...Because of the incubation period of these organisms, the impact of a biological attack is usually not immediate (Veenema, 2003). The CDC and their disease surveillance system work to detect any unusual patterns of disease, notify the local or federal levels in order to respond efficiently using the knowledge and the resources available; cooperation from the public and other health agencies is needed. A process that must be completely in a timely matter, as it allows the healthcare professionals involved to provide effective treatment and minimize the transmission of the pathogen as these attacks are often unpredicted. Until patients start to arrive at the Emergency Department (ED) and doctors’ offices, detection and identification of a biological agent cannot happen; at times, even with patients in the ED, one cannot identify a bioterrorism attack as the symptoms are flu like...
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...The Evolution of the U.S. Healthcare System Between the years the beginning of 19th century and today, healthcare in the United States evolved from a simple system of home remedies and itinerant doctors with little training to a complex, scientific, technological, and highly bureaucratic system. The system is built on medical science and technology and the authority of medical professionals. Its evolution includes the acceptance of the "germ theory" as the cause of disease, professionalization of doctors, technological advancements in treating disease, the rise of great institutions of medical training and healing, and the advent of medical insurance. Governmental institutions, controls, health care programs, drug regulations, and medical insurance also evolved during this period. Most recently, the healthcare system has seen the growth of corporations whose business is making a profit from healthcare. Prior to 1800, medicine in the United States was a "family affair." Women were expected to take care of illnesses within the family and only on those occasions of very serious, life threatening illnesses were doctors summoned. Called "domestic medicine," early American medical practice was a combination of home remedies and a few scientifically practiced procedures carried out by doctors who, without the kind of credentials they must now have, traveled extensively as they practiced medicine. Until the mid-eighteenth century Western medicine was based on the ancient Greek...
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... Christina Reid-Brown California Baptist University Foundations of Management BUS 503A February 9, 2015 Dr. Marc Weinger Abstract This research paper evaluated the relationship between navigation and navigator roles as they relate to the patient journey with breast cancer. The goal of the research was to determine if these care coordination models eliminated institutional barriers experienced by patients trying to coordinate breast care in a complex healthcare system. It also evaluated the effectiveness of the navigator role as it supports the elimination of barriers to care for minorities and women living in low-income and underserved communities. This study reviewed the results from surveys given to women being treated for breast cancer at different hospitals, and cancer clinics to determine if navigation improves patient access to appropriate evidence-based healthcare. The findings showed higher patient satisfaction and compliance, continuity of care, decreased anxiety levels, and increased social support systems from families and friends when navigation services were provided. Key Words: Patient Navigator; Breast Care Coordinator; Breast Care Patient Navigator; Breast Cancer in Women; Current Studies involving Breast Cancer Introduction Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death and the most common disease found in women living in the United States (Basu, Linebarger, Gabram, Patterson...
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...Challenges Traci L French Salem International University Abstract: Care coordination refers to several forms of patient care management that is patient- rather than provider-focused and has the end goal of the “Triple Aim”-improved patient experience, improved population health and decreased per capita costs. These goals are achieved by developing healthcare models which promote collaborative care between providers, increase communication between health care entities, actively engage patients in health care and lifestyle choices and rely heavily on health technology to extend provider services, personalize care and monitor quality improvement efforts. The main barriers to care coordination implementation include poor reimbursement for services, difficulties with provider network communications, shortages of trained care coordination personnel and ambiguity in provider roles and responsibility, which can lead to provider accountability issues. When well-established, care coordination models allow patients to form substantive, long-term personal relationships with providers and increase personal accountability for health care choices. These relationships increase compliance with care regimens in the ambulatory setting and decrease costs with overall improvement in patient quality of life. Care coordination refers to several forms of patient care management which is patient- rather than provider-focused and has the end goal of the “Triple Aim”-improved patient experience, improved...
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...longer lives that are free of preventable diseases, disabilities, injury, and pre-mature death. (U.S.Department of Health and Human Services, 2012). Today’s society, individuals are living longer, with diseases still abundant, and healthcare cost on the rise there is a greater need for health promotion. In the new healthcare reform, nurses will play a vital part in health promotion and disease prevention in all levels; Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary. Affordable Care Act is here and healthcare is changing as well as the role of nursing. The new healthcare focus on health promotion and disease prevention vs disease oriented. Nurses are one of the key players in the new healthcare reform. For this reason, the roles and responsibilities of nurses are evolving with the times. One of the primary role of nursing is the responsibility as educator in health promotion and disease prevention. Another important Nurse’s role is the function as a case manager or coordinator for individual health promotion. The case manager’s role, the nurse has the responsibility to collaborate with other nurses, physicians, social workers, nutritionist, psychologists, therapists, individuals, and community groups. These two roles are one of multiple roles and responsibilities of nursing in the healthcare reform. There is three levels of disease prevention; primary, secondary, and tertiary. In primary prevention, the focus is to reduce the risks of obtaining a disease before it...
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...ELECTRONIC ASSIGNMENT COVERSHEET | | Student Number | 31734555, 32438733, 32574117, 32442578 | Surname | Basu, Adeoye, Jallo, Abdulsalam Idris | Given name | Rukmini, Adesola, Ramatu, Mustapha | Email | Rukmini.Basu@murdochdubai.ac.ae | | | Unit Code | BUS378 | Unit name | Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning | Enrolment mode | Internal / external | Date | 23/02/2015 | Assignment number | 1 | Assignment name | Summary Document | Tutor | Anca Bocanet | Student’s Declaration: * Except where indicated, the work I am submitting in this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted for assessment in another unit. * This submission complies with Murdoch University's academic integrity commitments. I am aware that information about plagiarism and associated penalties can be found at http://www.murdoch.edu.au/teach/plagiarism/. If I have any doubts or queries about this, I am further aware that I can contact my Unit Coordinator prior to submitting the assignment. * I acknowledge that the assessor of this assignment may, for the purpose of assessing this assignment: * reproduce this assignment and provide a copy to another academic staff member; and/or * Submit a copy of this assignment to a plagiarism-checking service. This web-based service may retain a copy of this work for the sole purpose of subsequent plagiarism checking, but has a legal agreement with the University that it will not share or reproduce...
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...Proposal Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements For The Conferment of The Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing Sciences In College of Health Sciences at The University of Nairobi. March 2014 List of abbreviations KNH - Kenyatta National Hospital JCAHO- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ABSTRACT CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Background Information A disaster can be defined as a sudden extraordinary event that brings great damage, loss, destruction and injury to people and their environment (Stanhope and Lancaster, 2008). Bradt and Drummond (2007) also defined a disaster as a phenomenon that leads to massive destruction of infrastructure. A disaster can be classified either as man-made or natural incident that causes destruction that cannot be relieved without assistance. Disasters can also occur either internally, that is within the healthcare facility, or externally, that is outside the healthcare facility (Hassmiller, 2008). Disaster preparedness and management has changed dramatically since September 11, 2011. This incident raised the awareness towards disasters that made disaster management and response an issue that needed to be urgently addressed. After that in America there was the advent of the biological warfare that involved envelopes of anthrax that were sent via mail to kill people. Kenya has also had its fair share of disasters. In January 2009, around 150 people died and more than 200 were injured in...
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...HSA 510: Economics of Health and Medical Care Student: Lucy Njoya Assignment 3: The Management Challenge of Delivering Value in Health Care Strayer University Professor: Dr. Jeff Kaluyu Due: Week 8 Introduction: The healthcare industry is evolving both nationally and globally, and as a result, the challenges facing health care services delivery organizations are also increasing. Health care professionals are the decision-makers and also the ones closely associated with the day-to-day decision making processes affecting the delivery of health care services and goods to patients. The economic evaluation of the health care services delivery systems has proven to play an important role in the different types of health care decision-making. For example, formulary decisions, reimbursement decisions, high health cost decisions, and e-prescribing. This makes it a point of interest to assess the influence of economic evaluations on health care decision-making both at the macro, me so, and micro levels. Even though the impact of economic evaluation studies on health care decision making has been limited, there is an increasing requirement for the cost-effectiveness of the health care intervention to be considered when formulating and implementing guidelines for clinical practices. What is encouraging at this moment is the fact that health care decision-makers do recognize the usefulness and necessity of published economic evaluations that rightly inform the public about...
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...Name: Elise Perkins Phone: 773-241-**** E-mail: *********@rocketmail.com Health Status and Health Care Services in the United Kingdom with comparison to the United States HSM310 Introduction to Health Services Management Course Project Date submitted: 11/29/2015 Table of Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Population and Health Status………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 3 Demographic characteristics of population Mortality, Infant mortality data, causes of death Other data of health status Related information (such as on quality if life); analysis Availability of Health Services………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Basic organization/general description of services institutions, providers of care Issues related to access Utilization of services (data, if available) Other related information/analysis Expenditures………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5 How are health services paid for; any roles for the government here Data on total expenditures Other related information/analysis Macroenvironmental influences on the health care system……………………………………………… 6 Political Socioeconomic Cultural Technological/Other relevant influences Summary comments…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7 Problems Opportunities Other related comments regarding this country's health care services Comparison to the United States: what works better, what is not working as well Concluding comments: Lessons...
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...Quality Improvement in Healthcare In today's healthcare industry, many facilities search for ways to obtain an advantage from other facilities in the market. One way to obtain an advantage over other facilities is to have a reputation of providing the highest quality of care to the patients. Maintaining and continuously striving to improve the quality of various processes and procedures within the facility is important. Foundation frameworks, stakeholder differences, roles of clinicians and patients, need for quality management, areas to monitor, regulatory agencies, and resources represent the various points that will be addressed throughout the paper. Foundational Frameworks of QI There are several foundational frameworks within the subject of QI. There are several QI models derived from ideas and theories of leaders. According to Ransom, Joshi, Nash, and Ransom, (2008) PDSA/PDCA, API, FOCUS PDCA, Baldrige Criteria, ISO 9000, Lean, and Six Sigma represent various frameworks used to improve the quality of healthcare. Edward Deming described the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle a plan to learn and improve the quality of work dated back to 1950s. Later Walter Shewhart developed the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle for the basis for planning and expressing QI endeavors. The PDSA/PDCA model helps the facility to focus on how to plan for the improvement, how the improvement will be implemented, how the improvement will be identified/monitored, and what was learned from the...
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...Syllabus-MBA (Hospital Administration) PAPER – I: BASIC CONCEPT OF HEALTH -Code MHA 101 Concept of Health and Disease • Concept of health & disease and well being. • Natural history of disease and role of hospitals to offer various levels of care • Prevention aspect of diseases • Dynamics of disease transmission • Changing pattern of diseases • Concept of health indicators Preliminary Human anatomy and Physiology • Basic concepts of human anatomy • Basic concepts of human physiology Suggested Reading: Human Anatomy- Prof. Samar Mitra Human Anatomy- Prof. A. K. Dutta Text Book of Human Physiology- Dr. C. C. Chatterjee Common Pathological Conditions • Basic concepts of pathogenesis of common diseases • Basic concepts of interpretation of investigations reports Suggested Reading: Robbin’s Textbook of Pathology – Robbin, Cotran, Kumar Textbook of Microbiology – Ananantanarayan & Paniker Basic concepts of Pharmacology: Commonly used Medicine in a hospital, Narcotic drugs, use and abuse of drugs. Dispensing of medicine, Drugs store, drug stock / purchase of medicine, oxygen, I/V Fluid, Chemicals etc. Suggested Reading: Textbook of Pharmacology: Dr. K. D. Tripathi PAPER – 2: Hospital Based Healthcare & Its changing scenario-Code MHA 102 Overview of Hospital • Concept of Modern Hospital & Privatization in Health Sector • Public Sector Hospitals and Level of care / offered facilities ...
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...Personal and Professional Healthcare Communication Paper Health Care Communication Health care communication may be defined as a process that facilitates interdependence among members of a health care unit or group. It occurs either verbally or non verbally and is a process that enhances the sharing of ideas. Health care communication is essential in coordinating activities with in a health care unit if it encompasses health care administration and staff members. Health care communication is the degree to which individual have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. The health care communication is also considered as the health care literacy, which appears in different variety of ways. The health care communication can be in conversations with healthcare professionals, on prescription and over-the-counter medication bottles, health education or promotional materials, insurance or Medical applications and other forms of health information. Health communications examines the relationship of communication to desired patient care outcomes. The importance of communication providers and selected outcomes like the adherence to treatment, healthcare utilization, trust, and satisfaction with healthcare providers, and improvements in health statues are part of communication practice. The training of communication providers adheres to the professional values. The stated values are the foundation...
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...a lot of changes in healthcare over the years. Traditionally, the healthcare system in the United States has been focused on caring for the sick and treating and preventing diseases. But a new standard has developed. Focus has now shifted to health promotion. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health promotion as the “process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.” Health promotion focuses on changes to a community as well as an individuals health by modifying their behaviors to strive for optimal health, which The American Journal of Health Promotion defines as being the “balance between physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual health.” A healthy change of lifestyle can be assisted through a combination of learning experiences that increase understanding, motivation and build skills that access environment that make positive health practices the easiest choice. Examples of positive health practices are physical fitness, stress reduction and management and nutritional awareness. Historically, the role of nurses was to treat disease and care for the sick in acute care hospitals. But since the world of health care is always evolving, so does the role of the nurse. The role of the nurse now focuses on the quality of life in primary and community settings. Nurses have a very important role in health promotion...
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...As nurses working in the healthcare profession we have the responsibility to protect every individual and the population as a whole as a whole susceptible to certain diseases. Preventing and reducing illness is as important as dealing with the effect. Nurses work with other healthcare professionals to address the factors that cause people to become susceptible to certain diseases and help them through a combination of educational and environmental supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to wellness. Nurses are part of the answer because they are well equipped to interact with our community in ways that encourages choices and openness to decisions that have a more positive impact on lifestyles and health outcomes`According to the American Journal of Health promotion Health Promotion “Health Promotion is the science and the art of helping people change their lifestyles to move toward an optimal health.” From my point of view it is also the process enabling people to take action in taking control over their health through educational and environmental support of others. Others believe Health promotion encompasses principles of addressing broad determinants of health by means of developing healthy public policy creating supportive environments strengthening community action, developing personal skills. As a theory Health Promotion remains an essential guide in addressing the major health challenges faced by developing countries. Nurses are the key health professional...
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...participating. An example of passive health promotion would be government regulation, including FDA approvals or sanitation programs. Active health promotion involves the individual actively participating. Active health promotion would include an individual choosing to eat a proper, healthy diet or performing daily exercises. Purpose of Health Promotion in Nursing Nurses play a very influential role in health promotion. As health educators, nurses provide their patients, families, and communities with the necessary information and tools to take responsibility for their health. By implementing the education bestowed upon them, the patient and their families are empowered to make healthier choices and take action to live a healthier lifestyle. This in return, holds the best promise for lowering cost of health care (Edelman & Mandle, 2014). Nurses also have the responsibility to follow up and evaluate. Are the tools and education being properly implemented and understood? Does restructuring of the original plan need to be reviewed? Providing support is an important role of the nurse, as well. Behavior and lifestyle changes can be challenging....
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