Patients expect quality care when obtaining services from the clinic. Staffing a small clinic can be a very tedious task because the pay is not always the best and the task of dealing the tribal council and their policies can often be frustrating. Some staff members work with a contract, which help both the staff member and the council by giving automatic instructions on employee’s expected treatment. By keeping staff members happy, in turns gives a certain morale boost to the clinic ensuring quality care. Unhappy employees most often leads to poor service and rude employees, developing a trickle down effect to patients who could affect business by word of mouth.
Therefore it’s very difficult to communicate closely with each and every employee about any specific concerns they might have. However on the other hand some strengths of this HR structure are that it’s effective compared to other smaller hospitals in the area. Consulting firms have showed Starfish M.H. is in the top of there patient satisfaction scores compared to local and state hospitals. Meaning when patients are ill or hurt they choose to come to Starfish vs. other area hospitals.
Bok RR1 In the easy “The Doctors’ Dilemma,” Sissela Bok explans why some doctors told lies to their seriously ill patients, and why doctors should be told the truth to their patients. For example, doctors discovered an old man had a form of cancer that he wil be die during few months. “Should doctors ever lie to benefit their patients – to speed recovery or conceal the approach of death?” (337). According to the author doctor, most of doctors are in a dilemma as to whether to tell the patients the truth about their conditions or not. At times, they don’t want seriously ill patients to feel miserable about their conditions.
This is the most important because, most patients have a tendency of being nervous and feeling uncomfortable when being inside of a doctor’s office. Therefore, the patient should have to feel they are put at ease with the Medical Assistant. This farther lets the patient know that the Medical Assistant can be trustworthy and all their information can be kept confidential between them and their physician. 2. Why the planning of activities within the medical office is important for the MAA.
* As the readers can see, Chanda believes that her mother’s pain comes from the loss of Jonah. However, her pain actually comes from the harmful disease of AIDS. Also, as the readers continue to read through section two they might begin to realize all Chanda has to do for her family. All in all, Chanda might be trying to hide the fact that her mother has AIDS. * This reveal the power of family tie, and how big the impact is family members can have on others.
Preventive education is an important part of the interaction that NYM has with the community. Nursing image throughout the hospital is respected the only problem is the nursing image among nurses themselves. The shortage also comes into play here. Nurses become burned out and frustrated and tend to be negative with each other due to the stress. Interdisciplinary relationships throughout the hospital are strong.
The patient’s death was particularly difficult for the ER staff to digest as they viewed their actions as an attempt to expedite care with uncomplicated dismissal. It was decided that a Plan-Do-Study-Act approach would be the most effective process improvement plan. The staff was amenable in part due to the fact that the patient’s death affected them emotionally and many verbalized they wanted to do everything possible to ensure this did not happen again. Plan – Applicable policies in this scenario will be reviewed and updated. These policies contain staffing, chain of command, procedural, delegation of duties, Code Blue and Rapid Response, triage and Biomedical facets.
Euthanasia is intentionally ending a person’s life from suffering (Glau and Jacobsen 399). What patient in the hospital is not suffering? Every patient is suffering to some degree; otherwise he/she would not be in the hospital. To many people, euthanasia is considered as a slippery slope to medical practice. This euthanasia idea can go so far as to being imposed on people who aren’t even in a comatose state.
There are many up rise and down falls that pagers have such as the battery life lasting awhile or the message not getting the consumer because of a glitch in the device. Pagers are important to have and great technology to have in the medical field. The great thing is there are few different kinds of pagers the patient can have as well as the physicians. Pagers have had a financial impact on the organization by saving lives and money. The hospital would be in the worst situation if pagers where not involved.
Meghan Coleman December 15, 2012 Mrs. Roser, Period 4 Imagine you are terminally ill and in constant agony. You know, though, that this could stretch on many years; you beg the doctor to end your misery. He commiserates. He wants to help you because he knows what you are going through; but he has to tell you that because of your state’s laws, he cannot help you. But in some states, a doctor can legally put you out of your misery.