It supports a trusting relationship, encourages open communication, and allows the health care worker to form a meaningful relationship with his or her patient. The knowledge that the information disclosed will remain private encourages the patient to be open and honest and this allows the nurse or physician to make better medical decisions regarding the treatment of the patient.
On the basis of this a diagnosis is made and interventions decided upon. For example if a patient describes the symptoms of high blood pressure, the doctor may measure his or her blood pressure and the patient may then be prescribed drugs. The doctor therefore is rather like a mechanic mending a faulty motor car. However, the socio-medical approach to health and well-being is a much more holistic approach and takes into account the person’s lifestyle choices, such as poor diet, drug/drinking habits, lack of exercise, poor housing conditions etc., as well as life chances, for e.g. if a person born into a low income family with little option to move from or improve the quality of their home if it is infested with vermin or is damp, is more likely to suffer with poor health and well-being than a person born into a family with a better income.
This can be wrongful diagnosis, being given the wrong medication, or having their private information not properly protected. A few more examples would be receiving/giving improper treatment or care sometimes causing death. Upon any of these events taking place the wronged party will produce a lawsuit against the medical company or even just the professional. Medical malpractice statistics have sky rocketed ever since the healthcare system became more informal and mechanical. (McDonald, Chad, Hernandez, Marlow, Gofman, Yana, Suchecki, Shawna, Schrier and Wayne 2011) stated that “The most common factors leading to medical errors included failure to obtain a proper medical history, order the appropriate
There are two types of models which are; bio- medical model and socio- medical model. Bio-medical model is biology which relates to body. This model states that the health is basically regarded as being absence of diseases and the invention of health professionals is necessary in times of illness. This model believes that the human body is a machine made up of different body parts. Socio-medical model is related to social factors that contribute to health and well being in society.
I was not aware that several individuals were not obtaining the care they require for the reason they could not pay for it and couldn’t find insurance. The biggest influence is the health care price, health care entrance, and the consequences from it (Wood, R., 2009, p. 1). I’ve knowledge that breaking the HIPAA policies can result in punishment along with the government laws. Role of Technology Technology will perform a big position in the medical business from security, new services ideas and diagnosing patients, contacting patients and keeping touch. It will assist to make sure the obedience in the legal condition of health care and it will assist to decreased the costs and provide a superior care than before (Finnegan, 2012) Technology will assist with more communication services, electronic medical records, and more computers doctors order entry solutions and many more things than before (Finnegan, 2012).
End of life care: withdrawal /withholding of treatment and its relationship with euthanasia. This essay explores the issue of treatment withdrawal or treatment being withheld from patients with conditions with a very poor prognosis and the ethical issues surrounding the much debated topic of end of life care. With advances in medicine enabling medical professionals to keep patients alive under what would be considered to be a very poor prognosis, the issue of withdrawing or withholding treatment when no further hope of recovery is seen as likely to happen, is one faced by practitioners, next of kin and sometimes patients when they are considered able to make those decisions. End of life care is one of the most discussed topics within healthcare and evokes a lot of emotion from all people involved and this essay aims to highlight how withdrawing and withholding treatment in the last stages of life is connected within the area of ethics to end of life care. The essay will further discuss what withdrawing or withholding treatment involves and its connection to euthanasia and the care of the dying pathway.
Changes in healthcare from a conflictionist point of view can be described as opposing forces for or against the changes. There are some who desire changes to the present healthcare system and there are those who do not wish to see any changes or cannot agree on exactly what about healthcare should be changed. There will always be conflict among those who own the means of goods and production and those who struggle to get what they need. I believe that this theory most applies to changes in health care because conflict usually happens when there is unequal distribution of scarce resources, in this case healthcare. One may not think that healthcare is a scarce resource, but when you look at the
1.1 Explain what it means to have a duty of care in own work role In my role as a nursing assistant on an all-male Dementia ward, it is my duty to ensure that all patients in my care are having their wellbeing and needs met to the best of my ability. Which includes keeping them safe from harm. This could be from other patients, staff, carers or family. Also promoting their rights, independence and giving them choices, where possible about their care. In my work role I also have a responsibility to provide a duty of care to all patients receiving care.
ASC 101 – 2012 Essay assignment Question 4: Focusing on one specific health-related issue or medical condition, critically discuss how social factors can serve to shape and inform notions of health and wellness, illness and disease. This question must make reference to the readings from Week #6 regarding ‘Health and the self’, specifically the notion of ‘social determinants of health’. Examples of health issues that you may wish to explore in this essay include diabetes, the ‘obesity epidemic’, or ‘mental illness’. This essay critically discusses how social factors can serve to shape and inform notions of health and illness. It begins by outlining the limitations of the dominant model of health—the biomedical science model—before proposing
(1244) Pain is very difficult to understand. The very nature of pain is different per each person not to mention the varying amount of tolerances each patient can handle before it is considered "chronic". For this reason it is easier for doctors to just prescribe medication to patients than rather understanding their situation and giving them choices of different medications and therapies in order to manage their pain. The medications often prescribed to patients are not only harmful but also highly addictive and often carry a high potential for abuse by the user. Which is why many of the medications prescribed to patients have been rated by the US Food and Drug Administration to be