The quality of care would be monitored by a series of inspections in health settings such as care homes, hospitals, GP surgeries and many other health organisations. The responsibility of the Care Quality Commission is to recognise where effective care is being carried out and the areas in which improvements can be made. This would be a continuous cycle that changes according to whether relevant laws are put into place and the experiences of service users. The CQC set a standard of quality and safety that service users should expect when receiving care off health organisations. The standards of quality and safety would change according to the health care providers roles due to them providing different cares e.g.
Long-term care is not specific to a certain age group, and long-term care can be given in various settings. “Long-term care can be acquired in one’s home or more typically in sheltered care or independence-supporting settings described continuing care retirement communities” (Long-Term Care, para. 1). To make sure long-term care is provided at the optimum level, it must be a part of a continuum of health care. “A continuum of aging services is a comprehensive and integrated network of services that guides and tracks patients/clients over time and includes acute, transitional, long-term, and preventative care” (Clapp, 1993, General Definition, para.
From the teams of health care workers in Primary Care trusts, Secondary care teams of specialists in hospitals and social care teams and individuals out in the community, all providing care to people with a whole range of illnesses and disabilities. Some with short term illnesses who after prescribed treatment or rest will recover and return to everyday life. Others will go on to have long term conditions such as diabetes or it may be people becoming older and their health deteriorating. The relationship between the care worker and the cared for is vastly important. Many procedures and tasks carried out in care involve helping and supporting service users and patients with intimate care and finding out information deemed private.
How might cultural differences influence communication? All of these will determine how effective the communication is in a health care setting. Communication is the process of sharing information, thoughts and feelings between people through speaking, writing or body language. Effective communication extends the concept to require that transmitted content is received and understood by someone in the way it was intended. The goals of effective communication include creating a common perception, changing behaviors and acquiring information.
Understanding Healthcare Organizations: External Influences Week 4 Socioeconomic Status and Cultural Influences in Healthcare External Influences Socioeconomic Status and cultural factors are external influences in health care. Socioeconomic Status a complex characteristic, generally understood to encompass not only income and education level, the measures most commonly used, but also a wide range of associated factors that may affect the quality of health care patients receive, including insurance status, access to care, patients’ health beliefs, and many facets of the doctor-patient relationship, such as trust and communication (Bernheim SM, Ross JS, Krumholz HM, Bradley EH, 2008). The idea that people have better education, income and lifestyles, are less exposed to factors that contribute to stress-related diseases such as heart disease. Because the level of stress is less than those who experience significant differences in environment, health risks are greater in those who experience job loss, crime infested neighborhoods and poor education systems. Those who experience stress could turn to drug abuse, smoking and alcoholism.
The OIG has a set of compliance guidelines that are specific for healthcare entities. HMO elements include standard policies for appeals, ability to accept oral complaints and oral appeals, reviews by qualified medical professionals, expedited review of appeals for medical crises, and a specified resolution time period for complaints. Omachonu & Johnson (1993) found the following: The HMO assumes a contractual responsibility to provide or assure the delivery of a stated range of health services, including at least ambulatory care and inpatient hospital services. The HMO assumes responsibility for any poor quality service delivered by its provider organizations such as hospitals, eye clinics, labs, and doctors' offices. Performance elements of HMO plans include price, benefits and service delivery.
Standard of care is a diagnostic and treatment process that a physician should follow for certain type of patients with illness or clinical circumstances. 2. What is the difference between informed and implied consent? Was the consent in this case implied, informed, or neither? Explain your response Informed consent, means the patient is aware of what is going on.
Individual Health Records • What different forms are used to keep patient information? What is the purpose of each form? Inside a patient’s medical chart there are many different forms that contain vast information concerning that specific patient. Each individual record will have a patient history form, which helps the physician, nurses or medical provider to better understand any past and hereditary illnesses, past surgeries, past injuries, and past pregnancies of a patient. This helps reduce the chances of providing unnecessary treatments or tests on a patient, and helps in diagnosis of a patient.
At this capacity, nurses will have the role and duty to provide coordinated care to the patients alongside other physicians and personnel who may not visit the patients as regularly as the nurses. In addition, they will also provide diseases management services, as well as, care transitions, among different patients. The nurses will have the responsibility of transferring important medical information, such as medical history, test results, medication lists and patient preferences among the different participants who will take part in the provision of care for the patients. They will also establish accountability through clarifications regarding the individuals responsible for the different aspects of the overall care of the patient. 2.
The possibilities we explored as to why these deaths were occurring at such a high rate are quality and suitability of care, if are there any budget restraints, availability of education, preventative medications and support systems surrounding each stroke victim. RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS/AIM Within this research proposal we hope to reduce the mortality rate by looking closer into the quality and suitability of care, if there are any budget restraints, availability of education, preventative medications and support systems surrounding each stroke victim. RESEARCH METHOD This research will take place in the hospital before discharge encountering many health professions in order to provide the correct and most efficient care. This will extend into the community’s health care settings as well as rehabilitation settings. We intend to ask a series of health care professionals such as neurologists, nurses, physio therapists, occupational therapists, speech & language pathologists, social workers and case managers to observe an effective sustainable treatment and management of a stroke patient.