MANAGED CARE Managed health care is a system of health care delivery managed by a company aiming mainly at quality/value cost effective services provided to patients. It has been introduced with an intention to avoid paying for unessential facilities and services directly to physicians. It helps in forming an intermediate between patients and physicians in such a way that health insurance organizations pay the physicians from the premiums paid by patients to insurers for the services provided
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Unit 40: Dementia Care P1: Describe types of dementia and common signs and symptoms. What is dementia? Dementia is a common condition that affects about 800‚000 people in the UK. Your risk of developing dementia increases as you get older‚ and the condition usually occurs in people over the age of 65. Dementia is a syndrome associated with an ongoing decline of the brain and its abilities. This includes problems with: memory loss thinking speed mental agility language understanding
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life changing event. During this time elderly patients often receive new diagnosis’s that require teaching and new medications such as diabetes and hypertension. For this assignment I have been asked to assume the role as the case manager providing care for Mr. Trosack‚ an 84 year old gentleman recovering from a total hip replacement. Healthcare Issues that Require Intervention After carefully reviewing the case study involving Mr. Trosack‚ I have identified several issues that a case manager
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Unit 4222-301 Promote communication in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings (SHC 31) Level: Credit value: UAN: 3 3 J/601/1434 Unit aim This unit is aimed at those who work in health or social care settings or with children or young people in a wide range of settings. The unit introduces the central importance of communication in such settings‚ and ways to overcome barriers to meet individual needs and preferences in communication. Learning outcomes There are four
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that we have to follow within our day to day activities‚ so staff know what to follow and making sure the children are safeguarded. The way we safeguard which is our policy to offer help and support to all the parents and guardians to children in our care we also to all the staff. Also arranging for CRB checks on all adults that checks to work with the children and they will check is to see wherever a person is already barred from working with vulnerable children and young people. CRB checks will continue
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Part A This portfolio entry requires an assessment and care plan to be presented incorporating the nursing process based on a client that I assisted in the care of during my clinical placement. The patient on which the care plan will be assessed will be a 72 year old female‚ May Watters who I assisted in the care of during clinical placement in the Emergency Department (ED). May Watters is a pseudo name to ensure confidentiality to An Bord Analtrais standards (ABA 2000). May was brought in by
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Quality of care has always been a driving force in the healthcare market. What determines quality of care is largely affected by one’s perspective. Hospitals and physicians view quality in terms of outcomes and standards of care. Patient’s view quality based on their experience and perception. As the healthcare market has become increasingly competitive‚ hospitals have become increasingly aware that it is no longer adequate to give care that meets standards and has good outcomes‚ but that care must
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TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS AND ADOPTION PROCEDURES The Probate Courts of Connecticut Probate Court Administrator 186 Newington Road West Hartford‚ CT 06110 Compliments of your probate court: INTRODUCTION Among the laws within the jurisdiction of Connecticut Probate Courts are those dealing with adoptions and the termination of parental rights. This brochure was designed to explain the basic aspects of a complex body of laws with which most people are not familiar. It is not
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IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY BASED STRATEGIES IN DELIVERING COMMUNITY BASED MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH Community health strategy is a community based approach through which households’and community take active role in health and health related developmental issue. Its aim is to enhance community access to health care through‚ providing health care services to all cohorts and socio economic groups at house hold and community level; building the capacity of community health extension worker (CHEW) and
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Care Plans. Care plan for a long-standing condition called myxoedema‚ which is a condition I had never come across before. Therefore‚ in order to compile an accurate and comprehensive care plan I had to look into what myxoedema was. Myxoedema is caused by hypothyroidism (under activity of the thyroid gland). Myxoedema refers to the buildup of mucoploysaccharide in the subcutaneous tissues of the skin (Kumar and Clark‚ 1998). Signs and symptoms of myxoedema include oedematous swelling of the
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