...The healthcare system in the United States has been in a constant state of change throughout the 20th century due to rising costs, quality of care and unequal access. As there have been rapid changes in the landscape of managed care, there have also been exponential increases in the cost of national healthcare expenditures. In 2007 national healthcare costs had reached 16.2% of the GDP, an increase from 8.6% in 1977. The cost of rising healthcare has continued to become a focus of politics and the economic landscape due to the amount of government spending with Medicare and Medicaid and the increased costs and reduced affordability of private insurance. (Kongstvedt) Past cost control efforts have focused on changes from the payer and supplier side of healthcare, whereas current efforts place increased focus on patient preference and wellness. The most recent changes in the healthcare system have resulted from quality care measures and the guidelines within the Affordable Care Act. On a national level, increased focus on prevention and wellness has the ability to both improve overall health, but also control the rising costs of healthcare. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, chronic diseases – such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes – are responsible for 7 of 10 deaths among Americans each year and account for 75% of the nation’s health spending. Often due to economic, social, and physical factors, too many Americans engage in behaviors –...
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...7th, 2013 Nurses’ Roles and Responsibilities in National Healthcare Reforms Every healthcare environment such as hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care centers, nurses have always had the closest relationship with patients and their families. Nurses assess, monitor, provide care and meet patients’ needs, relay information between physicians and patients, advocate for patients and families. Nurses have not being involved in making significant policy decisions to high quality patient care but as our country focuses on healthcare reform which will guarantee that all American have right to excellent and reasonably priced health care, nurses’ roles and responsibilities are expected to change from patient care to taking responsibilities on many new health care imperatives. According to the report of IOM, nurses should be associates with doctors and healthcare professionals in restructuring healthcare in our nation. Nurses’ responsibilities will become more prominent in continuity of care, accountable care organizations (ACO), medical homes, and nurse-managed health clinics. The purpose of this speech is to enlighten nurses about the changes that will be anticipated in their roles as healthcare professionals as these reforms take place in the healthcare industry. Continuity of care is a system of patient care integration that follows patients over time through comprehensive arrays of health services across all levels of care. It allows patients’ care to...
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...indicators to measure effectiveness, decisions regarding clinic expansion, the role of the clinic in the community, and influences of public healthcare policy on outpatient clinics. Discuss the key political, economic, and social forces that may have influenced the development of the clinic. Politics can hamper development of private healthcare organizations by compromising quality, limiting accessibility or feasibility, or increasing the cost of healthcare through laws, regulations, policies, requirements of private practice, and monitoring of services (Griffith & White, 2007). The primary care clinic must balance the requirements and regulations of private practice while creating a market for quality healthcare in the community marketplace. The clinic model has advantages over other models in that it allows practitioners a level of economy in sharing their medical facilities, equipment and staff with others, minimizing overhead and allowing them to keep the rising cost of healthcare lower by sharing equity. Improved patient quality is also provided by medical specialists involved in primary care in a single cohesive environment, and patient satisfaction can be increased through a well-managed plan of diagnostic, treatment and billing services. Primary care clinics offer an outlet for a variety of prevention and health promotion initiatives such as immunizations, adolescent health, improved nutrition and exercise, safety,...
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...Proposal to Implement an Employee Wellness Program at Electronics, Inc. Deena Lampe National American University Abstract This paper is a proposal to implement an employee wellness program for the employees of Electronics, Inc. This proposal contains background on the need for, and benefits of, instituting an employee wellness program, the importance of employee wellness and productivity, and educational needs of employees to maintain health and wellness. Attracting and maintaining personnel is crucial to an organization’s success and with current trends in the labor market, retaining personnel and ensuring business stability is a continuous challenge that requires conscientious human resource management. A happy and healthy workforce facilitates productivity through wellness and physical fitness. Proposal to Implement an Employee Wellness Program at Electronics, Inc. People in the labor force, are depended upon to follow through with work commitments. A healthy employee is able to do more and feel well enough to enjoy it. With high stress jobs, increased rush hour traffic, and demanding schedules, how can employers not be concerned about the health of employees? Research shows that, to maintain a healthy lifestyle balance, one third of a 24-hour day should be for sleep, one third for work and one third for play. The trend in today’s workplace is for employees to work longer hours and as a result, when they arrive home they do not feel like exercising...
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...Business and Canadian Government Policy; Initiating A New Policy Introduction This paper looks into a proposal on the introduction of a universal pharmaceutical policy or pharmacare in Canada. Canada is a country that has a global reputation of offering a successful healthcare to its populations. The Canadians enjoys free healthcare facilities because when they get sick they just need to visit the hospital or their doctors even when they do not have money. The government funds for the universal health policy by use of government revenues. The government gets the funds to pay the policies through taxation of Canadians who are well-off. Most Canadians especially the ordinary Canadians have benefited from the universal healthcare as it has increased their accessibility to health services (Fierlbeck, 2011). Although most Canadians and stakeholders consider the Canadian healthcare policy as universal, it is not comprehensive. A comprehensive healthcare policy should offer a complete healthcare package for citizens. The current healthcare policy in Canada does not substantially offer a comprehensive healthcare policy. This is because various core areas of healthcare are not covered with the current policy on healthcare. The core areas that have been left out by the policy include dental care, prescription drugs, and prescription glasses. The prescription drugs are more important as it remains hard for a person to recover without drugs. Drugs are very expensive to buy and they prices...
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...Health Promotion Plan Marie St. Fort NSG4075 Holistic Professional Nursing Kathryn Sagess, PhD, PNP-ARNP Nova Southeastern University Thesis Statement and Introduction Despite the many services Delray Beach offers to residents, there are still major health concerns. This major concerns call for an effective health promotion plan to address the lack of adequate assistance to low-income pregnant women and their families. This plan will allow one to make a great impact in healthcare, attests to the art of nursing even as a student, the whole multidisciplinary team and the most important of aspect of healthcare; the patients that are being served. This paper will offer insight into the community, including a thorough assessment of low income pregnant women and their families’ lack of access to adequate care in Delray Beach Florida. In addition, this paper will highlight a health promotion plan for improving quality of life and health of low income, underinsured Delray Beach residents by discussing state and local programs. Also, discussing the community stakeholders as well as the financial and political implications of the health promotion project is a pivotal point. By addressing the barriers in creating the health promotion in the community, the community health nurse can serve as a patient advocate and present a plan an alternate plan and any possible interventions in case of unforeseen, confounding issues that may arise. The Aggregate Being poor and having to take...
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...Introduction This exclusive practical session revolves around students' attachment to family doctor or general practitioner. Beforehand, a sound understanding and distinguishable comparison between these two specialty is necessary to perform this task efficiently. Family medicine is a medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and all parts of the body. It is based on knowledge of the patient in the context of the family and community, emphasizing disease prevention and health promotion. According to the World Organization of Family Doctors, the aim of family medicine is to provide personal, comprehensive and continuing care for the individual in the context of the family and community. On the other hand, general practitioner is a medical practitioner who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients. The good general practitioners will treat patients both as people and as a population. In some healthcare systems general practitioners work in primary care healthcare centers where they play a central role in the healthcare team. Nevertheless, in some models of care general practitioners work as single-handed practitioners. In conjunction with this block, I visited a local puskesmas to understand more about role of a general practitioner and family physician. Physical Access , Convenience and Facilities The clinic I was designated to is Puskesmas...
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...Typing Template for APA Papers: A Sample of Proper Formatting for the APA 6th Edition Student A. Sample Grand Canyon University: A Registered nurse is a healthcare professional who works in collaboration with other healthcare team to provide treatment, safety, and recovery of acutely and chronically ill individuals. They are also accountable for the health promotion and maintenance of patients, families, communities, and the entire population at large in a wide range of healthcare settings. They also constitute the surveillance system for early detection of complications and problems in care and in the best position to initiate actions that will minimize negative outcome for patients.(Aiken et al 2003). For one to become a registered nurse there are three pathways to follow and these are Diploma- a 3year hospital based program, Associate degree- a 2year degree obtainable from community colleges, and Baccalaureate degree program from 4year colleges and universities. All three of these pathways will qualify the nurse to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). As stated in the journal of American Association of colleges of Nursing (AACN) “The NCLEX-RN is only one indicator of competency and does not measure performance over time or test for all the knowledge and skills developed through BSN program (Rossetter 2012). However, we will focus more on the differences in competencies between nurses prepared at the associate degree level versus baccalaureate...
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...Healthcare Analysis Dennis P. White University of Phoenix HCS 539 August 24, 2015 Dr. Rachael Kehoe The healthcare system here in the United States is complicated and expensive. In order to stay competitive, insurers and organizations alike have changed the way they do business. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act has created new laws and have in some cases caused organizations to partner with each other in order to profit at all. They have instituted new and different processes and strategies to be able to participate in the insurance exchange program and other features of the healthcare law that is supposed to make it easier and cheaper to purchase healthcare (Benson, 2013). This paper discusses how healthcare organization develops a marketing plan that allows them to be competitive and see growth. The four P’s of marketing (product, price, place, promotion) will be discussed along with the hospital relationship between marketing and partnerships. It will discuss the target market and why it is important to understand that the target market is key to a comprehensive and successful plan. The Four Ps In order for any hospital marketing strategy to be successful, it must first incorporate the four P’s. The hospital must assess the market, analyze the data and then identify or develop their product, determine a price point, what place the customers will purchase the product, and how they are going to market the product so customers know it’s available...
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...Putting It All Together Mr. James L. Jones Abstract The purpose of this paper is to fulfill the requirements of, MKT640-1203B-05, A Managerial Approach to Marketing, Unit-4 Individual Project. Utilizing what has been taught and course documents to complete the Basic Healthcare Administrators Course comprehensive Strategic Marketing Plan. A Managerial Approach to Marketing Introduction: The purpose of the Basic Healthcare Administration Course (BHAC) is to prepare military employees with the basic concepts, principles, and applications of health administration within military treatment facilities. This course will pioneer how healthcare education is done within the Armed Forces. It is a two phased course. Phase-1 is a prerequisite to Phase-2. It consists of 40 hours on-line education that consists of tests, discussion boards, and journaling. Phase-2 is 40 hours of focused learning involving engaging activities, group discussions, and a situational training exercise. BHAC Operational Mission Statement: Be the Armed Forces primary teaching platform for Basic Healthcare Administration utilizing evidence-based education with the ultimate goal of sustaining and improving the quality of patient care. Marketing Objectives: BHAC has established both short-term and long-term marketing objectives. Its short-term goals will create forward momentum toward a specific outcome. The BHAC employed the use of the SMART acronym to outline its goal format...
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...Accessing Healthcare Area Substance Abuse Council (ASAC) Iowa Danielle Fisher HCA 430 Prof. Jon Lasell April 2nd, 2012 With the many different vulnerable populations out there in the United States, the one that needs the most look after are people with alcohol or substance abuse. With the way that some people live day to day, it is hard to keep track of people who need help in the areas of drug abuse. Where I live, in Cedar Rapids Iowa, there is the Area Substance Abuse Council (ASAC) that helps people receive substance abuse treatment services that they need. The services that they provide are substance abuse treatments and the halfway housing which helps monitor people with heavy drug abuse problems. The type of care that is provided at the ASAC is the following: residential short-term treatment, residential long-term treatment, outpatient, and partial hospitalization/day treatment. For the ASAC the strengths to the program are its ability to adapt to different cases of people with drug abuse problems seeking help needed for their situation. Among the many different things that they have for common drug users, there are also special programs and groups that are provided as well. Adolescents, persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, pregnant/postpartum women, women, residential beds for clients' children, DUI/DWI offenders, and criminal justice clients are all the special groups that can be found there. Not everyone who is dealing with the...
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...HEALTH PROMOTION-PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY PHASE BRITTANY HENSON GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY FAMILY CENTERED HEALTH PROMOTION NRS-429V OCTOBER 26, 2014 According to the World Health Organization it defines health as the state of complete physical, social, and mental well being and not just the absence of disease or infirmity. Heath Promotion is a term that came from a medical historian named Henry Sigerist. He defined the task of medicine as promotion of health, prevention of illness, restoration of the sick and rehabilitation. The main focus of primary health promotion is to prevent the patient form getting a disease. The main focus in the secondary health promotion phase is to slow the disease process. During this phase the patient normally already has a disease and measures are taken to control the symptoms of disease. During the tertiary phase, the focus is helping the patient to manage long-term health problems. These problems may include diabetes mellitus, cancer, heart disease, or severe respiratory disease. During this phase a patient may be sent to rehab groups or support groups. According to the journal article Health Promotion Innovation in Primary Health Care health promotion is based on issues that the patient maybe experiencing that will result in reduced risk or improved health. The main focus of health promotion according to the article is changes to the individual’s health by modifying the patient’s behaviors. According to the...
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...to the marketing director Printup. In order to achieve the long-term steady market goal, CSP need to identify their optimal target customer, appropriately position the Metabical product, and implement an efficient communication strategy. CSP should treat overweight women with BMI less than 30 at the age between 25 and 65 as their optimal target customer for the Metabical pill. Based on the product advantage, Metabical should be positioned as the most effective, safe, sustainable, and leading prescribed weight-loss product on the market. Communication strategy will be the most crucial part of the marketing strategy. CSP should target at healthcare providers and end consumers to ensure the efficiency of customer communication. They should focus on addressing the different concerns that those two groups hold. Utilizing advertising, promotion and pubic effort, and sales force is the right marketing strategy for CSP. However, CSP should not ignore the effectiveness of celebrity spokespeople to market the product. The support program is an essential part of the marketing communication strategy. An organized timeline for the marketing strategy will make sure the implementation of the strategy. Argument According to the market research and study, CSP should target at over weighted women at the age from 25 to 65. More specifically, CSP should target at women with BMI less than 30 to ensure the effectiveness of the Metabical, since the product is not very effective to people with BMI...
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...Running head: NURSING ROLES IN THE THREE LEVELS Nursing Roles in the Three Levels of Health Promotion and Prevention April Nguyen Grand Canyon University: NRS 429v 03/18/2012 Instructor Melinda Darling, MSN, FNP Nursing Roles in the Three Levels of Health Promotion and Prevention For over a decade, health promotion and prevention has been the main focus of healthcare professionals in general and nurses in particular. What does it mean by health promotion and prevention? According to Edelman & Mandle (2010), it’s “the science and art of helping people change their lifestyles to move toward a state of optimal health” (p. 14). In other words, it’s the strategy used in purpose to increase a sense of well-living and to decrease episodes of illness that can happen to anyone at any age. By doing this, it helps lessen the expensive cost government and patients have to spend for the cure. Being alongside with the vulnerable population, nurses work as critical roles of advocates, healers, educators, and researchers throughout all three levels of promotion and prevention (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 19-20). Primary Prevention The focus of the first level is to promote good health and to protect individuals from diseases. There’re many ways nurses can help with general health and with fighting specific illnesses. The most common ways include (1) educating benefit of vaccination, (2) giving vaccines, (3) instructing benefits of healthy diet and regular exercise...
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...STUDY GUIDE for C475 Care of Older Adult Objective Assessment Exam questions are taken from the Learning Objectives under the 9 Competencies: #1 Competency 742.1.1: Compassionate and Respectful Care of Older Adults The graduate integrates principles of compassion and respect for patients and their families into the planning and delivery of care to a diverse population of older adults and into advocacy for vulnerable older adults. This topic addresses the following learning objectives: * Recognize the impact of attitudes, values, and expectations about aging. * Describe how the RN’s personal beliefs and values may impact the care of older adults. * Articulate the concept of individualized care as the standard of practice with older adults, considering the right care, at the right time, in the right place and by the right provider of care. * Define Baby Boomers * What are the five racial groups listed in your text? * How would you perform discharge teaching to an Hispanic patient * Apply effective and respectful communication strategies in the care of older adults and their families. * List some of the changes of aging that could affect therapeutic communication * Note the ways to communicate or assist a patient with disabilities such as hearing deficits, vision impairments, or aphasia and dysarthria. Be familiar with the types of hearing devices. How should you address the older adult during therapeutic communication? ...
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