and why the hospital emergency department sometimes used for nonurgent conditions. | The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act‚ better known as EMTALA was developed due to the concern that patients that could not pay would be denied emergency medical treatment. This law confronted the hospitals that were allegedly transferring‚ discharging‚ or refusing to treat patients who did not have insurance. To protect these patients‚ the 1986 signed law required emergency facilities to must screen
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for things such as illness and injuries that require immediate attention but are usually not serious enough to require the patient to take a trip to the emergency room. Urgent is a word meaning to take immediate action‚ and was derived from the Latin word “urgentem”. The first urgent care facility was established in the 1970s when a few emergency medicine physicians came together and decided that the time had come to respond to a public need for easy and convenient access to medical care that was
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The organization I chose to do my volunteer work was Action Physical Therapy. I chose this PT office because I have some interest in physical therapy as a career and I enjoy this line of work. The physical therapist who supervised me and worked with me the most was KP Lee. I was treated as an assistant to the Doctors and trainers in the office. My role in the office was to do the miscellaneous work and provide help of any kind to the therapists and patients. I did a lot of laundry‚ folding‚ washing
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Emergency room over utilization is one of the leading causes of today’s ever increasing healthcare costs. The majority of the patients seen in emergency rooms across the nation are Medicaid recipients‚ for non-emergent reasons. The federal government initiated Medicaid Managed Care programs to offer better healthcare delivery‚ adequately compensate providers and reduce healthcare costs. Has Medicaid Managed Care addressed the issues and solved the problem? The answer is ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Throughout
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The Use of Emergency Room as a Primary Care Provider There are Emergency rooms all over the United States that are being utilized as primary care provider.‚ by patients covered by private insurance‚ Medicaid‚ Medicare as well as the uninsured.(Baker‚ August 13‚ 2008) Some patients call their primary care provider and are told‚ they cannot be worked in for several days or weeks. The option given is to go to the Emergency room for treatment. Other reasons are people who do not have a primary
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Emergency Room Nurses Face Increasing Danger Emergency nurses are starting to get hurt. According to the Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services International Conference held in Berlin this year‚ 98 percent of emergency room nurses in the Unites States reported verbal harassment and 67 percent reported physical violence. While in Canada‚ 84 percent of the nurses in the emergency department witnessed verbal harassment once in every shift. While there are 90 percent of them claimed
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Emergency Rooms vs Urgent Care Centers People everyday deal with sudden illnesses and emergencies‚ and it always seems these unfortunate situations happen when your physician’s office is closed. If your emergency is bad enough‚ most people will go to their local emergency department‚ but that may not always be the best choice. This is where it would benefit people to know the many differences between emergency rooms and urgent care centers. Emergency rooms and urgent care centers differ
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made me certain of what I wanted to pursue. That day consisted of being brought to the Emergency Room by my uncle while he was on call. That day I saw many gruesome things‚ one of those things was one that has remained imprinted in my mind till this day. There was a little girl about the age of seven‚ she had gotten into an accident and had terrible lacerations from a car accident. I waited outside of the room in which she was receiving surgical care. I waited for more than a few hours until I finally
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org/page/about-us). My children and I volunteered to help set up the facility for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner. The day before Thanksgiving we drove to downtown Atlanta to the Georgia World Congress and Convention Center. We were amazed by the number of volunteers already there. There were people from all walks of life‚ executives‚ athletes‚ clergy‚ housewives and fathers‚ and even some people who were clearly in need themselves.
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Chapter 3: Adverse Reactions 1. Name four classifications of adverse drug reactions. A. Toxic Reaction: - Extension of the pharmacologic effect resulting from effect on target organs‚ B. Side Effect: -Dose- related reactions - Drug acts on non target organs C. Idiosyncratic Reaction: - Abnormal Drug Response D. Drug Allergy: - Immunologic Response 2. Describe the problem with identifying teratogenic agents. - Although more information is now available about safety of
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