Medical Administrative Assistant Field In the field of Medical Administrative Assistant‚ there is a multitude of career choices to branch off into. Of these many fields‚ the three that I choose to discuss are Medical Billing‚ Medical Coding and Medical Assistant. All three careers are of high demand in the medical industry and each requires the need of basic classes‚ with a couple of varied courses‚ depending on the field. Basic requirements for all include a high school diploma or GED. Most
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FACTORS AFFECTING PATIENT SAFETY AS PERCEIVED BY STAFF NURSES IN SELECTED HOSPITALS IN METRO MANILA I. INTRODUCTION A) BACKGROUND “The biggest challenge to moving toward a safer health system is changing the culture from one of blaming individuals for errors to one in which errors are treated not as personal failures‚ but as opportunities to improve the system and prevent harm.” - Institute of Medicine ‘99 Issues related to a lack of patient safety have been reported for decades
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errors. Patient safety is the core value of the nursing profession‚ while nursing is being embraced by its caring attitude toward the patient‚ safety should be our number one priority. This research article is very important to the nursing profession‚ in part because it addresses one of the most significant issues of the profession‚ which is patient safety. According to the Nurse’s Practice environment article‚ Flynn‚ Liang‚ Dickson‚ Xie‚ & Suh (2012) RNs are well positioned to serve as patient safety
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Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient Confidentiality: Ethical Implications to Nursing Practice Patient confidentiality is a fundamental practice in healthcare and it is integral part of healthcare ethical standards (Purtilo & Dougherty‚ 2010). According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics “the nurse has a duty to maintain confidentiality of all patient information” (Nursing world‚ p.6). Also‚ when a patient confidentiality
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Medieval people did not have the concept of privacy and there was no privacy because nobody was alone. There was no private space and houses were tiny and crowded which allowed everyone to engage in a face-to-face community. Even though it was almost impossible to get privacy‚ many desired it and greater riches meant more privacy. Privacy became an issue during the growth of literacy where people began using private letters for correspondence. The initial use of letters in the 17th century was not
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Today‚ you have more reason than ever to care about the privacy of your medical information. They were once stored in locked file cabinets and on dusty shelves in the medical records department. Your doctor’s used to be the sole keeper of your physical and mental health information. With today’s usage of electronic medical records software‚ information discussed in confidence with your doctor’s will be recorded into electronic data files. The obvious concern the potential for your records to be seen
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and even more to generate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) by Congress in remedy to its torts‚ patient dumping still appear to be an issue in our society today. In fact‚ patient dumping occurs when hospitals deny treatment to emergency patients -- often because those patients can’t pay. As Patient dumping is the practice of refusing to treat patients who cannot pay for healthcare services. Federal anti-dumping law‚ initiated by Congress as part of the Consolidated Omnibus
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Applying the Results and Conclusions of the Research Process to Problems in Health Care Ryan Abels HCS/465 March 27‚ 2013 Ann Impens Applying the Results and Conclusions of the Research Process to Problems in Health Care Abstract Childhood obesity leads to gastric bypass which is the operation recommended by the National Institute of Health for treatment of morbid obesity because of its low morbidity and mortality rates and excellent long-term results regarding weight loss”.
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Authors note- I didn’t find it hard to choose a topic. I chose the topic of taxes on the rich because it is just something that I am interested. I thought it was really easy to find sources on the library database about this topic. One problem I had was narrowing down my results because I got like 20‚000 results when I first typed in taxing the rich but after you showed us how to pick databases that helped a lot. One of the things I revised after reading my paper out loud to my partners
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MULUNGUSHI UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMME: BACHELOR IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SCHOOL: SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSE: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COURSE CODE: SHR 212 STUDENT’S NAME: LEANER S. MUDENDA STUDENT’S NO.: 045309004 LECTURER’S NAME: MR. LINUS CHISANGA ASSIGNMENT QUESTION 2: Critically examine the employee recruitment plan‚ focusing on the challenges for the formulation and implementation of procedures to achieve high levels of reliability
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