Running Head: Health care Health Care Laws‚ Regulations and Standards Christina Brown Kaplan University IT128-01 Health Informatics I Professor Botts October 26‚ 2010 Health Care Laws‚ Regulations and Standards Its time for your annual check-up and the receptionist hands you a clip board with several sheets of paper requiring your personal information. The papers in it self seems harmless and the information appears generic‚ but thousand of patients withhold information that
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Delivering patient care is intertwined with communication and person centred care. It entails understanding that healthcare professionals put patient’s needs at the centre of the whole process of their care. However‚ care is achieved by providing patients with the best treatment for their illness‚ give them the choice of treatment‚ respect their decision making and maintain confidentiality of their information (NMC‚ 2010). My observations during practical placement in care of the elderly ward in
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Effects of Compassion Fatigue on Patient Care and Nurses Name Professor Institution Course Date Introduction Compassion fatigue has already been identified as a combination of emotional‚ physical‚ and spiritual depletion which is associated with the caring of patients in significant physical distress and emotional pain. Although the literature is awash with a lot of definitions of compassion fatigue‚ Joinson (1992)‚ gave the first definition of this concept during her
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Failure to follow nursing standards of care is one of the six major causes of nursing malpractice. These standards may be part of a state nurse practice act‚ the hospital procedure and policies‚ a job descriptions‚ or recommendations of a professional national nursing organization (Reising‚ 2007). Examples in general nursing include (Reising‚ 2012): • Failure to follow proper safety protocols established by the health care facility • Failure to give certain medications in a timely and reasonable
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) signed into law by president Obama on March 23‚ 2010 is arguably the most extensive reform of health care law ever to be enacted in the U.S. It will impact the way professionals practice health care‚ the way insurance companies handle health care as a product‚ and the way consumers purchase and use health care as a service. The Affordable Health Care Act is primarily aimed at reducing the number
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Davis Weiss The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a federal statute that was signed into law in America by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010. It is divided into 10 titles. The bill contains provisions that will go into effect on June 21‚ 2010 and September 23‚ 2010. Also‚ the additional provisions will go into effect in 2014. Title I of H.R. 3590 will ensure quality affordable health care for all Americans by eliminating discriminatory practices by health insurers such
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Compassionate patient care Compassionate care is a moral dimension and an essential component of the diagnostic medical sonography field. It is an inner desire to help those very same people. Staff and leaders must treat each other with compassion and respect. Sonographer should also be compassionate to their patients. Compassion links the entirety of Joint Commission guidelines‚ as it states” hospital leaders now have a road map for implementing a fully integrated patient safety system in which
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Along with older age is more health conditions and need of social services or family assistance. Because of the growth in an aging population‚ the need for adult children to care for their parents has increased significantly‚ and will only increase more as baby boomers age. While institutionalized care is available for elderly individuals‚ often times children do not believe their loved one’s are getting the proper care they need or simply want to control their parents health. Because of this‚ many
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basis of patient centred care. Following on from this you are now asked to:- 1. Briefly describe what is meant by the term patient centred care. 2. The following three aspects of patient dignity in healthcare have been selected from figure one of maliti article *Respect *Making choices *Confidentiality Select two of these aspects and utilising relevant current literature‚ describe each of these aspects of patient dignity and briefly outline their relevance to patient centred care. Promoting
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The Author will describe the nurses role and discuss individualised patient care based around legal and ethical frameworks that guide and govern nurses in their roles as healthcare professionals. A five stage process to nursing care is one framework use to deliver this care and consists of assessment‚ diagnosis‚ care planning‚ implementation and evaluation and is an on-going‚ continuous cycle that only ends when goals are achieved and homeostasis is restored‚ or reasonable expectations of health
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