Clostridium difficile is a major problem that is a growing concern in health care treatment facilities. Clostridium difficile is a type of bacterial infection that affects the intestines. Clostridium difficile is not really an infection‚ it is a very obnoxious bacteria. Clostridium is a bacterium that someone gets when their immune system is weak. Each year‚ more than half a million people get sick from Clostridium difficile‚ and Clostridium difficile has become very difficult to treat‚ severe‚ and
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Assignment 2: psychological approaches to health and care practice P2 & P3 The behaviourist approach – changing behaviour in health and social care is that for some people they may aspect of their everyday life to simply possible to cope with. For example a small boy will not be able to go to school or to the park because he is scared of dogs and another example could be a elderly woman she may also never want to leave her home because she is being isolated and very depressed because of her fear
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Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2010 Kimberly Harris HCA 305 Instructor: Kaleigh Reyes October 28‚ 2014 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act were signed into law by President Barack Obama in March of 2010. This law provides equal access to medical care‚ lowered health care costs and eliminates denial of coverage of pre-existing conditions to the millions of the uninsured and insured Americans that were without and denied health care coverage. Patients who were denied
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University of Phoenix HCR/220 Eligibility‚ Payment‚ and Billing Procedures Checkpoint BreAwna Ingram June 7‚ 2012 Ms. Linda Eligibility‚ Payment‚ and Billing Procedures There are actually a few factors that determine a patient’s benefits eligibility‚ and some of these factors include whether or not coverage ends on the last day of the month where the particular employee’s active full-time service is over‚ and this employee may no longer qualify for insurance benefits. For example if
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Interview with a Health Care Professional The following summary is based on the information that was obtained from an interview of Ms. Rodriguez a Nurse Practitioner. Ms. Rodriguez has been a Nurse Practitioner for 12 years and enjoys everything about the job. To become a Nurse Practitioner one must attain a high school diploma‚ and have completed and passed a nursing program with an Associates or Bachelors degree. Once the degree is obtained the student must apply to the state licensing department
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Human Resources In Health Care Francine Mahase HCS 341 April 9‚ 2012 Deidra Johnson Human Resources in Health Care The health care industry is an ever changing‚ rapidly advancing industry. Each health care facility tries to be the leader in the industry and outshining the competition. To accomplish such tasks‚ it is essential for an organization to have the best technology and the best employees; this requires an efficient human resources department. Human resource management has many applications
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“Medical Records” HCA 322 Health Care Ethics & Medical Law 06/11/2013 “Medical Records” 1 Some of the laws that bind the professional that works with medical records are the maintaining of patient medical information such as doctors’ orders‚ test results‚ x-rays‚ the prescriptions of different medications etc. Medical records must be precise
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Homework Chapter 12 Open-Ended Questions 1. Describe how MinuteClinic puts the following promotion strategies to work for them: stressing tangible cues‚ using personal information sources‚ creating a strong organizational image‚ and engaging in post-purchase communication. What else could they try? MinuteClinic has managed to implement a variety of promotional strategies along time. Within the tangible cues we can find the physical evidence of the service such as the team of experts who are
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Health Care Industry Carrie "Shellie" Cobbs Health Care Administration Capstone HCS 449 John Weiss September 13‚ 2014 Health Care Industry The health care industry is an environment that is competitive and expensive. To be a patient receiving care the urgency is high and at a very critical point to trust a team of strangers with your care possibly even your life. On the other side of that coin‚ treating and interacting with patients is a part of the health care industry because providing care does
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Abstract Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the body is unable to produce sufficient insulin (needed by the body to convert glucose energy) leading to high blood glucose levels (Fusco‚ Gonzales‚ & Yeung‚ 2015). There are two types of diabetes‚ type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes (Westerberg‚ 2013). Type 1 diabetes is caused by the bodies inability to produce insulin as opposed to type 2 diabetes which is caused by inadequate insulin production or absorption (Fusco et al.‚ 2015). Type 1 diabetics
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