HITECH Act: Historical Significance The integration of Electronic Health Records (EHR) into the healthcare system was slow among hospitals due to significant financial and educational barriers. In 2009, the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) introduced the Health Information...
Introduction Ethical principles are crucial for the effective dispensation of various professional activities, including medical services. Natural justice is the concept that allows organizations and individuals to uphold the rule of law when interacting with others. âThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksâ is one of the literary works that communicate...
Introduction Chronic alterations mostly develop due to the normal changes brought on by individuals’ aging processes. People deal with several issues at various points in their lives or phases of development. For instance, there are clear variations between young adults and elderly individuals concerning the causes, signs, and reactions to...
Introduction Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) is a communicable respiratory disease believed to be caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This virus started to spread worldwide in late 2019, with its origin being traced to a food market in Wuhan, China. The virus has been responsible for over two hundred million infections...
Objective Two Professionals should communicate and exchange with the patient’s environment, showing an ability for dialogue that allows them to see other people who may be different from them. From an ethical point of view, applying this paradigm in professional practice implies the development of competencies that allow nurses to...
In modern times, any institution cannot succeed in the market without a specific strategy. Even a healthcare system, the primary goal of which is to provide quality treatment, is not viable without a competent marketing plan and, therefore, a good reputation. Any marketing professional’s first and foremost step is to...
Introduction The stable work of the healthcare system has always been the only way to deal with pandemics that threaten the well-being of mankind. COVID-19 has become a serious challenge since the virus can cause complications that have not yet been studied. The psychological health of the patients is under...
To optimize health satisfaction, it is essential to encourage and improve sustainable, high-quality health care long-term that can be attained with evidence-based practice (EBP). Despite the apparent advantage of EBP, it is still not widely implemented in some countries because of some barriers (Kaseka & Mbakaya, 2022). The obstacles create...
Paper Summary The American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) current recommendations on when to initiate breastfeeding include a variety of limitations and prerequisites. Each of them aims, in varying degrees, to ensure the mother and child’s maximum safety during the feeding process as well as the newborn’s maximum benefit. The American...
Introduction After completing his third tour of service in the army, Roberto has come home to his spouse Lora, a 29-year-old White lady of Swedish and Irish ancestry, and their 6-year-old son Michael. Roberto, a 30-year-old Mexican American, spent his past two deployments in Afghanistan. Up until now, Roberto has...
Cancer causes otherwise healthy cells to grow out of control, that is, they grow too fast without dying off. Healthy cells die at a given stage in their life cycle but this does not happen with cancer, causing tumors to grow. Lung cancer is a cancer that starts in the...
Introduction The paper presents a discussion one has made on Evidence-based practice (EBP). As you have highlighted, EBP involves using scientific knowledge in medical practice. It is defined as a problem-solving methodology that combines the best available practices from recent literature, and clinical experience and respects the patient’s values (Zuzelo,...
Introduction As part of an earlier project (SLP3), I formulated the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis with respect to the research question. Recall, in particular, that the null hypothesis postulates that travel has no effect on water consumption; while the alternative hypothesis assumed the opposite, that travel can influence...
Introduction The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, often known as Obamacare, is a comprehensive healthcare reform passed in the United States to expand access to affordable health insurance. Access to public health insurance has been revolutionized by its spectacular development over the years, with its influence spreading...
Introduction The disruptive outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic have illustrated the ultimate value of healthcare professionals and the importance of their capability to manage the disease outbreak effectively and efficiently. As first responders, healthcare employees should be properly protected from contamination threats since their health directly impacts their patients and...
Research Problem Description As the number and capabilities of healthcare facilities continue to grow, so does the risk of negative environmental impacts from their operations. Thus, addressing relevant concerns from a managerial practice perspective is a priority, which is, at the same time, ISO compliant. There is not enough research...
Introduction Social Security programs are a set of government programs that are offered to people to meet their needs. They are available to individuals who pay a tax or contribution to the insurance, after which participants receive discounts on services. Medicare is a program that offers health insurance in the...
Background Stress is a common human experience, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a treatment practice that combines meditation and yoga to manage it. It is firmly rooted in the modern era and was created by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn in the 1970s. It is a strategy for lowering social anxiety...
The key takeaway from the video is that public health interventions are inherently complex but must be specific and narrow to the point of fulfilling their purpose and targeting the necessary populations. There are several intervention approaches aimed at when it is activated, who it targets, and how/what methods it...
Introduction The case study is about parentsâ perception on the vaccination of children and the role health care providers should play to ensure that parents make informed decisions. The key facts presented in the case study are parentsâ concern about vaccine safety, misinformation from unreliable sources, and the importance of...
Summary In healthcare settings, nurses constitute the core professionals that facilitate the provision of patient care services. Their overall contribution is essential to the well-being of sick individuals and the country as a whole. As a profession, nursing is attracting a large number of employment opportunities since the need to...
Life’s sanctity and value visibly present the arguments against and supportive of euthanasia. Fewer topics are more controversial or complex due to physicians’ ethical dilemmas when conducting assisted suicide. Moreover, several countries have legal constraints preventing them from avoiding abuse of the practice or setting a precedent for future cases....
Initiatives to Mandate the Wearing of Masks The use of facemasks to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 became a divisive topic at the height of the pandemic and was highly politicized (Brainard et al., 2020). Mounting evidence has supported the use of face masks for disease prevention, especially for individuals...
Socio-economic deprivation can erode oneâs sense of well-being and negatively influence public medical outcomes. The social disparity is determined by various factors, including gender identity, age, migration history, handicap, and residency location. The social determinants of well-being, which include better living standards and variables that impact the likelihood of having...
Bone marrow transplantation is an effective method of treating diseases of the blood system, congenital and acquired immunodeficiencies. It is also used to treat autoimmune diseases of the nervous system and connective tissue, and certain forms of malignant neoplasms in children and adults (Figure 1). More than 50,000 bone marrow...
Stress can have a profound effect on all bodily functions, affecting all bodily systems, from the musculoskeletal and respiratory systems to the gastroenterological and cardiovascular systems. Stress attacks all human bodily systems, acting from certain areas of the brain throughout the human body. The part of the brain that is...
Introduction In modern times, one of the urgent problems of people is obesity, and the most popular ways to combat it are weight loss surgery, diet, and physical exertion. Diet and physical activity, as well as operations that help to reduce weight, are the primary and effective ways for people...
Introduction Epic Software provides patients with an opportunity to store their personal information securely. They can communicate with healthcare specialists in real-time to receive timely assistance and valuable advice (Epic Software, n.d.). The company pays special attention to patient needs because of the importance of building rapport with all beneficiaries....
As the COVID-19 pandemic showed, continuous preparedness for various risks is critical for healthcare organizations. Indeed, similar disasters demand hospitals be constantly ready to help patients (Zeenny et al., 2020). Unpreparedness for emergencies may be caused by the lack of financial resources and a wrong vision among administrators (Zeenny et...
An Introduction to Maternal Mortality Nour, N. M. (2008). An introduction to maternal mortality. Reviews in obstetrics and gynecology, 1(2), 77. Web. The article refers to the underlying circumstances of maternal mortality and the urgent obstetric interventions that increase the chances of survival. The research question concerns what tools and...
Introduction In recent times, there has been a dramatic increase in the rates of obesity and overweight in the US. This challenge is recognized globally, but interventions to prevent it require a complex approach, paying attention to behavior, genetics, as well as social and financial issues. The situation is complicated...
There is a problem related to emergency departments in Dubai governmental hospitals. Despite numerous models of care that have been developed to reduce overcrowding and processing time in the emergency room, the current situation is not as favourable as it can be. Therefore, this problem has had a negative impact...
The COVID-19 vaccination is the public’s most excellent chance for putting a stop to the present epidemic. While the objective is to get the vaccination to as many individuals as possible as soon as possible, immunization supplies will be restricted at first. As a novel vaccination, patients and doctors have...
Narrative therapy finds significant the question of realityâs cognition. While empiricism points at a single truth waiting to be discovered, narrative therapy recognizes the existence of different realities created by individuals, families, and cultures. Therefore, therapists must apply the counselorâs culture to clients with various cultural backgrounds. It seems that...
Importance of Vital Signs Imagine living a life that you do not know your vital signs: body temperature, pulse rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. Monitoring the vital signs display a snapshot of what is going inside a patientâs body, medics obtain crucial information about their patientsâ organs. Consequently, appropriate...
Diabetes Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a long-term, debilitating condition characterized by hyperglycemia throughout the body. Globally, the prevalence of this serious health issue is on the rise. Diabetes affects an estimated 463 million people worldwide, or one in every eleven persons aged 20 to 79. A total of 4.2 million...
Intervention, locations, measurements, participants, variable control, and comparisons are important to consider when analyzing research design features. Quantitative research observes casual relationships such as the association between variables. Experimental study designs contain interventions, control groups, and randomized placements of participants in groups. Quasi-experimental designs also include an intervention but do...
Introduction The special senses are involved in external sensation and perception mediated by sensory organs. Special receptors in these organs receive stimuli and convert them into electrical impulses that are transmitted via cranial nerves to the central nervous system (CNS) for interpretation. The sensory information may be decoded as sight,...
Patient/Organisational issue: Inpatient Falls Falls in inpatient setups are among the most common cases in healthcare facilities. It is documented that 30-50% of the falls result in a physical injury of the patients and psychological impacts (Turner et al., 2020). Other causes of falls include: Increased patient hospitalization. Loss of...
Introduction Disasters are unexpected events created by natural or human factors leading to massive disruptions, deaths, and challenges. The emergencies cause population health issues and require an immediate response from the regulators and communities. For instance, the hurricane Sandy attacked the United Statesâ East Coast in 2012, affecting Caribbean countries,...
Today, vaping is defined as a good alternative to tobacco smoking, and many students choose e-cigarettes, believing that they are safe and stylish. This practice is becoming more and more relevant every day, with the possibility of using a variety of flavors, colors, and forms. About one in four American...
Maintaining the children’s health is the parent’s primary responsibility. However, there are cases when the urgent intervention of medical professionals is required to ensure efficient treatment. When crucial medical decisions are to be made, parents often cannot access the necessity of particular treatment actions because of insufficient knowledge about healthcare....
Community Description Epidemiology is the study of health outcomes and diseases in large populations. In epidemiology, individuals are considered to be members of a larger community. It is the study of health-related states and events (not just diseases) in specific populations, and the science underpins it (U.S. Census Bureau, 2018)....
For a health organization to be capable of accomplishing its goals within a society, it must have a disaster recovery plan. The reason why Valley City had challenges is that it was caught unprepared by the train disaster. Consequently, they incurred numerous damages in terms of property damage and lives...
The government of the United States of America is devoted to promoting the level of health care in all states and making health care affordable and accessible to all. In the efforts to promote health care, the government has introduced new policies and regulations in health care delivery. The nursing...
Background Zika virus is one of the members of the so-called Flavivirus virus family and is spread through mosquitos. The virus’s effect lasts from several days to a week. Although it was discovered in Uganda as early as 1947 and is quite common in Africa and Asia, the pathogen was...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused multiple effects on all spheres of human society. However, the healthcare sector became the first to respond to a new threat and struggle with it. For this reason, the question of quality improvement became especially topical in this field. By enhancing the existing methods of...
Introduction Communication is an important element that propels all operations in the hospital. Communication problems affect the smooth running of hospital activities. For instance, to discharge a patient, a nurse has to wait for orders from the physician. The physician may be present on shit; thus, the patient would have...
The presented image contains the data on the risks of the patient developing cardiovascular disease due to being overweight. The picture positively frames the reduction of the health risk factor, which, in this particular case, is excess weight. Instead of portraying the risk as something negative that happened due to...
Biological Mechanisms Tuberculosis infection occurs when an infected patient disperses tubercle bacilli in the air, then another person inhales them, and they travel to his lungâs alveoli. Alveolar macrophages ingest the tubercle bacilli, killing most of them. However, some bacilli may survive this defense, replicate intracellularly and diffuse to nearby...
Medical care that is optimal for the patient’s health by the current level of medical science, diagnosis, age, and response to treatment can be considered high-quality healthcare. To provide it, medical personnel and doctors need to have professional competence, which is the presence of the skills and knowledge of medical...
Emancipatory knowing uncovers social and political issues, such as inequality, discrimination, and injustice, in order to motivate people to action. There are five nursesâ patterns of knowledge: empirics (scientific observation), ethics (moral component), personal knowing (relationships between the self and others), aesthetics (the art of nursing), and emancipatory knowing (Chinn...
It is hard to disagree that there are numerous factors that can either negatively or positively affect the mental or physical health of an aggregate group within the community. Therefore, a patientâs culture and cultural characteristics have to play a significant role for a nurse when studying complaints and symptoms...
Introduction In the introduction, scientists claim that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common clinical forms of attention disorders. In this article, special attention is paid to a detailed analysis of the neuropsychological mechanisms of ADHD, the study of the deficit of working memory, the deficit...
The single thing that all nursing specialties have in connection is that nurses assist patients in maintaining their entire wellness and health. Injector Nurse is increasingly becoming a popular profession, particularly in the field of cosmetic surgery. Thus, it is not uncommon to find an aesthetic nurse working for a...
The article âQuality improvement in healthcare: The need for valid, reliable and efficient methods and indicatorsâ was selected because of its relevance on the topic. It discusses the need to improve quality in healthcare to reduce adverse effects (AE). These are negative repercussions that occur to patients, medical professionals, or...
Introduction HBM was first developed in the 1950s as a model used to explain why a person âmay or may not engage in preventive health measuresâ (Luquis & Kensinger, 2018, p. 37). In 1984, Becker and Rosenstock modified the model, using it to explain and predict peopleâs health behavior (Anuar...
The article âAmerica is failing its black mothersâ by Amy Roeder provides a scary but honest review on health outcomes among Black mothers. Black women are three times more likely to die during delivery, and the probability of a black babys death is two times higher than the death of...
Introduction Acute respiratory failure is a health condition that emanates from dysfunction of the lung or impaired function of the respiratory muscle pump. The state is triggered by the build-up of fluids in the air sacs, limiting oxygen supply into the blood. As a result, the body organs are deprived...
Introduction The current discussion focuses on the case when a woman shows up at the clinic and wants to know whether her supposed brother, George, comes to his appointments and questions about his medications. In this case, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidelines provide the social worker...
Introduction Obesity has become one of the most prevalent harmful health conditions in the modern world. By 2016, more than 1,9 billion adults were overweight, and 650 million of these were obese. These numbers made 39% and 13% of the total Earth population, respectively (World Health Organization, 2021). In 2021,...
Introduction Psychoanalysis is a form of therapy that aims to help clients release repressed emotions, leading to healing. The psychoanalytic models of counseling and therapy were created by great figures in psychology, including Carl Rogers and Sigmund Freud (Eagle, 2020). The differences between these approaches are clear based on their...
In spite of healthcare organizations being aimed at the non-profitable immanent goal of their patients’ wellbeing, the management of their facilities is essential. Management and strategy are usually associated with the financial side of any business so that medical establishments are less expected to embrace the methods of enterprises. Yet,...
Elevated turnover rates are highly common among the nursing staff due to the specificity of this medical profession. The significant physical and emotional toll, excessive stress, and burnout often prompt performance and adaptation issues, forcing the nurses to leave their occupation after a short period of time (Wei et al.,...
Introduction This guide comprises of frequently asked questions regarding Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and that are likely to elicit debate concerning how caring and technology can coexist in nursing care delivery. The guide consists of 10 open-end queries and expected responses. The purpose of this guide is to enable quick...
Depression is defined as a common and serious medical illness that affects how a human feels, thinks, and even acts. It is also regarded as one of the major health concerns and an affective disorder in most countries. In most scenarios, depression cases range from mild to severe depending on...
The elimination of risks for population health is a challenging task for the Biden administration, which implies the need to prioritize specific principles over other ideas. From this perspective, the third, fourth, and seventh items from the list of the ten Essential Public Health Services seem more beneficial than the...
Medicaid is a federal and state program providing health services to individuals with low income, elderly adults, children, pregnant women, and disabled people. The program covered with health care 74.2 million people by February 2021 (Medicaid, 2021). Originally Medicaid was a part of the Social Security Amendments in 1965 and...
Complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, is an increasingly popular practice in the medical field today. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (2021), over 30% of American adults have used unconventional medical approaches. In this case, unconventional refers to the practices in the context of Western...
Healthcare professionals have access to patient’s health information that can be used in the treatment process. In the described case, the nurse needs to obtain contact information and prescriptions for a successful recovery. In this case, access to information is required solely for professional purposes to provide medical care to...
Overview The given employee training presentation will primarily focus on outlining the importance of proper diagnostics and assessment techniques, which are used to differentiate the needs of children and adolescents. It is evident that these age and developmental groups possess a wide range of distinctive elements, which should be considered...
Understaffing or a shortage of nursing personnel is a common problem for healthcare organizations across the world. According to Jacobson (2015), U.S. hospitals have to deal with chronic understaffing due to the budget restraints and high demand for frontline healthcare workers (as cited in Metcalf et al., 2018). Hudson and...
One of the most sensitive issues in public health is discussing strategies for dealing with mentally incapacitated individuals. Having impaired cognitive connections, such patients are rendered incapacitated. As a consequence, they cannot make independent, thoughtful decisions. In the clinical setting, this is of critical importance. This is since prescribing medications...
The intense pressure that nurses experience can be overwhelming since they are responsible for ensuring patients’ well-being. The stress becomes exacerbated by increased workloads and inadequate support. Studies show that the chronic stress experienced by nurses promotes their substance use, and it poses a major risk for addiction development (Cares...
Identity matters: Aboriginal mothersâ experiences of accessing health care is a research paper written by Kimberley Anne van Herk, Dawn Smith, and Caroline Andrew. The paper reports explore how the healthcare services providersâ perception of identities of aboriginal women impact their experience in accessing preventive care in the process of...
Introduction Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced the challenges of unprecedented magnitude around the world. On a global level, this outbreak put most countriesâ economies to an ultimate test of resilience. However, the impact of the pandemic extends deeper, affecting hundreds of millions of residents. More specifically, the outbreak...
Definition Abortion is defined as the ending of pregnancy or removal of foetus or embryo before the foetus is born. Termination of pregnancy involves inducement of pregnancy, which destructs the growth of embryo or foetus and therefore, abortion results in death of the foetus or embryo. It is one of...
The topics of quality and initiatives to improve it are important for any organization in the healthcare industry since the degree to which the provided services benefit patients forms the basis of competitive ability. In the context of financial managersâ work and scope of activities, quality improvement strategies have a...
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are considered merciful ways to end the agony of people who suffer from grave illnesses. It is impossible to decide whether euthanasia can be widespread because each particular case is individual. However, it is also cruel to prohibit it either because, in particular situations, euthanasia can...
Based on the âNational Cancer Institute Data,â it is possible to provide sets of Central Tendencyâ and Variationâs measurements for each of the race/ethnicity groups. To the first group of measurements belong Mean, Median, and Mode. Mean equals to 43,275, 38,5125, 70,06875, 31,49375, and 62,725 for American Indian / Alaska...
Professional standard care refers to the mandate to diligently provide quality and standard care according to the knowledge and skills acquired in training (Khalil at el., 2017). The affordable care act addresses health issues to enhance comprehensive care. The act implements the health care provisions in the following ways: insurance...
Introduction Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a blood cancer that affects both humans and animals. It is the neoplastic clonal proliferation of small lymphocytes and manifests as marked peripheral lymphocytosis persistent for three or more months. In humans, CLL is the most typical adult leukemia, particularly in Western Europe and...
Introduction It is imperative for a nurse to have enough familiarity with specific legal rules and obligations that surround a particular nursing activity. In this respect, the knowing of specific information requires the observance of HIPAA Laws about Privacy Rules (Department of Health and Human Services, n. d.). At the...
The Institute of Medicine (IOM), 2010, developed a report, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” with the primary goal of improving healthcare and patient outcomes, nursing being integral to meeting this goal (Shalala et al., 2011). The report consists of several initiatives, including the need to transform education....
Main Elements of the Systematic Review In recent years, systematic reviews have attracted wide-ranging interest among nursing researchers and practitioners interested in generating and assessing evidence-based practices for clinical decision making processes (Polit & Beck, 2012). These reviews are premised upon several important elements. Available literature shows that the main...
Introduction The case study under analysis presents a significant problem for a community hospital that focuses on the practice of surgery. The medical establishment relies on a block time principle to standardize surgeonsâ work time. However, an issue appears since healthcare professionals tend to underutilize time in operating rooms. This...
Introduction Due to the sedentary lifestyle and a lack of physical activity, older adults are prone to developing pressure ulcers. Other risk factors faced by the elderly are flawed community infrastructure, deplorable home conditions, and relationships within the family. These factors may lead to a less active lifestyle and affect...
Scarcity of healthcare within the country does not happen due to limited resources but due to unethical management of these extant inadequate resources. Resources allotted to healthcare are dependent on a budget that is driven by the demand; hence, policy and decision-makers employ models to determine how resources are to...
Ten Aspects of Servant Leadership My leadership style is the servant â this way of directing means that providing service to the people around me is the top priority. Ten main aspects constitute the concept of this kind of leadership. Listening involves a special approach to decision-making. While the traditional...
The spread of Communicable disease is from one person to another. They are diseases one can âcatchâ from their environment or the people around them. These diseases can spread through direct or indirect contact with the infected. The disease transmission from one person to another can be through mucus, blood,...
The sleep process is crucial in a human’s day-to-day life, especially at a young age. Therefore, it is recommended to pay greater attention to the night’s sleep of children due to their vulnerability to stress and physical sickness (Harvey, 2021). There are several differences between a nightmare and a night...
Theoretical Background When analyzing arterial blood gases (ABGs), the pH value gives the number of hydrogen ions (H+) in the specimen, which is used in determining whether the blood sample is alkalotic or acidotic. The established normal pH values range from 7.35 to 7.45 (Lampert, 2020). Samples with pH values...
Informed consent in the healthcare and nursing sphere means providing permission to a physician or any other medical specialist for conducting certain procedures. Patients need to be informed on the specifics of medical actions and treatment plans in order to agree or not to receive the delivered services. It is...
Introduction Assessment and examination to a diabetic patient are important for the improvement of their condition and proper management and care. Particularly, assessing the clientâs diet and how they manage it is of the essence, especially in determining its relationship with their insulin levels (Coleman et al., 2017). This will...
Chapter 5 âEthics at the Beginning of Life, Part 1â from Raeâs book âMoral choices: An introduction to ethicsâ provides a comprehensive overview of various ethical issues related to the beginning of life. More precisely, Rae (2018) discusses arguments in favor of and against abortions, the personhood of an embryo,...
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease has been reducing for several decades. However, recent studies suggest that mortality rates are high within some subgroups. The risk of developing a cardiovascular disease also remains high due to the presence of contributing factors (Wall et al., 2018). To address this problem, the Million...
Scientific claim is, “Unwashed fruits and vegetables may cause serious food-borne illnesses, such as dysentery, cholera, and amoebiasis.” Two opposite scientific claims may be identified here as the meaning of this advertisement remains unclear. Based on the quote, a scientific claim is, “Men is characterized by a better capacity for...
The nursing shortage refers to a situation where the demand for health professionals exceeds the supply locally, nationally, or globally. This is the situation in developed and developing countries. The world is facing an acute shortage of nurses amid the COVID-19 pandemic of about 5.9 million, a report by the...
The cultural aspect of life influences healthcare services where people of various backgrounds interact. Even though modern humanity adjusted to the recent changes towards globalization, different values and beliefs maintain their solid positions in the communities. In a healthcare facility setting, it is crucial to consider and respect diverse patientsâ...
Problem/PICOT/Evidence Search (PPE) Worksheet Criteria Patient satisfaction and patient education are among the most important issues in the work of a nurse. Throughout the entire working practice, nurses are forced to contact various patients. It is necessary to understand that each patient is a person with their own features of...