5. Are there any required professional certifications; you will need to perform certain duties of the job? If so, how do you plan to meet the criteria for applying and obtaining the extra education? No, there are no required professional certifications, but it can increase your job prospects if you were to obtain your certification. The Professional Association of Healthcare Office Management(PAHCOM) offers certification as a Certified Medical Manager, and in order to be eligible you must have; three years experience working in a healthcare or medical office and earn 12 college credit hours in heath service or business management.
SMITH v. JOHNSON AND JOHNSON United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 593 F.3d 280 (2010) FACTS Smith [Patty Lee] is a Senior Professional Sale Representative in Johnson and Johnson (J&J) Company. Smith’s position required her to travel to various doctors’ offices and hospitals (outside sales person) to extol the benefit J&J drug Concerta to the prescribing doctors but not to sell drugs. J&J gave her list of target doctors, required to visit on average of ten visits per day and at least one visit to each doctor per quarter with a budget for entertainment expenses to doctors and staffs. Smith was unsupervised 95% of her work time, not micromanaged and it was up to her to run the territory the way she wanted. Smith was expert in
According to Rowena Payne who has worked as a full time Registered Nurse (RN) in the ED at LAC/USC for the past twenty five years, “There is no down time, we operate with six to eight triage nurses at all times and see about 300 patients every day”. She has seen first-hand the increased volume and patient acuity, poor staffing and challenges with inpatient bed availability. She cites the main culprits of extended ED wait time as “sheer volume” being the number one issue of concern followed closely by a lack of inpatient beds and the required “holding” of admitted patients in the ED for long periods. Payne confirms what research shows with regard to lack of primary care for the underserved population of Los Angeles by revealing that the majority of patients who are referred to clinics for follow up return to the ED instead. “I always ask them why they don’t follow up as instructed and the answer is always the same” says Payne, “They simply can’t get an appointment and when they show up at the clinic in person they are turned away”.
Of the $500 she made a year, she put $200 away to attend graduate school (Pioneer 807). In June of 1918 Lancefield became a technical for a Streptococcus study at the Rockefeller Hospital (Pioneer 805). At this time, classifying streptococcal bacteria had a very difficult method and was in a very messy state. After moving back to Oregon with her husband for a year, they returned to New York and Lancefield continued with her work with Zinsser, whom typically didn’t like women in his laboratory but made an exception for Lancefield due to her history in biology/bacteriology. It was here that Lancefield began her work with Streptococcus viridians, which was suspected by the medical community to cause rheumatic fever.
College of Southern Nevada Associate of Applied Science Degree in Nursing NURS 115C: Medical – Surgical Nursing I Clinical Worksheet (Summer 2011) Student’s Name:___________________________________Clinical Date:________________ DATA TO BE COLLECTED PRIOR TO CLINICAL: Client Initials:_______Admit Date: ____ Room#: _____ Age: ____ Sex:__________ Ht. _____Wt.________BMI: ________________________________________________ Chief Complaint: ____________________________________________________________ __ Admitting Diagnosis (ses): _______________________________________________________ Client Medical History:_________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ __________________
In the end, we decided that detailed descriptions of the current challenges and recommendations for the future of nursing education from two people were not the answer. Instead, we requested and received permission to challenge five leaders, in addition to ourselves, to write short papers focused on recommendations addressing the most important three issues from each of their perspectives. With input from the RWJF/IOM Committee members and staff, we chose five esteemed (and busy) leaders and asked them to rise to this challenge within 10 weeks. Each person agreed, and each met the deadline. There were no group discussions, and, since each of us submitted our papers at the same time (no one finished early!
Cystic Fibrosis Heather Province Southwest Florida College Anatomy & Physiology August 30, 2012 Margaret Forget Cystic Fibrosis What is Cystic Fibrosis and what it means to me personally? This disease is a lethal genetic disease that’s common in the white population. Many patients with this disease live till 37 years old due to better treatment to improve their survival rate. “Average Life Expectancy in Cystic Fibrosis Better Treatment=Improved Survival” (Source: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation). Throughout my research I will explain treatments, therapy options, and prescription drugs offered to patients with this disease.
However, the last 200 years of nursing history have yielded more advancements that that all of the previous years combined and this paradigm shift can be traced back to one nursing scientist in particular – Florence Nightingale. In 1859 the Crimean War was entering its sixth year of conflict when Florence Nightingale and her team of 38 volunteer nurses were tasked with providing care at the military hospital in Scutari. Nightingale arrived to find horrific, unsanitary conditions where patients were neglected, infections ran rampant, and basic needs such as hygiene were overlooked. The mortality rate at the war hospital in Scutari was 10 times higher from diseases like typhus and cholera than it was from war-related battle injuries (Fee & Garofalo, 2010). Nightingale and her
There is expected to be a change in the number of nurses working in hospitals. The reasoning to this is patients are being discharged earlier and more procedures are being done on an outpatient basis, both inside and outside of hospitals. “Some employers report difficulty in attracting and retaining an adequate number of RNs”( “Registered Nurses”). The RN workforce is slowly aging and there continues to be a lack of younger workers to fill these positions. As of right now there are more than 100,000 vacant positions for RNs.
I was admitted to a surgical intensive care unit in India when I was 15 years old for an inflamed appendix. I was so amused by the way the nurses took care of me and the other patients over there during my 3 days stay in that ICU and in my heart I decided I want to be a nurse. My brother went for nursing first in our home and all his explanations about nursing care, the surgeries, and case scenarios fascinated me to pursue my dream. I followed him and my younger sister followed me to become a nurse. The financial conditions of my home did not allow me to go for a bachelor’s degree at that time as it was very expensive as we all were in nursing school at the same time.