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Despite advanced medicine, the healthcare system remains one of the main problems in the United States. The unaffordable prices that taxpayers and the state are forced to spend on medical services do not ensure population health. Health care is regularly touched upon at the national leadership level and considered the...
Quality management in healthcare is essential to ensure patient safety and the effectiveness of care provision. The present course was helpful for understanding the importance of measuring and controlling the quality of provided services and described various methods that help to achieve that. The primary goals of quality management in...
Assessment The client is a 57-year-old over-weight Caucasian male. Assessment of the clinical history of the patient shows that the patient had demonstrated an elevated blood pressure level five years back, which is under control with medication. In addition, the patient suffers from hyperuricemia, which is again under control with...
The impact of nurse care on the patient’s quality of life cannot be underestimated. Moreover, it is an important factor in the efficiency of the functioning of a healthcare organization. Nurses provide a comfortable environment for the staff members and visitors of the hospital. However, their influence is hard to...
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder that is created by degeneration of the brain’s nerve cells. In most cases, these cells often die or become impaired, hence losing the capacity to produce dopamine that is essential for movement and balance (Atkinson-Clement et al., 2017). The leading cause of the ailment...
Abstract The paper focuses on the problem of people’s insufficient physical activity and its adverse impact on health. The proposed plan draws attention to children, adolescents, adults, and older people to identify whether they can benefit from regular physical exercises. These participants will be found among the number of outpatient...
Introduction Most of us would go ahead and give away around $5 for a latte at Starbucks? What is the reason? It is because we wish to do anything that would give us a good feeling; that would make us confident. Similarly, drugs are done for the same reason. Why...
HIV/AIDS is a virus that quickly multiplies and mutates, therefore, making it difficult to fight if off. While no cure exists for the disease, effective treatment and management vital to maintaining good health are available. Moreover, it is essential to note that the administration of antiretroviral treatment (ART) is recommended...
Qualitative Research Article Critique Follow-up care after surgery is critical to the patients’ health and well-being. Substandard care can result in patients’ healing process being jeopardized, severely affecting their mental health. Thus, it is essential to access the follow-up care offered after surgical treatments and find ways to improve it....
Depression is a broad condition that is associated with failures in many parts of the nervous system, such as neurotransmitters. Per Hoffmann et al. (2017), when the disorder is present, serotonin levels in the organism tend to be low compared to those of others such as norepinephrine and dopamine. Its...
Introduction This paper discusses the unfortunate circumstances that learning disabled people faced previously in the days of our fathers and how the care management has changed from institutionalised impersonal management to the deinstitutionalized person centred management of today. A recent incident which occurred stirred my emotions and set me on...
With the increasing level of medicine development, assessing the quality and cost-effectiveness of some specific treatment is becoming a serious problem for healthcare managers’ consideration. There should be tools or criteria for evaluating healthcare representatives’ performance that could provide relevant statistics for improving the country’s medical care. This case study...
The healthcare system is an ever-changing area of development; therefore, new acts and alterations are being suggested annually. These changes typically affect a large amount of population but primarily influence medical workers as they are the drivers of any hospital. In particular, nurses are most exposed to any restructuring procedures...
Cancer appears to be the disease of the century, as it presents the most frequent reasons for deaths. Lung cancer is the most often type of oncological diseases, causing the greatest amount of fatal outcomes (Bilano et al., 2015). Due to poor social position, destructive lifestyle, unhealthy traditions and habits,...
Introduction Marilyn Walker, a critical care nurse at the Metropolitan Jewish Health System Hospice, began her career after losing her husband and aunt to hemorrhagic stroke and cancer of the pancreas, respectively. Her line of work demands excellent listening skills as terminally ill individuals often call the office in need...
The human body is a complex set of systems continually interacting to maintain life. People are trying to protect themselves against diseases by vaccinating as it can prevent the start of the disease. The purpose of this paper is to investigate different systems of the organism and choose whether vaccination...
On a global scale, the prevalence of obesity dramatically increased over the past decades, which poses serious health risks. Based on the recent national data regarding obesity statistics in the United States, obesity has risen considerably since 1999–2000 (Hales, Carroll, Fryar, & Ogden, 2020). Hence, a better understanding of the...
Summary of Clinical Issue: Inappropriate staffing in the nursing environment is a severe problem that leads to several negative consequences. PICOT Question: What is the influence of inappropriate staffing compared to professional recruitment in nursing departments? Criteria Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 APA-Formatted Article Citation with Permalink A Review...
With an increasing number of people traveling abroad, there is a need for doctors and travelers to be attentive to uncommon and frequently confounding skin diseases. A young girl aged five years was taken to the emergency unit at Evelina Children’s infirmary in London since she had itchy, unpleasant sores...
Outline Health psychology deals with the enhancement of the whole personality identifying and eliminating the biopsychosocial causes that lead to disease. This paper presents various perspectives of health psychology, emphasizing on the stresses that which cause for the psychological and physiological illnesses. Methods for the stress management and the consequences...
Introduction Obesity has become one of the most rampant health issues among people of all ages in the United States. It is vital to understand what factors contribute to this problem, as obesity leads to multiple severe illnesses and lowers the quality of life (Zhang et al., 2015). One of...
Diseases such as epilepsy pose a significant risk to people’s well-being not only because of their symptoms but also because of the stigma surrounding the condition. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2019), around three-fourths of people with epilepsy living in low-income countries do not get treatment. This high...
Introduction With the rapid growth of modern society and the wide range of technological advancements, people have more opportunities to access challenging procedures, especially in the field of medicine. Technological progress in robotics and artificial intelligence provides countless future prospects for addressing current healthcare issues. Some of these challenges include...
Sun is a solar body that supports life on Earth and provides living creatures with multiple benefits. It gives energy for plant growth, to the animal kingdom, and it is necessary for climate change. One of the activities related to the sun is sun-gazing, the act of looking at the...
Introduction Cystic fibrosis (CF) affects mainly the lungs and pancreas; however, there is also a risk that organs of the digestive and reproductive systems, as well as kidney and bladder, will be damaged (Di Lullo et al. 36). With the development of the disease, the patient acquires different symptoms, and...
Cerebral Palsy (CP) refers to a group of disorders, which affect a patient’s ability to move or maintain an upright posture. Smith and Hustad (2015) assert that the CP’s pathology is easily comprehended based on the analysis of the constituent words: cerebral and palsy. The word “cerebral” is used in...
Introduction African Americans are a vulnerable group of the population as they tend to develop diabetes more often than other races, which is a concern for the healthcare system that has to undertake actions to educate them to improve their health outcomes. In addition, African American communities in the U.S....
Introduction The lack of specialists with graduate education in the nursing profession is a problem that undermines the prestige and effectiveness of the trade (Cherry & Jacob, 2016; Darbyshire & McKenna, 2013). Moreover, it affects job satisfaction as less educated nurses earn poor wages and are prone to dislike their...
Texas’s governor has issued several Executive Orders to fight COVID-19, including a requirement to wear masks in public, a reopening order, and an order that grants mayors the power to issue restrictions on the gathering of more than ten people. On Friday 9th, the state’s health officials reported 4,036 new...
Introduction There is a number of various components that may positively or negatively influence the performance of a company. One of them is rather important but often ignored and underestimated – developing a robust feedback-rich environment. Such culture welcomes any kind of evaluation and uses it in order to make...
In the article “A Discredited Vaccine Study’s Continuing Impact on Public Health,” Clyde Haberman examines the history, motivations, and repercussions of the anti-vaccination movement. The article was initially published in the New York Times five years ago, prompted by an outbreak of measles (Haberman). Nonetheless, vaccine hesitancy did not cease...
Introduction A disease is a condition of the body in which some abnormality occurs which may, in turn, cause pain, distress, or discomfort. Diseases may be spread through various micro-organisms, which include bacteria and viruses among other microbes. Infectious diseases are spread through pathogenic microbes, which enter the bodies of...
Smoking has various effects on a pregnant woman; it affects both the unborn child and the expectant woman. Prolonged or excessive smoking is even more detrimental to the health of a pregnant woman. Unfortunately, there is a sizeable number of women who still smoke when they are expecting a child...
Around December 2019, in the city of Wuhan, China, there were reports of a virus called COVID-19 which caused severe pneumonia. A month into the new year, the cases started showing up all over China and Europe and, subsequently, turned into a global outbreak. In the beginning of March 2020,...
Approximately 75% of all deaths in the US happen attributable to ten diseases that encompass heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke and cerebrovascular diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide. Over the last five years, the major sources of death in America...
The nursing profession in the modern healthcare system requires the development of various skills. Leadership qualities take an important place among them. Nursing is becoming more and more interdisciplinary and requires more complex coordination, which makes the acquisition and development of transformative leadership skills evident. Transformative leadership is defined as...
In the United States, health disparities are one of the significant challenges for the government. It is vital to ensure the access of all citizens to high-quality healthcare services. Therefore, federal and state agencies work to provide necessary conditions to different vulnerable population groups. One of these groups is women...
Introduction The Covid-19 novel coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on the entire planet, and no corner of the world remained untouched. To mitigate the consequences of the outbreak, governments implemented strict lockdown protocols in multiple areas. As a result, millions of people remained confined in their homes with...
Multiple myeloma Multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cell, is a progressive hematological disease that is a treatable but incurable B-cell malignancy (Multiple myeloma, Multiple Myeloma.org). About 20000 new cases are diagnosed in the US every year. The plasma cell, which forms a significant part of the body’s defense...
Introduction Nursing is an integral part of healthcare today as it improves treatment outcomes via effective cooperation with patients, consideration of their needs, and the creation of a beneficial environment. Working directly with patients, nurses can be viewed as the care providers responsible for the high satisfaction levels and observation...
Recently, there has been an increasing need for expanding patient autonomy within the care process in order to make it more efficient and less time-consuming. Patient autonomy refers to the right of patients to make sound decisions regarding their medical care without involving care providers in influencing the decision. The...
The beginning of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 outbreak changed the lives of people around the world. The role of healthcare as a field became more significant since the solution to this global problem was deemed to be connected to the initiatives intended to reduce the rate of infection...
The Concept of Depression Depression is a complex mental disorder that is still not completely understood by scientists. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this condition is widespread, and there are more than 264 million people of different ages suffering from this disease all over the world (1). Depression...
Healthcare is one of the most important services provided to people, as the need to be healthy is shared by all humans. It is crucial that healthcare management keeps improving with the introduction of new technology. The implementation of IT in health services has been a work in progress for...
Introduction Mental health plays a significant role in humans’ daily life and drives their decision-making and opportunities. While people of all genders might be exposed to psychological problems, women with mental illnesses have been marginalized in various spheres, including healthcare. The complexity of social roles modern women has to perform...
In the context of the further spread of COVID-19, the clinical site continues to focus on quality improvement studies oriented toward examining, among other issues, how the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) can improve patient care. Currently, it is studied what is the percentage of medical staff representatives who...
Introduction The case of medical malpractice under examination describes the inappropriate actions of health care professionals that resulted in the patient’s death. In 2001, Arturo Iturralde went to HMC, a Hawaiian state-owned hospital. He was diagnosed with degenerative spondylolisthesis and scheduled for surgery after several days. The surgery went wrong...
Introduction Pain relief is an excellent attribute of modern history that humanity is lucky to enjoy. In the United States, almost one in five adults suffers from chronic pain that interferes with day-to-day life (Wong, 2016). However, pain reduction can be controversial: for example, opioids – frequently used as painkillers...
The paper examines chronic respiratory diseases as pre-existing conditions and universal healthcare as the most appropriate way to manage them. CRDs, which include such diseases as bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and others, are serious factors that contribute to the complication of other acute diseases and increase death risk....
The primary goal of the government is to serve its people by implementing appropriate policies and establishing various agencies. Some of the key areas that politicians should take into consideration include social welfare, healthcare, and education. In the United States, disparities have remained a major predicament that affects the experiences...
Research Question and Objective Past studies have revealed that there are several strategies used to reduce stress. Most scholars such as Geiker et al. and Kang et al. agree that there is a relationship between sleep and stress. In this experiment, I studied this issue by creating a routine sleeping...
The Methods Used in the Collection of the Results The evaluation of the errors in the drug prescription is showing that the most suitable intervention is the act of targeting the common flaws within the system as opposed to the individual fault. Literature studies acknowledge the positive effects of the...
This article highlights the various responsibilities undertaken by the nurses, which once were led by health professionals and general practitioners. One way this presents a symbol of success for the NHS since sociological health care is being increasingly placed under the spotlight. For many reasons nurses increased responsibility and role...
Introduction Innovative technologies have opened a pool of opportunities for healthcare organizations to improve the efficacy of care. Specifically, the issue of patient data management has been addressed more carefully with the advancement of care through the use of digital tools. Namely, healthcare organizations owe their steady increase in service...
Cheyne-Stokes breathing pattern received its name in honor of the Scottish military doctor John Cheyne and the Irish doctor, Professor William Stokes. They discovered it in the middle of the 19th century and described on patients with severe heart failure and stroke. The infrequent shallow breaths in and out gradually...
With the introduction of innovative information management tools for sharing patient data with providers and keeping it secure from third parties, the process of communication within the healthcare context has changed significantly. On the one hand, the levels of patients’ data security have risen noticeably, even with the presence of...
Three clinical practice problems in my workplace negatively affect the quality of care and patient safety. The first problem is associated with the prevention and management of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the adult patients admitted to the Medical/Surgical unit and all post-operative patients. The patients demonstrate high rates of non-compliance...
Caring for patients at different life stages usually differs due to distinct needs, which correspond to specific age groups. On the one hand, the health care system offers an individualized approach that considers the health status and the physiological and mental needs of people of different ages. On the other...
While COVID-19 is a respiratory infectious disease, it can cause musculoskeletal complications. Vitamin D is critical for the healthy state of bones and an adequate immune system. At some point, an idea went viral that Vitamin D can increase immune resistance to coronavirus, provoking many people to consume the supplements,...
Stress has become an inherent part of modern people’s lives and is a prevailing pattern in middle adulthood. Numerous factors might contribute to stress. Among emotional problems, there are anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, anger, fear. When people hear about terrorist attacks in their country, it can cause them to feel...
Various depressive disorders have now become a severe issue for the vast majority of world residents. Constant pressure, immense workload, and undermining one’s mental health have led to an increasing rate of self-harm and suicide across the globe. When speaking of the current US situation, in a timeframe encompassing the...
Introduction The lives of university students are subjected to different stress situations. Some of the sources of pressure for these individuals include personal and social issues and academic anxiety. Medical students have to adapt to the rigorous curriculum while at the same time learning how to manage emotionally challenging situations....
Scientists introduced the concept of nursing metaparadigm to improve the caring practice after patients. Jacqueline Fawcett’s disciplinary system variant is the most accepted and used as a standard in the medical sphere. He categorized meta paradigms into four main components: person, environment, health, and nursing (Bender, 2018). Diabetic foot ulcers...
Introduction Certification Description: Specialization in cancer patients’ long-term care; Details about Certification: Three-hour test of 165 multiple-choice questions; $225-$296 for ON /APHON members and $315-$416 for non-members; Active registered license; two years experience as an RN; 2,000 hours of oncology nursing practice; 10 contact hours of nursing continuing education in...
Introduction Among diseases causing chronic pain, migraine is known quite well among general audiences, yet the awareness about its identification and treatment remains quite low. Nonetheless, the phenomenon has been studied meticulously by multiple researchers exploring different ways of reducing the painful experiences and alleviating them (Voicu et al., 2019)....
Abstract One problem with the US healthcare system is poor financing. The solution to this problem is full participation of all individuals over fifty in a national long term health care insurance program. As a proposal, it will be seen how US citizens can benefit from such a scheme. Problem...
Introduction Primitive reflexes may impede the child’s development and negatively influence on social and educational realms of a child. These reflexes are primary developmental patterns, as well as postural control. They, in turn, are integrated into more complex patterns establishing voluntary movements and skills. Integration deficiency of the primitive reflexes...
Background Wound care management has now become of the most challenging aspects of nursing on a global level due to the increasing pattern of wound incidence caused by various chronic diseases and accidents (Powers et al., 2016). Thus, the tendencies of would care between different facilities are now being modified...
Medical treatment is the most important part of a nurse practitioner’s work. Providing assistance to patients and devising the best course of action for any particular situation is crucial when another person’s well-being is at stake. The process, however, can be especially challenging when attempting to help people without a...
The comparatively recent disaster (the derailment of an oil-tanker train) unveiled the vulnerability of the community and the weaknesses of the existing disaster recovery plan at Vila Health. Some of the barriers to the effective implementation of the disaster recovery plan are the lack of resources and people’s overall unpreparedness...
Human physiology is a science through which the mechanical, biochemical, and physical functions are taken care of. The organs and systems of the human body are the prime sources of study in the field. The collection of interacting systems of a human body such as the nervous system, the musculoskeletal...
Although, in reality, the most important biological macronutrients, such as proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, can be found in many foods, the human diet must contain the healthiest and richest polymer-rich ingredients. For instance, there is no doubt that a burger or a hot dog can contain large amounts of carbohydrates...
Stem cell therapy is a viable strategy in treating heart disease, but it is still undergoing research; therefore, healthcare professionals should be cautious in pursuing it as a treatment option. There are positive prospects about the curative approach, but there is no conclusive evidence on its effect on heart disease...
The Structure and Function of the Three Types of Muscle Tissue The complexity of the muscular system is conditional upon the presence of various kinds of muscle tissue. They include skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles which differ in their structure and function as well as in the way they establish...
With the development of clinical pharmacy clinical staff started specializing in different clinical areas. (Stephens 2003) The course in Clinical Laboratory Support is aimed at people who work in pathology laboratories. It has been designed to “allow staff in these posts to learn underlying theory and gain credit for their...
Introduction There are different approaches to nursing and its importance in modern healthcare. Two of the most famous models are Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory and Duffy’s Quality Caring Model. Both of them emphasize the importance of improving the existing system by introducing new standards of care. The purpose of this paper...
A nurse’s actions should always be guided by the Nursing Code of Ethics. However, one of the situations related to this code that can be observed in the future is associated with misinterpreting the role of nurses in relationships with patients. Nurses are expected to focus on people’s values, culture,...
The prevalence of mental illness in the United States is high, and the number of people experiencing mental health conditions affects how society continues to function. According to the National Institute of Mental Health ([NIMH], 2019), there were more than 46 million adults with a mental illness in the US...
Weight-related problems have become acute in the modern world; due to a variety of reasons, a large number of people are suffering from bulimia, anorexia, and other eating disorders. As for obesity and extra weight, the major reason for it is the energy imbalance by which the calorie intake exceeds...
Introduction If you have been diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder BED, it means that your eating behaviors are complicated by the presence of rather frequent episodes of uncontrolled overeating. BED is more widespread compared to other eating disorders. You should know that it may cause susceptible weight gains if not...
Acute and chronic asthma in children is a growing cause of concern and attention to healthcare professionals. Statistics indicate that there are more than four million children in the United States, who are affected by asthma and this is the “most common illness affecting pediatric population (Kurnat & Murphy, 1999)....
Any work must obey specific rules and principles established for a particular profession. This allows people to see the primary goals they are pursuing through their everyday activities. In addition, such tenets are usually associated with universal human values, common for everyone. Therefore, their observance is ethically essential for the...
Introduction Awareness of specialized diversity practices in healthcare is essential for every practitioner as it is a crucial part of providing quality care to patients. Heterogeneity is not only about the race, but it also is about an individual approach to people of different gender, religion, age ethnicity, sexual orientation...
Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are lung diseases that are qualified as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD. Emphysema is a lung disease in which the alveoli supplying oxygen to the blood are damaged, so the blood is not oxygenated properly (Papadakis et al., 2018). Chronic bronchitis is a respiratory illness...
Education Methods Nowadays, the information security (IS) of healthcare systems of the state is considered an integral element of the overall work performance of a facility. In addition to a general security training program designed for each employee in an organization, specific training is needed to address information security tasks...
In my project, I plan to address the problem of increased morbidity from adverse drug events in older adults. Currently, adverse drug events are a considerable bother of US healthcare, as it is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, longer hospital stays, and higher costs for both patients and care...
Introduction Science and technology are critical elements of the modernity, where major everyday activities revolve around actively using them for both essential and non-essential purposes. Four key technologies are PC, smartphone, GPS, and internet. They are most beneficial for society and environment, but they also possess certain negative aspects. Similarly,...
Main Post Since the first smartphone and first tablet appeared, people’s lives have become much more manageable. Mobile devices allow not to depend on such properties of PCs like its large size or wire connection. Similarly, scientists have developed an approach called Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) that allows using the...
Introduction When Young adults with mental health problems are nearing their adult years, they may face the difficulty of transitioning between juvenile and adult medical systems. Currently, there appears to be a mental illness in almost one in five young people that further might evolve into “homotypic and heterotypic disorders...
Medicine appears to be the sphere of active developments and constant improvements, as high quality of service presents a matter of importance. This way, the article “Effectiveness of Supporting Intensive Care Units on Implementing the Guideline ‘End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit, Nursing Care’: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial”...
The main difference between licensed practical nurses (LPN) and registered nurses (RN) is the education required. RN course takes two or three years to get a degree or diploma, while the LPN standard only demands a year of studies and a certificate (Wisconsin Administrative Code, 2018). Education determines the set...
The Internet revolution of the 21st century has changed the way people interact with one another. Additionally, it has influenced how nurses could communicate, especially through social media. The different platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, among other related communication channels, provide nurses with options to express their views...
Introduction to the Project The problem of sickle cell disease (SCD) has been developing at an exponentially high rate, causing multiple fatal outcomes in patients, as well as making them vulnerable to numerous infectious diseases (Badawy et al., 2017). The issue must be addressed as a global concern that affects...
As a third-year medical student, I had a rotation in obstetrics and gynecology. At this rotation, I had an experience with a patient that transformed my professional path and encouraged my promotional community-based activity as a health care practitioner. The patient whom I encountered was a woman admitted for infertility...
Introduction The presented paper offers a literature review and evidence synthesis for a proposal that targets the problems of surgical leadership (SRL), team performance, and shared leadership (SL) in surgical settings. There is very little information about SRL, even though it is acknowledged as a critical element of providing high-quality...
Research Critique The possibility to use the information of the most current research while addressing critical clinical issues is an integral instrument of nurses, clinicians, and managers in their daily workflow. This allows healthcare providers to be updated on contemporary tendencies, therapeutic approaches, standards, and policies, which facilitates making quality...
The environment of an operating theater (OT) demands immediate responses and quick thinking along with substantial resourcefulness and the perfect knowledge of established guidelines. Therefore, in order to magnify the efficacy of performance in the OT setting among nurses, the use of shared leadership (SL) principles is required. The aim...
This article was published in July 2016 in the Urologic nursing journal. Authors: Gwendolyn L. Hooper and Susanne A. Quallich The concept selected is health seeking in men. I chose this concept because men are likely to manage the pain without using healthcare services while women go to the doctor...
Therapeutic education is a complex of essential actions to help patients manage their treatment and prevent possible sequela. This activity provides an additional therapeutic effect, along with pharmacological, physiotherapeutic measures. The education leads to an improvement in the quality and life expectancy of patients with chronic diseases, improves the quality...
The Health Information System (HIS) is a relatively interesting invention in the field of healthcare. It refers to a framework for handling health records. Researchers note that it is a “hardware, software, integrated technologies or related licenses, intellectual property, upgrades, or packaged solutions sold as services that are designed for...
Metabolism is the chemical processes of the body that are aimed at maintaining life in it. Metabolism is usually divided into two stages: catabolism and anabolism. During catabolism, complex organic substances degrade to simpler ones, releasing energy. In the processes of anabolism, more complex substances are synthesized from simpler ones,...
The system of CPT codes is used for its quick and convenient use; therefore, the codes in the various sections are systematized in anatomical or procedural order, which more accurately describes the service provided to the patient. The codes are divided into three categories, the first of which describes the...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) covers almost a thousand pages and represents a radical attempt to review the medical insurance and health care system in the United States. From the early stages, even before its adoption and implementation, the law had generated a lot of discussion and concern on the...
The case of Brittany Maynard is one of the most prominent public health activism examples that are related to assisted death. This female had an aggressive form of brain cancer, and doctors anticipated that she would live for about six months. To preserve her control over her body and life,...
Introduction Any injury to the lower limbs can substantially impair the patient, limiting their ability to walk without assistance and lead an active life. Knee injuries are particularly widespread among athletes engaged in high contact sports such as football, soccer, lacrosse, or rugby. One of the most common traumas in...
Community Description Demographic Data Miami Florida community as the target group; Population of 470,914 people; Community living in an urban setting; Multi-ethnic community, great diversity; A tourist destination, the population includes visitors. Note: The community of Miami, Florida, is a multi-ethnic group that includes Whites, Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians, and Indians....
The paradigm of nursing responsibilities has already gone far beyond providing medical assistance to the patients and dealing with documentation related to the treatment. Nowadays, the notion of nursing encompasses direct care provision, allocation of the treatment resources, communication with patients, and collaboration with public health resources in terms of...
Patient safety is among the primary concerns in healthcare settings, and one of the safety issues is patient falls. A fall is defined as “an unplanned descent to the floor (or extension of the floor [e.g., trash can or other equipment]) with or without injury to the patient and with...
Chest pain can be caused by a variety of physical conditions, including heart disease or nervous disorders. A 52-year-old male patient has several physiological abnormalities that are triggered by hyperlipidemia and first-degree obesity. In addition to necessary laboratory tests, the man needs additional blood and urine tests, such as creatinine...
Introduction Quality health care is the primary goal of any health institution, and it highlights patient safety as the chief principle. Quality patient care implies avoiding errors, learning from the mistakes made, and applying safety practices to deliver proper care. It is necessary to state that several factors condition the...
One of the severe mental disorders included in the DSM is schizophrenia. This disorder requires a serious treatment as the illness influences a person’s perception of reality, affecting one’s feelings, emotions, and thoughts and disabling one’s functioning. People with this disorder may have unusual behavior, hallucinations, and delusions. This paper...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long-term condition that is characterized by the impairment of the kidney function and may lead to a complete kidney failure in case it is not managed. Patients with end-stage renal disease, i.e., those whose kidneys are no more able to perform their function, have...
Doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals are using modern technologies, which significantly assist them in their work. Electronic prescribing and telemedicine is coming in place of papers and hand-written notes for patients. It is a computer-based generation, processing, and filling of a medical prescription used by both hospitals and...
Introduction Mr. J is a 42-year-old construction worker who has been diagnosed with malignant melanoma skin cancer. The first symptoms of the condition noticed by the patient included the changes in the size, color, and surface of the mole on the man’s face. In addition, the man reported having the...
Analyzing ethical issues that healthcare professionals face requires adhering to relevant approaches and models to find adequate solutions. To assess a specific problem objectively, healthcare leaders should apply appropriate assessment models and communication principles to build productive relationships with all stakeholders. As an example of such an activity, a specific...
Introduction Florida is the state with the restricted practice of NP. Due to House Bill 607, starting from July 1, 2020, the restrictions will lessen for several categories of specialists. Initially, the full powers and the list of specialists to be allowed to have independent practice in HB 607 were...
Introduction As an integral part of the overall well-being, mental health plays an essential role in the lives of all individuals regardless of their age, gender, or social status. Taking into account that some mental health issues can result in decreased enjoyment of life and low self-esteem, healthcare providers recommend...
Target Population Heart disease and stroke (HDS) can affect people of all ages, but the risk of developing HDS is increasing with age. Although older adults are the most vulnerable group, it has been acknowledged that over a third of the adult population under 65 years old have HDS (CDC,...
Introduction In ancient times, people recognized the considerable influence of internal and external factors, such as wars, diseases, and epidemics, united in small communities, understanding that this form of coexistence would help them survive and progress. With the gradual development of communities and the subsequent appearance of states and empires,...
Introduction Small cell carcinoma of the sigmoid colon was considered to be very uncommon as more than 500 cases have been documented so far with 40 % confined to the rectum in origin (Scherwitz, Lindenfelser & Krüger, 2009).There is a controversy regarding the etiopathology of this disorder with some feeble...
Impact of Pharmaceutical Industries on Environment, Health, and Safety Summary: Various classes of pharmaceutical compounds have been detected in water samples and proved to be highly toxic for animals and humans. Thus, to save the environment, it is necessary to regularly monitor pharmaceutical compounds’ concentration in pharmaceutical effluents that enter...
Maternal mortality had been an essential issue for various independent researchers and organizations. The 2019 report by WHO has addressed the global maternal mortality problem. The organization argues that most women that die during childbirth live in developing counties. Moreover, they die from preventable causes; therefore, the world needs to...
The diagnosis selected for this assignment is histamine intolerance, also referred to as histaminosis. Histaminosis occurs when histamine, an organic compound that is involved in immune responses taking place in particular tissues or organs, starts to accumulate in the body. The mechanisms leading to the development of histaminosis differ from...
Introduction Breast cancer is a multifactorial, complex illness that demands proper clinical understanding and a multidisciplinary way to determine diagnosis and treatment. Over 250,000 females in the US are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer every year (Watkins, 2019). The overall mortality rate for such patients has decreased; the disease remains...
Background of the Problem Hypertension is a chronic disease prevalent among older adults, which requires blood pressure to be controlled to reduce the risks of complications, such as cardiovascular illnesses. According to CDC, the incidence of hypertension increases with age; in 2015-2016, about 33% of people aged 40-59 and 63%...
Within recent decades the chances of a child being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder have increased dramatically. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the term used for a collection of compound disorders of brain development. These disorders can run a range of difficulties in social contacts, as well as in various...
Introduction Big cities are tourist attractions from all over the world. One of them is the City of Miami (ZIP code 33010-33299), which is a cultural, financial, and economic center of South Florida in the United States, located on the East Coast of the Atlantic Ocean with a population of...
Introduction The ethical considerations related to death have been at the center of the discussion of philosophers, policy-makers, health care providers, and other representatives of the involved spheres for many years. On the one hand, death is perceived as a phenomenon that does not depend on a person; on the...
Ethical Issues When making a decision about pursuing a medical career, an individual is to take full responsibility for one’s actions due to their major and direct impact on other people’s life expectancies and health. Thus, it goes without saying that medical employees are to preserve some moral obligations when...
Introduction Nurses play a vital role in the healthcare industry. They are essential in treating patients, comforting them, and ensuring their satisfaction with the delivered services. It comes as no surprise that nursing requirements extend beyond medical expertise. Qualitative patient care also demands effective communicative skills. This necessity is a...
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is a medical issue that causes concerns among healthcare workers: it lengthens patients’ stay in a hospital and can be followed by severe health deterioration. The article Hospital Acquired Pneumonia Prevention Initiative-2: Incidence of nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in the United States by Baker and Quinn (2018) focuses...
The role of nursing practice in medicine has been discussed and altered over the past few years. Once this role seemed to be established as being a communicator between a patient and a doctor, it has acquired a series of new responsibilities that require enhanced competence level. In order to...
Introduction Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative disease of the brain. It is categorized by the WHO into the broader Dementia family of brain syndromes, along with vascular dementia, front temporal dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies (Duthey 6). Like other forms of dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease is characterized by an impairment...
Overall, health indicators will deteriorate as a result of the pandemic since all medical efforts are now focused on preventing and treating COVID-19. The pandemic will be followed by an increase in mortality rates among the vulnerable population (Bedford et al., 2020). Although the coronavirus pandemic has touched everyone, for...
L. is a 10-years-old male student, who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is largely expressed in frequent tantrums and the inability to interact within groups, such as a family or peers. Among the interfering behavior of this patient, there is an uncontrollable tantrum that appears when L....
Transitional nursing remains a critical issue for the modern healthcare sector. It ensures that patients will benefit from a careful and effective transition from one level of health care to another and enjoy the improved outcomes. However, because of the complexity of some cases and peculiarities of the target audience...
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death in various populations around the world. TB is a highly infectious lung disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. It is spread through the air when an infected person sneezes or coughs releasing the bacteria into the air where it is...
Introduction Health disparity is a priority challenge for the 21st-century world. It implies uneven access to healthcare services among different populations. One can observe this phenomenon from a cross-national perspective, depending on the level of economic development, as well as within a particular state among specific population groups. In other...
Any case of serious infection can put the health and lives of people under threat. While it is possible to institute a quarantine among civilians, many significant organizations and departments still need to continue working. They face a challenging task: they have to pay special attention to health measures while...
Type 1 and 2 diabetes originate when an individual’s blood sugar is too high for a body to handle. A hormone called insulin helps the glucose in the blood to get into cells to be used for energy purposes. In type 2 diabetes, a body cannot produce a sufficient amount...
Nowadays, the US healthcare system heavily relies on public insurance programs serving people without insurance only in case of emergency. While being highly effective in the treatment of many diseases, it remains expensive and unaffordable for many individuals. For a better understanding of the specific characteristics of the national healthcare...
Introduction Nowadays, nurses have to work hard and learn from different sources in order to meet all professional expectations and personal demands. Wills and McEwen (2014) underline that experienced nurses should know how to focus on the practical application of their evidence-based knowledge and demonstrate high skills in generalizing and...
Abstract Diabetic retinopathy is one of the common diabetes-related complications that affect the eyes. The blood vessels in the retina become damaged (swelling or leaking) because of high blood sugar levels. Because of the impossibility to predict the quality of damage and the development of blood vessel growth, diabetic retinopathy...
Chronic pain presents a great issue in public healthcare. Doctors typically use opioids in pain treatment; however, the extended use of opioids causes addiction in most cases. Fortunately, to avoid it, there are substitutes for traditional drug treatment, which can be implemented by doctors and patients themselves. Such methods are...
Introduction The problem of managing and preventing falls from happening in aging patients remains one of the core focuses of contemporary nursing. Therefore, studying the approaches toward managing falls is needed to examine the existing options and defining the most relevant and effective method of fall prevention. Methodologies and Designs...
At present, a patient-centered approach in medical care has proven its effectiveness. However, it became evident that, for increasing positive patient outcomes, collaboration is required not only between patients and single health care professional but within the health care team that jointly provides the treatment. Medical practice has demonstrated that...
Introduction Myasthenia Gravis (MG), a neuromuscular autoimmune disease that causes varying degrees of muscle weakness. The disease usually affects the patient’s face and eye muscles, causing problems with talking, breathing, and vision. Research has been made to develop multiple treatments and diagnosis methods, with various levels of success. This paper...
When elderly parents need support to remain safe and healthy, one can be uncertain how to manage the situation. The identification of their needs, responsibility for choices, and decision-making can feel daunting. This is because one is not sure exactly what needs to be done. Nevertheless, it is of utmost...
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a non-cancerous proliferative disease characterized by enlargement of the prostate gland primarily affecting males over the age of 50. It causes lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) such as hesitancy, reduced stream, incomplete voiding, retention, overflow incontinence, and increased urgency and frequency of urination, especially at...
Evidence-based practice is essential in the medical sphere, in nursing practice particularly. Depending on the status and rank of the medical worker, the implication of EBP into the working process may slightly differ. Though nurse practitioners and nurse managers should be equally aware of the EBP notions, their approaches to...
