Group Paper Analysis: Group #3 The Effects of Culture in Patient-Provider Interaction and Means for Dealing With It Shawn Burke‚ Shin-Hyung Lee‚ Siamak Mahdavi‚ Thuan Nguyen‚ Brittany Oswald‚ Teasha Walters As a culturally diverse country discrepancies in health care have been documented and continue to serve as a threat to satisfactory patient care. Data has shown that minority groups suffer more greatly from cardiovascular disease‚ diabetes‚ and cancer‚ amid other ailments. In 1998
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Patient self-determination is defined by the text as a law that requires healthcare organizations to inform patients of their rights as they pertain to their ability to determine the own healthcare. The Patient Self-Determination Act was drafted and enacted Congress in 1990. The law required healthcare institutions to provide information about advance healthcare directives to patients upon their admission to the healthcare facilities. The premise of the Patient Self-Determination Act was to inform
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called Accurate Empathic. Acute Empathic is the key foundation of the person-center approach and is one of the most well-known of Rogers’ therapeutic conditions (cite). According to Corey‚ Empathy is a deep and subjective understanding of the client with the client. In other words‚ empathy is a feeling where the therapist understands the client’s experiences and recognizes the emotional experiences without getting emotional involve. Therefore‚ this approach is used when therapist can sense the client’s
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facet in any health facility. That is why I‚ Susan‚ decided to take a professional approach in caring for Josie when she was admitted with severe body burns in the Hopkins hospital (King 14). In fact‚ a fair share of challenges should be faced by a renowned health facility‚ patients‚ and their family members. Medical practitioners are supposed to observe high level of professionalism when discharging their services. Despite the high expectations‚ medical practitioners are also human beings prone to
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Patient Advocacy: Concept Analysis Nursing is a challenging‚ rewarding and exciting career. The nurse ’s role is not limited to changing bandages‚ giving needles and offering support‚ as the past has indicated. The role of the modern nurse is one of advocate‚ caregiver‚ teacher‚ researcher‚ counselor‚ and case manager. The caregiver role includes those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client ’s dignity (Kozier‚ Erb‚ & Blais‚ 1997‚ p.129). In order
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affect a patient’s eligibility. Some of the factors are income‚ employment‚ and payments. The income of a patient can affect a patient’s eligibility if they receive government assistance with medical coverage. The patient’s eligibility can vary on a monthly basis depending on their income for that particular month. If a patient were to earn too much money to be eligible for health coverage from Medicaid or Medicare‚ then they would
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Patient Abandonment: An Annotated Bibliography A changing practice that should be examined by all new nurses is the abandonment of a patient. Many nurses do not see clocking out at the end of their shift without giving report to the oncoming nurse as abandonment. These nurses believe that they have left the patients in another nurses’ care and therefore they have not abandoned them. The previous example is showing physical abandonment‚ however psychological abandonment can be equally
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progresses in the Information Technology for the past twenty (20) years especially in the field of Medicine. The vast development of technology is the evident in hospitals in other countries as they have developed and implemented different forms of Patient Record Management System making practitioners and health professionals’ work easier than the manual way of gathering patient’s record that the hospitals had before. In Philippines‚ only a few hospitals (Saint Lukes Medical Center‚ Makati Medical City
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day activities. A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed‚ the computer can solve more than one kind of problem. A patient is any recipient of health care services. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician‚ physician assistant‚ advanced practice registered nurse‚ veterinarian‚ or other health care provider. Information is
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there should be enough rooms and equipment like hospital beds for the patients and their visitor. The visitors of the patients must have enough space to stay or wait for their love ones. The efficiency of meals and supplies delivery is also taken into account‚ it should be delivered warm and on time. Secondly‚ the layout should provide enough space for information to flow fluently from the doctors to the nurses to the patients and vice-versa. Thirdly‚ the layout should minimize the cost of moving
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