Patient Portals HCS/490 January 28‚ 2013 Russell Wettstein Patient Portals Every day more and more people use the internet to communicate with friends‚ family‚ and coworkers. The internet is used for banking‚ making reservations‚ reading books‚ and now they can manage their health care online. Many providers now offer health care portals to their patients. They can email their physician‚ check lab results‚ and even make appointments right from the comfort of their home. Portals have
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Concept of Patient Satisfaction Nursing theories gives directions and guidance for structuring nursing practice and also these theories are the part of nursing education and research. Many of the nursing theories are based on the concept of caring. Watsons Human caring theory one of the well-known caring theory. The institution I work for uses the caring model which is based on the human caring theory of Jean Watson. “Transpersonal Caring Relationship” is the foundation of her theory. Watson based
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Identity Crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient Lerzan Gültekin Atılım University in Ankara‚ Turkey lerzan_gultekin@atilim.edu.tr Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze identity crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient from a postcolonial perspective through the concept of nationalism and national identity‚ emphasizing cultural‚ psychological and physical displacement due to colonization‚ travelling‚ exploration and space / place (cartography)‚ referring to the theories
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effortless to say that the Patient Portability and Accountability Act is a topic that is very controversial. Although the Affordable Care Act is supported by the American Nurses Association‚ not all nurses are individually supporting it. There are a number of reasons for this divide. Many nurses are concerned about the strain that the Affordable Care Act is putting on their workplace. Through the Affordable Care Act‚ many people who did not have access to health insurance before are now insured. Due
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1.1. Nosocomial infection burden Nosocomial infections or healthcare acquired infections can truly be a grave toll for hospital management as much as it is for end-beneficiaries‚ customers‚ and stakeholders. Mortality reaches 80‚000 annually ; 3 patients die per minute ; 10-20% % incidence globally‚ and figures are expectedly higher in Third World settings. This is not to mention the corollary problem of emerging microorganisms resistant to overuse of prophylactic and anticipatory shotgun antibiotic
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A patient experience that stands out as significant is the day I had an exchanged patient from a different country. This patient came in because part of her tooth fell out. When she pointed to the tooth‚ I saw she had a huge carious lesion. I told her to get a dental exam so the dentist can diagnose the suspicious disease. She refused to get a dental exam because the dentist was not going to fix her tooth that same day. I told her about Open Door and she agreed to a call them. During that visit‚
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Overview Patient is a 83 year-old female‚ presented to the ED on 7/2/13 with complaints of chest pain caused by what family believed to be aspiration pneumonia‚ also with worsening stage 4 sacral wound. Patient has a past medical history of a subdural hematoma secondary to a fall from a ladder‚ IDDM‚ bleeding gastric ulcer‚ and aspiration pneumonia. EKG and cardiac enzymes were ordered in the ED‚ EKG was unremarkable with a normal sinus rate and rhythm‚ enzymes within acceptable range. Patient sacral
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"Patient Confidentiality" (ID: 11116011 Krishna Rana) Description: For the past two weeks I have been working in a large surgical ward that has mass thoroughfare of people in and out of the ward - namely doctors‚ visitors and other allied health care staff. One method of Patient Confidentiality which I have encountered is the use of cavity lockers for each individual patient - which lock patients files and confidential information safely in the wall. In addition‚ these lockers are secured with
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were unplanned (Weiss‚ Yakusheva‚ and Bobay‚ 2011). For those patients who have a primary care provider and actually follow up as instructed within 1-2 weeks‚ 2/3 of those primary care providers will have not received a written discharge summary of the patient’s stay. On the other hand‚ a large percentage of patients either do not have access to primary care and if they do‚ they fail to follow up within 1-2 weeks after hospital discharge as instructed. This may may be the cause of a number of different
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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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