CareGroup was formed in a three way merger of hospitals in 1996, becoming a health-care team dedicated to providing personalized care to patients through a broad spectrum of available services. The merger was precipitated by increased need for negotiating and contracting power to respond to the HMOs, the possibility of developing integrated services to improve quality of care while driving down costs and the need for a strong balance sheet. The hospitals involved in the merger had experienced recent losses under their own separate management and the merger brought financial stability and central leadership.…
CCOM is known for its reputation of maintaining a strong sense of community, coupled with a team focused approach to medicine. It is important to have a foundation of community involvement, as it prepares students to serve as leaders in their community. Also, this form of involvement serves to build strong, trusting relations with members of the community, leading to more efficient healthcare. Moreover, this dedication acts to foster a better educational environment for medical students, as the community in turn welcomes us to the area to learn and practice osteopathic medicine. Additionally, focusing on a team based approach to practicing medicine, illustrates a true picture of modern healthcare. Osteopathic physicians not only work with…
Integrated working is a coordinated, person-centred concept of care. Being person-centred allows the quality of care being delivered to be at an excellent quality. This is because the care remains tailored to the needs and preferences of the individual. Additionally Integrated working steers away from the episodic care and allows a more holistic view on an individual, in regards to their healthcare and support requirements. To achieve this individual care there are many aspects that allow health and social sectors to work together to support a person. Shared care plans is one of these aspects as this allows everyone involved with the care to all have access to their personal care plan. This allows the service user not to repeat themselves to…
Caring, central to nursing practice as it promotes patient health outcome spiritually, physically, and emotionally. Society sees nursing as a caring profession and it is also a reason why many of us chose this career path. Caring is one of the main reason why I decided to pursue nursing as my profession. Earlier this year in my intro to nursing class, I presented on the Watson’s Caring theory for our class project. It was also where I discovered that Kaiser Permanente whom shares the same belief model. Kaiser integrated the model of Caring Science, also known as the Watson’s theory into their nursing practice. Kaiser’s belief model is the ideal work environment that shares my core values about nursing. It is important to recognize future employer’s values because it is the framework that guides their practice in the clinical setting. Leading to the concept…
Mr. Schaefer described Ellen as a driven pioneer that had over 2000 visions (Schaefer, 2017). These visions were the basis of all the medical programs that LLU currently has with millions of students building upon the work she began. The values that these students, including myself, will continue injecting throughout our careers and life are integrity, teamwork, and excellence. Integrity showing consistent care, while collaborating with colleagues to build the upmost quality healthcare we can provide to our patients and their families is what I envision for myself, much like Ellen G. White.…
Doctoring is the only profession where one’s career is devoted to another’s well being, and it is the only profession in which I can find academic challenge, honor, and moral fulfillment I seek.…
An interview was conducted with M, who works at University of California Los Angeles- Advanced Practice-Nursing (APN) program as a lecturer. She has been a nurse for almost 35 years and began teaching career at UCLA in 1982 where she worked as a nurse educator. Both patient/family education and staff development were her focus. These students are learning to become nurse practitioners or clinical specialists in acute care. After school they work in specific areas such as emergency, trauma, neurology, cardiac surgery or cardiology, which is M, F’s personal area of expertise (M Fields, personal communication, April 28, 2015).…
My goals for residency are simple – to continuously learn in order to educate and heal. Although I have been involved in the community in various ways for many years, I am truly excited to start giving back to society from a different perspective – that of a physician, of a person’s first stop in their most vulnerable of times. Family Medicine is a broad field that will challenge me in many ways, but I am ready to enhance my knowledge in a program that fosters learning through a supportive, team approach where patients and their futures are the greatest concerns.…
In our ever changing healthcare system the need for collaboration is more needed than ever. Collaboration as defined on Wikipedia “is a process defined by the recursive interaction of knowledge and mutual learning between two or more people who are working together, in an intellectual endeavor, toward a common goal” (Wikipedia, 2007). Collaboration is a complex process that requires knowledge sharing and joint responsibility for patient care. Sometimes it occurs within long-term relationships between health professionals. On other occasions, collaboration may involve short encounters. In these settings, there is no second chance to collaborate effectively. The challenge then, is to make the most of all interactions in order to use the best knowledge and abilities of all the health team and produce positive patient outcomes. (Collaboration: It’s Worth Our Time and Effort)…
and it feels like family. I started becoming a leader by learning though out my experience from my…
In healthcare, teamwork is "a dynamic process involving two or more healthcare professionals with complementary background and skills, sharing common health goals and exercising concerted physical and mental effort in assessing, planning, or evaluating patient care".[1][not in citation given]…
This essay will be discussing the aspect of role transition in nursing gathered from the nursing and midwifery councils (NMC) the standards of proficiency for pre registration nursing (NMC 2004), the standard aspect I have chosen to discus in this essay is care management.…
RBC takes the building blocks from primary nursing and combines them with J. Watson’s Theory of Caring, to create a care delivery system that not only addresses the needs of the patient as a whole, mind body and spirit, it…
In this paper I will explain what a healthcare team is and an example of a healthcare team and how they work together for the purpose of the well-being of one patient. Showing when they are caring for any patient their focus when discussing their care is to be focused on that one individual. I will then give some medical terminologies with their definitions, and finally describe a staffing situation where there is a deficit that affects the function of the office that could reflect on patient care. Delegating roles to assist in this deficit in the meantime will be made that could possibly make a change in budget purposes.…
Educators teach and lead their students to success. In a similar manner, internal medicine will give me the opportunity to empower my patients to be in control of their health. I am certain that I would not be satisfied with the pursuit of anything other than internal medicine as a career when skills I have acquired during my clinical training could have a much more visceral application in understanding and alleviating real distress experienced by people daily. As my interest in internal medicine was deepening, I better understood the applications my character and personal experience could have in this field. I recognized the extent of effective communication with patients from diverse backgrounds. My personal experiences have helped me to…