Week 4 Reflection Helen Einer NURS-6015 Information and Healthcare Technologies Applied to Nursing Practice Walden University July 24‚ 2010 Week 4 Reflection The ongoing development of computer technology and telecommunications has provided the healthcare industry with continuous opportunities to enhance communication‚ provide education‚ improve patient safety‚ and create new IT jobs within the industry. By 2014‚ the American health care industry will look toward full adoption of electronic
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Government Spending on Healthcare Talia Oliver 10/22/2012 HCS/440 Donna Lupinacci‚ MSN The article I read was written by Margaret Cuomo‚ M.D. and it focused on health care costs and how the government is doing unnecessary spending in health care. According to the article‚ the government has spent about $750 billion dollars on medical care that was not needed. Some of the areas where the author believes that the money has been wasted have been in unnecessary services‚ excessive administrative
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helping people. The healthcare field is not for the weak a heart or the weak at stomach teaching you valuable lessons about yourself and others.
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Effective Communication in Healthcare Communication can be defined as the process of passing a piece of information‚ opinion and feeling between people by writing‚ speaking or body languages. Effective communication ensures the idea‚ the transmitted contents‚ are clear and successfully delivered‚ received and understood by people in the manner it was intended by the sender. In the healthcare parlance‚ effective communication among patients and health caregivers is very essential to offering improved
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Professionals and students in training have an ethical obligation to all that they serve. Patients rely on the integrity of the healthcare professionals to kept their personal information confidential. The United States health care have been plagued with issues for quite some time and the law makers have been trying to rectify the problem. The Unites States National deficit is increasing at an alarming rate. The propose for this paper is to analyze some important aspects about health care in the
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standards of behavior‚ developed as a result of ones concept of right and wrong (Judson & Harrison‚ 2010). Code of ethics is a list of principles that is intended to influence the actions of healthcare professionals within an organization. Ethical principles help guide the decision-making process among healthcare workers in complicated situations. This paper will review the assigned case study and provide the reader with the ethical issues and principles. The case study discussed an 8-month old child
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Healthcare reforms are affecting many healthcare jobs. Many of these reforms are designed to provide efficient care and quality standards to patients. One group of medical workers that are especially affected by these new reforms are Physician Assistants. Since Physician Assistants are an important part of a healthcare team‚ they are being affected by these many new reforms‚ which include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act‚ accountable care organizations (ACO’s)‚ and the American Recovery
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change in the healthcare industry. There are many steps that the organization could take to execute the change. My thesis is that in order to be successful and achieve the desired result‚ change management must follow a systemic and methodical process. I will walk through the implementation of the change prior to‚ during‚ and after the acquisition according to the change implementation framework created by John P. Kotter. It’s hard finding anyone who doesn’t know that healthcare reform has been
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It is our job as nurses‚ our piece to the healthcare puzzle‚ to provide the BEST possible care to every patient‚ every time. In doing so‚ we as nurses need to be diligent and compliant with our documentation‚ using the proper standardized healthcare terminology to establish a uniform representation of nursing care; an “unambiguous description of how nursing problems‚ interventions and outcomes are documented” (Hebda & Czar‚ 2013‚ p. 300). Our textbook (Hebda & Czar‚ 2013‚ p. 298) uses the definition
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A healthcare policy is a set rules and regulation that are put into effect to help assist operating and shaping the health care system. Health care policies that cover issues such as public health‚ disability‚ financing of public healthcare and mental health. Regulatory health policy tools look to the government use to help control and assign the behavior of certain groups by monitoring and enforcing the rules if they fail to follow imposing sanctions on them (Shi Singh‚ 2013). For example‚ the Joint
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