Understanding Issues Facing Health Care Professionals Nurses play an extremely vital role in the world of healthcare and make up the backbone of the health care system. Florence Nightingale is noted as one of the first trained nurses. She trained at the first organized school of nursing‚ founded in Kaiserworth‚ Germany in 1846. Nursing has evolved exponentially since then. Technology changed the face of medicine and increased the workload for nurses. Currently‚ the United States is experiencing
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Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Under HIPPA‚ “fraud is defined as knowingly‚ and willfully executes or attempts to execute a scheme… to defraud any healthcare benefit program or to obtain by means of false or fraudulent pretenses‚ representations‚ or promises any of the money or property owned by…any healthcare benefit.” Unlike Fraud‚ abuse is‚ “means that are improper‚ inappropriate‚ outside of acceptable standards of professional conduct or medically unnecessary.” Health care fraud arises from an
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issues‚ then work to create services within the community that could benefit this patient and others. Collaboration Creating collaborative relationships between healthcare providers is essential for the APN (Hamric‚ 2014). These relationships create better patient care and decrease the overall costs of healthcare by decreasing duplication of services. Hamric (2014) writes‚ “Patients assume that their health care providers communicate and collaborate effectively: thus‚ patient dissatisfaction with
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Current Legal Issue Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs University of Phoenix Legal Issues in Health Care: Regulation and Compliance HCS 430 John Weiss April 27‚ 2014 Current Legal Issue Is a woman completely in control of her own body? This question has been in controversy for many legal cases brought to court. Women have lost many cases in court when it comes to being able to use and care for their own body as they want. This issue is especially current when the woman is pregnant and the fetus’ health is in question
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Running head: Analyze a Contemporary Health Care Issue Analyze a Contemporary Health Care Issue Grand Canyon University- HCA 240 Shuness Martin January 18‚ 2015 Access to health care is a major forerunner in today’s health care talk. As health care costs rises there has been a wide number of policies to try and eliminate the rise in cost and increase access to health care services. Yet there are still many Americans that do not have access to health care services. There are three major
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R Psychosocial Issues in the Health Care of Children and Young people. A case study discussing the application and analysis of theories applicable to the psychological care of and child and their family. A case study discussing the application and analysis of theories applicable to the psychological care of and child and their family. I’m going to discuss a case study of a child named Jake. The name has been changed to comply with NMC confidentiality (Nursing and Midwifery Council 2012)
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Supply Issues in Health Care Chastity Shelton HA415: Healthcare Policy & Economics February 3‚ 2015 Professor Chelsea Allen Supply Issues in Health Care For five decades nurse practitioners have been providing safe‚ effective‚ quality primary care services to all ages and populations. As a testament to their commitment and excellence nurse practitioners are being chosen as provider of choice by millions of Americans. Becoming a skilled provider is a dynamic process that occurs over time. Effective
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Coding Fraud Michael Anastasio Ultimate Medical Academy Before answering the questions “what are my responsibilities for billing on a procedure that was not performed but asked to do so anyway”‚ Let me explain a little on Medical Billing Fraud? It is an attempt to fraudulently obtain payments from insurance carriers. Fraud in medical billing cost tax payers and medical providers millions of dollars annually (all-things-medical-billing.com). In 1996‚ HIPPA established the Health Care Fraud and
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Perspective on Health Care: New to Health Care HCS/212 January 28‚ 2013 Perspective on Health Care: New to Health Care "Medicinal discover‚ it moves in mighty leaps‚ it leapt straight past the common cold‚ and give it us for keeps." -Pam Ayers Since I was a little girl‚ I always have had a fascination in the dental field. I was one of those rare people‚ who throughout my life always enjoyed going to the dentist. I was enrolled in Palomar Dental School and was scheduled to start the dental
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capability to possibly correct and prevent Alzheimer ’s‚ Parkinson ’s‚ multiple sclerosis‚ spinal cord injuries (Reaves‚ 2001). Stem cell research is based on two areas; the adult stem cell and the human embryonic stem cell. The ethical and legal issues arise on the area of human embryonic stem cell. This topic has called gathered much attention in politics‚ medical‚ and public interest. Bringing to light ethical considerations and understanding multiple learning outcomes are paramount to comprehending
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