People who do not have any health insurance are setting themselves up for financial ruin. Uninsured people do not have access to preventative and primary care or may have difficulty receiving follow-up care. An onset of a sudden illness such as cancer or diabetes or even an accident can accumulate medical bills. Therefore‚ paying a higher out-of-pocket expense in medical bills without the use of health insurance can lead to debt or bankruptcy. Acquiring health insurance is necessary so that people
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Health Care History Keisha Williams-Young HCS/440 November 07‚ 2011 Over the course of the past 50 years‚ health care benefits costs and coverage have become a dominant force in almost everyone ’s life. By 1990‚ 186 million Americans were covered by health insurance (Kinner & Pellegrini‚ 2009). Even with that extremely high number‚ many people are still left out not possessing any insurance coverage because either they can’t afford it or they just don’t have it. With health care expenditures
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CARE PLAN Patient details: Jean is 86 year old female with heart problems‚ chronic back pain‚ Alzheimer’s‚ suicide attempts and continual thoughts of suicide and depression. Activities of daily living | Assessed needs | Support and care provided | Outcome of plan | Maintaining a safe environment | Jean has had three overdoses of painkillers and been going out and forgetting where she lives and is no longer able to live on her own. | To ensure Jean’s safety she has been referred for psychiatric
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a hospital payment classification that came to be termed the “Critical Access Hospital (CAH).” The bill’s intent was to improve Medicare reimbursement for small rural hospitals so that local residents would continue to have access to acute hospital care. There are two primary requirements for CAH status: a) a rural location; and b) 25 beds or less. Today‚ more than 60% of rural hospitals in the U.S. are designated as Critical Access Hospitals – roughly 1‚200 facilities. The states with the most CAHs
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In order to analyze David Eddy’s argument‚ "that the objective of health care is to maximize the health of the population served subject to available resources". Let us first examine John Stuart Mill’s ethical theory of Utilitarianism. Mill held two theories on utilitarianism‚ a normative and a psychological one. Normative views of Mills’ include his "principle of utility" which says actions are right if they produce the greatest amount of happiness and pleasure and wrong if they cause displeasure
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expensive health care. In Michigan‚ a state study found that in a single year (2009) health care for inmates ages 55 to 59 cost more than four times more than for those aged 20 to 24. In Georgia‚ caring for prisoners ages 65 or older costs about $8‚565 per inmate each year. The average annual health-care cost for Georgian prisoners under 65? $961 per inmate. So‚ what’s a state to do? According to experts interviewed by Pew‚ states are trying to rein in costs by providing remote health care‚ outsourcing
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Jeffrey B. Viernes 1550 Wilder Ave #A1102 Honolulu‚ HI 96822 (808) 634-5291 nursejbv21@yahoo.com Sutter Health Attn: Human Resources Department Dr. Hiring Manager‚ I am writing in response to an announcement recently posted on the Sutter Health employment opportunities web site. As you can see in my resume‚ I currently hold an Associate Degree in Nursing and graduated last May 2013 from Kauai Community College‚ School of Nursing. I passed all exams including my final exam with flying colors
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1. The term health promotion is defined as: a planned action to help others improve their health. It involves political‚ educational‚ environmental‚ actions that support individuals‚ groups‚ and communities. The overall goal of health promoters is to improve the quality of life for everyone. They believe that quality of life and health status are linked‚ and if health status improves quality of life improves as well. Health promotion first started in the late 19th century to help prevent deaths
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The primary focus of hospice care is to promote comfort and dignity at the end of life (Torphy‚ Burke‚ & Golub‚ 2012). In hospice care‚ it is one of the nurse’s job to ensure that the patient gets adequate pain relief. However‚ this can be difficult to implement in an outpatient setting. In the scenario provided‚ the patient’s family is preventing the patient from being medicated properly. This issue of family control over the patient’s medication can lead to a couple of possible negative situations
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Introduction The purpose of this research paper is to evaluate Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI)‚ a common complication of hospital care and one of the top leading causes of death in the United States. The paper will explore the current issues of HAI‚ the problem examined‚ the significance‚ and what methods are currently being implemented to reduce the problem. Problem Background The challenge that many hospital facilities are facing is how to avoid HAIs while treating patients for medical
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