Healthcare Scenario - Asthma
Abstract
In this assignment the scenario presented is of a mother bringing her daughter into the emergency room during an asthma attack. Though both of her parents work, they cannot afford medical insurance for themselves or her. They also earn too much money to qualify for state or federal aid. She is treated with medication for her asthma attack at the hospital and she and her mother leave. Two weeks later, they return to the hospital in a virtually identical scenario. I will be discussing whether I feel the girl received adequate care for her condition, should she be treated by a physician before her condition worsens, should everyone be entitled to a basic minimum of healthcare and is healthcare a right (AIU Online, 2013)?
Healthcare Scenario - Asthma
Introduction:
Unfortunately, in this day-in-age, healthcare is a big money industry and is becoming less about actually helping people improve their health and more about writing invoices and getting paid. People care less now than ever before when it comes to working in the medical field and is reflected in their work. In the case of the little girl brought into the emergency room during an asthma attack the level of care she received throughout her visits was nothing short of failure, Her condition wasn’t given a second look mainly on the merit the her parents don’t have a healthcare provider, resulting in the little girls condition not being adequately treated.
Do you think this girl is receiving adequate care?
No, I do not feel the little girl is receiving adequate care, In order for her to receive adequate care I think when she was admitted into the emergency room, the staff that dealt with her should have given her a prescription for an asthma inhaler to control her symptoms and prevent any future debilitating episodes. But as the child’s parents do not currently have a healthcare provider this option wasn’t thought of or considered which is why a believe she was not receiving adequate care.
In this assignment the scenario presented is of a mother bringing her daughter into the emergency room during an asthma attack. Though both of her parents work, they cannot afford medical insurance for themselves or her. They also earn too much money to qualify for state or federal aid. She is treated with medication for her asthma attack at the hospital and she and her mother leave. Two weeks later, they return to the hospital in a virtually identical scenario. I will be discussing whether I feel the girl received adequate care for her condition, should she be treated by a physician before her condition worsens, should everyone be entitled to a basic minimum of healthcare and is healthcare a right (AIU Online, 2013)?
Healthcare Scenario - Asthma
Introduction:
Unfortunately, in this day-in-age, healthcare is a big money industry and is becoming less about actually helping people improve their health and more about writing invoices and getting paid. People care less now than ever before when it comes to working in the medical field and is reflected in their work. In the case of the little girl brought into the emergency room during an asthma attack the level of care she received throughout her visits was nothing short of failure, Her condition wasn’t given a second look mainly on the merit the her parents don’t have a healthcare provider, resulting in the little girls condition not being adequately treated.
Do you think this girl is receiving adequate care?
No, I do not feel the little girl is receiving adequate care, In order for her to receive adequate care I think when she was admitted into the emergency room, the staff that dealt with her should have given her a prescription for an asthma inhaler to control her symptoms and prevent any future debilitating episodes. But as the child’s parents do not currently have a healthcare provider this option wasn’t thought of or considered which is why a believe she was not receiving adequate care.
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