Mental Health Service Users’ Perceptions of Stigma

The article “Mental Health Service Users’ Perceptions of Stigma, From the General Population and From Mental Health Professionals in Mexico: A Qualitative Study” provides the findings of an in-depth look into the stigmatization of mental health service users by healthcare providers and the general public. According to the article, mental...

Long-Term Care: Issues and Aspects

When people age and can no longer perform daily tasks on their own, they tend to rely on other people for support services. These services help them live as safely and independently as possible as they pay for medical and non-medical care. Long-term care, therefore, encompasses a wide range of...

Healthcare: The Importance of Accessibility

Healthcare is an important aspect that guarantees that good quality of life is maintained and alleviates people from illnesses. Healthcare currently is not accessible to everyone, but this should not be the case because everyone should have access to healthcare. Various advantages can be seen if healthcare was provided to...

Marburg Virus and Ebola Virus: Epidemiology, Etiology and Symptoms

Introduction Ebola virus, also called Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a fatal and rare disease caused by the Ebola virus. The virus affects humans and non-human primates such as gorillas, chimpanzees, and monkeys. Marburg disease is a hemorrhagic fever that is caused by the Marburg virus. This fever affects non-human primates...

Anoxic Brain Injury: Causes and Effects

Introduction People with existing conditions are always at risk of experiencing additional negative health outcomes, and one of them is anoxic brain injury. At the same time, such a brain injury can also affect healthy individuals, including children, as a result of accidents such as drowning. Moreover, the eventual health...

Nurses’ Ethics: The Main Principles

The scenario in which the doctor does not allow the patient to ask questions about the treatment or procedures performed on his body concerns autonomy and justice. The first principle of nurses’ ethics involves that all patients have rights to know about the possible risks and consequences of the procedure...

Competitive Forces in the Healthcare Market

Introduction The healthcare sector differs from other economic sectors; while it is a market capitalist economy subject, it also has many similarities with non-profit organizations. As all people may become ill, medical care availability is an important question: if not all people obtain medical help, it diminishes their human rights....

Nursing Intervention into Public Health Issues

Intervention Analysis In the medical discipline, Nurses play an essential role in providing professional health care to patients. This is because they have undergone special training, which has enabled them to acquire relevant knowledge and skills to handle the sick. Nurses attain set goals by focusing on specific public health...

Legalization of Medically-Induced Suicide

Banner, D., Schiller, C. J., & Freeman, S. (2019). Medical assistance in dying: A political issue for nurses and nursing in Canada. Nursing Philosophy, 20(4), 1-7. Web. This article discusses the personal, political, and professional ramifications of the 2015 legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada for nurses....

Sickle Cell Anemia and Medication Adherence

Introduction Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a disorder that belongs to a broader category of inherited sickle cell diseases (SCDs). Its primary characteristics include the irregular shape of blood cells and therefore affect oxygen distribution throughout the body. Normal red blood cells are round and flexible for effective movement through...

Aging: Social, Emotional, Cognitive, and Biological Changes

Introduction Aging is a gradual change process characterized by the human body’s declining functionality. The deteriorating biological, social, emotional, and cognitive functionalities make a person depend on others for survival. Although it is a natural process caused by changes in hormones and other cellular activities, it may be facilitated by...

Schizophrenia in Young Women and Men

Schizophrenia is a human mental disorder that alters and affects peoples thinking capabilities, actions, and emotions. Moreover, the conditions also change people’s perception of reality and influence a person’s social behavior. In this sense, schizophrenia determines people’s relationships and circles. Although schizophrenia is rare compared to other mental disorders, the...

The Unvaccinated Health Workers Facing the Sack

Introduction The article talks about NHS specialists facing potential sacking because they refuse to comply with vaccination. Under the new NHS policy, frontline staff has until April 1 to get fully vaccinated or risk being removed from frontline roles (Meierhans, 2022). Around 80,000 NHS staff have refused vaccination so far...

Analysis of Freeman’s Promotion of Junk Food

Introduction In his paper “How Junk Food Can End Obesity”, David H. Freeman puts doubt on foods marketed as ‘healthy and wholesome’. He argues that people who commonly eat junk food should not be enticed to leave them for the purportedly healthier, more readily available foods. Instead, he proposes that...

Major Depressive Disorder Among College Students

Major depression is a mood disorder that leads to an obstinate feeling of sadness and even loss of interest in anything for over two weeks. Major depressive disorder is referred to as one of the major causes of disabilities all over the world. It is also regarded as one of...

Birth Control vs. Natural Birth Control Methods

Introduction One form of family planning is strict adherence to birth control measures. There are two types of birth control: scientific birth control and natural birth control. The scientific method of birth control uses medically proven interventions to ensure reduced chances of getting pregnant. The natural birth control measures are...

Abbreviations and Medical Errors

The ability to communicate one’s thoughts to others clearly and concisely is a cornerstone of any people’s collective activity. For this reason, miscommunication leads to misunderstanding, which, in turn, negatively impacts the outcome of the work. Mistakes related to the exchange of information in the medical sphere, however, are additionally...

Effects of Diabetes on Quality of Care in Massachusetts

Introduction Diabetes damages the body’s organs and leads to a strenuous economic impact on the patients, their families, and the country. Moreover, the condition affects the emotional well-being of the family members and the patients. Consequently, diabetes has an economic and psychological impact on patients and their families. Diabetic patients...

Care Coordination Process in the Healthcare

Introduction A coordination process allows effort integration between health providers to improve the quality of care. The health program should be comprehensive to include clinical information exchange, patient safety, performance evaluation, and care competency to create patient-oriented operational systems. Depending on the illness and needs, patients often see more than...

Peritoneal Dialysis and Hemodialysis as Treatment for End Stage Renal Diseases

Introduction One of the most important aspects when conducting the treatment of patients with kidney substitution therapy is the quality of their life. This problem remains the most acute because this group of patients feels constant dependence of their health and life on the factors they have little control of....

Collagen Peptide Substance and Joint Function

Introduction Ergogenic aids include any training strategy, mechanical device, dietary element or practice, or pharmaceutical procedure that enhances exercise performance or training adjustments. The ergogenic aids often employed are amino acids, caffeine, and steroids. Pharmacologic, physiological, and dietary ergogenic aids are available. Athletes are increasingly exploring nutritional supplements that can...

Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes Among Hispanic Males

Introduction Diabetes is a condition whereby the body’s ability to produce or act to insulin is altered. This leads to high blood sugar levels due to abnormal metabolism. In the Hispanic population blood, sugar readings of more than 11.0 mml/L indicate diabetes. In the United States, the Hispanic population’s preference...

Mental Healthcare Aspects of Latinos

Caplan, S. (2019). Intersection of cultural and religious beliefs about mental health: Latinos in the faith-based setting. Hispanic Health Care International, 17(1) 4-10.  In her article, Caplan (2019) addresses the impact of religion and culture on Hispanics/Latinos’ mental health care receiving and their attitude to mental health treatment. Regardless of...

Building an Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing

It is important to note that every study needs to be properly evaluated in order to ensure that it is both reliable and valid. Without determining these properties, it is problematic to use them as a source of evidence to support a specific argument. It is stated that “reliability focuses...

The Usefulness of the Ethical Theories in Medicine

Every philosophical current has brought to this world its own reflections on the nature of things. All the philosophers, despite the similarity of his statements with the speeches of other philosophical geniuses, had their own point of view and were able to defend it competently by proving the correctness of...

Nursing Assessment of Patient With Respiratory Disease

Subjective Findings The subjective data used in nursing diagnosis typically refers to the visual examination of patients and their reported symptoms. In this case, subjective data included in the diagnosis was the reported shortness of breath and difficulty breathing that the patient indicated upon admission to the emergency department. The...

Social Welfare Policy and Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare insurance must be more affordable; in the modern US, low-income people, especially immigrants, are uninsured and cannot afford health insurance coverage. Another concern in the US is that even those well-insured often have to travel around the country to find a healthcare program that will suit that person individually...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in a Raped Girl

The patient’s background The patient has a strained connection with her cocaine-addicted mother, who has been emotionally and physically abusive to her since she was three years old, along with her live-in partner. Moreover, the patient has had abandonment issues since she was an infant when her mother left her...

Creating a Nursing Plan to Improve Response to Pain

Introduction Nurses’ actions and attitudes play a significant role in the physical and mental state of their patients. It is hard to disagree that precisely nurses empower patients in the decision-making process and act as advocates for their rights. Consequently, it is essential for nurses to avoid medical errors and...

Improving Health and Well-Being for Older Adults

There are a lot of various objectives for older adults which are designated to improve the general health and well-being of this age group. Out of many important objectives, there are two of them which might seem to have the highest significance. One is about reducing the amount of inappropriate...

Euthanasia: Physician-Assisted Suicide, Disability, and Paternalism

Voluntary euthanasia can be defined as a case when the person wants to die and requires assistance. Involuntary euthanasia, on the other hand, means that such a person would prefer to live but has a condition that would cause their death eventually, and the suffering from this condition cannot be...

Health Systems and Population Health: Memorandum

Summary This memo aims to explain how the market and public policy changes, including healthcare reimbursement mechanisms, are driving changes in how the hospital engages in population health. This memo also explains the social determinants of health as well as why the hospital needs to work in partnership with other...

Health Disparities Faced by Pregnant Black Women

Introduction Maternal health is a critical field in the wider medical system that is intended to meet the needs of women during childbirth, postnatal period, and pregnancy. The professionals in this field possess a wide range of competencies that empower them to provide high-quality and personalized support. When proper care...

Health Insurance Calculations Regarding Medicare

Medicare is a government health insurance program available to anybody aged 65 and older. A group of disabled individuals in their 20s and 30s. End-of-life, renal illness patients submit Charges and Charges That Are Eligible: Submitted Charges refer to the amount that the provider typically charges for the service and...

Genetic Engineering Biomedical Ethics Perspectives

Diverse perspectives ensue vivisection, bio, and genetic engineering activities, trying to deduce their significance in evolution, medicine, and society. Significance in society, medicine, economics, or evolution is not the sole concern for human-hybrid experimentations. Legal and ethical perspectives are equally essential and remain salient considerations that determine continuous activities in...

Pandemic Coverage: Omicron Issues

At the height of the pandemic, news were extremely erratic, with many journalists assuming a primarily pessimistic viewpoint. For instance, in his article “How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take?”, published on April 30, 2020, Stuart A. Thompson casted doubt on the statements by Trump’s Administration. Particularly, Trump’s experts believed...

Role of Genes in Diabetes Development

Introduction: Diabetes Disease Diabetes is a global pandemic whose effects cause immeasurable burden to the globe. Zhao et al. (2021) report that about ten percent of the world’s population suffers from diabetes currently. There exist several forms of this illness, including Type 1, Type 2, and Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the...

Hyperlipidemia: Treatment, Nutrition and Prevention

Introduction Hyperlipidemia is a condition caused by a high level of fats in the bloodstream. The fats are cholesterol compounds, phospholipids, cholesterol and triglycerides that travel through the vascular system as parts of lipoproteins (large molecules). It influences the production, usage and carriage of lipids in the blood and their...

Psychedelics in Depression and Anxiety Treatment

Summary Mental illnesses have become an essential part of health in the last few decades, with sufficient attention being devoted to interventions that resolve them. Treatment of mental diseases has involved both conventional and unconventional methods to reduce the occurrence of these conditions. Unconventional methods of treating mental illnesses are...

Mental Illness for Brilliant People

Introduction Mental illness is defined as a health condition with changes in ones emotions and behavioral change. Mental illness is said to accrue from stress or challenges after engaging in social, work, or family activities. Like heart disease and diabetes, it’s a medical problem. Mental health can take many forms...

Discussion of Medication Errors

Background Medication errors are one of the most spread types of medical errors that remains a significant healthcare problem. According to WHO, medication errors kill one American every day and harm approximately 1.3 million people a year in the United States. Moreover, this problem is determined by a large number...

Quality Performance Is a Goal in Healthcare

It is difficult for healthcare organizations to ensure a high level of quality in modern realities. It begins with forming problems and their acceptance by people who work in this industry. It is essential to convince people that the chosen quality improvement method is the right one. You can convince...

The Endometriosis Fund of America’s Analysis

Sources of Revenue The Endometriosis Fund of America does not have a diversified source of revenue because there is no stable source of income. According to its Statement of Revenue, the majority of revenue is generated by gifts, grants, medical conferences, and fundraising events, while investment income is less than...

Clinical Case Management Knowledge Base

Introduction Clinical case management has come a long way to its current definition, interpretation, and scope of activities. The concept of case management and the procedures associated with it are century-old, as they were mentioned by Mary Richmond in 1922 as “social casework” (Kanter, 2010). The key issue in the...

Relation Between Public Health and Aging

Introduction The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a significant public health challenge, especially among the elderly, who are at the greatest. The number of older adults in the United States has been proved to be increasing, and by 2050, one in every five people in the United States...

Lobbying Mental Health Parity Act

This cover letter reflects the main idea and position of the research team regarding The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equality Act. Studies have shown that the application of this Act was the most crucial step towards achieving equal opportunities in obtaining insurance services for mental health. Nevertheless, there are...

Coronavirus and Related Scientific Issues

Reasons for Coronavirus Research Coronavirus is one of the most severe infections that has been reported to cause a global pandemic. The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan in December 2019, and since then, all the continents have been affected by the infection (Yuki et al., 2020). Many...

Opportunities for Service Expansion for Oak Street Health: Project Proposal

Introduction Healthcare services usually transform during the period of major scientific breakthroughs or global crises. However, the current COVID-19 pandemic challenged health delivery services worldwide. Indeed, many hospitals reported a 70% reduction in the use of primary healthcare services at the beginning of the lockdown (Cutler, 2020). Moreover, environmental pollution...

Influenza (H2N1) vs. COVID-19 Pandemic

Introduction A pandemic is an outbreak of a disease spreading across countries or globally. For example, COVID-19 and influenza outbreaks are pandemics that struck the world, affecting human lives. The influenza pandemic came in different forms, including H1N1, H2N2, and H3N2. Its mortality is associated with pregnancy, underlying conditions, and...

Esophageal Cancer: Description, Population Affected, and Prognosis

In esophageal cancer, malignant cells develop in the esophagus tissues, leading to tumor formation. Cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol use, and Barrett’s esophagus are all known to raise the risk of esophageal cancer. Weight loss, progressive dysphagia, retrosternal discomfort, hoarseness, and coughing are all signs and symptoms of esophageal cancer. There...

Revenue Cycle Processes and Pricing in Healthcare

Patient registration is the most crucial step in the registration cycle for billing specialists. Patient registration enables billing specialist to collect demographic, insurance, and eligibility data in real-time. Additionally, financial obligations of patients, such as payment plans and termination regulations, are highlighted (Jain & Panchal, 2019). Another critical step is...

CBT and Depression

Major depressive disorder (MDD), known as depression, is commonly characterized by relatively long periods of low mood that could last from two weeks to several years. Individuals affected by MDD experience a loss of interest in things that previously brought them pleasure and other mental struggles, such as low self-esteem...

Implementation of Patient Portals

Implementation of patient portals has helped eliminate some of the significant challenges experienced by providers and their patients. Before implementing the portals, health professionals had to deal with a huge number of calls from patients seeking various services. Patient portals made the process easier by allowing patients to contact their...

Arterial Hypertension: Complications, Treatment and Impact

Arterial hypertension (AH), being the leading risk factor for cardiovascular catastrophes, has recently become a serious burden for health systems of the country. Despite the wide choice of medical and invasive treatment, sufficient control of blood pressure (BP) can hardly be achieved. Consequently, the fight against obvious cardiovascular diseases is...

Schizophrenia Treatment With Fluphenazine Decanoate

Case Description Prescribing a medication that will be beneficial for a patient’s condition often requires significant effort from the physician. In specific cases where a severe mental disorder is present, choosing the right drug and its dosage is crucial for positively affecting the individual’s condition and alleviating the negative symptoms....

Current Procedural Terminology Concept

Introduction. Steps involved in CPT Coding Current Procedural Terminology is a form of medical language. The process involves seven main steps encompassing (Landon & Mechanic, 2017). A review of the report’s header. An examination of the index in CPT codebook. A scrutiny of documented report. Development of selected preliminary code....

Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care

Introduction The contemporary health care field entails various legal and ethical dilemmas, owing to its existence at least partly to the rapid development of technologies and the digitalization of science and medicine. The content and shape of ongoing improvements in health care require careful ethical and legislative attention. This paper...

ICARE Principles in Public Nursing

Introduction This paper focuses on the public health setting, which includes interprofessional teams based on decision-making and knowledge-sharing activities. However, within these teams, there are often limited means for effective communication that do not allow for achieving better patient outcomes and promoting relevant change initiatives. The use of iCARE components...

The Black Dog Video: Modeling Mood Disorders

Depression arises unexpectedly and unpredictably, and just as suddenly leaves a person. There is no cure for depression, and this uncertainty can be scary for many people. But the positive side is that the inability to completely control depression leaves room for a more eager life perception. In other words,...

Electronic Health Record: Resources and Tools

Simulated electronic health record (EHR) is a new information retrieval system focused on a streamlined, intuitive, and accessible electronic record scheme. Its integration into medical education is essential because it will allow future employees to access the different information bases they will have to work. These learning systems include documented...

Core Determinants of Health in the United States

Income and Social Status Social status Financial resources Level of education Social Support Network Assistance from communities, friends, and families. Emotional reassurance. Informal social support network. Overwhelming parenting and contemporary living that negatively influence their kids. Poor quality housing and homelessness also negatively affect children’s health. Education and Literacy Increase...

The Scoff Questionnaire: Risk of Eating Disorders

Introduction The SCOFF questionnaire was used as a method to identify and classify children at risk of eating disorders. Then, the children were provided with both relevant referrals and treatment. For this article, the primary tool is the SCOFF questionnaire, which consists of 5 questions with yes or no answers....

Benefits of Physical Activity and Nutrition

Both exercise and diet are instrumental in maintaining long-term health of an individual, both physical and mental. Age, ability, ethnicity, shape, or size have little bearing on the health benefits of physical activity, with the exception of affecting the suggested forms of exercise in rare situations. This essay attempts to...

COVID-19: Epidemics in People’s Lives

History shows that humanity has faced numerous outbreaks of diseases, and some of them have changed the course of history. In the days when the whole world is caught in the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to remember that in the history of humankind, some many epidemics and pandemics covered...

National Trends and Legislation

This country’s healthcare industry will require some innovative and creative approaches in the future. The economic and institutional environments in which hospitals in the United States have operated have changed dramatically over the last two decades. According to the American Hospital Association, government-mandated cost-cutting initiatives, movements from cost-based to prospective...

Transcultural Psychiatry Rethinking Historical Trauma

The authors of the article argue for the need to rethink and reinterpret historical trauma as there is a significant difference in how people experience, approach, and transmit the instances of trauma. The conceptual intervention applied in the article relates to the person-centered ethnographic research intended to highlight the contextualization...

Mental Disorder as a Health Concept

The concept of mental disorder is inextricably linked with the concept of mental health. This is a condition in which a person is a socially useful person, realizes themselves and is able to withstand stressful influences. This term defines not only the psychological state of an individual and their self-perception...

Stakeholders’ Conflict of Interests in Healthcare Provision

Any person or an organization with interest in investing in a particular company is astakeholder. The business activities can affect or be affected by the stakeholders’ actions. Stakeholders in a business setup include customers, investors, suppliers, and employees. The advancements in business operations worldwide have attracted additional stakeholders such as...

Nutritional Necessities of Individuals with Disabilities

This article highlights the nutritional necessities of all adults, children, and youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities with special care needs. Ptomey & Wittenbrook (2015), center their discussion on patients with CYSHCN and IDD special care needs. The research aims at developing nutrition interventions suitable to these populations. The authors...

Independent Contractors in Nursing

An Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) is a type of medical profession in which there are two ways to find employment. There is a more traditional way called W2 and 1099 – an independent contractor. Considering the various aspects of these types of employment, it is possible to choose the most...

Stressful State and Its Negative Effect on Health

There are many different factors that affect human health and well-being. Stress is one of the most significant as it often comes from within and can be increased by external ones. Hence, this work aims to determine what contribution a stressful state makes to the state of health of the...

The Main Features of the Medicaid Plan

Medicaid is a joint program between the federal and the state program in which the former provides requirements and the latter implements the services. It provides healthcare coverage to American citizens, including low-income adults, pregnant women, seniors, and children (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2022). Key characteristics of the...

Psychological Experience of COVID-19 Patients

“Qualitative study of the psychological experience of COVID-19 patients during hospitalization” is an example of a report of a qualitative study that I personally read before the assignment. I encountered it while conducting a Google search with the keywords “psychological experience”, “patients”, and “pandemic”. My interest in the effect of...

Skin Disorders in Aging Populations

Skin disorders in aging populations are often characterized by physical symptoms, which can be interpreted as unattractive by both older and younger individuals. Because the appearance of the skin, as well as hair and nails, influences the self-concept. Due to this, changes to the skin due to aging that are...

What Are the Medical and Psychological Advantages of Using RFID Chips?

Chipping framework execution is relied upon to be helpful in the space of well-being, helping people, and against duplicating, as there have been instances of purchasing international inoculation IDs. RFID chipping can develop existing data storage methods, which need better protection (Sewell, 2018). Since information is being gathered and transferred...

Aloe Vera: Inside and External Use

Introduction Aloe vera is a plant from the succulent family, which is well known for its healing properties. Aloe vera will be an excellent helpful supplement for many dishes. Although the plant itself will not significantly change its taste, it will be able to improve the texture and make the...

Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Children and Adults

There is a difference between the AAC systems that people with degenerative diseases need compared to others using AAC. For example, if a child has cerebral palsy, then long and extensive motor training and practice may be necessary for ACC’s effective and full use. (Beukelman & Light, 2020). Patients diagnosed...

Mental Health Knowledge: Study Design & Statistics

Introduction The objective of the study is to find the correlations of the sociodemographic public stigma while putting into consideration life satisfaction and mental health knowledge (literacy). Public stigma is the universal attitude that the members of the public have regarding individuals having mental illnesses (Lo et al., 2021). The...

Trending Diets to Curb Obesity

Summary Over the years, humans have been struggling to observe their weight by getting involved in body exercises that are believed to maintain body shape and avoid the risk of getting obese. However, it is not easy to continue with gym exercises and the expenses that come with it. Therefore,...

Medical Organization’s Improvement Strategies

There are several reasons why it is important to assess the satisfaction of the population with the quality of medical services. Satisfaction is an indicator of the quality of medical care that can be used to make health prediction. In addition, patient satisfaction is connected with the organizational aspects of...

Elder Abuse in the US Healthcare System

Elder abuse within the US has posed a threat to the elderly citizens; the situation has emanated in perennial harm to older adults. Types of elderly abuse include physical, sexual, neglect, financial, and psychological abuse. All these types have been occurring in all states of the US. Some of the...

Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound & Oncotripsy

Introduction Ongoing research into the cancer treatment oncotripsy is aimed at developing a method that uses ultrasound harmonic stimulation at a resonance frequency specific to cancer cells, this is an example of ultrasound therapy. As a minimally invasive treatment for cancer, oncotripsy does not require surgery. Using low-intensity pulsed ultrasonic...

The Choice of a Medical Data Management System

The healthcare information system plays one of the most important roles. This concept implies a system for managing medical data. This implies the storage, management and use of medical information using the patient’s electronic medical record. Moreover, the information system in healthcare helps to conduct data operations more efficiently and...

Acute Respiratory Failure: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

Introduction The human body is a system that depends on the coordination of all organs regarding the distribution of necessary elements throughout the structure. Oxygen is an essential element within a person’s anatomy due to its functional effect on the tissues. In this case, the insufficiency of the supply risks...

Interventions for Homeless With Mental Illness

Doulas, A. V., & Lurigio, A. J. (2010). Youth crisis intervention teams (CITs): A response to the fragmentation of the educational, mental health, and juvenile justice systems. Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations, 10(1–2), 241–263. doi:10.1080/15332586.2010.481893 In this article, the researchers conduct a non-systematic literature review to explore preliminary and anecdotal...

COVID-19: The Effects on Humankind

Since its outbreak in 2019, COVID-19 pandemic has brought great suffering to humankind. The virus has led to a dramatic loss of life worldwide, and it still presents a significant threat to public health, food systems, and economic growth. In the United States, COVID-19 has created both public and private...

Levine Children’s Hospital’s Work

Atrium Health. (2021). Levine Children’s Hospital. Web. Currency (C). Although the considered page does not indicate the date of its creation, there is evidence for suggestions about its recent update in 2021. The page contains the COVID Safety update, which shows an update not much time ago (Atrium Health, 2021)....

Confidence Interval in Medicine

Notably, the confidence interval (CI) can be applied to medicine to enhance the quality of clinical decisions. He and Fineout-Overholt state that healthcare professionals may use CI to interpret research based on reliability and validity. Briefly, CI demonstrates the level of uncertainty related to the sample statistic. CI helps healthcare...

Healing a Hospital’s Struggling Emergency Department

Project Charter Project Overview Executive Summary The struggling 205-bed general medical and surgical hospital that serves a community in Chicago is experiencing a decline in performance because of the huge demand that it is unable to meet. The parent firm is keen on implementing a project model that had been...

Immersive Living with the Elderly in Nursing Homes

Summary Nursing homes are vital in the care of the elderly population. The elderly have a place to be hosted and taken care of by professional caregivers who also provide them with guidance and counseling. Thus, the elderly are entitled to receive professional care and proper treatment from caregivers. The...

Community Healthcare Agency at Fairfax

The healthcare institution that was chosen for the present research is Fairfax Pediatric Associates. It is necessary to monitor children’s health conditions, especially during the first year of their lives, since their body systems are developing and regular visits to pediatricians help see the development. Reliable pediatric clinics that have...

Effects of Culture and Other Factors on a Health Care Setting

The cultural aspect of China that stood out for me is the belief that the body’s vital energy flows along channels that keep individuals’ emotional, psychological and physical health balanced. That notion is related to acupuncture offering clinical services to the Chinese. Acupuncture stimulates the central nervous system that releases...

Are Oral Anticoagulants as Effective as Subcutaneous Injections

Introduction PICO is a structure for formulating a sound clinical research topic before conducting a study. It is a short word for the four components of a practical interventional foreground question. According to Harris and Turner (2018), the topic should specify the patient or demography to be studied, the treatment...

Attention Deficit and Effective Treatment of Disorder

Effective behavioral and pharmaceutical treatments are available to help reduce the symptoms of ADHD. These treatments can assist individuals in doing better at home, school, and in social situations. Each child should undergo a full assessment before starting treatment to determine the diagnosis and treatment strategy. The American Academy of...

The United States, Switzerland, and Australia Health Care Delivery Systems

The United States is spending more per capita on health coverage than other developed economies. The quantity of resources allotted to medical care by a nation varies according to its political, economic, as well as social factors. These comparisons show that the U.S. spends a massive amount of money on...

Aspects of the Current Status of Aprns

The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 underlined the importance of having a flexible and well-used healthcare workforce. The vast range of state rules governing advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) functioned as a roadblock to movement during this period (Buck, 2021). The consensus model for APRN regulation, licensure, accreditation, certification, and education...

The Adoption of the EHR Framework in Healthcare Facilities

EHR Functions The adoption of the EHR framework in most healthcare facilities has marked an essential point in the development of health support and the related services for citizens. The main function and uses of the EHR system and the data capture of the system can be summarized as the...

Causes and Treatment of Autism in Children

Introduction Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a condition connected to brain development that impacts how people perceive and communicate with others. It also eliminates problems in the child’s social interaction and socialization. Autism spectrum disorder poses numerous challenges for treatment, although more significant research studying brain illnesses is increasing as...

The Mental Health Problem in New York City

Introduction If present mental health statistics are any indication, New York City is on the verge of a major catastrophe. Most stakeholders have always managed to find a way to minimize the relevance of mental health as a serious problem, and the facts have not always been as scary as...

Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Strains

A transmittable disease pertains to contagious diseases induced by various microorganisms. Moreover, minute organisms passed from one person to another, either indirectly or directly, include fungi, parasites, viruses, and bacteria (Chee, 2018). However, some of these infectious diseases are spread by insect bites, while others are triggered by swallowing contaminated...

The Effect of Medication Administration Through Barcodes on Nurses

Primarily, this paper is based on a case study of the existing actual and relevant literature. The article highlights the main and meaningful ideas regarding innovative methods and techniques of taking medications by patients. The authors of the study provide detailed descriptions, characteristics, and an assessment of the experience of...

Mindfulness as a Method of Treating Addiction

When it comes to thinking of ways to treat addiction, an abundance of various approaches has been proposed over the years of examining the issue. However, it is reasonable to assume that in order to treat a condition properly, one is to thoroughly investigate the reasons for its formation and...

Community Health Nursing Social Media Campaign

Community Health Nursing Diagnosis Statement Increased risk of mental illnesses among people aged between 18 and 39 years in Brevard County related to lack of access to mental health services demonstrated by the increased rate of diagnosed cases of depressive disorder. Health Inequity/Disparity Mental health is critical since it ensures...

Nursing History: Today and Beyond

Introduction Patients should be targeted to their specific requirements, not those of the healthcare workers who are providing it. An overhaul of the healthcare sector is necessary to accomplish this. Health care reform will necessitate a significant change in the duties of many health workers, especially nurses. When it comes...

The Joint Commission as a Non-Profit Organization

I enjoyed learning about the Joint Commission and its accreditation practice both in text and video formats. Moreover, I consider it extremely important to analyze the work of organizations that directly affect people’s perception of medical institutions and health care in general. The Joint Commission has many advantages and well-established...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder’s Treatment

Watkins, L. E., Sprang, K. R., & Rothbaum, B. O. (2018). Treating PTSD: A review of evidence-based psychotherapy interventions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12. The article, Watkins et al. review different psychotherapy interventions that can be applied in treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among adults. Most patients that experience...

Should Free Healthcare be a Right in America?

Introduction Nothing exposes the inequalities prevalent in America more than the existing unequal healthcare system. It is a mix of healthcare providers and public and private insurers responsible for creating barriers to accessing quality services for a large portion of the population. Access to lifesaving medical treatment usually depends on...

Mental Health Parity and Services

Beronio, K., Glied, S., & Frank, R. (2014). How the Affordable Care Act and Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act greatly expand coverage of behavioral health care. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 41(4), 410-428.  In this article, the researchers reflect on the topic of the Patient Protection...

Lean and Six Sigma: Total Quality Management

The case study illustrates how a health organization in Texas utilized Six Sigma to discover and improve its N95 face mask reprocessing project. Lean Six Sigma is a systematic collective process that strives to boost production by reducing mistakes and waste. It associates the Six Sigma technique and methods with...

“Patients’ Satisfaction With the Social Work…” by Roberts et al.

A study by Roberts et al. in the article A survey evaluating patients’ satisfaction with the social work service provided at a rehabilitation centre talks about social workers and the importance of researching the level of patient satisfaction with the service provided. The authors provide many high-quality recommendations and the...

The Quality of Treatment Planning and Communication With Patients

Daily bedside whiteboard updating by nurses to increase patient communication and improve patient surveys through Hcalps scores after discharge. Patient satisfaction largely depends on the quality of communication with the nursing staff. Patient satisfaction largely depends on the quality of communication with the nursing staff. There are several tools and...

Windshield Analysis of Edison, New Jersey

The specificity of the infrastructure of the city of Edison lies in the fact that it is a city that provides large-scale transportation of goods. As a transit point, Edison is a city where the highways running through the city are particularly important. Walking in the city center and observing...

Quality Health through Proper Nutrition and Regular Physical Activity

Maintaining a healthy diet and regular physical exercise are recipes for quality healthy and improved well-being. These options can help reduce the chances of developing severe health complications, such as aging, cancer, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. A healthy diet and regular physical activity influence the prevalence...

Researching of Disorders: DSM-5 Summaries

Disruptive, Impulse-Control and Conduct Disorders Overview Disruptive, impulse-control and conduct disorders are characterized by the inability of a person to control their emotions and behavior so that to conduct accordingly to societal norms. People with these disorders tend to neglect others’ rights and disturb the authorities. Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct...

Approaches to Community Health

Reflecting on the course, several concepts and issues were particularly important and are anticipated in further practice and career. Studying and tackling them is essential in order to develop communal healthcare and the healthcare system in general. Health discrepancies, social health determinants, public health, the logic model, and the collaboration...

Therapeutic Treating of Patients With Depressive Disorder

Introduction There are different ways in which healthcare professionals can treat people with depressive disorders. Depressive disorder is a mood that leads an individual to have a tenacious feeling of dejection or loss of attention in something, which impacts the person’s everyday life. The best approach to treat depressive disorders...

Features of the United States Health Care Industry

Introduction The US is a country where healthcare spending is several times higher than in other countries with comparable income levels. In particular, costs in the healthcare industry have been increasing at a much faster rate than the rate of inflation in general. Equally important, the role of the federal...

Unlisted Procedures and Services in Healthcare

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) restrictions mandate that health workers are obliged to determine the name of the medical practice or service that accurately specifies the assistance accomplished. In the absence of a complete and appropriate description, clinicians may use a procedure or service code that is not listed (“Unlisted...

Artificially Administered Nutrition and Hydration

The article outlines a comprehensive guideline of ethical and legal matters to direct clinicians when using AANH on pediatric and adult patients. It also emphasizes the need to ensure that all AANH healthcare services are provided according to the ethical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. It also involves...

Psychopathology Through the Lenses of Distress and Disability

Introduction Psychopaths, as per prevalent ideas, are defective in their interpretation of social cues related to fear and anxiety. As a result, psychopathic individuals ignore indications that would normally prompt them to refrain from an offensive stance. The examination of the mental disease may incorporate a variety of characteristics, including...

Fundamental Nursing Care in Patients with the SARS-CoV-2 Virus

The reviewed article is a mixed-methods study, which utilizes both qualitative and quantitative data in its approach. This approach is self-evident from the methodology section of the study, which describes the survey as the primary method of data collection. Surveys can be used to collect both qualitative and quantitative data....

Creating Value in Healthcare Settings

Introduction Medical companies are faced with delivering value, while the latter is defined as the ratio of quality, quality to cost. For this mission to be achieved, it is necessary to reduce the cost of treatment, improve its quality and ensure wider access of the population to it (Burns et...

Antisocial Personality Disorder Case Study

There are numerous issues that may undermine the proper formation of a personality during childhood and adolescence. Therefore, it is crucial to identify the challenges that affect children and teenagers and lead to the development of a broad spectrum of symptoms that may indicate the early stages of mental disorders....

Parkinson’s Disease: Description, Causes, and Symptoms

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most prominent neurodegenerative complications, primarily affecting the individual’s motor system. There are five primary stages of disease progression, each associated with a specific variety of symptoms (“Stages of Parkinson’s,” n.d.). Stage one generally implies mild consequences, such as slight tremors in one side...

“COVID-19: Characteristics and Therapeutics” by Chilamakuri & Agarwal

Introduction COVID-19 has been widely researched throughout and in the final stages of the first pandemic cases. The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of St. John’s University conducted a meta-analysis of the virus’ investigated characteristics and vaccine efficiency. Moreover, the viral structure was studied, along with the main mechanisms of infection...

Trinity Community Hospital Treating Opioid Withdrawal

The Trinity health center is a 150-bed, non-commercial facility situated in the heart of town that offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and health issue mitigation services to the surrounding area’s residents. Here is a link to a recent community health needs assessment completed by the hospital only a...

Emotional Distress and Physical Health Discussion

The findings revealed significant information about the general understanding of the mental issues linkage with physical health among the people who do not have any professional education in the field. It was established that people are aware of such a connection, which was expected earlier. More importantly, they perceive the...

Schizophrenic Patients as Social Misfits

Given the usefulness of visual effects in passing across an important message, movies have become an integral part through which society is educated on various issues. In modern days, entertainment scene, for instance, filmmakers use their skills to tell historical events, celebrate famous people, pass across political messages, or conduct...

Neurological Alterations and How They Can Be Managed

Problems that arise when the diseases become sphere cause alterations in the spinal code, causing stroke and status epilepticus. (Bohmwald et al., 2018). The paper aims to discuss some neurological alterations in detail by considering how they can be managed, aspects of nurse interventions, cultural considerations, and the patients’ teaching...

Healthcare Disparity in the African American Community

Background In the event of an epidemic, different individuals suffer differently. The prevalence and mortality rates between races have proved that some factors other than access to healthcare are involved. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the huge disparity in the African American community. While everyone is prone to the disease, medical...

The Introduction of a Vaccine Against COVID-19 Among Healthcare Staff in Moldova

About 180,000 Moldovans, encompassing over 9,000 children and around 900 expectant mothers, have been diagnosed with the coronavirus disease since the commencement of the pandemic, and over 5,000 people have died because of COVID-19. On March 7, 2020, a Moldovan female passenger returning from the Italian Republic was confirmed positive...

Brain Plasticity in the Elderly

Traditionally, it was thought that the neurology of normal aging was characterized by significant cell loss and dendrite information is protected degradation. However, when stereological concepts were applied to flow cytometry methodologies, it was shown that considerable cell loss does not happen throughout normal aging and that alterations in dendritic...

The Current Health Care Cost Milieu in the US

Introduction American health care is the most expensive worldwide, and it is a widely known sad reality. The U.S.’s health expenditure is twice as high as that of any other developed country (Yanushevsky, 2021). Although the U.S. has the most expensive medical care, patient outcomes are worse than in European...

Leadership Roles and Management in Nursing

Leadership qualities are essential for all spheres of work, and the nursing sector is not an exception. Learning to be an entrepreneur can help enhance personal qualities that might be useful with work duties management. The nursing practice involves a variety of functions uniting different chains of health policies. Medical...

Food Cost Issues in the Hospital

There may be several reasons why the cost of a meal in a hospital may have an issue with the account—starting from simple errors, including errors in amounts, price calculations, errors in the prices themselves, and ending with more severe shortcomings. These may include missed deliveries, lack of purchases, data...

Festivals in Kamloops: Safety and Security Issues Related to the COVID-19

Introduction Globally, tourism is one of the most affected sectors by the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the different niches in the sector, festival tourism is the most adversely affected by the pandemic, especially the measures put in place by different governments to curb the spread of the virus. Particularly in Kamloops,...

Nutritional Value of Wild Amaranth Grain

Indigenous people’s conventional foods represent a potentially new source of healthy dietary options in the contemporary world. The wild Amaranth plant resembles the soybeans in the early stages of growth. However, as the crop grows, it become taller, with purple-colored seeds producing amaranth grains, which can then be harvested (Kindscher...

Massachusetts General Hospital’s Growth in Boston

In the United States, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston is one of the renowned and old healthcare facilities that have offered different services to patients for over a century. The organization is well known following its extensive involvement in medical research activities aimed at improving the quality of healthcare...

University Students’ Mental Health in 2000-2020

Mental health has developed into a common concept within the scientific community. Previous studies have shown that when considerations are made on public mental health, attention is given to resilience construct and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis (Kleber 1). As such, developing an understanding of the relationship between mental health...

Neurocognitive Disorders: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

The term “neurocognitive disorders” refers to a set of conditions in which the predominant deficiency is cognitive functioning. The American Psychiatric Association (2013) depicts those neurocognitive disorders emanate from Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s. The typical symptom for all the orders in this category is the victims’ impairment in cognitive functioning...

Pandemic Challenge and Economic Inequality

Introduction The coronavirus pandemic has presented two significant challenges for American society: public health and economic crises. The two are closely connected as the challenges, which the healthcare sphere has experienced, have significantly reduced the capacity of communities for economic activity and general spending. Furthermore, COVID-19 has had broader distributional...

Uti Kulintjaku Project: Investigating Aboriginal Mental Disorders

Uti Kulintjaku is a British project that aims to work with improving Anangu’s mental health. This project is innovative and allows understanding mental disorders in the health of aborigines (Togni, 2016). Since the Torres Strait Islanders have virtually no access to medical services, unlike those who are not part of...

Lifting Mask Mandates: The Key Risks

CUNY has attracted mixed reactions after becoming one of the latest institutions to lift its mask mandate on March 7 in a premature decision that will likely put students at risk of getting infected. In an email dated March 4, the institution’s Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez gave the directive following...

The Healthcare Availability in the USA

The debates about the healthcare system that would embrace all communities not depending on people’s income have raged in the USA over decades. Today, with the pandemic on the march and healthcare bills steeply increasing, the debate is as bitter as ever. Many people believe that it would be better...

Practicing Nurses in Emergency Departments

Advanced practicing nurses (APNs) play a significant role in medical care in all hospital units. Indeed, they participate in treating patients with a wide range of conditions, including traumas, falls, and advanced-degree pressure ulcers. Falls and concussions are among the most common causes of visiting emergency departments (ED) among the...

Triple Therapy: Lung Function and Symptoms

Introduction The PICO is a process, a mnemonic, or technique used by nurses in evidence-based practice to address, answer or frame health care or related clinical questions. Researchers use the framework of PICO to develop and formulate literature search strategies like solution-based reviews. The acronyms used in this word have...

The City Center Hospital: Improving Productivity

Introduction Defining the most beneficial activities that could aid in tackling the presented issue is a crucial element of the Organization Development (OD) approach. When appropriate instruments are used, it becomes possible to productively address the given complication, ensuring that the necessary changes are introduced effectively and will remain in...

A Case of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Subjective Biographical Data: Name: Mr. Smith. Age: 70yrs. Race: British Male. Marital Status: Married. General Appearance: Fair general condition. Source/Reliability: Retired from the local university where he was the supervisor of the Building & Grounds department. Chief Complaint (CC): Increased frequency in urination. Incomplete bladder emptying. Hard time starting a...

Human Papillomavirus: Structure and Transmission

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a viral infection passed from one person to the other through contact with the skin. More than 100 varieties of HPV exist, with about 40 being transmitted through sexual contact. HPV passed through sexual intercourse can affect the mouth, throat, and genitals (Chaturvedi et al. 265)....

Estimating Life Expectancy: Pros and Cons

The health and longevity of a person depends on health care, genetics, ecology, the state of the environment, and style of life. Each of these areas brings together many extra factors and circumstances. The human body is such a complex multi-level and multi-factorial system that so far, no system of...