A patient coming into a clinic to see the doctor for the first time expects the person at the desk to understand that they are there for a reason, their needs are addresssed in a professional manner. We have established rules or guidelines in how a patient coming into a hospital for treatment receives personal care and how a patient’s information is disclosed to others. HIPAA, Health Insurance Portablility and Accountablilty Act was created to insure that a patients rights to privacy are carried out. All employees and employers of clinics and hospitals are mandated to receive training on the rules of a patients privacy and security. A patient entering the hospital or clinic is expected to sign a release of information allowing the clinic or hospital the right to disclose the patients history to the patient, other doctors or other outside
So, how exactly does one achieve this goal? Obtaining both your BSN (bachelor's of science in nursing), your designation as a registered nurse, and your master's in nursing with an accredited nurse practitioner specialization are the only requirements to become a nurse practitioner. Most, if not all, NP programs will have you focus on a specialized area, such as adult, neonatal, or pediatric care. As was mentioned before, there is no formal examination required to be recognized as a full-fledged NP. The salary and benefits of being a nurse practitioner are also much higher than being simply a registered nurse.
Midwives are personally responsible for the health of both mother and baby and only refer to obstetricians if there are medical complications. They work in multidisciplinary teams in both hospital, and increasingly, in community health care settings. Midwives do a multitude of duties, all the while following to hospital policy and maintaining an awareness of issues such as health and safety, examples of these duties are; diagnosing, monitoring and examining women during pregnancy, developing, assessing and evaluating individual programmes of care, providing full antenatal care, including screening tests in hospital, in the community and at home. Midwives identify high risk pregnancies and make referrals to doctors and other
Introduction As the contemporary society forges ahead amazingly, the public demand has become increasingly diversified. Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) has been particularly prominent in health care discourse since the 20th century (Brown, 1998). As many of APN’s job scope are overlapping with the traditional medical role, frequently, they are struggled to articulate what it is as nursing-based care providers that they uniquely bring to their patients (Dunphy & Winland-Brown, 2006). Caring is a word often associated with nursing, and it is one of the symbolic characters to differentiate APN from medical team. A transformation conceptual model, the Circle of Caring (Figure 1) is developed by Dunphy and Winland-Brown in year 1998 especially for APN in North America (Dunphy & Winland-Brown, 2006).
Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital is a not-for-profit community hospital with a vision to be the hospital of choice for the members of the community. The hospital has a commitment to patient safety, the community, teamwork and accountability. The hospital is an acute care facility with advanced care service lines such as oncology, cardiology, neurosciences unit, obstetrics and a level II NICU. The hospital works to provide cost-effective, compassionate care in a healing environment. The Joint Commission (TJC) surveyed Nightingale Community Hospital two years ago.
All healthcare workers are required to report anything that affects the environment If there are any issues with the clinical environment for example any of the equipment we use is faulty or needs calibrating then we inform our Practice Manager who will make the necessary arrangements for equipment to be either sent out or for someone to come in and check over the equipment in the practice. If we require new equipment it’s always useful to attend relevant training courses where relevant information on who we can approach in regards to assessing our equipment is given out for example just recently I attended a course on INR Monitoring and Warfaring Dosing this allowed me to meet an advisor who can check over our machines when they aren’t working to the standard the practice sets out. By attending this course I was able to pass the details of the advisor over to our Practice Manager who has now arranged for her to come in and check over our equipment. The best way to investigate into where we can report and adjust our environment is by attending courses, it is always essential to keep up to date with relevant protocols as they constantly change so attending courses will enable us to keep working to the standards that is expected and help keep us up to date with relevant companies who are there to help. 1.4 – Describe the impact of environmental changes on resources including storage and use.
In this case market Penetration is a very necessary approach. According to the Duke University this strategy is used to attract new patients. The website advertised a new medical records system to improve patients’ experiences. This present tool helps patients contact their physicians online to ask medical questions or request a prescription refill without going to the hospital. This strategy approach will
I complete a monthly/Weekly and daily risk assessment for different areas of my setting including the environment inside and outside. The equipment used on a daily basis. Regular checked are completed on all smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. I ensure that I keep up to date with my training in first Aid and I make sure my first aid box is checked regularly and stocked. I complete accident forms when an accident occurs in my setting and ask the parent/carer to sign to say there have been made aware of this and a copy provided if required.
With only other practices within our area being either specialists or Internal medicine, we project a gradual increase in patient load over the first several years as we grow with in our community. Services for Heart’s Family Practice will provide general care for all ages from new born to geriatric, as well as providing multiple procedures to insure complete health care for the residents of this community. Heart’s Family Practice will provide procedures such as mole and wart removals, biopsies; trigger point injections, EKG’s, x-ray, lab, and much more. Costs for these services will vary depending on the physician’s time, materials used and the amount designated for each procedure which will be determined through a billing
Health Care : The Last 10 Years Over the last ten years health care has seen many changes with one of the biggest changes being the use of technology. Health care organizations such as hospitals and physician offices have gradually began converting patient medical records from paper to electronic, utilizing one of the many EMR software programs available. With the recent HITECH meaningful use initiatives which are giving Medicare and Medicaid incentives to health care organizations who adopt an