In the healthcare professions‚ it is imperative to keep up to date with current health care‚ expanding research‚ and ways in which patient care and treatment outcomes can be improved. This is especially important in the nursing field‚ in which the main focus is holistic and patient-centered care. There are constant research studies being conducted which introduce new ways to treat and approach patients. Three articles that talk about prevalent healthcare issues in modern society are: The Primary
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nurse has‚ ensuring patient-centered care is considered an essential objective of high-quality health care system. The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) is a project which main purpose is to prepare future nurses with the knowledge‚ skills‚ and attitudes that are fundamentals to promote quality and safe healthcare systems (“QSEN Competencies‚” 2014). The first competencies which QSEN focuses on is patient-centered care. Patient centered care is described as a care that implements respect
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competitive advantage. With so many threats in health care Mr. Vandenberg himself stated that “there is a great opportunity for mergers and acquisitions for the future to set up more growth.” With the new health care reform and the uncertainty of the US health care system‚ there is a growing trend of healthcare organizations to merge and acquire other organizations. Healthcare organizations like multi-hospital health systems‚ stand-alone hospitals‚ large medical groups‚ small independent physician
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Topic: Hospitals rejected patients Intro Attention Getter: A news from Bangkok Post (2013)- 31 years old mother was found in a terrified state at her home with a dead baby besides her. She went to a private hospital in Phaya Thai district. Staff said her insurance did not cover the birth of her baby and the service fee was at minimum of 15‚000baht. She could not afford the fees and decided to go back home. She later gave birth by herself‚ resulting in her baby’s death (Fendrickson‚ 2013). This is
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should the hospital board make for next year and the next five years? After reviewing the balance sheets for the Patton Fuller Community Hospital for the next fiscal year‚ it shows that the hospital will break even. For the year the hospital is making enough money that will cover all of their debts. The hospital will not make any profits. To avoid debts of the hospital from increasing‚ the hospital will need to increase their revenues. Healthcare organizations need to realize hospital revenue management
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Delivering patient care is intertwined with communication and person centred care. It entails understanding that healthcare professionals put patient’s needs at the centre of the whole process of their care. However‚ care is achieved by providing patients with the best treatment for their illness‚ give them the choice of treatment‚ respect their decision making and maintain confidentiality of their information (NMC‚ 2010). My observations during practical placement in care of the elderly ward in
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Healthcare manager VS. Patient care outcome Ways to help managers focus and reach the goal-setting and make sure planning process to change employee engagement results into clinical improvements: 1. Seeing the big picture. Good managers not only understand the survey result‚ they also and can interpret to their employee for engagement. Meanwhile‚ making better outcomes for patients and employees. Regularly communicating the purpose and through the right direction get higher outcomes. Use staff engagement
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take‚ the number of chronic conditions they live with‚ and the number of hospital visits they will require‚ will increase. A concerning statistic is that as many as one in four elderly patients discharged from hospital will experience an adverse health event within thirty days of hospital discharge. These events may have serious outcomes‚ which may include a need for care in an emergency department‚ readmission to hospital‚ admission to a nursing
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How can community health nurses apply the strategies of cultural competence to their practice? A nurse can be a part of helping a patient’s cultural preservation in their practice. For example‚ some people in the Jamaican culture hold nine-day wakes for deceased persons. The wake is a time for respecting and honoring the departed soul. For nine nights‚ relatives and friends share food and sing hymns‚ thus saying goodbye to the departed one (). A nurse can advocate for a patient from Jamaican
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organization areas needing improvement that were not known. Strategic managers need to look at the forces that influence the long-term decisions and these are the economic forces‚ technological forces‚ political-legal forces‚ and sociocultural forces (Hunger and Wheelen‚ 2011). Purpose of an Environmental Analysis Conducting a SWOTT Analysis requires Banner Churchill Community Hospital (BCCH) to evaluate
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