Introduction Alzheimerās disease is a disease that affects the brain of elderly individuals. This disease doesn’t have any cure and is expected to worsen as it progresses (Alzheimerās Association, 2013). It may eventually lead to death. Despite the fact that there is no cure, the disease should be managed well...
To provide the high-quality services and focus on the constant improvement of approaches to resolving different health care problems, it is necessary to refer to the health care research. The systematical investigation of concrete health care aspects within the determined fields is the health care research which is used by...
Introduction The process of selecting and acquiring an information system requires effective planning in assembling a team for the task. An organization can acquire an information system by buying a ready-made package, asking an internal expert to develop one, or seeking the services of a consultant (Sanders, 2012). Selecting and...
Introduction Technological advancement across the world cuts across all sectors of the economy. The education and health sector seems to be the greatest beneficiary. The health and medical sector, for example, enjoys great development of super powerful operation systems and diagnosis equipments. The development of information and communication provides an...
Introduction Breast cancer is the leading cancer commonly diagnosed in women in the entire world, and a major cause of cancer mortality in this population (Jemal et al. 2010). This cancer affects more than 1.3 million women, and more than 400,000 women die. The survival rates from breast cancer vary;...
Abstract Compassion fatigue and burnout are common problems in the health care profession. As a result, the quality of medical care provided to patients is affected. Thus, it is important to understand the nature of problems, causes and invent necessary coping strategies. This report develops a brief analysis of the...
The three main aspects of Jean Watson’s theory of transpersonal caring include clinical processes that involve cherishing and valuing individuals, the development of transpersonal caring relationships, and the creation of caring moments (Dossey & Keegan, 2008). The theory emphasizes the need for nurses and caregivers to develop interpersonal relationships with...
Caring for Elderly Patients: An Overview Based on the book Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing, it can be seen that caring for the elderly comes with an assortment of complications that need to be taken into consideration prior to implementing any form of care plan. Busby-Whitehead (2012)...
Introduction In the contemporary world, the development of the nursing profession has reached a stage characterized by extraordinary challenges and opportunities. Major socioeconomic factors, coupled with significant evolutions in the delivery of healthcare services, necessitate the acquisition of various core competencies among nursing practitioners. The reason is that some of...
Conceptual Framework The proposed study will concentrate on the use of the conceptual framework to study health care outcomes. Holzemer (1980) used Donabedianās model to develop The Outcomes Model for Health Care Research. Mitchell, Ferketich, and Jennings (1998) assert that the healthcare industry has had major changes in the past....
Introduction The health care system of Mexico (Mexican Health Care System) comprises public healthcare centers, private healthcare centers, and health insurance companies. Pulg, Pagan, and Wong (2009) state that the health care system of Mexico has 1000 public hospitals and 3000 private hospitals, which have a bed capacity of 75%...
Nursing is an important practice for hospitals and healthcare centers. In nursing, personal values, behaviors and code of ethics are mandatory because they guide nurses to provide adequate and quality healthcare to their patients. Nursing employs a unique code of ethics whereby medical experts and nurses must abide by the...
Introduction The issues of health care coverage and insurance are significant ones to be discussed from the point of the modern tendencies in the development of the health care industry. Nowadays, health care organizations which can be defined as health maintenance organizations (HMO) should be discussed as large businesses for...
This paper will analyze data from a patientās health history and develop a nursing care plan. Analysis of Assessment Data Areas for focused assessment The patientās areas of strengths were: Health patterns and goals Health care beliefs and practices The patientās areas of weakness were: Family history Past health history...
In 1979, Dr. Jean Watson, a professor of nursing at Colorado University, developed the Theory of Human Caring, which has evolved over the years and remained robust in the field of healthcare by incorporating emerging aspects in the practice of nursing. Dr. Watson describes nursing as a science and art,...
Background of Virginia Henderson Virginia Henderson was born in the year 1897. She was a nurse, theorist, and researcher who made great contributions to the filed of nursing (Henderson, 2006). She attained a diploma in nursing from the nursing school at Walter Reed Hospital. After graduation, she taught at Norfolk...
Introduction Health care has evolved over the last ten decades, changing economic and political terrains in different countries. The United States health care system is an example of such evolution. The effect of World war I and II contributed to the financial and intellectual issues in the health care system....
Abstract Type II diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder that is characterized by very high blood sugar levels in the circulation. The disease has been known for thousands of years now. It is one of the major killer disorders, but advances in the medical field now provide for remarkable management...
Introduction When faced with an ethical dilemma, one often has to make an unpleasant choice. This paper explores the āend of lifeā dilemma involved in the Woods v. Commonwealth (1999-SSC-0773) case. In the case, the dilemma revolves around the removal of Woods from a life support given that he has...
The state of heart failure may denote a circumstance when the heart falls short to eject sufficient oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. The failure of heart to pump the blood prevails due to the chronic condition caused by diverse heart problems. When the heart pressure increases, the...
Health care facilities have the role of offering quality, timely, and affordable medical services; to attain this paramount objective, leaders in the industry must be effective and decisive. This paper discusses the services offered by Fayetteville NC VA Medical Facility. Type of facility Fayetteville NC VA Medical Facility is a...
It is the role of the United States government to provide quality, affordable and reliable health care facilities and services. A healthy nation is a productive nation; realizing the above phrase the government through, the ministry of health and other health related bodies has embarked on policies to improve the...
Patientsā safety is fundamental in the healthcare industry; according to the World Health Organization, medical practitioners need to enact policies that ensure quality and safety is maintained in health facilities. Patients safety include mechanisms of reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error; it is a professional ethics that every practitioner...
With great advancements seen in the technological sector, many people can now afford to buy their own medical equipment quite cheaply. Consequently, this has enabled those with blood sugar and blood pressure problems to carry out various medical tests from the comfort of their homes. With some little guidance from...
Telehealth is a health care service that is delivered by the use of the telecommunication technologies that is, use of telephone also video conferencing. Application of telehealth to home health agency, the outcomes studies and demonstration projects of a resent research indicate that home telehealth can improve clinical outcomes as...
Introduction Nurses play a big role in health systems around the world. This article will focus on the role of US nurses in the health issues of the world by discussing the roles of inter professional health care teams, ways to meet health care needs of the society, and the...
The study under consideration entitled as Achieving organizational change in pediatric pain management was conducted by Dowden, McCarthy and Chalkiadis in 2008 at the RCH, a pediatric hospital in Melbourne, Australia for the purpose of evaluating the current pan management practices, defining the main barriers to their improvement and providing...
Introduction andĀ Background African Americans comprise 13 percent of the overall population, however, they account for a disproportionate percentage of heart disease, breast cancer and other health related problems. Based on the drug trials that have been done on Caucasian populations, the outcomes often prove ineffective for the highly vulnerable African...
Introduction The health system in the United States is not coordinated and exhibits fragmentation in different areas. The communication channels among health care providers are not excellent leading to poor provision of services. The vision of United States health sector is to deliver health care services to every citizen of...
Introduction In the contemporary health care environment, management entails the use of tools such as guidelines and reports as well as techniques for performance evaluation. Healthcare management involves to a greater extent the process of decision-making that is carried out by the health care service manager. The concept of healthcare...
Introduction Ethical studies involve the moral, psychological, and philosophical examination of an individualās behavior, attitudes, emotions, and judgments. With the aim of making informed judgments and correct decisions, ethical studies apply varied methods to assess the situation of, for example, the hospitalized terminally ill and to examine the appropriateness of...
Introduction Nutrition refers to the provision of materials that are necessary for the support of organisms and the cells that forms the organisms. The quality and quantity of such nutrition to organisms and their cells together with other factors such as exercise are important factors on the health of the...
Summary The design team made sure that they had thorough knowledge and know-how pertaining to the regulation and rules which includes accreditation, federal regulations, local regulations and also the state regulations. These regulations were used as the foundation by which the rest of the design was to be established. Medical...
Introduction Healthcare accreditation can be described as an assessment process. In this case, it is mostly used by organizations to review their performance because it can be either external or self assessment. This is done in relation and accordance with internationally acceptable standards. It should be known that accreditation can...
Impact of an aging population in the world and the United States The world population is aging and people are living longer lives than expected. The population rate of people 65 years older is estimated to be at its highest by 2030. The increase in the rate of older people...
Bans on smoking are community rules that encompass of wrong laws and healthiness and safety laws that forbid the smoking of tobacco in places of employment and other community spaces. Smoking may be described by the legislation to be the custody of any lit product of tobacco. The ultimate aim...
Abstract Breast cancer stands in the second place in regard to causes of death among women who live in the Western nations. This is a disease that needs to be effectively dealt with. It has however been established that this disease can be treated when detected at an early stage....
Introduction Considering available healthcare-related data, it is certain that the United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world compared to other developed nations. Accordingly, many analysts argue that the increasing cost of delivering healthcare services in the U.S. is a possible threat to both the countryās economy/national...
Recent statistics show that there have been numerous research efforts to investigate importance of productivity in healthcare organizations. In order to assess benefits of productivity in healthcare, the two major factors that are investigated are policies governing this sector and analyzing data of research in health productivity. Productivity in healthcare...
Johns Hopkins Hospital medical facility is a teaching hospital and biomedical research center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The facility is located on Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland, in the US. The institution is widely regarded as one of the best hospitals in the world and has been...
Introduction This paper analyzes the Houston gay community in Texas, USA as a special group requiring health programs for HIV prevention. For purposes of this study, focus is given to the Montrose area because it bears the highest number of gay people in Houston. Montrose is located in Harrison County....
Introduction Viruses are tiny agents that spread infections and can duplicate repetitively inside the cells of living things. According to Roulston etal. (1999) ātheir size is so small that they cannot be viewed using an ordinary microscope.ā Their damage is extensive as it can infect all kinds of organisms. Presently,...
Introduction Good health in any community remains to be an issue of paramount importance. A community that minds its overall health standards must come up with a good assessment system that will assess the health of its members. Health care provision has remained one of the most critical mandates for...
Critically ill patients in intensive care unit (ICU) regularly experience nervousness and agitation and are at risk of reacting to numerous stressful and pain stimuli. Consequently, ICU patients normally require a combination of analgesia and sedation to alleviate their state of nervousness, enhance safety of the endotracheal tube, and facilitate...
Sexual Health Nursing Sexual health nursing is an area in community health nursing that has currently emerged. In this study, we shall discuss: how sexual health nursing is community nursing; analyze how sexual health nurses work with or in the community; describe the community nurseās role in maintaining social justice...
Introduction The use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as a diagnostic tool in health care has gained preference in the recent past. This is attributable to the potential and many advantages that it has on hospitals which ensures efficiency in the delivery of healthcare services (Meriles 2006). This paper is...
General Information Diabetes mellitus type 1, normally known as Type 1 Diabetes, is a type of diabetes that is caused by the lack of insulin as a result of the destruction of insulin-producing cells. Since insulin regulates the amount of glucose in the body, the destruction of the insulin-producing cells...
Introduction Zerwekh and Claborn (2009) describe nurses as healthcare professions who are motivated by science, have technical skills and are caring. Arguably, the nursing profession is among the most taxing in the healthcare industry. This can be attributed to the fact that nurses, more than other healthcare practitioners, are expected...
Introduction This is a disease that affects the hemoglobin. When hemoglobin is affected, oxygen cannot be transported to the rest of the body and chances of death are usually very high. People suffering from this disease have special hemoglobin known as hemoglobin S. For this reason, the disease is only...
Introduction Sickle cell anemia is a molecular disease that is commonly found in Africa and in countries with a history of slave trading (Bloom, 1995). People from the Middle East, Asia and Mediterranean countries are also known to carry the sickle cell gene. Being a molecular disease, sickle cell anemia...
Introduction Technology has become part of life and is being integrated everywhere. Computerizing some duties makes them easier to carry out and increases the accuracy of the same. By making duties easier to carry out and upholding accuracy a computerized system becomes efficient. The medical field is one area that...
Introduction A life well-lived is lived in such a way that it makes a positive difference to others. However, I have come to appreciate the fact that it takes more than raw skills and good intentions to be of optimum use to society. A strong educational background is necessary for...
Patient safety Patients are exposed to a lot of risks either at home or in the hospital environments which may exaggerate the condition they are suffering from (Cozens, 2001). This also affects the duration they will take before they recover. As a result, the hospital stay of the patient increases,...
Euthanasia is a practice whereby, a life of a patient is terminated intentionally to relieve pain and suffering, at the request of a patient. The act of euthanasia can be voluntary, non-voluntary, or involuntary. Physician-assisted suicide is whereby; the trusted physician assists the patient on how to commit suicide for...
Executive Summary The twenty-first century has come with challenging aspects in health care. Weight management is one challenge that has faced the American citizens and the global population as a whole. Public health concerns on the obesity epidemic and its relation to other chronic diseases are clear. As a result,...
Introduction Obesity is a serious medical condition that is signified by excessive body fat. Obesity affects all classes of people at any age, but studies show that children and adolescents are more affected by the condition (Porcellato, 2009). Many parents do not recognize whether their children are obese; instead, they...
Executive summary Having a good health is a dream of every person and all government all over the world are developing policies that are targeted at ensuring that its population has a good health. When a country or an individual is healthy, then he can be a productive person in...
The framework convention on tobacco control is the world health organizationās first and initial treaty negotiated and adopted in 2003, by WHOās member states for the purpose worldwide public health and organization/unions accountability. In other words, it is a legitimate global agreement initiated under an international body of World Health...
Increase in Quality of Care The use of computerized management systems such as Meditech and Epic in nursing is vital in several ways. First, without access to information, the clinical judgments arrived at by nurses may neither be assumed nor respected. Use of computer systems is therefore a better way...
Abstract Pressure ulcer is one of the common causes of death. Its impact on the lives of an individual is great. First, it leads to pain and time consumption. It also increases the financial burden to the patient. On the other hand, pressure ulcer strains the national budget by increasing...
Bydder, S., Joseph, J., & Spry, N. (2004). Radiology: Radiation exposure. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, 48(1), 25ā28. The authors clearly disseminate that medical imaging and radiation owes about 50% radiation to exposure. This paper published that members of staff handling the radiation equipment and the patient undergoing...
Background The State Childrenās Health Insurance Program was established in 1997 following a balanced act of the same year to provide matching funds to various states for health cover for families with children. The enacted Title XXI of the Social Security Act set aside 20 million US dollars for ten...
Abstract Smoking is generally regarded as one of the most injurious activities to human health. While there is consensus among medical experts and theoreticians that first hand smoke is harmful to the smokerās health, there is still debate and too much back and forth among medical researchers as to whether...
Introduction Acupuncture treatment during labour āa randomized controlled trial is an article that appears in BJOG- an International Journal of Obstetrics and Psychology and was authored by Agneta Ramnero, Ulf Hanson, and Mona Kihlgren. All three are professionals in the field of obstetrics and gynecology: Ramnero is a researcher in...
Introduction Breast masses, also commonly known as breast lumps, are common complaints by women visiting hospitals. This article focuses on a case where a female patient presented with a breast mass. The article will discuss the differential diagnosis, their epidemiology, and diagnostic tests. It will discuss the standard of care...
Sleep is an important part of our lives. The kind of sleep we have determines how healthy our bodies are, and to what extent our body organs can function normally. Despite this, research has shown that a large proportion of the American population suffers from serious sleep disorders, which have...
Abstract Electronic Health Recording system has had a tremendously positive effect on the process of documentation within health care institutions. The article starts by giving an introduction to the meaning and implication of EHRs to the entire health care system. Ways in which the implementation of the technology benefits the...
Introduction In the present day society, many organizations are facing out the old ways of conducting business and are instead turning to the use of information technologies to remain competitive. Similar approaches have been encountered in the healthcare industry as well with many companies implementing major information system application, often...
Introduction Over the course of the years, computerized technologies have become an integral part of the business environment. This has been as a result of their efficiency, accuracy, and speed which has revolutionalized the manner in which business is conducted. An important concept that has risen with the continued usage...
Introduction Nursing practice is very challenging. At times, nursesā personal values contradict the decisions they make in order to help their patients. An understanding of the set rules is mandatory for every nurse to ensure objectivity in their decisions. This paper recognizes the importance of ethical theory to nursing. It...
Mitchell, B., and Begoray, D. L. (2010). Electronic Personal Health Records That Promote Self-Management in Chronic Illness. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol. 15 No. 3. In this article, Mitchell and Begoray expound on the need for patients to have adequate information regarding the care and management...
Childhood obesity as a health issue presented to legislatorās office in the Department of Health Services of Suffolk County Child obesity is defined as an increased body mass resulting from fat accumulation in a childās body, which may cause health dangers to the child. Child obesity has been on the...
Introduction Community health nursing involves helping people and society to establish an environment that supports health through health promotion, prevention, and support (Diem and Moyer 2004 p.7). Avian influenza, which is normally spread by birds, is a fatal disease, as it kills infected people very quickly; besides, the treatment is...
The most critical healthcare expenditures in the US are nursing home care and prescription of drugs expenditures. A survey carried out in 2008 shows that the US government spends only 5.9% and 10% of its entire healthcare expenditure on nursing home care and for prescription of drugs respectively. This account...
Introduction In daily professional life, people are mostly caught in various unpleasant situations which they ought to come up with a solid decision to curb the situation. It becomes difficult when professionals happen to compromise with ethical or moral principles because it is easy for them to opt for one...
Introduction Huntingtonās disease is also referred to as Huntingtonās chorea which is an inherited disorder affecting an individualās brain. It mainly affects the affected personās personality, memory capabilities and mood changes. Physical control may be lost as well with most of these symptoms progressing as the disease advances. Affected individuals...
The role of professional nurses in the United States and in the international scene in terms of evidence-based healthcare is mostly focused on providing coordination and development services that will be used in the delivery of patient healthcare. Professional nursing practices that are focused on evidence-based healthcare ensure that patients...
Eating disorders often occur when individuals experience extreme eating conditions marked by disturbed behavioral characteristics. For instance, the affected person may undergo a session of extreme distortion in eating behavior like significant reduction in the amount of food taken, unnecessarily too much eating. These behavioral changes in eating may lead...
Introduction Over the last few decades, schizophrenia has gained popularity owing to its increased prevalence and its relationship with various social issues such as drug abuse. In fact, colossal amounts of resources have been utilized in research work aimed at coming up with effective diagnostic and treatment methods. In view...
Introduction According to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, the estimated number of people worldwide who have AIDS had breached the 33.2 million mark (Glassman et al., 2007). There is no wonder why this disease is now considered one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Since the discovery...
Financial management Profit-making, non-profit making, and governments need to account for their financial transitions for a period. Hospital financial management involves strategies put in place to ensure that financial operations in the hospital are conducted appropriately. Resources are scarce, thus they need to be managed effectively. When managing and reporting...
Introduction Australia is the smallest continent in the world, and on the other hand, the sixth biggest country in the world. In Australia, there is an independent, non-profit making, organization known as the Health Issue center – Victoriaās Health Consumer Organization. This center was founded in 1985 to promote and...
Executive Summary The future security and the success of any Nation depend on the health status and wellbeing of its citizens. Therefore, effective management and planning for the national health budget is an integral part of guaranteeing a secure future for the residents of any given Nation. This strategic plan...
Nursing is defined as an occupation that focuses on the provision of help to the members of society who are reported to be ill, disabled, and even those who are of old age, the aim of this profession is to ensure that such members of the society regain, achieve and...
Several general practitioners are looking for a managerial arrangement that offers adequate integration to make them competitive in the managed care world of commercial activity nevertheless maintains as much of the long-established method of therapeutic tradition, however, the group custom is one of the pleasing possibilities, at least over a...
Background Cultural health practices entail the traditional and non-professional nursing practices, which encourage the use of plant-derived remedies and a strong belief in supernatural powers to heal patients. Therefore, different cultural health practices affect the type of foods eaten by different communities, the type of health care services available to...
Introduction End-of-life care involves holistic care where social, psychological and spiritual elements of personal care are considered (Moreitz, 2007). Cancer disease and its medication have a unique impact on a personās life. Despite the fact that physical challenges borne by patients with cancer may be identical to those patients with...
Introduction Obesity is one of the major problems that continue to haunt the American population. It is currently considered an epidemic as the Americans are referred to as the āfat nationā. Obesity cuts almost equally across all ages but the increasing number of overweight children in America raises great concerns....
To define what a long-term care facility is, it is first prudent to understand the meaning of long-term care. Long-term care can be defined as a diversity of personalized and well-harmonized full care services that enhance the fullest possible autonomy for persons with functional disabilities, and are provided over an...
Abstract Patient information plays a key role in the manner in which healthcare services are delivered and the quality of those services. Of equal importance however is the manner in which the information is recorded and stored. Traditionally, patient information was recorded manually in the form of paper and stored...
Introduction Even as most governments embark on a total fight towards HIV and AIDS, the alarming rate of diabetic cases is worrying and requires a serious check. In fact it is ranked the 7th killer disease in the U.S (Wolf 503). Diabetes is derived from a Greek word ādiabaneinā which...
All types of cancers are characterized by abnormal multiplication of cells without any control and order; a characteristic feature of breast cancer malignancy includes loss in cells distinctive shape and boundaries (Hirshaut, Pressman and Brody, 2009). A cancerous cell develops when it ceases to respond to growth inhibiting body cells...
Introduction There has been continuous development in the delivery of health care because of the evolution of different disease patterns, which calls for modified forms of treatments. Some of the radical changes that have occurred over the years include a decline in global spending by the government on health care...
Introduction World Health Report, (2000) noted that āhealth scheme is the inclusion of all the performances implemented to endorse, reinstate or maintain healthā (p.5). Globally, the organization of the health scheme varies. Furthermore, this system varies after a while due to the development and modification of the health scheme to...
This paper discusses what is āmanaged health careā and how does a managed system save money? Discusses the pros and cons of requiring everyone to enter the system through a āgatekeeperā health care provider (generalist physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant). Introduction The need for health providers to cut down...
Introduction The leadership characteristics and styles differ from one individual to another and from one context to another. However, it is worth noting that leadership influences the organizational culture and climate. This then affects the levels of motivation, attitudes to work and the considerations of ethics as well as the...
This is a practice or strategy where the information and data relating to health is collected (on a national level) through an electronic system and stored in the electronic system. Several technologies intersect with the use of a reformed system that is technology-based, and in which EHR is also encompassed....
Introduction Health care which is defined as the prevention and treatment of the various ailments and injuries that affect manās physical and mental well being plays a very significant role in modern society. For this reason, all nations across the globe have invested heavily in the health sectors of their...
The quality of patient care in the medical profession is fundamentally important, not only to the concerned patients but also to the reputation and professionalism of the medical expert and facility. Quality of patient care can be defined in terms of advanced care and outcomes; exceptional patient safety; and outstanding...