The Patient Affordable Care Act also known as the Obamacare was created on March 23‚ 2012. The Affordable Care Act is a health care law that aims to ensure that all Americans have access to quality‚ affordable healthcare by increasing access to health coverage for Americans and introducing new protections for people who already have health insurance this law will hopefully create the transformation within the health care system necessary to contain cost. The ACA law puts in place comprehensive health
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birth‚ but she did not survive and the doctor said if they brought her little earlier than they could have saved her. In my community‚ there is a great need for health care. It includes the issues of proper sanitation‚ old age health services‚ child and maternal care. Many of the families don’t have enough knowledge to take care of their health. Some of them are not able to talk about health problems because of language barriers. Some of them still have cultural and social beliefs that prevent them
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stage will be a patient or have a significant other as a patient in a health care setting. It is the right of every individual to receive safe and quality in health care regardless of the health care setting. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the elements that constitute patient safety and the assessment of quality in health care provision within health care institutions‚ including organisational and nursing strategies for care delivery and evaluation of standards of care in relation to pressure
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Reflective Practice Reid (1994) Gibbs Reflective Cycle What happened? (description) What would you do if it happened again? (action plan) What were you thinking/feeling? (feeling) What alternatives did you have? (conclusion) How can you make sense of what happened? (analysis) What was good/bad about the experience? (evaluation) Reflectivity The circular process by which our thoughts affect our actions‚ which affect the situation we are dealing with and therefore after feedback through the reactions
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reflection in the mirror. The same can be said about the reflective compositions. A reflective composition is the result of introspection into past experiences or memorable events in our lives. We introspect into these memorable events and reflect over them with regards the emotions and influences they have left in our lives. In simple words a reflective essay is a piece of ‘you’ being presented in words. What is Reflection? In a reflective composition you really need to think about yourself and
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Study Guide - Aging and the Elderly *Use the handout distributed in class to answer these questions The handout title is “Aging and the Elderly” This study guide includes focus questions‚ key terms and application questions for this topic. Use this document as a guide during the presentation of this material and for inclass discussion and as a study guide for the unit exam. Students are expected to use their textbook to answer the focus questions indicated below and define the key terms not already
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(lymph node dissection) (Tschudin‚ 1996). However‚ Irene expresses concern at this time that her surgery will cause her arm to swell (lymphoedema) and this will affect her interaction with her baby. Therefore as the nurse responsible for Irene’s care‚ a care plan of actual and potential postoperative complications of this surgery has been devised‚ this will include possible nursing interventions that would be implemented for Irene. However this assignment will concentrate on two postoperative problems
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Change for Providing Safe Patient Care”‚ on page 382 through 383‚ is about a Department of Medicine (DoM) in an urban academic medical center where in the past 2 years there has been cases where patients had needlessly suffered serious harm. Even though the cases were far and in betweeen‚ and most of the employees were comfortable with the status quo however‚ “the chairperson’s view of patient care safety meant that there was no place for such incidents.” Incidentally‚ the patient safety incidences occurred
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Stereotypes are very common when speaking about the elderly community and a common misconception is that elderly people are typically forgetful‚ forgetting the faces of people they’ve seen many times‚ forgetting to do simple daily routines‚ and forgetting things that were mentioned to them recently. We tend to see this ideology a lot within the media such as on television shows or health ads. However‚ the image of the forgetful older person is generally nothing more than a false stereotype that has
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due to her emotive words. Target To maintain a professional relationship within the health care setting‚ whilst still comforting the resident and portraying empathy in context with his concerns. Activities When the resident had shown me the card and I became overwhelmed by my own emotions‚ I excused myself and left the room. As I went to the bathroom to settle myself down I tried to think of the patient at this time and what I could do to help them professionally. In accordance with professional
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