H.R. 3590 Patient Protection Act and Affordable Care Act 2010 H.R. 3590 is intended to expand access to health insurance‚ reform the health insurance market to provide additional consumer protections‚ and improve the health care delivery system to reduce costs and produce better outcomes. The bill would expand insurance coverage to 94% yet leaving 24 million Americans without insurance coverage‚ at the same time suppose to improve the functioning of the individual and small group insurance markets
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Abstract In this paper‚ the topics of meaningful use‚ the National Patient Safety Goals‚ mobile technologies‚ current technologies‚ and different ways to analyze healthcare data are talked about. Furthermore‚ the National Patient Safety Goals are broken down and a few are explained more in depth with regards to processes of analyzing and tracking data. The analyzing and tracking of data is necessary in order to ensure that healthcare professionals‚ healthcare organizations‚ and healthcare consumers
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determines patient benefits eligibility would come from the patients’ information form and their insurance card. The medical insurance specialists would then contact the payer to confirm eligibility‚ any copayment that the patients are required to pay before care is rendered and whether the care they are seeking is a covered service under their plan. These steps are required before care is provided to the patient except in a medical emergency. If there is an emergency the patient is taken care of and
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in life; therefore‚ all living beings will inevitably die. Nurses play an important role in caring for dying patients and their families. Because of this‚ nurses need to evaluate their beliefs and feelings on death before providing care to patients. Many researchers have studied the attitudes of nurses and the effects these attitudes may have while providing care to the dying patient and their families. Research studies use demographics and other measuring tools to analyze the attitudes of nurses
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I recently admitted a 59 year old male with suicidal ideation. As I was assessing my patient‚ he told me that he was a type 2 diabetic who checks his bloodsugars with meals and uses Insulin for coverage. He was concerned that his readings at home have been elevated and has not had an appetite for the last two days. I used the glucometer to check his chemstick which was 285. I called the admitting doctor and the Hospitalist to report my findings and the result of the bloodsugar. As a nursing
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The doctor-patient relationship has always been the corner stone of health care delivery. In order to fully appreciate the impact MCOs brought on this relationship‚ one must first understand the doctor-patient relationship concept. The doctor–patient relationship has been and remains a keystone of care: the medium in which data are gathered‚ diagnoses and plans are made‚ compliance is accomplished‚ and healing‚ patient activation‚ and support are provided (Lipkin‚ 1995). Issues that have affected
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their own care. This allows patients to make competent and well- informed decisions about their health. In an effort‚ to reduce costly and unnecessary hospital admissions among seniors in Montgomery County Maryland‚ The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) in conjunction with Nexus Montgomery Regional partnership established a program called WISH. This program stands for Well and Independence for Seniors at Home. The primary goal of the program is to actively engage patients in taking
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supported by the nursing and midwifery council (2015) which states that within all care settings nurses should always make sure they are respecting their patient’s right to privacy. This implies that the nurse should keep personal information about Sam confidential and only disclose to other healthcare professionals when necessary for his care. This is vital because the nurse as chosen a career in which they want to care for vulnerable individuals.
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1. Provide an overview of the problem and briefly describe the methodology the study. The study was aiming to find if the patients’ perception to their physicians’ attentiveness this affect the relation between the physician’s recommendations regarding the diet and the exercises and the obese patients’ general health status. The study was recruited an ethnic group (from three ethnic groups: Caucasians‚ Hispanics‚ and African Americans) from 48 contiguous United States who were surveyed by telephone
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Geriatric Project Patient L.G. is a 92 year old black female‚ born and raised in Augusta GA. L.G. is the oldest of 6 children and has an 8th grade education. She had to leave school at an early age to help her parents who were “Field Hands” with her young siblings. L.G. spent most of her youth picking cotton alongside her parents and tending to her younger brothers and sisters and was unable to complete her education. L.G. was a very quick learner and very good with her hands. She always envisioned
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