Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Yolanda Raqueno HCS/455 April 17‚ 2013 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The goal of this essay is to discuss the health care system in the United States. Another aim of this essay is to discuss the health policy‚ to improve‚ and to reduce inequalities. In the United States the private insurance system is a major provider of health care services‚ health care system is expensive and in many cases not efficient. This essay focuses
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Access to Health Care Access to health care refers to the individual’s ability to obtain and use needed services (Ellis & Hartley‚ 2008). Access to health care affects a multitude of people. Uninsured‚ underinsured‚ elderly‚ lower socioeconomic class‚ minorities‚ and people that live in remote areas are at the highest risk for lack of access to health care. There are also economical and political roles that complicate access to health care. Access to health care is a multi-faceted concept
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Case Study One Identification of the Care that Mr Jones will require in relation to the safe management and promotion of wound healing This essay will focus on the holistic care of Mr Jones‚ with particular attention to the management of his wound. The points that will be discussed and analysed are the role of the skin‚ wound assessment‚ the nutritional status of Mr Jones and the problem of his obesity. Added to this‚ an analytical discussion of the involvement of the multi-disciplinary team
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types of reliable evidence from practice used as a means of providing substantiation of my learning and development‚ I will explore and provide a range of evidence from my portfolio‚ verifying achievement of my 2 chosen NMC proficiencies within the care delivery domain at Bondy level 4 (appendix 1).I aim to support this with a discussion as to how my chosen evidence undoubtedly provides verification of these requirements‚ a vital component of this is selecting the right types of evidence to properly
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As we continue to take more difficult classes in pursuit of becoming nurses‚ it is easy to forget about self-care. In an effort to prevent burn out‚ our group has integrated the practices of exercise and meditation into our daily schedules. In the following‚ we discuss how both mediation and exercise worked and didn’t work for us‚ what we learned while on this journey‚ and how we applied our learning to teach someone the skills and knowledge we obtained in meditation and exercise. Countless research
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The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act‚ also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‚ or Obamacare‚ was put into law by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010. The focus of the Act is a health care law geared towards improving the health care system of the United States by broadening medical coverage to more Americans‚ as well as protecting the existing health insurance policy holders. The Obama Administration‚ states that those people that already have
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b DEPARTMENT OF NURSING NURSING CARE PLAN |Student Name: p |Age: 89 | |Course number: Basic Skills & Concepts of Nursing |
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During my time at BHS I’ve managed to meet my personal standards and achieve my highest goal that I’ve set for myself. A college has been the path that I have chosen to be on since I was a little girl and that’s the biggest thing I’ve achieved. Personally moving on to college and making something of you own self is the best thing anyone could do for themselves in my opinion. It was a way for me to prove that I could excel past the limitations that my surroundings and environment had set for me and
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Continuum of Care- Long-term Care Long-term care has and is continuing to become an important part of the continuum of care. Years ago Long-term care (LTC) was considered only to be for the elderly‚ but as time passes it is for anybody and everybody who needs it. Barton (2006) stated‚ “Regardless of the length of time (i.e.‚ from weeks to years)‚ long-term care is an array of services provided in a range of settings to individuals who have lost some capacity for independence due to injury‚ chronic
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Poverty and Health-care in the Federal System The Constitution of the United States has two foundational organizational principles that one of them is federalism. Federalism was an unquestionable intellectual concern of the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution. Federalism is defined as the division of the power between a central government and several regional governments. The sharing of the power between the federal government and the state governments is consequential part of the United
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