I will need to learn everything I can including healthcare management, finance and accounting, legal & ethical parameters, patient laws and health and disease factors. I must be able to have the needed experience and appropriate employer/employee communication skills to effectively run and manage a facility. It is extremely important I am the effect leader of a group of team players as successful leaders have an understanding of how much employee learns best. My experience and classes earning this degree will provide the needed knowledge for my field, as well as numerous team project activities to help me manage groups and learn more about people. The delivery for long-term health care has greatly changed over the years.
Some of the homebound patients may be recovering from surgery or have a newly diagnosed disease or an exacerbation of a chronic condition. Some home health care clients may be extremely debilitated by age or illness; others may be dying. Care is individualized for each client, and teaching caregivers who are family members and friends is an important part of the care plan (Lois, 2012). Another of the community based nursing example is case management. Case management can be a long-term relationship between a patient and case manager, sometimes lasting several years.
Retain, Release, Refer Nicole Perez May 12, 2012 BSHS/322 Jean Holtz In the human service field there are many issues that are being presented. As a manager of the human service workers, the manager not only helps clinicians assist their client but they help the clinician as well. In this paper the manager will show different scenarios with different situations. There are different ways to handle these situations. The first would be to retain the clinician.
Sometimes in most cases a particular family member is trained by nurses to provide hands on care, and to supervise the patient around the clock. Many patients in hospice have been discharge to either home or nursing home if the disease goes into remission meaning if the cancer(s) somehow have subsides. Hospice was not designed to end hope for the patient or their family but to make the expected/unexpected death as comfortable and peaceful as possible. Hospice is not only for the elderly and cancer patients but it is for the young, the chronically ill. Hospice has a huge impact on our health care system the life expectancy is increasing tremendously. This is statement released by a group of physicians who did a research study on hospice.
A.2. Nightingale Community Hospital has numerous standards that failed compliance. For instance, in the standard involving the Environment of Care, the organization failed to prove that it could be a secure and the setting itself was functional. The Life Safety standard was not met due to its inadequate fire safety. The Leadership standard also was not met due to staffing insufficiencies.
Communication Theory Communication Theory When working in an organization such as a long-term care facility, effective communication is one of the key aspects concerning the care of the patients involved. As in any health care setting, an organization dedicated to long-term care may face challenges concerning communication because of gender differences, cultural differences, and, in some cases the inability to communicate effectively with the individuals obtaining service. Circumstances such as these may affect how certain tasks are completed within the organization, whether an individual wants to continue using long-term care services, and how well employees, patients, and family members interact together. Therefore, to understand some
The lack of enforcement of these legislative enactments makes patient dumping an ongoing dilemma. Furthermore, the hospitals are finding ways to overlook the EMTALA requirements by rerouting patients prior to their
Patient Confidentiality HCS 335 January 10, 2011 Susan Morgan Patient Confidentiality In today’s times there are many issues that administrators face on a daily bases. One very concerning issue is that of patient confidentiality. In this paper there will be discussions pertaining to the population affected by this issue, and different types of issues that arise from patient records. The ethical and legal sides of patient confidentiality and why confidentiality is important will also be a focus. Next will be the discussion regarding the responsibilities of administrators and how to address employee problems.
What is the purpose or objective of your questionnaire? The purpose of my questionnaire is to improve the emergency room process to accommodate more people, and influxes of people, in a shorter amount of time while ensuring patient safety, process effectiveness, and process efficiency. 3. How does the purpose or objective relate to public relations? Practically everyone has gone to the emergency room at least once at some point in time or knows someone who has experienced a trip to the emergency room.
They believe that it would be better if nurses only practice under the guidance and supervision of the doctor. They believe that allowing them to practice independently would be detrimental to their patients (Mills, 2009). They would be prone to some misdiagnosis, failure to attend to less obvious, but potentially life-threatening problems as well as prescriptive errors. In fact, they maintained that many deaths in the hospital would be realized due to errors made in prescriptions. According to them, nurses however much trained and experienced lack skills to manage and deal with complex living with multi-system diseases.