important for you to remember while you interview Ms. Li? When conducting the interview and asking about pain‚ depression‚ abuse‚ etc…‚ keep in mind that culturally‚ Asian Americans are generally stoic and tend to hide depression‚ pain‚ and mental illness. Therefore‚ watching for signs and body language as well as affect will be the better way to go than just asking. Be sure to ask about traditional medicines and ask in a way that lets her know that you are open-minded. Reassure her regarding confidentiality
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multiple hats. They are not only doctors‚ but they are counselors‚ problem solvers and team players. Doctors are taught to be optimistic. They are always looking for ways to fix a problem and keep the hope alive. It is their job to to find solutions to illness and not give up hope. Doctors are not taught how to deal with the problems that can’t be fixed like aging or death. One doctor in the documentary stated that conversations about death should come before a patient has a week to live‚ but the natural
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NM2710-The experience of Health & Illness Assessment: Client case Study- Culture and the “Service User” Experience Introduction In this essay‚ I will be discussing a client that I cared for while I was on my placement practice. I had to fill in my inter-professional education book where i had to interview a client about his experience in the health care setting and how he is coping with his health and illness and the health care he is receiving whilst he is in the care of the National Health
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Struggles of Mental Illness Having a chronic illness or condition and being different from the general population subjects a person to possible stigmatization by those who do not have the illness (Joachim & Acron‚ 2000). Stigma is a negative stereotype. For persons with mental illness‚ stigma is one of the greatest barrier to complete and satisfying life. Mentally ill individuals are seen as being dangerous‚ violent and unpredictable. As a result of this view‚ the mentally ill are stereotyped‚ discriminated
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cost management? Linking like patients with like-resource consumption allows hospitals to perform cost management by DRG or DRG groupings. 3. Why was a severity of illness refinement performed on the DRG system? Was it supported by the healthcare community? The severity of illness refinement allows cases with a higher severity of illness ranking to be more appropriately reimbursed. Yes‚ the refinement was supported by the healthcare community. 4. List the steps of MS-DRG assignment. Pre-MDC Assignment
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competency has always been important. Guidelines have been developed for critically ill adults and patients with severe mental illness to assist clinicians and families in the evaluation of competency (Stein‚ et al. 2001). The decision to accept or reject a potentially life-saving medical procedure is also affected by developmental considerations for an adolescent with a serious illness. I’m against adolescents making decisions about life in death. Adolescent have a developmental trajectory that
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Health care is the improvement of health over the diagnosis‚ therapy‚ and prevention of disease‚ illness‚ and other physical and spiritual injury in human beings. It is delivered by health professionals. Health care includes in providing primary care‚ secondary care‚ and tertiary care. Health care are organizations and defined to meet the health needs of target populations. Their configuration changed between national and subnational asset. World Health Organization (WHO) said that a well- functioning
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Euthanasia is the deliberate act of putting an end to a patient’s life for the purpose of ending the patients suffering. But can it ever be right to kill patients‚ even with the intent to ease suffering? To kill patients‚ even with the intent to ease suffering‚ is considered homicide. Over the past years euthanasia has been defeated and become illegal in every country besides Netherland and Belgium. I am afraid that if euthanasia could have been legalised in those two countries‚ it’s a matter of
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and illness among different social groupings. For this task I have been asked to produce a report to investigate which social groupings are most in need of health and social care services. To assist in the planning of care provision in my report I will be explaining patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings identified according to factors such as gender‚ social class‚ geographical location‚ ethnicity and age. SOCIAL CLASS AND PATTERNS OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS Social
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as individuals‚ it would seem that the State has an obligation to protect individuals from threats to life. At local level‚ the existence of publicly funded protective services suggests that at least health care for imminent threats to life from illness or accident should be publicly funded. It is flatly inconsistent to publicly fund protection by police and fire agencies of not only life but trivial forms of property‚ and yet place medical treatment in emergency cases on a fee for service basis
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