical...
Philosophy in medicine or healthcare is not a new understanding. In ancient times, many doctors possessed not only the talent of healing but also the gift of writing, and playing music, and not only engaged in knowledge in astronomy, mathematics, and physics but were also famous philosophers. Avicenna at one...
Risk Management Strategies Risk management strategies are created to help health care organizations manage risks and ensure patient security. Firstly, companies should make sure that employees, both medical and non-medical staff, adopt a reporting tendency. If incidents that could place a patient at risk are reported to the relevant authority,...
Executive Summary Background One of the most important areas of the HR department of any enterprise is the search for new employees. Recruitment managers are faced with the task of a high-quality selection of personnel. With the help of a well-designed methodology for the selection and recruitment of employees, it...
The U.S is the most cosmopolitan country in the world today with undocumented people constituting a larger percentage of the foreign resident population. The majority of this undocumented population is of Hispanic origin (Guadamuz et al., 2020). The undocumented are the most affected of the US population because of poor...
Interprofessional collaboration involves healthcare professionals from various fields and potentially people from other spheres, such as technology. It usually leads to improved safety, and decreased a number of errors, and also benefits the staff (Morley & Cashell, 2017). The positive results are associated with elevated responsibility, role distribution, collective decision-making,...
Introduction Patient safety always takes top priority in the healthcare industry, requiring considerable attention, effort, and resources to develop appropriate strategies to protect patients from unexpected, adverse events. In this regard, medical providers encounter numerous issues while delivering care, the primary of which is medication administration. This problem frequently causes...
Introduction Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are digital versions of patient medical information, which are maintained by a health provider. EHRs provide the patient health details to other health care providers in an easy way. Most health care providers have switched from paper-based systems to the use of EHRs. This is...
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Deep Vein Thrombosis, popularly known as DVT is the coagulation of blood in the extremities that can cause impaired blood circulation and pulmonary edema. DVT ensues once a blood clot (thrombus) forms within some of the body’s main veins, which happens commonly in the legs, producing...
Introduction Social media contribute a lot to the development of the healthcare system by providing platforms for healthcare interventions, sharing data helping to detect health issues, and announcing the recruitment for trials. However, some critical issues concerning ethics exist in the usage of social media by healthcare providers. Such issues...
Practicum Project The nurse’s written report at the patient’s bedside is a composed record of the patient’s medical history. It describes the patient’s situation, the methods used in his treatment, and the care plan. This project aims to bring about changes in nursing practice that can provide safe, high-quality, and...
Healthcare systems in the world are faced with the challenge of meeting the needs of the growing patient population while improving organizational outcomes. However, an organization needs to evaluate its readiness for change to ascertain its ability to achieve future healthcare goals. This paper examines Banner Health System’s readiness to...
The core principle of evidence-based practice is collecting the most relevant scientific data available in diverse studies and scholarly papers to implement it into practice. Three fundamental elements of evidence-based practice include using the most recent external evidence, relying on relevant personal, professional experience, and addressing the values and expectations...
St. James Hospital is a small facility that can accommodate 70-80 patients. Medical staff provide patient treatment, surgery, diagnosis, and first aid for acute conditions, while nurses ensure care and routine procedures such as testing, giving medication, and assisting with hygiene procedures. The hospital administration is responsible for resource allocation,...
As for any healthcare professional, the role of a DNP-prepared nursing practitioner is to keep patients safe and provide high-quality healthcare delivery. Therefore, DNP-prepared nurses need to address quality and safety measures throughout their working practice. The purpose of this paper is to consider and analyze my experience with quality...
Introduction The moral and ethical aspects of medical practice include not only the features of interaction with patients and other interested parties but also deeper nuances. In particular, one of the controversial and acute topics is euthanasia and its acceptability from different perspectives, including both patients’ and healthcare employees’ positions....
Introduction Patient privacy is among the key concerns in healthcare. According to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (2018), nurses’ use of social media poses a threat of disclosure of protected information. Privacy breaches have significant consequences for both institutions and staff. Hence, nurses must avoid publishing any...
Health care risk management encompasses the clinical systems of administration processes and the reports used to monitor, assess, and prevent any potential risks. Health care organizations actively and constantly work to safeguard their patients’ safety, the organization’s valuables, brand value, accreditation, and standing with the community. Accreditation is a volunteer...
Various players have championed the use of e-cigarettes/vaping, including JUUL, to justify that they have significantly fewer adverse health effects compared to traditional smoking. Consequently, the prevalence of smoking has reduced globally, including in the United States. Moreover, the rate of e-cigarette use has increased exponentially. Studies have established that...
Introduction The mental state is a topic of concern for many people worldwide. As psychological health became more researched, the real tendency of such illnesses has been revealed. Currently, there is one of four people who experienced mental disorders at some point in their lives. Bipolar disorder appears to be...
Abstract Surgeons and medical staff training and education are critical elements in advancing surgical technology. The qualitative descriptive study understood surgical personnel’s experience in ambulatory surgical centers in the northeastern part of the United States who learn new, advanced medical-surgical technology through in-services and on-the-job the acquired level of skill...
Prostate cancer is one of the most spread among the American men. African American men are more subject to developing the prostate cancer compared to other races (Lindquist et al., 2016). The mortality is also high. Thus, it is necessary to study the causes of the disease and its peculiarities...
Posttraumatic stress disorder is simply a disorder that can develop in human being following a life-threatening event that has occurred in his or her life. Any individual who has ever experienced such an event tends to keep away from things that might remind them of the past traumatic events. Posttraumatic...
Introduction Epidemiology is considered the cornerstone of public health because it helps public health officials to come up with policies that target preventive healthcare. Moreover, epidemiology is important in public health because it helps in the study and analysis of defined conditions. This paper will explore the benefits of epidemiology...
Introduction In every career, ethical issues are to be adhered to so as to concur with the legal standards of the profession. In the nursing career, many individuals are faced with ethical and legal dilemmas. A nurse’s professional competence statement should integrate the theoretical knowledge dealing with ethical aspects in...
Introduction Computerized systems in organizations and information systems influence each other in many ways in organizations. They are introduced by managers to serve the interests of the organizations. The organization should also be aware of the impact created by implementation of the information system in the organization (Austin and Boxerman,...
Introduction The creation of a professional development plan is a key element of the self-assessment process, which is inextricably linked to the notion of lifelong learning. A professional development plan is an instrument used by advanced practice nurses (APNs) to “better understand their new role” and to “identify knowledge and...
Medicaid and Medicare are two distinct government-operated and funded projects for American citizens. While both programs are health insurance schemes, there are variances in cost allocation and supported services. Medicare offers medical insurance to people above 65 and people below 65 who are disabled, regardless of their income. On the...
Describe at least 5 ways in which the article is either reliable or worthless using your readings as reference. “How to Determine Whether a Website is Reliable” Several factors are used to determine whether an article is reliable or not in terms of the nature and content of written information. In...
Abstract Obesity is the accumulation of fats in an individual. It has been an epidemic in the U.S. This has been contributed largely by changes in economic and cultural trends in the whole world. This research has its purpose in determining the causes of this epidemic and how to reduce...
The number of LCT providers in the US There are both informal and formal caregivers under long-term care (LTC). “Informal and family caregivers refer to people who do not have pay but provide care” (Rogers and Komisar, 2003). At the same time, some formal caregivers are mainly volunteers or paid...
Introduction The term nurse refers to an individual, who is trained and educated formally in caring for the infirm and the sick. The nurse coordinates with other health care professionals. Moreover, he is accountable for the safety, treatment, and recovery of the sick. The sick and infirm require close observation,...
Introduction The Strengths and Limitations of Situational Leadership The reviewed article identifies the peculiarities of integrated leadership implementation regarding the public sector performance. In other words, the primary objective of the work is to reflect the ultimate advantages of the combined leadership approach. The paper possesses such consistent strengths as...
Introduction Adults differ from adolescents both emotionally and physiologically, since adolescents evolve from teenagers to adult and, therefore needs treatment that is tailored to their requirements (Szalavitz, 2007). The start of substance or drug use take place at youthful ages leading to more teenagers starting treatment for disorders arising from...
The Canadian healthcare system makes use of the Medicare based systems that are provincially based, this is because they make the administration of the healthcare easy and cost efficient. In each of the provincial hospitals, the medical doctors have the responsibility for handling the insurance claims against the medical insurance...
There are constant arguments whether marijuana is a harmful drug or not. This question becomes more urgent because of the fact that the issue of legalizing marijuana is one of the main things disputed on. It is obvious that there are pros and cons of marijuana legalization. Still, the government...