Impact of Technology in Healthcare Delivery Technology makes the world go round and it comes as no shock that it continues to have a major impact on how healthcare is delivered in the U.S. Hospitals depend on many different types of technology to allow them to be able to function daily. One example would be information technology. About 10 years ago, most hospital records were kept in files and folders in cabinets. But over the years there has been a shift to information technology.
Healthcare Ethics Case Study Abstract Today’s healthcare professionals are immersed in an ever-changing environment. The advent of managed care, a variety of medical practice arrangements, and a multitude of healthcare specialty areas have resulted in the continual need to understand health care law. Health care workers are faced with tough decisions that require ethical considerations. The case of Jerry McCall, an Office Assistant that received professional training as both medical assistant and a licensed practical nurse (LPN), is an example of a situation that caused a dilemma. Jerry was accused of a medical malpractice because of prescribing a refill without the authorization of a physician.
Hospital Group Productivity The organizational structure of a hospital is very complex and encompasses many different aspects. Therefore, it is important that every group work effectively to increase productivity. The main groups identified in the hopsital setting are administrators, caregivers (such as physicians and nurses), and support staff (such as housekeepers and kitchen workers). This report will identify that the main problems that hinder productivity for each group are: role conflicts within groups, communication problems among group members, lack of cohesiveness in groups with diverse members, and excessive intergroup conflict; it will also provide recommendations for resolving these issues in order to increase group productivity. Role conflicts within groups First, we will discuss role conflict and how it relates to each group in a hospital setting.
Importance of Diversity in the Workplace Diversity in the workplace is important for many reasons. Our country is a melting pot of people that are comprised of various ethnicities, ages and religions. As such, our nursing population must be prepared to provide culturally, developmentally and physically competent care to each patient with whom they interact. Unfortunately the current nursing population is primarily female, Caucasian, and middle aged (Hutson, 2014). This offers a limited resource of knowledge with regard to other cultural needs and beliefs.
This is one department where teamwork is essential and a lack of leadership amongst co-workers can lead to ineffective care (36). It is important to have communication and training because patient’s conditions are more serious and can change quickly. Because the conditions of a patient are more serious, any health care provider on that unit needs to know who to call or what therapies to use/change to improve a patient’s condition. 2) Medical Teams in the Emergency Department: Providers in this department include Nurses, Respiratory therapists, and physicians. Physician assistants, X-ray technicians and lab technicians may also be called to the department.
Title: Reducing the numbers of medication errors by the nurses in health care system. Administration of medication is a key element of nursing care. Medications are an amazing discovery. They promote healing, reduce suffering and contribute to modern medical miracles. However, because thousands of new drugs have been developed recently, because the health care environment is increasingly complex, and because the patients are older and often sicker, there is increasing risk for medication errors in hospitals.
Leadership and management in nursing are very important, which indirectly affect the quality of health care provided to patients. Donner and Wheeler (2004) stated that, leadership and management are believed to be required at all levels of the organization to provide staff alignment, learning and professional development, which can help in optimizing the patient's positive. In other words without both parties everything can be failure. Prosperity in health care can lead to optimal patient outcomes through the provision of employee organizations, which in turn achieve the vision and mission set by the organization. To describe what are management and leadership, Kolter (1990), describes that management is to prevent chaos through structured policies and monitoring, beside that it is to provide clear goals and direction to allow others to achieve their policies, objectives, vision and mission.
There are several stakeholders who are affected by this change. One of the most important stakeholders affected is the consumers and patients. They are the ones who are dealing with an increase in life expectancy. Another important group is the healthcare providers and the facilities. Healthcare providers and the facilities have to be prepared to handle this changes.
The changes in the health care delivery systems around the world have intensified nurses’ responsibilities and workloads. Nurses must now deal with patients’ increased acuity and complexity in regard to their care situation. Despite such hardships, nurses must find ways to preserve their caring practice and Jean Watson’s caring theory can be seen as indispensable to this goal. Watson’s theory attempts to move nursing from the modernist view of the human body as machine and reality as discrete, elemental, and concrete into a world of the metaphysical where the interdependent and nondiscrete nature of a world and the spiritual nature of humans is of paramount importance (George, 2011). Jean Watson is an American nursing scholar born in West Virginia and now living in Boulder, Colorado.
Nursing students increasingly encounter ethical problems during their clinical practice which sometimes infringe the rights of patients. Simply put, ethical issues are a major concern in the healthcare field because healthcare providers have to make ethical decisions on a daily basis. Working in the modern world as a newly developed registered nurse, one can face many hurdles as they come upon their new work environment. While trying to grasp this major transition, nurses can often find themselves in the mist of ethical dilemmas. There are, in some cases, policies of the healthcare institutions and the nurse’s personal professional ethics that can conflict with the clinical settings’ decision making.