Introduction of Capstone Project Roxane Spinelli Chamberlain College of Nursing Capstone NR660 Dr. Mikel Hand March 6, 2014 Introduction of Capstone Project Nursing is considered to be a challenging profession, due to the nurses working long hours caring for patients that are extremely ill and dying. There have been discussions among the experts on how to reduce job-related burnout and job dissatisfaction, decrease nurse workloads and improve patient safety. They have continued, stating there should be more nurses working in hospitals per patient. This is measured as the nurse-to-patient ratio. This can be described as one nurse taking care of x-amount of patients.
As statistics show, there has already been an increase in the cost of health care partially due to the shortage in health care practitioners and the need to offer higher reimbursement for treatments. If predictions are true, and there is a shortage of 125,000 physicians by the year 2025, the cost of health care will increase more rapidly. Because health care and therefore an individual’s life is considered priceless, there are demand shifters that often affect the demand curve of a health care product. As demonstrated in the example above, physician loyalties and experience are just two of the many types of demand shifters. This demand shifters can cause an even steeper rise in health care cost in the real world.
Lifestyle and chronic illnesses are on the increase. Each year more people are being diagnosed with diseases that without correct long term management will place further strain on a system that is at breaking point. An ageing population and crtitical shortages in our health care workforce are all adding up to a
et al (2000). Problems in patient safety are due to, as Kohn L. et al (2000) stated, many kinds of adverse events (“any unintended or unexpected event that could or did lead to harm for one or more patients” cited by Milligan F. et al (2005)) in patient safety that may occur during the course of providing health care. If truth be told, it “estimates that tens of millions of patient world-wide suffer disabling injuries or death every year due to unsafe medical care” WHO (2008). Such events that are mentioned by Kohn L. et al (2000) include transfusion errors, adverse drug events (ADE), wrong site of surgery and surgical injuries, preventable suicides, restraint-related injuries or death, hospital-acquired or other treatment related infections, falls, pressure ulcers and mistaken identity. It is thought that more than two-thirds or about 70% of these adverse events are preventable that is why patient safety has become increasingly important in Health Care.
In the article, “Broadening the Scope of Nursing Practice” the authors offers an extensive look at the future of nursing professionals in the field of healthcare. The authors discuss the impact of Affordable Care Act (ACA) on primary care services, due to more Americans having access to healthcare insurance. There is currently a shortage of primary care providers and with the ACA insuring an additional 32 million Americans this poses a significant problem in the delivery of healthcare services. The author proposes the use of advanced-practice registered nurses (nurse practitioners) as primary care providers to help alleviate the shortage of providers. Advanced-practice registered nurses are healthcare providers that receive advanced didactic
Health care costs have constantly registered a rapid increase in the last several years. For instance, health care expenditure in the United States was in trillions of dollars about three years ago. Factually, this was more that thrice the amount spent over a decade ago and over eight times the 1980 medical budget. Medical care has become a major concern that affects mankind in every corner of the globe. Governments, employers as well as citizens continue to struggle to keep abreast with the soaring health care costs.
Healthcare 1 Healthcare Cost Control Sherry Jones English: Composition II 121 Michelle Pinkard July 6, 2009 Healthcare 2 When it comes to healthcare we all wonder how we will be able to afford the cost. Being able to control healthcare cost is up to the people, for example if you can go see a doctor instead of going to an emergency room that will be saving money not only for you but for the insurance company as well and it will keep insurance cost down. Healthcare premiums has raised 25 percent since 2004. “Healthcare costs have increased dramatically over the past few decades and are now thought to be excessively high. That has caused current political revaluation of our health care costs.
In today’s data medication errors result in at least one death per day and 1.3 million injuries per year. (1) The FDA has reported hospital drug errors have increased from 35,000 in 1998 to about 2005 in 2005. (1) Due to staffing shortages and increasing amount of work the staff is put on amount of stress put on them, the err is human. The implementation of the Electronic Medication Administration Record (Emar). Medication errors are any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medications error when in control of health care professional.
Medicaid, Social Services, CPS, law enforcement are all affected on a larger scale. Financial cost to the United States is growing at alarming rates, where we have to look at meth addiction as a nation. Meth use in pregnancy is becoming more common, the physical effects on both mother and baby are increasing the costs in healthcare with lengthy stays in the neonatal departments. Providing care to addicted newborns doesn’t stop in the hospital. CPS and Social Services have an ongoing role in protecting these children through foster care placement and adoption placement that is lengthy.
Health Care Spending Paper Health care expenditure in the United States continues to outpace the growth in national income as well as in spending, compared to other countries. Health care costs is rising so rapidly that it has forced our nations economy, government, as well as other local, state, and private entities to examine the serious financial problems that face the healthcare system today. Since the failure of the Health Care Reform proposed by the Clinton administration and others, the U.S. will need to be more open to new and creative strategies to overcome the current financial crises we face. The U. S. currently spends 16% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care services compared to only 8 to 10% spent in other industrialized