Patient Care Partnership Research Paper

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Patient Care Partnership By: Andres Rodriguez HSA 4192-U01 Health Care Operations Management Wanetta Whittaker Florida International University October 1, 2012 Patient Care Partnership The Patient Care Partnership is very essential nowadays because we as patients need hospital care, doctors, nurses and other professionals at hospitals’ who are going to be committed to working together with us as patients and our family to meet our healthcare needs. We expect a high quality of hospital care, Clean and safe environment, Involvement in our care, protection of our privacy, help when leaving the hospital, and help with our billing claims. Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned or as we want them too and some…show more content…
I was in the emergency room for about two days and on that second day the hospital I was in was on lockdown due to a visitors gun discharging. I was scared for my life especially being that young and seeing what happened on 9/11. Thank God no one was hurt by the gun's discharge and the visitor did have a concealed weapons permit. I thought the worst was going to happen because Philadelphia’s crime rate is really high when it comes to gun crimes and murders. The nurses said the visitor had a handgun in her purse when she was visiting the patient. When the visitor left the hospital room, the patient, who was completely disoriented, went into the purse and shot the gun. It’s a very big debate on whether guns should be allowed in a hospital or not. In my opinion, why do we want people who are carrying concealed weapons in our hospitals? In Florida, it’s against the law to carry a gun into a school, an athletic event, a jail, a police station or a local government meeting, but not with hospitals, where it remains perfectly legal to carry a weapon (Carter, R., 2002). Allowing guns in hospitals violates the Patient Care Partnership because it says that we can expect a “Clean and Safe environment”. How is that so with guns being allowed in hospitals? That basically means that a dangerous criminal can just carry a weapon into a…show more content…
Noncompliance is dangerous for the patient and frustrating for the physician. Up to 11% of hospital admissions, 40% of nursing home admissions, and about 125,000 deaths a year are due to noncompliance with prescribed medication regimens, according to the American Pharmacists Association “Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them (APA, 1994)." It should not be different if the patient is indigent and can not pay the bill because as a healthcare professional you should always treat every patient with the same respect disregarding there economic standpoint, race, or color. The way the economy has been the last couple years has had a big impact on why more patients are noncompliant. Patients will not buy or take medications if they can not afford it. Many patients who have lost their jobs and health insurance are avoiding prescription drugs or office visits due to there high costs. "People who have lost jobs are putting off preventive care and canceling routine visits, (Carter, R., 2002)" which is very bad because by doing that it will create there condition into more serious illnesses. It's very important to warn patients about dosage when money is tight because some patients split pills to make them last longer. Physicians can also provide free samples, substitute generics whenever appropriate, and refer patients to pharmaceutical company or government assistance programs
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