Hca 250 Final
Health Psychology Committee Report
HCA 250
May 2008
Health Psychology Committee Report page 2 Our hospital as well as all hospitals need a health care reform plan to ensure that all patients are getting proper counseling during their hospital stay and when they leave they can take care of themselves to the best of their ability with out-patient help if needed. Education about their illnesses, surgeries, hospital stays, overall health, and after care is of utmost importance to all patients. I have put together a plan for our five new psychologists that will cover all of our patients’ psychological health care needs. I have assigned each one of them duties to ensure every patient gets adequate psychological care. I have chosen an out-patient pain management counselor as our fifth employee because I feel that our patients remain our patients even after they leave our hospital and that we need to provide services to them when they go home should they need them. There will be certain criteria each counselor is expected to follow to meet the many needs of our patients; present and former. “Emotional labor is the work of regulating feelings in the context of employment. Providers of consumer-based mental health services help others through their use of autobiographical experiences. These providers thus routinely perform emotional labor as they negotiate their working relationships with other service users, consumer-provider colleagues, and non-consumer coworkers (Mancini, Lawson, 2009).” With our five new employees, there will be complete, caring, comprehensive psychiatric care for the maintenance and well-being of our patients. After all, our goal here is to give our patients better overall patient health, measurable by shorter hospitalizations and improved adherence to medical regimens.
“Psychiatrists and clinical psychologists diagnose substance abuse on the basis of 3 criteria:
1 Failing to fulfill important obligations, such as in repeatedly
HCA 250
May 2008
Health Psychology Committee Report page 2 Our hospital as well as all hospitals need a health care reform plan to ensure that all patients are getting proper counseling during their hospital stay and when they leave they can take care of themselves to the best of their ability with out-patient help if needed. Education about their illnesses, surgeries, hospital stays, overall health, and after care is of utmost importance to all patients. I have put together a plan for our five new psychologists that will cover all of our patients’ psychological health care needs. I have assigned each one of them duties to ensure every patient gets adequate psychological care. I have chosen an out-patient pain management counselor as our fifth employee because I feel that our patients remain our patients even after they leave our hospital and that we need to provide services to them when they go home should they need them. There will be certain criteria each counselor is expected to follow to meet the many needs of our patients; present and former. “Emotional labor is the work of regulating feelings in the context of employment. Providers of consumer-based mental health services help others through their use of autobiographical experiences. These providers thus routinely perform emotional labor as they negotiate their working relationships with other service users, consumer-provider colleagues, and non-consumer coworkers (Mancini, Lawson, 2009).” With our five new employees, there will be complete, caring, comprehensive psychiatric care for the maintenance and well-being of our patients. After all, our goal here is to give our patients better overall patient health, measurable by shorter hospitalizations and improved adherence to medical regimens.
“Psychiatrists and clinical psychologists diagnose substance abuse on the basis of 3 criteria:
1 Failing to fulfill important obligations, such as in repeatedly
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