...Sierra College completing an associate’s degree in science and planning on transferring to a four-year college or university. My educational aspirations consist of acquiring a bachelor’s degree in any biological or health science that would assist me in pursuing a medical career as a doctor. On the other hand, my career vision is to one day be able to provide affordable health care to marginalized communities in the United States. However, I am certain that if I do not complete my college degree I could never have the opportunity to achieve my career goals. I decided that I will attain a career as a doctor since my passion has always been assisting others and trying to improve their quality of life. Therefore, I think that pursuing such a career will provide me the opportunity to help improve the community's health quality conditions and learn about their medical needs. After becoming a certified doctor, I want to specialize in oncology, the study of cancer, and add my knowledge to the cancer research field. Furthermore, I want to contribute back to undeserved populations in the U.S. that struggle every day to sustain a family, and who do not have as much access to medical assistance as other privileged groups. The first health project I want to accomplish throughout my career as a doctor is to establish a free clinic where affordable medical assistance can be provided regardless of the patient's immigration status. The diverse health services would include free doctor consultations...
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...patient to help him or her change cultural practices that are considered harmful, while still respecting cultural customs (Huber, 2009). Example-An Amish pregnant women is experiencing problems with her pregnancy and has not received and prenatal care until now. The nurse is recommending she have frequent prenatal visits to monitor her problems. She refuses to have any more prenatal care and wants to have a midwife deliver her baby at home. The nurse needs to provide education and work out a care plan that would be acceptable with the patient to maintain the safety of the patient and her unborn child. Cultural Brokering in health care: Is defined as "a health care intervention through which the professional increasingly uses cultural and health science knowledge and skills to negotiate with the client and the health care system for an effective, beneficial health care plan" (National Center for Cultural Competence, 2006). Example- An elder Vietnamese was admitted into a...
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...INTERNET RESEARCH ABOUT THE DIETETICS WORKFORCE IN AUSTRALIA WHO ARE DIETITIANS? Dietitians work with patients, healthcare workers and community members to recognize healthy nutrition and understand health implications of diet. They teach proper eating habits for mainstream and individualized needs in order to produce optimal health and treat or prevent illness. HOW MANY REGISTERED DIETITIANS ARE THERE IN AUSTRALIA? To be a registered dietitian in Australia you must have the following qualifications: i. An approved Bachelor of Science degree course (or equivalent), majoring in appropriate subjects at a university or other tertiary institution; and ii. A graduate diploma or post-graduate degree course in dietetics of 1 or 2 years; or iii. An approved 4 year undergraduate degree majoring in nutrition and dietetics. iv. Passing a registration exam, and completing a supervised program of practice at a health care facility, foodservice organization or community agency. The above information is according to: http://www.visabureau.com/australia/dietetics-jobs.aspx According to statistics carried out at various years-intervals, https://www.hwa.gov.au/sites/uploads/The%20Australian%20allied%20health%20workforce.pdf, the following table shows the number of registered dietitians as from 1996 to 2011 by Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) YEAR | 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | 2011 | REG. DIETITIANS | 1696 | 1995 | 2590 | 3707 | | | | | | ARE NEW AND...
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...I start as a junior have been granted admission for fall semester of 2014. My educational aspirations consist of acquiring a bachelor’s degree in the area of health science that would assist me in pursuing a medical career as a nurse. On the other hand, my career vision is to become a nurse anesthetist by obtaining a CRNA certification that requires also my completing a master’s degree in an accredited anesthesia program on top of having to complete a minimum of 2 years as a licensed RN beside nurse. This will enable me to organize and provide affordable health care to marginalized communities in the United States as well in 3rd World countries. . However, I am certain that if I do not complete my college degree I could never have the opportunity to achieve my career goals. After graduating from high school, I became certain that if I wanted to pursue a higher education but tough family situations and lack of financial support I was not able to pursue that. My father was the only earning member and being the oldest child I had to assist him in providing for my family and also supporting my sibling’s educational fees and needs. Immaterial of my age, I was persistent and determined to achieve my career aspirations. However, I would not be at this level without the support of my family. Being a husband and a father of three children, and a first generation college student the income is hardly sufficient to sustain living expenses. My daughter is currently pursuing her college...
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...HSM 230 Week 9 Capstone Checkpoint A very important issue in all of our lives is health insurance. There are many facets to the issue, availability of health care being one. But another important issue for those that do have health care is privacy of medical information. Rules governing the control, manipulation, and transfer of personal medical information are governed by HIPAA. One significant quandary is that of abortion. There are many people in favor of abortion and just as many people against it. Whether or not abortion happens is just one side of the issue. The other side is disclosure. It is very difficult to know when an abortion should be disclosed to individuals close to the woman considering the abortion. In addition, when disclosure is warranted the subsequent question arises, "What people close to the young woman should be informed?” As a manager of a health service organization this situation arises often. A clear set of rules must be in place to deal with the issue. In addition these rules must be consistent with laws relating to abortion. In fact HIPAA lays the ground work for decisions in these cases. Not only does it give us guidelines on dealing with issues like abortion but more generally it is a moral code that provides a paradigm for the behavior and actions of human service workers. A statement of these rules as in HIPAA is not enough. Human service workers must be trained so that their activities are consistent with the rules. Furthermore there must accountability...
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...Review Questions 1. What are diagnostics? How is this related to the health sciences? A diagnostic is to identify something. This relates to health science by you have to know what you are working on and how to do you need to identify it first. 2. What is trepanation? Why was this used? A trepanation is where a surge drills a hole in the patient head to release pressure. This is used to help people who are suffering with migraines or other head related injuries. 3. Describe three ways that healthcare is funded. Three ways that health care is funded is by taxation, social insurance, and private health insurance. 4. What are private healthcare sites? What are their characteristics? Private healthcare sites are where the office or hospital are ran by a for-profit company. The patient or insurance company pays for the bill. The characteristics for these is that they can give you more advance testing or having more staff and equipment since they cost more to go to them. 5. What is patient-centered care? Patient- centered care is to focus more on the patients and not just their illness. Critical Thinking Questions 1. Private health insurance is a common form of healthcare payment in the United States. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of private health insurance? Some advantages of private health insurance is more staff members, specialized services, and more equipment. But some disadvantages to this is how much it cost. Requires...
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...Federal Ministry of Health: A Study into the Information Management System and How Best the Ministry can Implement FOI Ordinance 2002 Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (CRCP) Centre for Civic Education, Pakistan (CCE) Implementation of Freedom of Information Ordinance 2002: A Case Study of Ministry of Health 1. Freedom of information is impossible to conceive in the absence of elaborate and efficient information and data management systems. Only when such systems are in place and are effectively implemented, it can be expected that information or data required for various purposes can be retrieved and put to use to support policies or relevant decisions. Lack of such systems creates a totally undesirable situation, which leads to uninformed decisions and policies, and the consequent failure of service delivery by related agencies. The significance of information and data management is, therefore, well established, and is given utmost importance in the developed countries. It is also crucial to make citizens’ right to know feasible and operational as data and information must exist and be properly indexed before it could be made accessible to the requesters. However, many developing countries suffer from serious difficulties in connection with information and data management systems. The related problems range between sheer nonexistence of crucial data to its poor maintenance, non-indexing, and loss. This state of affairs has serious implications for relevant...
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...Reflective report After leaving college I had an idea that I wanted to study something in the healthcare sector. I studied medical science at college and one of my modules was biomedical science, I found that module to be very interesting and decided I want to further my knowledge. I chose biomedical science at university and have no regrets. However at the beginning I did not know what I wanted to specialise in and what path I was going to take. It all changed once I begin studying the introduction to biomedical science, as it made me understand more about each profession and how everyday life working in a specific area of biology is like. Introduction to biomedical science has most definitely changed my mind on what career I want to do once I graduate. It has given me a wide outlook of the many different directions I can go with this course and explained to me what each of them contains. Overall this module has impacted my perspective of biomedical science. By doing this course I now am confident in what profession I want to specialise. It has taught me the importance of microbiology and how much of a big role it plays in healthcare and that without the study of microbes there would be no way for cures to be found of certain infections/diseases. From doing the patient case studies it has really taught me how scientists who specialize in different biology subjects come together to diagnose a patient. For example this showed me how a haematologist, microbiologist and a...
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...HEALTH PROBLEMS (dentist) Health is something a person can’t live without. Health is something you get from your parents. Health is something you can’t buy. Health is one of the most important conditions which are required for the lucky life. We usually wish our dearest people to be healthy and good health is something we need most of all nowadays. Nobody will disapprove these statements. Everybody understands the importance of health nowadays. But unfortunately sometimes one can start thinking about his health only after loosing it. It’s sad. In additional to this it must be reminded that our health service system isn’t perfect. So it can’t give us the lost health back. I can’t but say of course about annual check-ups, visiting the dentist twice a year, different injections for children at school and all these are free at state polyclinics. It shows that in some way our state takes care of us all. But following the modern tendencies, our economy, more and more private clinics are appearing where health care is not free. So we have to pay for it and in my opinion it is not very bad. If we pay for our treating we are supposed to have a good one. Paying for the curious also can make us take a better care of our health. Personally I can confirm this opinion. The brightest example is last visit to the doctor. I can’t say that my health is poor, but my teeth are rather weak, that’s why they require a special treatment. As all people in the world I was awfully afraid...
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...Jennifer Parks- Jennifer is an experienced with customer service along with office support. She is eager to find an opportunity that can provide her with stability. Since her last position, she took about a year to take care of some personal issues before being employed full time. She then decided to get certified in phlebotomy. In mid-2015, she started targeting her job search towards phlebotomy and medical assistant positions with no success, and found that she needed more experience for those specific jobs. So, she has now decided to open up her job search and would be interested in staying in a medical related field. The majority of her experience was with HH Gregg in a few different positions. She started with them in a CSR role handling...
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...Tricare Prime is a managed care option that is used for Active duty members. Active duty family members may choose this plan or one of the others. This option has fewer out of pocket costs and less freedom of choice for a provider to choose. With this option you have an assigned primary who you see. The care is usually provided in a military facility. With Prime there are no out of pocket costs, no enrollment fees, no network co-payments or no point of service fees. Tricare Extra is an option where you choose your provider that is in network. This plan is available to active duty family members, survivors, retired service members, non- active guard/reserves. You have an annual deductible you must meet then you only pay your co-pays as long...
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...Organizational Design on Health and Wellness Inc. l Health and Wellness Inc. The Department of Health and Wellness Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia, originally called the Health Department of Fulton County; this organization was originally founded in the year 1955 through a legislative ordeal by the Fulton County State Board of Georgia. When this action took place, the Fulton County Health Department was placed with many types of services under the jurisdiction of the state government. This organization meets the goal of families, and individuals with obesity related issues. The Health and Wellness Department is a health agency for the public individuals in Atlanta, Georgia, which is under the operation/supervision of a local government (Health & Wellness, 2011). There are several services and a number of different programs that provide comprehensive health care services for the Fulton County residents of Atlanta, Georgia. The organization may have developed internal issues, the external factors makes the organization very successful and competitive with other organizations. The services and programs includes: health programs for women and children’s, programs for infectious disease individuals, and environmental health programs. There are many other services that are available, such as programs for individuals with different types of health problems that include heart attack and stroke victims and also programs for prevention of these illnesses...
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...would like to become a trauma surgeon in the future. My mission for the future would be to help save the lives of many people and give them care that is needed to satisfy them to get better. Health care for me is something I looked into since I was a little kid and it led here to UPHCSA. Before coming to UPHCSA, I was guided by the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology in the Health Science Program. At that program, it allowed me to further my education in the health care field and also gave me the experience to interact with patients at a hospital called “Abington Memorial Hospital”. Each time we went to the hospital, I shadowed doctors and nurses and was able to work with patients throughout different aspects of the hospital. Being here at UPHCSA really encouraged me to work harder and choose a career that actually makes a big difference to the world; and becoming a trauma surgeon is what my ideal career would be. I chose this career because I feel that it an interesting area to work in and such a fast-pace lifestyle that will never get me tired of helping those in need and making a difference to a patient’s life. I loved the experience of learning a lot of different areas of the health care at UPHCSA; it really showed me that it’s somewhere I would like to be in the future in the health care field and that becoming a trauma surgeon is my decision for my career in...
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...three specific plans that are applicable to the development and the growing need for services. With adding a satellite office, more funding is needed. Three identified programs are: ARRA – Grants to Health Center Programs ARRA – Grants to Health Center Programs Number: 93.703 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Office: Health Resources and Services Administration https://www.cfda.gov/?s=program&mode=form&tab=step1&id=d0d597f663dc2a2d278fff70fd1fee25 Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED) CMHS Child Mental Health Service Initiative Number: 93.104 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Office: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration https://www.cfda.gov/?s=program&mode=form&tab=step1&id=5326fba27305691178315eeb00415d3c State Partnership Grant Program to Improve Minority Health State Partnership Program Number: 93.296 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Office: Office of the Secretary https://www.cfda.gov/?s=program&mode=form&tab=step1&id=81172c5aa08117763d271f7cbfadce64 Based on the information provided in Appendix A, regarding the XYZ Corporation, the type of assistance that will prove to be the most valuable is ARRA – Grants to Health Center Programs. The...
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...It is an issue that politicians and party leaders will debate for time to come, the issue is, to what extent should the government care for those who are unable to provide for themselves. Some options that can help overcome this dilemma are universal healthcare, practicing a laissez-faire approach, which would entitle people to pay for all health care needs, or finding a compromise between the two which I believe is a two tiered system. Among the more industrialized countries, the US does not offer a full range of health services sponsored by the government and presents itself as a laissez-faire society compared to a welfare-based system such as that of Britain and Canada who both provide their citizens with universal healthcare. The Dilemma does not only end at healthcare brings up the issue of equality among all people, rich or poor; the rich don’t want to wait for services and are willing to pay to jump the line all the while poor people are not able to pay thus the issue of equality arises. I believe the alternative, a two tired system, is the best solution not only in terms of healthcare but all services, if there is a market for private institutes in any area it should be offered as an alternative and I believe this type of system will cater to people in any social class. (I have all this evidence I need your help to tell me what my arguments are because I write all this information down and you can get my arguments out of my evidence but its not bluntly stated and...
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