Using Pender's Health Promotion Theory is a great way to implement education in the care of patients. Education, treatment and prevention of diseases and/or their co-morbidities are the foundations of nursing practice. The current standards are encouraging education and prevention as a means to save money individually by the patient, by the hospitals, by the state, and nationally. With health care reform at the forefront of everyone's mind prevention and health promotion is of the utmost importance. References American Heart Association Website.
Comparison Paper Kimberly Knipp May 7, 2012 NUR/408 Lori Barrasso Public health goes back a long way. Charles-Edward A. Winslow, an American public health leader, defined public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of the social machinery which will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health” (Winkelstein Jr., 2002). Today, the definition remains the same, although some may add the mental and physical aspects of health as well. This definition provided has lasted throughout the years and in 1948 the World Health Organization used it to provide the definition of health: "A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (Winkelstein Jr., 2002). Although health was always a concern including in ancient times, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, also known as the Renaissance period, public health became a major issue due to the bubonic plaque.
The United States is making huge changes in the health care industry. The health care reform can improve the health care industry and lower the cost of health care if policies are developed with health care experts. There are many countries that have mechanisms in place that have lower the health care and improved the quality of their health care system. The United States is a leader in many areas and should be able to figure out a health care system with the P4P
One of those organizations is the Joint Commission and another one of them is the National Committee of Quality Assurance (NCQA). These organizations are responsible for developing and improving the quality of care. The Joint Commission is responsible for trying to continually improve the health care of the public they do this by working with stakeholders and evaluating different health care organizations while encouraging them to go above and beyond in providing safe and effective care at the highest quality and value (Spath, 2014). The NCQA is responsible for developing standards that will continue to improve the quality of health care. If an organization is interested in acquiring the seal of the NCQA they must first be able to pass a rigorous and comprehensive review as well as report annually on the continued performance of the organization (About NCQA, 2014).
The 2010 IOM report also puts a light on the importance of nurse as a leader . Nurses should take part and act as full partners in redesigning the future of health care with physicians and others in the health care team. Be accountable for the care delivered and efforts to improve at all levels to avoid and prevent errors from happening. Today we need more nurses as leaders in fields of policy making advisory boards to local and federal levels and in legislative levels ,to bring forward ideas to improve health care system and there by ensuring the safety and health of our patient and community
The second component is the use of certified electronic health record technology. This must be demonstrated by electronic exchange of information to improve healthcare quality (CMS, 2012). The third component is the use of certified electronic health record technology to present clinical quality measures (CMS, 2012). HITECH is a great public health resource for communities. More partners are embracing HITECH to improve public health.
A huge amount of money is saved by promoting health and educating the public on preventable health problems (Goetzel, 2009). Kidney disease
It reviews the advantages and disadvantages as well as the problems and challenges associated with the bill. Obama Healthcare Bill The medical environments around the world have been up to the task of improving their scope. The countries are focused on improving the efficiency within health care; and prefer the alteration of the health care sector. This is done through
It was apparent that health care organizations would benefit from the use of this technology. This sparked a congressional concern about the transferability and portability of patient’s health coverage. This brought several issues pertaining to the transmission of health care information to light. “In order to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and cost savings through the use of electronic data interchange in the health care industry, Congress passed legislation,” (Privacy and HIPPA Information, n.d.). With this, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was signed into law on August 21, 1996.
Now that there is sufficient data to convince most people (including Congress and major purchasers of health benefits) that there is a quality problem in the US health care system, it will be hard to resist the widespread urge to use that same information to reform an obviously imperfect payment system. Used effectively, pay-for-performance could remove some of the well-known distortions that are generated by the underlying structure of current payment systems and help refocus delivery on critical aspects of population health. If it is to succeed in promoting patient health and value for the health care dollar, pay-for-performance will require careful design and effective safeguards against potential unintended consequences including those associated with patient selection incentives (and the associated fairness concerns) and “teaching to the test” to ensure that these positive objectives are not achieved at too great a cost (Rosenthal,