Making a difference in someone life just fascinates me, knowing that I have the power to help someone. Working at the Bruckner Oncology as a Medical Assistant intern is one of the greatest life experience. Even those I had face many new challenges I will not trade it in for any other work field. Becoming an assistant also supplies knowledge of the most intimate interactions of the natural processes, giving a glimpse of processes that are not easy to understand. At this Center the patients are Cancer related.
MEMO From: Joshua A. Burger (Gibbs), Phlebotomist, Genesys Regional Medical Center To: Office of Susan K. Kolka, Hospital Administrator, Genesys Regional Medical Center Subject: Excessive needlestick complaints and proposed corrective action 11/11/2009 Introduction Statement of Problem Inpatients of Genesys Regional Medical Center are complaining of excessive needlesticks during their stay at our facility. After receiving dozens of complaints, policy changes were made to allow the patients to receive a heparin lock as standard procedure, but the complaints continued. To promote patient comfort, safety, and well being, the hospital needs to take immediate action to reduce the number of needlesticks that our patients must endure
The Medical Administrative Assistant Skills Tammy Mitchell Week 1 ECM Assignment November 9, 2014 The Administrative Medical Assistants Skills In my paper I’m going to discuss about is the human skills and which human skills that will apply to the Medical Administrative Assistant. According to Jones and George (2013) (pg. 14), “a human skill is the ability to understand, alter, lead, and control the behavior of others, individuals and groups”. The top skills of a Medical Administrative Assistant that caught my attention are people skills, planning activities, and communication. A people skill is very important to have in the medical office because you have to deal with patients every day.
In accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008), confidentiality shall be maintained throughout. A conclusion to the essay will examine my reflective skills through the theory and knowledge that I have gained through completing this essay. A clinical placement was undertaken involving an aggressive service user towards myself, other service users and staff. This experience interested me, being confronted by an angry individual was powerful as well as emotional, and I learnt a great deal from this intervention and often reflect on it. Andrew (pseudonym) was a 35 year old man who been admitted to hospital for several health conditions including type 2 diabetes.
Vivian reflects on her actions with students and reassesses her life through flashbacks. Through Bearing’s encounters, the reader understands her journey as a cancer patient. There are many stages and aspects of cancer. One being the patient’s journey through it and physiological standpoints. Diraimondo, a registered nurse writes her own story of diagnoses vividly.
Abstract In recent years, healthcare leaders and medical experts have expressed concerns about tough challenges ahead for healthcare and its leaders. While most agree that the issue warrants attention, consensuses divide around how to respond to the problem. The purpose of this paper is to summarize, explore and analyze Dr. Kyle Glazier’s article on Ronald G. Spaeth’s philosophies on healthcare, and examine Spaeth’s authority on business and healthcare through his education and works. His business theories in management branch from a human relations approach which accounts for much of his success in healthcare to express his methods. He states that healthcare institutions have shifted more like running a business and those young healthcare
Preventive education is an important part of the interaction that NYM has with the community. Nursing image throughout the hospital is respected the only problem is the nursing image among nurses themselves. The shortage also comes into play here. Nurses become burned out and frustrated and tend to be negative with each other due to the stress. Interdisciplinary relationships throughout the hospital are strong.
HCA 250 | Change and Innovation | By: Roger Hart | Instructor: Carolyn Hart | University of Phoenix | 10/30/2011 | At times change can be a scary thing, special when you have an office filled with employees who have been used to doing things one way for so long that the thought of having to learn something new is more of a frustration more than anything else. I have planned an office meeting with my employees to explain the (EMR) electronic medical record computerized style and why it is so important to change to this form from the old way, because now we can store, retrieve and modify patients records and share them all over the world to other doctors and specialist by a click of a button. By allowing the employees
The importance goes further to the core of the problem focusing on the nurse and evaluating what is needed to be done in order to educate this patient group. The research problem involves nurses who are not comfortable discussing end-of-life issues with their patients and is identified in the first few paragraphs of the article. This is a significant problem nurses and doctors can educate, manage and monitor for these chronic patients. The purpose is not clearly stated in the study, but is inferred within the abstract of the article as well. Patients and families dealing with potential end-of-life issues is a very common problem in health care today.
Sometimes in most cases a particular family member is trained by nurses to provide hands on care, and to supervise the patient around the clock. Many patients in hospice have been discharge to either home or nursing home if the disease goes into remission meaning if the cancer(s) somehow have subsides. Hospice was not designed to end hope for the patient or their family but to make the expected/unexpected death as comfortable and peaceful as possible. Hospice is not only for the elderly and cancer patients but it is for the young, the chronically ill. Hospice has a huge impact on our health care system the life expectancy is increasing tremendously. This is statement released by a group of physicians who did a research study on hospice.