HIV-AIDS in Indigenous African Peoples

Introduction Prejudice, oppression, and exclusion undermine indigenous peoples’ civil liberties as individuals and groups, jeopardize the survival of their cultures and customs, and prohibit them from truly engaging in decisions about their futures and modes of advancement. Africa’s approximately 960 million-strong population faces significant health issues due to a high...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in a Child

Introduction This project examines the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a child and its impact on communicative function. The introduction immediately explains and indicates that it is a behavior and emotional-volitional disorder. The result of which is that the person has difficulty concentrating, assiduity, retention of one or more instructions....

Participative Leadership Style in Nursing Practice

Introduction Participative leadership is a managerial technique that incorporates the input of the workforce and other firm stakeholders in decision-making. Leaders can choose to employ the participative leadership technique in a manner befitting their organizational needs. For instance, they could share the power to make decisions and the liability of...

Aspects of Evidence-Based Research

Background Healthcare data is essential in improving patient outcomes and solving problems associated with the healthcare sector. Evidence-based practices are effective ways for clinical experts to obtain evidence on the various issues affecting healthcare and how to address them to improve medical provision. Evidence-based practices depend on various elements, including...

The Health Issues of the LGBT Community

Issues concerning and directly affecting the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTQ+) people, many of which are related to human rights, still remain open. Around the world and in various societies, LGBT people still face serious discrimination and marginalization that threaten their right to high-quality healthcare (Radix...

Meaningful Use of Health Information

Meaningful use of health information is advanced healthcare that is most significant in today’s world that uses electronic health records (EHRs). This is a result of technology becoming an essential part of healthcare. Meaningful Use refers to the use of technology in electronic health records in a “meaningful” method that...

Working with Older Adults: Health and Social Care System

Working with older adults may be a good career option for those seeking to assist others and feel fulfilled by their work. Several career paths include working with older adults, including nursing, social work, and physical therapy. When someone expresses a desire to work with older adults, they want to...

Hand Hygiene Among Healthcare Workers

Abstract Most disease transmissions in healthcare facilities happen due to the negligence of hand hygiene guidelines among healthcare workers. Having clean hands provides great benefits in preventing transmitted infections, which are rampant in healthcare institutions. To ensure hygiene, medical professionals should wash their hands with soap and water or use...

Physical Activity Helps to Be Healthy

Introduction Nowadays, being healthy has become a trend that many people thrive to follow. “Exercise is the miracle cure we’ve always had, but for too long we have neglected to take our recommended dose”, but is physical activity indeed a key to being healthy and keeping yourself in shape? (National...

How Patients, Family, and Population Problems Impact Quality of Care

Patient, family, and population involvement in the treatment plan is critical since it contributes to the decision-making process, assist in healthcare team provision, and enhances the quality of care and patient safety. Incorporating these three groups in determining the impact of care is critical since it informs how patient-centered care...

Aspects of Health Cost as Spending

Healthcare costs can have different meanings depending on who is explaining the term. In this regard, healthcare costs can be explained using three simple words: cost, spending, and price. In the first definition, health care cost refers to the amount spent on the overall production of services. In this case,...

Epidemiology and Risk Factors of Type 1 Diabetes

Diabetes is an umbrella term covering several metabolic disorders primarily characterized by consistently high blood sugar levels. It includes type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Type 1 is characterized by absolute insulin deficiency due to the damaged pancreatic beta cells (Guglielmi et al., 2018). Because of its onset during...

Implementation of Healthcare Information System

The introduction of new information systems in the healthcare sector is of particular importance. This is because the management of this industry is impossible without systematic accounting, analysis, control, and planning. This requires prompt and accessible information that will be received in real-time. Moreover, there are standards for implementing such...

Animal-Assisted Therapy of Substance Addiction

Abstract Many people worldwide are suffering from mental health, alcohol, and drug addiction and may be helped through different types of therapy. Namely, animal-assisted therapy, behavioral therapy, 12-step programs, perhaps a medication regimen can assist them in recovery. This study is focused on animal-assisted therapy since its famous use in...

Care Planning Assessments Models and Tools in Health and Social Care

Introduction Complexity is rising in the current health setting due to the number of treatment centers and specialists engaged. Therefore, a thorough multidisciplinary description of client health concerns and planned action is required to ensure safety and continuity of care. Care planning may occur during team meetings, but choices are...

HIV/AIDS in Children of Nigeria

Over the recent years, there has been a slow progress providing healthcare to children infected by HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Research indicates that, at least 30% of the children living with HIV/AIDS on a global scale die before they are one year old and most of them die before they have...

The Roles of Nurses and the Quality of Health Care Services

Introduction The nursing workforce has a direct influence on health care policies. An adequate nurse-to-patient ratio leads to higher patient satisfaction and improved patient outcomes, and it eliminates such factors as nurses’ burnout and job dissatisfaction. Successful interprofessional relationships improve the professional environment, while quality and safety education ensures proper...

Health Care Reform of Vermont

The main functions of the Agency of Administration The Agency of Administration is a special department that is responsible for the fulfillment of laws and reforms. It deals with budget management, human resources, general services, IT infrastructure, and physical plant. One of the main goals of the Agency of Administration...

US Healthcare System and Role of Government

The right for healthcare services is claimed to be one of the basic rights of all people. However, it cannot be denied that the representatives of the general public do not have equal access to them. With the course of time, medical treatment becomes more and more expensive so that...

Diabetic Foot: Prevention and Treatment

Guideline to Preventing Diabetic Foot Tobin and Kennedy wrote the article, A Health Care Provider’s Guide to Preventing Diabetes Foot Problems in 2009 in collaboration with the National Institute of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and joint efforts of other partners in the health care system. The...

Types of the Urinary Tract Infection

Definition Infection of the urinary tract (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infection. (Swartz, 2010). According to Ronald (2002) UTIs account for up to 8 millions ambulatory care visits and 1.5 million discharges are diagnosed a year in the United States. Urinary tract infections may be classified as...

Nursing Management: The Roles of the Nurse Unit Manager

Introduction The specifics of the nursing environment include its complexity, high level of stress, constricted resources combined with the need for improved performance, and rapid changes (Yi & Park, 2015). These specifics require proper management and leadership, and in the context of a nursing unit, the Nursing Unit Manager (NUM)...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Causes and Treatment

Introduction There is a large variety of mental health problems that can affect a person’s well-being and their ability to partake in society positively. Many of such issues are either acquired throughout one’s life and exposure to different events, or influences outside a person’s control. One such condition is Post-traumatic...

Asthma: Medical Analysis

The healthcare industry deals with various medical and managerial issues, the number and complexity of which is always increasing. In this context, chronic diseases occupy a distinctive niche since they require specific approaches of investigation, control, prediction, and treatment. This paper aims at examining the chronic disease process, namely, asthma,...

The Role of International Agencies

Introduction The number of international agencies across the world is escalating rapidly courtesy of globalization. With globalization and global warming, the need for better health care systems is paramount as the status of health of individuals across the world is deteriorating due to the repercussions of globalization and global warning...

Long Term Care in USA and Germany

Long-term care is a term referring to personal assistance helping the elderly in poor health and adult living with disability to live a quality life. Additionally, it helps those living with acute or terminal illnesses be able to manage their lives with the needed relief and security (Gleckman, 2010). Personal...

The Long-Term Care in Good Samaritan Hospital

Long-term care challenge The long-term care is a huge complex design of services that has emerged over a significantly short time. As the system continues to change and grow, new challenges emerge globally and New York in particular. Unstable financing, workforce challenges, insufficient beds, delivery of quality care, measuring quality...

Congestive Heart Failure: Mr. Brown’s Case Study

Background Information Congestive heart failure or chronic heart failure “is a condition that reflects the impairment of the pumping action of the left ventricle of the heart” (Maisttison, 2005, p.23). As a result, blood flow from the left ventricle of the heart into the aorta and into the peripheral aortic...

Clinical Teaching in Nursing Practice

Clinical teaching occurs in the process of taking care of patients. It is an interpersonal relationship between clinical students and teachers. Clinical teaching is necessary, in order to equip nurses with the required knowledge in the field of nursing. Personally, I have experience in nursing for seven years now, and...

The Health Information Systems: Functions and Advantages

Health Information Systems are revolutionizing the way people access medical services. The information revolution brought about by the development of Information Technology in the last half of the twentieth century is responsible for this phenomenon. The advantages of Health Information Systems in medical services include the use of decision support...

The Healthcare System of South Africa

Since attaining independence in 1994, the South Africa government has endeavored to improve its health services. It has built new health care centers and upgraded the one’s left behind by the colonial masters. Though much progress has been achieved in the health care sector, challenges such as understaffing, lack of...

Hygiene Awareness in Saudi Arabia

Introduction Most countries in the Middle East emphasize on the importance of embracing hygiene practices. However, the level of awareness about hygiene in some countries (in the Middle East) like Saudi Arabia is quite low (Kadi & Salati, 2012). As such, interested parties such as the government need to assess...

The End-of-Life Choices: Ethical and Legal Issues

Both ethics and medical law emphasize patient consent as a basic right and must be respected in end-of-life situations. Literature on health care ethics has a lot to say on consent to treatment and it is in this context that the discussion of end of life choices will have significant...

The Healthcare Financing Policies in the U.S.

Abstract The United States has always faced a myriad of challenges in financing its healthcare system. Most Americans access healthcare through health insurance covers which are normally provided at the workplace (Kronenfeld, 2002, p. 32). A small percentage of the citizens usually purchase health insurance on their own. The government...

Health Care Costs: Impact Economy on Medical

Introduction The United States stands out as the developed nation with the most expensive health care system. In spite of this, the health care delivery system is deeply flawed and unable to provide adequate services to many Americans. For this reason, there have been calls for radical changes to be...

Type 2 Diabetes: Review

In Australia, Type 2 Diabetes is the most common form of diabetes affecting approximately 90% of all patients with this disease. In the previous period of time, Type 2 Diabetes was a disease of elderly people. Nowadays, it is affecting more and more people of middle age, youngsters, and even...

Diabetes: Review

Introduction Diabetes can be described as a health condition that is triggered by malfunctioned metabolism. It is a condition that cannot be cured thus it affects the individual throughout his or her lifetime (Cheek and Oster, 2002). This paper shall offer a critical analysis of diabetes, describe the common experiences...

Health in the Fragile States – Supporting Health System Development

Introduction Fragile states’ population constitutes 1/6th of the global population. As the World Health Organization (2005) highlights, over a third of fragile states, citizens are malnourished, and 1/3rd of the global AIDS infected population comes from fragile states. In addition, in all global maternal deaths, 1/3rd takes place in fragile...

Policy Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Abstract Quality, accessible and affordable healthcare, commonly referred to as universal coverage, is the desire of every American. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aims at ensuring that universal coverage is achieved. This paper highlights basic provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with regards to the...

Schizophrenia as a Biological Condition

Introduction Mental health refers to the psychological state of an individual at an acceptable level of emotional and behavioural adjustment. This can also be described as the state of an individual’s cognitive and emotional condition. Mental health is closely associated with the feelings and behaviour of an individual. Individuals suffering...

Electronic Health Records: How the Field Has Changed

Introduction Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a computer-based system, which allows health care providers to organize and store patients’ medical information electronically. EHR system has replaced the old paper-based record system (Carter, 2008). Thanks to the Electron Health Records system, doctors can now be able to share patients’ data easily...

Biomedical Ethics: Abortion Rights

Abortion, which entails the killing of the unborn, raises so many issues about whether it should be legalized or made illegal. By the use of the right to life of a human being, it is clear that committing murder is illegal, but does that apply to the unborn? This becomes...

Alternative Medicine v. Conventional Medicine

Introduction Mainstream medicine otherwise is referred to as conventional medicine is a type of medicine that operates under strict scientific guidelines and tests. It has stipulated mechanisms that are a result of many years of research. Alternative medicine, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. It does not follow...

The New Public Health Approach: Addressing Childhood Obesity

Nowadays, childhood overweight and obesity is a serious problem, and the level of this disease increases fast. According to Waters and Baur, overweight and obesity affect 23% of Australia’s children and adolescents, with 6% being obese (2003). The new public health approach is a set of measures that can help...

Looking After a Person’s Mental Health

Introduction The World Health Organization defines health as a sound state of the body in terms of social, physical and mental well-being and not just the absence of diseases. This therefore implies that the three aspects of health have to be considered in defining a person’s health status. Variation of...

Public Health Policy and Health Policy Issues

Why Study Public Health Policy? The urge to take a course in public health policy started in high school. This was after a health awareness seminar by the Provincial Ministry of Health. The seminar sought to create awareness on the importance of adopting healthy lifestyles to avoid communicable and non-communicable...

Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: For and Against

The following is a discussion on the Long Chain Polyunsaturated fatty acids, found in the human milk as well as in the milk supplements that feed young infants. Earlier on before these supplements came, infants, who were not breastfed by their mothers, could not survive. However, with the development of...

Professional Development Plan for Nursing Graduate

The professional development plan for nursing graduates is a program that was started by the government with the aim of creating a smooth transition from the student experience to workplace experience. Despite having learnt several ethical and professional contents, the professional development plan ensures that all the graduate nurses have...

Social Efficiency in Healthcare

Introduction Healthcare is fast becoming one of the most important aspects of social life. There is a correlation between the quality of healthcare available and the life expectancy of the population. With a growing middleclass in most developing countries, and with an aging population in most western countries, there is...

Tuberculosis: Measures to Overcome the Disease

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease affecting the lungs. A tuberculosis infection is normally accompanied by extreme inflammatory response. Once infected, the body’s immune system, responds rapidly by activating polymorph nuclear and mononuclear phagocytes stirring up of pro-inflammatory cytokines. A bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis is known to cause tuberculosis. The...

Community Health Nursing: Definition

The state of well-being because of the harmonious interaction of the body, mind, and spirit is one of the most important aspects of our daily life. Health is a major factor governing how human beings conduct their social and economic activities. An individual’s health status is closely related to his...

Nursing Leadership in the US Health Care System

Health policy can be broadly described as the actions that are normally taken by the state, government, nation, and the locals to advance the health of the public. Nurses play a major role in affecting the health policy of the US health care system since they are the backbone of...

Researching the Antidepressant Drugs

Introduction Antidepressant drugs are taken to relieve a cluster of symptoms such as insomnia, extreme mood swings or decreased interest in everyday activities that result from depression disorders (Gilbert, 2010). Antidepressants are prescribed by a doctor if the patient condition is severe enough leading to impairment of their social life...

Smoking Ban in Public Places Overview

Introduction Banning of smoking in public places is a very burning issue nowadays. Perhaps, it would be better to say that it is one of the most important matters in question in the contemporary society because it arises a lot of discussions between those who are for and against this...

Breast Cancer Prevention Case Study

Breast cancer remains one of the most prevalent forms of cancer in humans. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 230,000 cases of breast cancer had to occur in 2011. Between 1999 and 2005, incidence and prevalence rates for breast cancer decreased by approximately 2% per year (American Cancer...

New York State (Nys) Public Health: A Basic Information

Introduction Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. As members of the New York State Board of Health, it is highly essential that you be adequately knowledgeable about public health and its policies. The purpose of this presentation is to provide board members with basic information regarding public health and its policies,...

The Problem of Childhood Obesity

Swartz (2009) defines childhood obesity as a condition in which the child’s body weight is more than the normal weight for the respective age, sex and height. Accordingly, childhood obesity leads to complications like legs bowing, joint pains, sleep apnea and psychosocial disorders (Melinda, 2011). Moreover, Kolata (2010) stated that...

Nursing in Australia: National Standards

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council Purpose The purpose of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council is to develop national standards for nursing as well as midwifery regulations. It works in collaboration with the territory and state nursing as well as the Nursing and Midwifery Regulatory Authorities to develop...

Nursing Job Performance: Emotional Intelligence Role

The evolution of Emotion Intelligence The subject of work-related stress has been studied widely since the 1950’s. Consequently, work-related stress has been recognized as an epidemic that is widespread across all occupations. However, some occupations are susceptible to higher level of work-related stress than others (Mayer et al., 2002). Occupational...

Evaluation of the Electronic Health Record

Abstract This evaluation proposal has been put forth to assess the use of Electronic Health Record system (EHRs) in a hospital set up. Specifically, this evaluation will analyze how the use of EHR system affects issues of patients’ confidentiality or patients’ security. This proposal will outline different methodologies that will...

Strategic Human Resource Management in Healthcare

Abstract The healthcare system is by no doubt one of the global systems that highly depend on human resources for the provision of its services. This paper will address the application and importance of strategic human resource management in healthcare. In this, the paper will begin by first exploring the...

Quality Improvement in Health Institutions

Introduction Quality improvement plays a very important role in ensuring the highest standards of service are offered in health institutions. Since the structure of health systems has many stakeholders, each one of them has to play a role in quality improvement. This paper explores the three cornerstones of quality improvement...

Hand Hygiene Prevents Healthcare-Associated Infection

Introduction A good number of health care workers have a low level of compliance with hand hygiene procedures. Observance of hand hygiene practices among health care workers has been observed to range from 30% to 60%, but rarely exceeds 50%. Health care workers who touch the skin of patients while...

Sickle Cell Anemia: Review

Introduction Sickle cell disease is a deadly disease. Sickle cell anemia is considered to be the most common kind of sickle cell disease. It is a critical disorder which causes the body to produce red blood cells that are sickle- shaped. The red blood cells are meant to transport blood...

Electronic Health System

Introduction Technology advancement and application is an inevitable element that has found application in almost all fields of the economy. Technology is associated with both positive and negative effects depending on a specific situation and what it is able to achieve. Various institutions have adopted different technologies in an effort...

Quality Improvement Plan in the Healthcare Sector

Introduction The medical surrounding is very complex. Doctors and other physicians are used to a lot of paperwork and relying on their memory. The traditional methods do not pave way to an upgraded health care system. The idea of meeting high standards and attaining the required status requires that the...

Electronic Health Records Benefits for Nursing Profession

Introduction Paper-based records have been in existence for centuries, and their gradual replacement by computer-based records has been underway for the past 20 years. These forms of electronic records are known as Electronic Health Records (EHR) and are the future of medical records. An EHR can be defined as a...

Renfrey Memorial Hospital’s Administration

Executive Summary Nurses are critical caregivers in hospitals; they affect the quality of service delivery and eventually, the treatment and patient management. Similarly, hospitals search for quality patient service is reliant on a nurse’s responsibility to organizations’ capability to manage the skilled nursing staff. However, the majority healthcare face a...

Aerosol Generation Associated With Toilet Flushing

Abstract Background The infectious disease public health exposure hazard from toilets may include flush-related aerosol generation, yet little is known about it. A necessary first step was to establish appropriate and effective methodology for evaluating flush-related aerosol generation. The goal of this study was to develop and test a methodology...

Health Information Systems Quality

Abstract Health Information system entails data storage and processing systems that assist in healthcare service delivery. The most common and widely used systems include the billing and eligibility check system for insurance and state programs. However, these systems are not medical support systems since they do not track and assess...

Data Flow Diagrams and Health Information-Management System

Introduction The world is experiencing rapid advancement in information technology; the developments have been implemented in profit and non-profit making organizations; Medical facilities aim at offering quality medical services. In the efforts of improving its processes, a decision was made to adopt a health information-management system (HIMS). HIMS follows a...

Demographic Change in Healthcare Needs & Services

Healthcare provision is increasingly becoming complicated, especially due to the evolution of the healthcare industry. Modern societies are fragmented into various components each with its own unique healthcare needs. Any change in the demographic composition of each of these components has significant effects on the health care system. This paper...

Obesity: Risk Factors, Prevalence, Policies

Introduction Obesity results from excess body fat. It has become the major and most common health challenge in the US and other developed nations. The body mass index (BMI) scale measures obesity in people. People with over 30 BMI are obese. The condition affects both old people and children. According...

Health Care Quality: Measure the Quality of Service

As a matter of fact, the sphere of medicine should receive the priority on the governmental level as the life of the nation and generations is highly dependent on the quality of care that is provided in the medical establishments. Moreover, it seems especially important to note that every hospital...

Meaningful Uses for Nursing

Introduction The introduction of electronic health records was a promise of massive changes in the healthcare industry and for nurses in particular. However, despite extensive investments in modernization of the record-keeping technologies, not much statistical improvement of health care was recorded. This conflicted with trial data, which showed that in...

Ethical Code of Conduct for a Behavioral Health Center

Introduction This paper outlines key tenets of an ethical code of conduct for those in governance, management, and professional staff at the Behavioral Health Center of Nueces County, Texas. The code of ethics addresses key tenets of the organization’s operations, including its structure and professional conduct. From this background, this...

Application of Nursing Theory to Administrative Practice Arena

Introduction The transcultural nursing theory that was developed by Madeleine Leininger is one of the nursing theories that have become widely relevant in modern society. Cowden and Cummings (2012) define the Trans-cultural nursing theory as a cognitive specialty in nursing that focuses on comparative cultural caring and nursing phenomena. According...

The Implications of Managed Healthcare on the Us Healthcare System

Introduction Managed care refers to a health provision platform that emphasizes wellbeing management, proper health care utilization, and affordable and quality treatment cost among other l benefits. This form of care is enhanced through contracted agreements between managed care organizations, which are also referred to as MCOs, and the government...

Nurse-to-Patient Ratios in the United States

Introduction There has been an ongoing debate about whether the concept of mandatory minimum nurse-to-patient ratios has a positive impact on safer patient care and motivation of nursing professionals (Aiken et al., 2010). While some states in the U.S. have implemented the statutory ratios with the view to benefiting from...

Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Assessment The targeted population is characterized by veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Veterans with PTSD encounter a wide range of health problems such as suicidal thoughts, depression, and social problems. Statistics indicate that over 10 percent of veterans tend to portray signs of PTSD. Women have higher chances of...

Childhood Obesity in Illinois

Introduction Obesity is associated with high levels of an individual’s body fat. Obesity is usually confused with being overweight, which implies that one has too much weight as expected. However, both concepts are based on one’s weight and height meaning that the computation results of the two variables exceed the...

Mental Health Patient Care: Incorporating Family

For a long period of time, mental disorders remain to be a serious social problem that causes disabilities among the Americans and Canadians (Rogers, 2015). The governments of these two countries pay much attention to this issue and try to develop a number of effective and efficient ways on how...

Health Care Facilities Spectrum

Abstract The health care system in the United States is supported by numerous facilities providing different types of medical care for patients. Analysis of the whole spectrum of health care facilities in the U.S. helps to identify the specifics of each type. The spectrum of health care facilities in the...

Nursing Theories in Health Promotion

Nursing theories have always been of extreme significance for health promotion. All of them aim at enhancing the overall condition of human health. Besides, nursing theories suggest numerous variants of the efficient decision-making in the health care environment. Nola Pender developed a theory that provided the insight into the connection...

Accountability in Nursing

Article Analysis Selected Primary Research Article: APA Format Battie, R., & Steelman, V. (2014). Accountability in Nursing Practice: Why It Is Important for Patient Safety. AORN Journal, 5(1), 537-541. Visual Representation Accountability is a powerful practice that can support the needs of many patients. The practice also increases a caregiver’s...

Medicine: Qualitative Article Review

Annotated Bibliography Gallacher, K., May, C.R., Montori, V.M., & Mair, F.S. (2011). Understanding patients’ experiences of treatment burden in chronic heart failure using normalization process theory. Annals of Family Medicine, 9(3), 235-243. The main purpose of this qualitative study was not only to evaluate the burden linked to treatment among...

Cultural Competency: A Clinical Practice Issue of Public Health Interest

Chosen Policy Issue In this day and age of globalization, people from all over the world come to this country in search of a better life. Consequently, there is a significant increase in the cultural and ethnic groups that need health and medical services. Health professionals like nurses who are...

Nursing Leadership Analysis

Introduction Leadership is arguable the most challenging aspect of management in all spheres of life. Theories of leadership have been evolving over time. From the 1930s trait theory to the 1960s contingency and mutational theory, nursing students have had a robust lifeline on which to explore the faculty’s leadership structure....

Ways in Which Health and Social Care Service Can Improve Its Quality

In the contemporary world, health services refer to all the public services with the responsibility for providing medical attention. These health services include but are not limited to diagnosing and treatment of diseases, maintaining and restoring health among individuals among others. On the other hand, social care services refer to...

Importance of Cost and Quality in Healthcare

Introduction The cost of healthcare has been on the rise in the recent past. The situation persists in spite of the programs and policies put in place by the government to manage the problem. Experts predict that the trend will continue if steps are not taken to change things (Canning,...

Cultural Competence in Nursing Practice

Introduction In this day and age of globalization, people from all over the world come to this country in search of a better life. Consequently, there is a significant increase in the cultural and ethnic groups that need health and medical services. Health professionals like nurses who frontline in the...

Interview with an Advanced Practice Nurse

Introduction The core competencies possessed by Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) are critical towards the delivery of evidence-based care. Cooke, Gemmill, and Grant (2011) believe that “APNs have the potential to improve the health outcomes of many patients” (p. 216). They reduce most of the complications and readmissions associated with various...

Combining Nurse Leader With Advocacy

Introduction I work in a nursing home in a rehabilitation section as a floor nurse. In some instances, I supervise the floor. In regards to my personal growth and development, I consider myself to be within the level of expert practice because I have advanced my education, undertaken thorough career...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Exercise as Treatment

Abstract Diabetes is a serious ailment that affects over twenty-five percent of American population. Proper treatment focusing on glycemic control, blood pressure, and lipid management is essential for reducing mortality levels of patients diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). Lifestyle adjustments that involve regular exercise, good health eating habits,...

The Endocrine System: The Pancreas & Diabetes

Introduction The human pancreas, which is a lobulated gland that is located opposite the liver along the gastrointestinal tract, functions in two unique modes. In one mode, the organ fulfills an exocrine function, which involves secreting digestive juices and enzymes that aid in the digesting process in the stomach.1 These...

Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Clinical Presentation

Introduction Chronic kidney disease refers to the “progressive loss of kidney function over time” (National Kidney Foundation, 2015). It is a potentiate for global disease burden, and more than 26 million adults in the U.S. have the disease, and million others are at risk. Diabetes and high blood pressure are...

Health Economics: Medicare Fraud and Abuse

Article 1: Becker, D., Kessler, D., & McClellan, M. (2005). Detecting Medicare abuse. Journal of Health Economics, 24(1), 189–210. This research was initiated through a collaboration of authors from the University of California in Berkeley, Stanford University, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The purpose of the research...

Cultural Diversity and Relationships in Nursing

Introduction The contemporary health care industry is very dynamic, especially for professionals in the nursing practice. This led to the development of a nursing concept called cultural diversity (Starr, 2008). The main contributing factor to the development of this concept is the inefficiency of nursing practices centered on a specific...

Childhood Obesity: Health Complications

The United States of America is still grappling with the challenges posed by obesity. The latter is a gross health challenge not just in the US. Both the developed and developing nations have secured some significant amounts of finance to cater to the healthcare budget on obesity. It is crucial...