Professional Career Action Plan My objectives are to work in the State Health Department as a Healthcare Administrator. In this paper I will speak my professional objectives and what I will need to work on in order to reach this goal. I will consider the skills that I presently have and the abilities that I need to either change or perfect. I will speak of the different steps that I will need to take so as to reach this final goal. There are many ways that a professional may take in order to
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there is constant pressure for it to provide quality care while maintaining rising cost. The pressure exerted on a healthcare system is exemplified by managed healthcare. This type of care involves integrating and comprehensive systems of health care providers, insurance, companies and government programs. University Hospital is a very large teaching hospital which scores well on accreditation tests and is known for its high quality level of care. Like all hospitals, they need to work on improving
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mobility or ability to carry out activities of daily living however she is the primary caregiver for her husband who suffered a stroke 12 years ago. Moving in with her daughter is providing her with some help as she is finding it more tiring to take care of herself and her husband alone. Mrs. R.B. starts each morning by getting herself up and dressed, including doing her hair and makeup before she gets her husband ready for the day. She says this is one of things she makes sure she does most days
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Community Health Nursing: Quality of Life and Functioning A. Personal Perceptions After reviewing the case of Mrs. Thomas and her situation, there are many feelings I have about the final outcome. As nurses, we always have to take our feelings into account and rationalize what we feel about the health and well being of our patients. After a BRAC analysis was performed, significant results were indicated. I feel empathy for Mrs. Thomas because this technology showed what her odds were for
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improve the management of chronic diseases. It also focuses on the disparities in quality care associated with the patients’ race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. A group of researchers enrolled 9,658 patients that were being treated for various illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, or asthma. These diseases affect more than 25% of the total population. The goal of these researchers is to expand health care in order to treat every single patient. One of these ways is by expanding insurance
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human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. It is this thinking that nursing continues to strive to assist patients not only achieve their optimal physical health, but also their family culture is equally important when it comes to healing. As nurses continue to understand the dynamics of a patient’s family system, it is clear that the word “family” draws upon much more than just blood relatives. In the health care setting a family can be viewed as
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Nurse Manager. The Alaris Health is a 222-bed facility providing long term care to senior citizens, sub-acute services such as intravenous therapy, diabetic teaching, pain management, wound care, and comprehensive rehabilitation services to the patients recovering from surgery. The Alaris Health at is dedicated to our patients and embraces innovative nursing methods based on evidence in practice to improve the health care we provide. We believe in self-governance in our nursing staff. The Alaris
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benefits without measures to cut cost.1 One should know that in America there are already federal laws and programs to cover the elderly (Medicare), the poor (Medicaid), and uninsured children (CHIPs), In addition there is basically free or low cost care to anyone who needs it and it is available if one looks for it. Examples include: Shriner’s hospitals, free clinics, and providers who do pro bono work. In case that wasn’t enough, there are also laws in place that ban practices of charging more to
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improvements lead to increased wealth and poverty reduction in four ways: Firstly, healthier populations are more economically productive; secondly, proactive healthcare leads to decrease in many of the additive healthcare costs associated with lack of care (treating opportunistic infections in the case of HIV for example); thirdly, improved health represents a real economic and developmental outcome in-and-of itself and finally, healthcare spending capitalises on the Keynesian 'economic multiplier' effect
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recounts a tale of how the health-care company CareGroup’s leading state-of-the-art information technology systems had abruptly collapsed for three and a half days, what actions they took to recover, and the invaluable lessons learned through them. Background and Analysis On October 1, 1996 three prominent hospitals in eastern Massachusetts merged together to form CareGroup. CareGroup was a group of health-care professionals that offered community-based primary care and a broad spectrum of specialty
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