Overview of Education in Health Care Historical Foundations of the Nurse Educator Role • Health education has long been considered a standard care-giving role of the nurse. • Patient teaching is recognized as an independent nursing function. • Nursing practice has expanded to include education in the broad concepts of health and illness. Organizations and Agencies Promulgating Standards and Mandates: 1. NLNE (NLN) first observed health teaching as an important function
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IT 4222-202 Outcome 1: Understand what is required for competence in own work role As I am a care assistant my duties and responsibility in my role are • Making sure I arrive on time for my service user • Assisting out of bed‚ getting washed/ showered dressed and is ready for the day • Preparing service users food whether its breakfast diner tea or super • Administering there medication • Prompting their medication • Making sure they have their fluids I set my standards very high
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Financial Characteristics of Health Care Pamela S Hill HCA 340 Wanda Carter October‚ 16‚ 2011 "Quality healthcare management includes the financial growth and viability of the healthcare organization. A healthcare organization can realize quality healthcare management only when it is fully staffed with medical and managerial professionals and is able to invest in the most advanced equipment". (eHow.com). In 2009 it was reported that 46 million Americans were uninsured. In 2011 the uninsured
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Health care providers can define the market they wish to serve by defining the customer base they wish to serve and/or the services they wish to offer. The health markets can typically be analyzed following functions they serve including; offering health care financing‚ physician and nursing services‚ institutional services‚ input factors and professional education. Healthcare financing market involves diagnosis‚ prevention‚ and treatment of diseases‚ injury‚ illness‚ and other physical mental and
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Government Intervention in Health Care Increases Cost and Decreases Quality Government intervention is a regulatory action taken by a government in order to affect or interfere with decisions made by individuals‚ groups‚ or organizations regarding social and economic matters. Government intervention sometimes is necessary to correct situations where the market fails to allocate resources efficiently or distribute income fairly. The reason why government usually
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Strengths and Weakness of Health Care The United States spends more on healthcare than any other developed country‚ yet still ranks towards the bottom of the Bloomberg report for the efficiency of health care. Less than ideal health outcomes and much dissatisfaction brought by unequal access‚ the numbers of uninsured and underinsured Americans‚ uneven quality‚ and large healthcare waste are weaknesses that the United States strives to fix. As there is no single payor system and payment schedules
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managed health care industry changed over the years. Which changes do you believe had a positive impact on the managed health care industry? The relationship between government and the managed health care industry has a long history. Managed health care otherwise known as the pre years of managed care‚ started before the 1970’s. In the period from 1910 until 1970 the most significant example is the Western Clinic in Tacoma‚ Washington‚ which is named the first example of an HMO (Health Management
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| Health economics is a subdivision of economics central to issues correlated with the effectiveness‚ significance and performance in the structure‚ production and utilization of the healthcare industry—and the evaluation of numerous categories of calculated financial information including: measured value‚ consumer costs and industry expenditures. In general terms‚ health economists analyze the health effects of behaviors—the finances‚ efficacy and operations of health care systems —and
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PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute What works* Healing the healthcare staffing shortage *connectedthinking Table of contents 01 02 03 04 Executive summary l Key findings l Future Forces l Recommendations l About the research 05 Background: Business policy issues around the supply of nurses and physicians 11 The challenges of inadequate supply 20 Overcoming the disconnect 22 23 25 27 31 Strategies for developing a workforce
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rate of 19 per 1000 live births. The general health profile of the Egyptian population is characterized by considerable discrepancies and lack of equality both in access to care and quality of services. ■ Current Healthcare Infrastructure Egypt’s healthcare system is a very pluralistic one. It relies on many sources of funding with healthcare expenditure up to 72% of total health spending incurred by households from 60% in 2007-2008. The National Health Accounts (NHA) for the fiscal year 2007/08
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