...visits, complex procedures, and cost of prescriptions. Consumers find several ways to reduce healthcare cost for the insured and uninsured individuals. Some patients questioned where most of the money goes when they pay premiums for health treatments. There are some occurring solutions to the ever-rising cost of healthcare. Decisions you make can determine how much you pay for healthcare. Review your health insurance plan, you can do this by getting involved in your open enrollment, there you may find better or more affordable options available that may fit your needs. If there is no need or emergency in going to see your doctor other than for an annual checkup, getting a different health plan will be beneficial. If your employer subsidizes your care versus that of your dependents, it might make sense to have the dependents get their coverage on the open market, if they only subsidize the employee’s coverage. Other opportunities to save on health care cost is consider getting a health savings account that will allow you to contribute pre-tax dollars to an account used solely for health expenses. Shop around by choosing health care providers that balance quality and affordability. Compare prices and quality ratings before scheduling a procedure. Save on prescriptions by choosing generic when possible, also...
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...summary and the conclusion. Capital Shortage The cost cutting options I selected was reducing agency staff and changing the skill mix for Elijah Heart Center. The reason why I chose this option is because we can reduce some cost by not hiring so many contracting nurses to save on payroll and increase the unlicensed staff to be used in some areas more than others to save some revenue and not jeopardize the quality of care for the patients first. I picked loan option 1, which the loan is 1.5 million at 9.45% interest rate, monthly installments of 131,490 for 12 months and no prepayment limitation, so we put nothing up front initially (University of Phoenix, 2011). My outcome was making a smaller loan at a higher rate to defray cost while reducing contracting nurses and utilize the unlicensed staff to be diverse in multiple skills in the hospital and not cut quality of the patient’s care at this health facility. Funding Options for Equipment You do not have to buy a new CT scanner because this machine is the least expensive in the hospitals and it can be upgraded if need be for the life of this machinery (University of Phoenix, 2011), so I chose buying a refurbished scanner, plus you can upgrade when needed, and do not have to pay the fee that goes with it, which saves the hospital in the long run. Capital lease option for the x-ray machine I picked. Lease term is greater than 75% of the property's estimated economic life, the lease contains an option to purchase the...
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...Shortage The cost cutting options I selected was reducing agency staff and changing the skill mix for Elijah Heart Center. The reason why I chose this option is because we can reduce some cost by not hiring so many contracting nurses to save on payroll and increase the unlicensed staff to be used in some areas more than others to save some revenue and not jeopardize the quality of care for the patients first. I picked loan option 1, which the loan is 1.5 million at 9.45% interest rate, monthly installments of 131,490 for 12 months and no prepayment limitation, so we put nothing up front initially (University of Phoenix, 2011). My outcome was making a smaller loan at a higher rate to defray cost while reducing contracting nurses and utilize the unlicensed staff to be diverse in multiple skills in the hospital and not cut quality of the patient’s care at this health facility. Funding Options for Equipment You do not have to buy a new CT scanner because this machine is the least expensive in the hospitals and it can be upgraded if need be for the life of this machinery (University of Phoenix, 2011), so I chose buying a refurbished scanner, plus you can upgrade when needed, and do not have to pay the fee that goes with it, which saves the hospital in the long run. Capital lease option for the x-ray machine I picked. Lease...
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...Trevor Young Nutrition, Food, and You Essay 1 Everyday we as people observe life and come to conclusions on how we live our lives. Whether it is religion or politics, we all have observed some sort of action that has lead us to draw a conclusion on the facts we have perceived. In science this method of deduction is called the “scientific method”. By definition, the scientific method is a multistep process that involves observation, experimentation, and a development of theory. This process is mostly used to find the cause and effect relationships in most scientific fields. There are four steps of the scientific method. The first step, observation, is the first phase of solving the problem. Observation includes researching and collecting all the information you will need for the problem. After our observation we need to develop a hypothesis. A hypothesis is what we think that the solution to a particular problem is. A hypothesis is an assumption that we will use the next step, experimentation to determine whether or not the hypothesis is true. An experiment is simply the tests that are done to prove or disprove a particular hypothesis. One of the main ways scientist experiment with their hypotheses is with research studies. If after experimentation research and experiments can’t prove your hypothesis, you both modify the hypothesis and restart experiments and research studies or you can reject the hypothesis and start over from the very beginning. One of...
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...instructions in order to complete the information below. This assignment is worth 150 points. Type your name above and your answers below directly on this form. Click Save as and save the file with the assignment name and your last name (e.g., “NR443 Windshield Survey Form_Smith”). When you are finished, submit the form to the Week 2 Caring for Populations: Windshield Survey Dropbox by the deadline indicated in your guidelines. Your Name: Jennifer Russell Date: March 15, 2015 Your Instructor’s Name: Professor Terry Brennan Criteria | Your response | 1. Community introduction: Identify the community you will be using for this assignment. It should be the area where you live or the area surrounding your work setting. | The area in which I live called Holland, Ohio in Springfield Township. This town is a small suburb of Toledo, Ohio. According to the website, City-data.com, there is approximately 1,677 people residing in Holland, Ohio. It is very quiet most of the time and the community tends to look after one another in a community watch fashion. There are many shops, stores and restaurants despite being so small. And according to this website, its population is mainly Caucasian. (http://www.city-data.com/city/Holland-Ohio.html) | 2. Windshield surveya. vitality | Are people visible in the community? What are they doing?-There are people visibly noted to be walking. Currently as I sit in a parking lot in the middle of town, there are a few joggers noted at Strawberry Acres...
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...article is meant to fix a problem. What is the problem? MICHAEL PORTER: Well, the problem is I think we've gotten into a very vicious cycle in thinking about the relationship between business and society. And really, the purpose of capitalism, and the benefits of the capitalist system to society, and to meeting society's needs-- needs like improving people's lives, and improving the health of communities. We've gotten into a cycle where, I think, business has evolved and thinking about business management has evolved, in a direction that we've narrowed the scope of how you create economic value. And increasingly, companies are being perceived as creating profit at the expense of the community, not creating profit that actually ultimately benefits the communities. As a result of this, I think government has increasingly seen business as a problem, as a source of bad things in society. And the mindset is becoming increasingly to regulate, to control, to tax. And ultimately, now often political leaders are unable to pursue business-friendly public policies, because the political environment almost forces them to be tough on business. Despite the fact that we know at some deep level, business and society need each other. But we've kind of gotten ourselves into a bad place. ADI IGNATIUS: But, I think a lot of business people would argue, what we do is run businesses, and we make profits. And when we're successful we hire people. And that's all we can do. To have an agenda beyond that...
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...In a recent article of The Wall Street Journal entitled Regulators Boost Wages, Overtime for Health Aides, it describes how the Labor Department has extended minimum-wage and overtime pays to nearly two million workers in the home health-care industry that will take effect January 1, 2015. In an industry that is known for working lengthy hours to satisfy the needs of our elderly population, this is finally a step in the right direction. In this country, home health-care has been lumped into the same category as teenage babysitters when it comes to how much they make and before this movement for overtime rates, these workers could work more than 40 hours a week and never qualify to get paid time-and-a-half for their extra hours. According to the president of the Service Employees, Mary Kay Henry, “The Obama administration has made good on its promise” to extend wage and overtime benefits to health care work; this is a promise that seems to be very much overdue in the United States. Caring for the elderly and making it possible for them to stay in their homes as long as they are able should be more of a priority in this country; however, to be able to do this we need to have an adequate amount of staff to be able to accomplish this. Not only do we need ample staff members, we need these people to be properly trained. I feel it is a shame that we are attaching such a low price tag on the people that are taking care of our elderly and aging population. Labor Secretary Tom Perez...
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...“Genius,” Thomas Edison famously said, “is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” He would have found a kindred spirit in Elif Bilgin, 16, of Istanbul, Turkey, winner of the 2013 $50,000 Science in Action award, part of the third annual Google Science Fair. The award honors a project that can make a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge; it should be innovative, easy to put into action and reproducible in other communities. Bilgin spent two years toiling away on her project to develop a bioplastic from discarded banana peels, enduring 10 failed trials of plastics that weren’t strong enough or that decayed rapidly. She was undaunted. As she put it in her project description: “Even Thomas Edison said, ‘I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.’” Finally, in her last two trials, she made plastics with the features she sought, and it did not decay. We admire her persistence, which will be help her to take advantage of another aspect of her Science in Action prize—a year’s worth of mentoring to help further her work. I like to think, too, that Edison, who used to stop by the Scientific American offices in New York City to demonstrate his latest inventions, would have approved. The ingredients to make Bilgin’s plastic are relatively benign. As she wrote in her entry materials, “it is possible to say that one could do it at home.” In her research, she learned that starch and cellulose are used elsewhere...
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...For this assignment, you will research the http://www.phoenix.edu website and use the My Career Plan tools on eCampus. To complete this assignment, follow the directions provided in each section. You may refer to the completed example in the Week 3 Materials as a guideline. When you complete each section, submit this document to your Week 3 Assignment 1 link on your student website. Save this document so you can reference it as you work on building your career plan in your future University of Phoenix courses. Section 1: Career Research 1. Go to http://www.phoenix.edu and browse the available degrees, then complete the following table. 2. List the degree programs you are interested in and potential careers that might require these degrees. Careers and degrees I’m interested in | What I know about these careers and degrees | What I need to know about these careers and degrees | Case/Social Worker | Great job opportunities available in every city, especially for bilinguals. Salary paying job with benefits, normal work hours; I get to help people. The University of Phoenix offers an Associates of Arts degree with a concentration in Human Services Management. I know that with this degree I can seek a job with the government and it has a rapid growth as Health Care is also growing. | I need to know how likely I am to get a job with this Associates degree or if I need to continue my education to a Bachelor’s level.I also need to know where there are the...
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...style environment, Starbucks has built an empire located on every street corner. We also cannot forget the red cup debacle just this Christmas! Starbucks is a true icon in the world of coffee. Starbucks created a true lifestyle for the world that some small businesses can only dream of. Starbucks currently has more than 21,000 stores in over 65 countries and was founded in 1971. The original idea for the Starbucks format came from Howard Schultz, who at the time was just the Director of Marketing but later become the CEO. Schultz took a trip to Italy as the marketing director and came back enchanted by his experience. The logo for Starbucks today is green and white with a mermaid. Most people today do not realize it is a mermaid though. Starbucks all started in Seattle where the founders wanted to capture the strong seaport roots. The logo has evolved to what it is today but when first created, was much more true to what a true mermaid or siren goddess to match their focus. Today she is more tamed down but still shows her meaning. The lesson for international business that can be drawn from Starbucks is many but my main focus would be the dedication from Schultz and the vision he had. What he was able to accomplish with one specific vision is unheard of. He not only had a vision for coffee, but also had a vision for a true environment for many people to enjoy. According to our textbook, Starbucks had 700 locations in the United States before expanding internationally...
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...11/27/15 Help Save Two Birds with One Stone We’ve all heard the phrase, “Kill Two Birds with One Stone,” which refers to the concept of efficient multitasking, that is, being able to use one approach to accomplish multiple objectives. The same concept can be given to that of volunteering. Instead of trying to kill two birds with one stone, we should focus on trying to save two birds (or people) with one stone. One of the most effective ways to do this is by volunteering. In a world filled with competition, we find those unfortunate or too weak to compete with their surroundings. Those with resources find their social, economic and housing status in a much better position. One study (2013) says “27.4% of those aged 16-19 were volunteering, compared to only 18.9% of 20-24 year olds” (USBL). That means college student likely less volunteering in the community compare to school student, but these number should be increase not decries because college student are smarter and understand better then school students therefore, college student should be more responsible than school student. We should keep that in our mind volunteering allows us to use multiple means, whether monetary or physical contribution to provide facilities for people and animals. The main purpose of going to college is learning and get able to find a path for your life. By going to college your education will be limited in books. You will not get chance to learn about the real life, but if you volunteer to your...
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...consider when I begin to plan my retirement portfolio. 1) For the taxes, I need to know about the taxes of my retirement. Is that high or low. I need to understand how to calculate the taxes to know my real retirement fund after tax. If the tax is high, I need to consult with other officers and find some effective measures to maintain my retirement money. 2) For the second factor, I need to plan how I assign or invest my retirement money to make sure I can get more return. How much money I will invest to stock markets, bonds, mutual funds and other types of investments. Most importantly, I must put a portion of my retirement to my saving account and certificates of Deposit, because I need to consider the risk of other types of investments to make sure I have enough money fro my life after retiring and in the meantime, because of the magic of compound interest, I can get more return from saving account and certificates of deposits. It is the security way to maintain my retirement fund. 2. The retirement plan at Sparrow health relate to Retirement Savings 401(k), which is one of the types of Defined Contribution. Two strengths: 1) we can keep money if we change jobs. The description in the introduction in the Sparrow Health states: “ If you have an existing retirement plan account with prior employer, you may roll over that account into this account into this plan at any time, if allowed.” We can keep our previous money and transfer this money into current account when we change...
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...2013 in the Chinatown of Washington, D.C.. The Department of Health was having a DCHealthLink Health Fair outside of the Martin Luther King Library and they had invited several diverse radio stations and food vendors in order to attract those passing by. These food vendors, all food trucks, included Senor Taco, DC Sliders, Dolci Gelati, Hala Grill, and Jerk@Nite. A month before, Jerk@Nite hadn’t been established. It was more of a thought. Denville Myrie, CEO of Jerk@Nite, never pictured a a year ago that he would be cooking his thoughts in a truck and serving them to real customers. Background Myrie, a Physical Therapy/Health Science student at Howard University, came here from Jamaica with an I’m-going-to-be-somebody attitude. He made plans to be a health professional dealing with health administration with the long-term goal of owning a hospital. He is a interesting guy with a hustler’s mentality. Not knowing anything about the culture of the university, he quickly adapted and a found a way into the culture’s infrastructure that would better prepare him for the future he planned. He realized early that the campus housing situation wasn’t a fit for his lifestyle and during his second year, he and some friends found a place not too far from campus. This is where the idea of Jerk@Nite was created. Myrie was tired of the selections offered during the late night hours, and being that he was entering into a health industry, it just killed him to have to make unhealthy decisions...
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...should be legal. I have my reasons and that is what I will be discussing in my paper. First I will explain what an abortion is. My thesis will include different reasons from cause and effect to religion, beliefs and most of all women’s rights. I will touch on the basis of situations that we women endure in our lifetime. I say we, because I am a woman and understand what it is to have a choice and say in my body, what every woman should have the right to do. While I will counter my argument I will not sway you from my reasons to why abortion should be legal. We certainly live in a world of judgment along with morals and values but again a woman should have the right to decide when she chooses to abort an unwanted child. It may sound harsh and selfish but it is still her/a woman’s choice. Some of us may not agree but as the saying goes “it is what it is.” If it is not you, then why put that person down and blast them for it. One never knows what others endurances are, and sometimes they are left in circumstances where that maybe the only option. Some who are against abortion may not want to hear of it, but is still there choice and the government should not take that right away. We fought for our rights for years, and have freedom of speech we should have that right to abort an unwanted child. Although, I am against people abusing the choice in having an abortion, I am still for it. Also that our youth know their rights and ensure their rights in decision...
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...Complete the worksheet with a substantive response to each prompt. Define each term using the course textbooks or a peer-reviewed resource. Describe how you, as a BSN student, demonstrate each value as you interact with patients and other health care providers. Provide specific examples of how your values influence your attitudes and behaviors. Each response must be 100 to 150 words. Value Definition Personal Demonstration Altruism Unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of other's. Currently I practice altruism because when assessing my patients my main concern is the patient's safety. Currently when making decisions I become torn with what I want to make the patient happy and what my boss is telling me to patient. An example of this, when evaluating a patient I determine how many hours of a personal care assistant they will receive per week. I always think about the patient first before thinking about what is going to save my job money; and this is my constant struggle. Altruism is something I believe is the reason I became a nurse. Autonomy The state of existing or acting separately from others. My current job autonomy is necessary. Working in hospitals and nursing homes the majority of my nursing career, becoming completely autonomous was like culture shock for me. In a hospital you have co-workers, doctors, PT, Pharmacy all at your fingertips for information or advice and just help. Working out in the community was hard for me at first because...
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