I spent my morning with Kathy Sullivan in the Primary Care Mental Health department at the VA hospital. Kathy’s job is to screen Veterans who are referred for a mental health assessment by their primary care providers. A Veteran’s physician will meet with them for annual visits and/or any other medical care that the Veteran requires. During their visit‚ if the physician at any time feels the Veteran is in need of a mental health assessment‚ they will send the patient over to Kathy’s office or
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Vincent Mazzaro One of the most controversial subjects in the news today is health care. The problem is not that the doctors can’t cure all of their patients‚ but it’s about how costly it is to cure all of these patients. The cost of helping these patients is paid for through Obama’s new national health care‚ which people’s taxes pay for. However‚ these taxes are sometimes not afforded by a certain majority of people. This makes matters even worse because all the procedures performed on these
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Manage health and social care practice outcomes for individuals 1. Understand the theory and principles that underpin based practice Explain outcome based practice In 1990 health care providers had just began to discover what appeared to be a very powerful tool for reducing variation in patient care practices - clinical paths. A clinical path includes descriptions of key events that‚ if performed by caregivers as described‚ are expected to produce the most desirable outcomes for patients
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Primary‚ Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Interventions: Haiti 2010 *Primary prevention nursing interventions: Primary prevention and nursing interventions include: the workers and volunteers receiving available‚ necessary and appropriate shots prior to entering Haiti. For the Haitians‚ immunization would also be given. This is very important against‚ Hepatitis‚ and other rare‚ yet deadly diseases‚ such as measles‚ mumps‚ rubella‚ and pertussis. Education regarding: safe and proper sanitation
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who practice nursing and deliver healthcare within a custodial environment (Weiskopf‚ 2005). Powell et al. (2010) states that primary care is the healthcare model present in custodial settings‚ and nurses are the key providers. Nursing practice in a prison setting includes prescribing‚ diagnosing‚ running specialist clinics‚ receiving and making referrals and managing care pathways (Powell et al.‚ 2010).
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Paper #2 Jennifer M. Smith Dr. Robert Lindsey Health Service Organization February 17‚ 2013 1. Compare the three (3) main types of health insurance in the U.S. and assess the solvency of each. Make a prediction regarding the longevity of each type over the next 30 years. Indemnity or fee-for-service plans‚ Health maintenance organizations (HMOhmo)‚ and Preferred provider organizations (ppoPPO) are three types of health insurance in the U.S. According to (Williams and
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discuss the structure of organized public health in the United States. Public health activities are performed at many levels from local to national to global. The organizations and agencies devoted to public health at these different levels share many of the same functions including dis- ease surveillance‚ policy development‚ and provision of access to health care. Local health departments are the point of contact with the individual residents‚ and care and data collection occur primarily at that
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Capital Budgeting Process Chrystina Health Services Finance April 1‚ 2012 Organizations that decide to issue bonds generally go through a series of steps. Discuss the six steps. These are the six steps that organizations use when they are issuing bonds. These steps are: 1. “The healthcare borrower updates its capital plan‚ measures its debt capacity and attempts to get its house in order” (Zelman‚ McCue‚ & Glick‚ 2009) 2. “The healthcare borrower selects key parties involved
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In the article “Overcoming Language Barriers to Health Care‚” by Jane Perkins she discusses how the issue of America’s melting pot of languages affects the ability to provide adequate medical care to patients (Perkins 1999). She points out the fact that everyday around the country there are citizens or immigrants coming in for care and are either not treated properly or misdiagnosed. These issues come from the fact that there is little to no staff in some of these hospitals that speak the foreign
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The managed care delivery model was intended to decrease unneeded health care costs‚ by controlling the level of service along with the type of service that was being provided. This model came in a response to the rocket costs of the unrestricted fee-for-service plans in the 1980s. (PBS.org) Managed care plans are a type of health insurance. There are several ways the managed care model is expressed one particular way is the Health Maintenance Organization or better known as HMO. HMOs have their
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