timeline of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010 and to discuss its potential impact on healthcare access‚ costs and quality‚ and insurance companies. . II. Healthcare Reform Timeline The PPACA includes comprehensive reforms that will take place over the next four years. It is intended to hold insurance companies more accountable‚ protect consumers‚ lower health care costs‚ increase the quality of care and provide
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Family Health Jon Shepherd NUR/542 May20‚ 2013 Judith McLeod Family Health There are many ways to define family. The traditional definition is a group of related people living together in the same household. Families of today may have only one parent may have a step mother or step father may have adoptive parents‚ and in some cases may have parents of the same gender (Friedmann‚ Bowden‚ & Jones‚ 2003). Family is a term that can be interpreted differently by different individuals.
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A Family Case Study from General Santos City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Health Care 1 Submitted to: Ralph T. Benito‚ RN Clinical Instructor Notre Dame of Dadiangas University Submitted by: Caspillo‚ Lorena Grace D. *Tan‚ Raj Jester *A. February 24‚ 2009 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT To their dearest parents that helped them a lot in terms of material and financial resources and for being their inspirations in making this study. To their beloved Clinical instructors‚ thank you
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assignment will present a nursing care study of a patient on a cardiac ward. The patient will be referred to as Ann to maintain confidentiality (NMC‚ 2008). Ann’s consent was gained prior to starting this care study. The care study will be developed using the Nursing process and the Roper‚ Logan and Tierney model. These will both be outlined. The assignment will focus on the assessment process and one problem identified during the assessment and the nursing care which followed this. I was placed
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I. Introduction Patient 123 On 28th August 2017‚ Patient 123‚ a 45 year old Chinese uncle came to Hospital X to do a non-contrast abdomen Computed tomography (CT) scan which required a cross section view of the patient’s body anatomy to reassurance the reoccurrence of renal stones on the patient’s kidneys. Patient was ambulant‚ alert‚ conscious and cooperative as he was able to follow the instructions given by the radiographer. As he could understood and converse in Chinese‚ there was no communication
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A number of professionals are involved in providing health care to patients. Inter-professional practice happens when professions from more than one health care professions work together interactively to improve inter-professional collaboration for the expert purpose of improving patient care and well being (Farrell‚ Payne‚ & Heye‚ 2015). Likewise‚ Milton (as cited in Farrell‚ Payne‚ & Heye‚ 2015) defines inter-professional team-work as healthcare professionals who co-operate‚ collaborate‚ communicate
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Delirium in Elderly Patients Karen Hull Northern Arizona University Delirium in Elderly Patients As the human life span increases‚ acute care facilities are confronted with increasing numbers of elderly patient admissions. It is estimated that approximately one third of the elderly patients admitted to an acute care facility will develop symptoms of delirium (Brown‚ Fitzgerald‚ & Walsh‚ 2007). Delirium can be defined as “an acute confusional state characterized by inattention‚ disorganized
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How does a health care worker use empathy when establishing communication with the client in a health care setting? Good communication with the patient is a key concept within health care. The ability to motivate the client and help him overcome his circumstance is essential. To have supportive communication with a patient the nurse needs to be problem orientated‚ empathetic‚ have audience awareness‚ be a good listener and so much more. Good communication is as important before and after
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SUMMATIVE ASSESMENT A CASE STUDY Mrs Charlotte Green is a 76-year-old woman living in Edinburgh. She lived for 20 years in a domestic violence situation perpetrated by her husband. Her daughter was also the victim of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of the father. Mrs. Green’s husband died suddenly‚ and while Mrs Green and her best friend went away on holiday‚ her son‚ his wife and their son‚ aged 5 moved into the family home claiming that the father had left the property in his name
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Midwifery Care Study of a Mother with a Normal Pregnancy at Ruiru Sub-District Hospital October‚ 2012 1. Care Study of a Mother with a Normal Pregnancy at Ruiru Sub-District Hospital This work describes the care study of an expectant mother (Irene Magiri Karuthui) comprising of the care processes carried out for the client throughout her antenatal visits‚ the delivery process and the postnatal period. The new approach to Antenatal Care (ANC) emphasizes the quality of care rather than
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