Patient satisfaction is critically important to the health care industry today due to the competitive nature of the field. Patients have many choices when it comes to seeking medical attention‚ and hospitals are dependent on return business to stay operational. Hospitals have traditionally utilized the semi-private room model in order to increase profitability. A semi-private room is a room shared by two patients. Each patient is given their own bed‚ but they usually share a single bathroom.
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Gone are the days of individual practitioners providing care for individual patients. Today‚ more than ever healthcare relies on a team approach. Healthcare facilities are made up of teams of caregivers‚ including physicians‚ nurses‚ and many ancillary staff. In order to provide the highest level of care to individuals‚ there must be effective clear communication across the entire continuum of care. Now more than ever‚ patients have become an intricate part of the health care delivery system. It is therefore
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current rate of treatment plan acceptance? 70%? 80%? That’s the average. What would your practice look like if every written treatment plan was accepted and every patient followed through? You’d have healthier patients and a healthier practice. Why do so many patients fail to follow through on treatment plans? You may guess that they don’t believe they really need the plan‚ or can’t afford it‚ or that they’re frightened‚ but the truth is simple. When you don’t follow up with patients‚ you don’t know
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| |Abstract (Article Summary) | |Teenager Jesica Santillan died as the victim of an elementary and inexcusable medical mistake: her heart-lung transplant had gone wrong | |because her blood type and the donor’s did not match. Given the basic flaws in the system exposed by Jesica’s story‚ it’s remarkable that | |there have not been more deaths.
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Medical professionals should be required to be present when patients receive their genetic testing results. Not having a medical professional present when the information is read to the patients is taking an unnecessary risk that could put the patient’s life in danger. Patients should have a medical professional because the professional can quickly and accurately interpret the information‚ can give a list of possible next steps‚ and give help save the patient precious time that could save their lives
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Drug addiction counseling and treatment have recently become a popular topic of discussion and pop culture. We can simply turn on the TV in many cases and see celebrities as they go through rehab. On another channel‚ we might find family members urging an individual to find treatment in an intervention. While the treatment programs presented on these television programs typically feature a paradisiacal treatment location offering a number of leisure activities‚ this is often misrepresented. Here
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To what extent did medical advancements during world war two impact the lives of soldiers? One may argue that one of the most helpful drugs during word war two‚ penicillin‚ was discovered in 1960‚ prior to world war two. Although penicillin wasn’t discovered during world war two‚ it was improved on many levels during the time such as production on an industrial scale‚ it became much more readily available‚ and by 1945 it was 20 times stronger than the 1939 version of penicillin. Therefore‚ even
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For patient abandonment to occur‚ the nurse must: a) Have first accepted the patient assignment‚ thus establishing a nurse-patient relationship‚ and then b) Severed that nurse-patient relationship without giving reasonable notice to the appropriate person (e.g.‚ supervisor‚ patient) so that arrangements can be made for continuation of nursing care by others. A nurse-patient relationship begins when the responsibility for nursing care of a patient is accepted by the nurse or certified nursing
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Frankenstein. Reasonably‚ certain psychosurgical treatments use methods that seem unconventional. However‚ many cures are often found from new ways of thinking. Thus‚ methods that are often stigmatized deserve a fighting chance. When the ethicality of psychosurgical treatments are questioned‚ it should be based on the effectiveness of the treatment on the patient. Even though‚ effectiveness is an important factor‚ the truth lies on getting better. If a treatment is not effective‚ but has quality standards
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obvious correlation would be that doctors know the answer. However‚ in America‚ this is no longer always true as doctors overprescribe pills and other medications to patients who don’t need it.This is primarily due to the consumerist culture present in America that makes society susceptible to pharmaceutical media and leads patients to the conclusion that the answer is always in a pill. Regardless of the potentially harmful side-effects‚ hundreds of doctors in America are driven to overprescribe
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