I am assigned to 5T which is the oncology department, due to the nature of the unit itis easy to understand that most of the patients there are very sick and definitely report being in a lot of pain; therefore, one of the most routinely task for any nurse assigned to this unit is the administration of medication and especially pain medication. After being continuously working at the same unit for almost two weeks, I can definitely state that the unit focus on patient centered care which involves trying to keep patients comfortable and help them to reach a level to be discharge. The whole personnel ( nurses, PCA, pharmacist, doctors, physical therapy, etc) since to be very caring toward their patients and family members, a constant communication within the different departments is necessary to keep everyone update on patient …show more content…
Even when many patients have insurance, the financial burden is imaginable. I was spoken with the wound nurse today in reference to how much it can cost to treat an ulcer and how insurance are trying to fight the cost of those treatments, I was informed by the same nurse that before moving to that part of the healthcare, she used to try to get as much as test needed for her patients without realizing the cost that of it, that at the end the hospital is also trying to cut cost to be able to continue in business. In reference to challengers, I believe that there is so much that I need to learn and that it will always be due to the nature of healthcare. It will always be new treatments and approaches to patient’s diagnosis as well as new technology plus patients understanding and views to different situations as well as cultural awareness and religion practices. However, I think that an important key to challenging situation is an open mind and honesty to accept others opinions and points of
Increasing costs all around the globe due to economic downfalls is making this issue even more challenging. It is vital that we have some focus on revenue, but we can’t lose focus on the costs of running a business. In health care this can be very challenging because of all the changes involved with the government, in laws regarding health care reform. “Understanding the total costs of services will allow the redeployment of resources which provide a higher payback, or will facilitate the elimination of those resources altogether.” (Hughes, 2011).
Steven Brill’s Bitter Pill: “Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” by Angelina Salikhbaeva Summary: Steven Brill in the article “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us” clarifies his opinion about the costs of healthcare services in the United States. The author writes about different stories of how families become bankrupt or unable to pay the total cost of the treatment to the US hospitals and related medical facilities. According to Steven Brill’s article, the US hospitals prescribe too much health care to patients.
The United States no longer posses the ability to effectively drive down premium costs through the means of insuring healthy people. For example there is a town with ten houses, and, on average, one house a year burns down. If no one in the town pays for insurance they have a 10% chance of their house burning down each year. If everyone in the town pays insurance they spread the risk because no matter whose house burns down no one will have to pay anything as the insurance company will cover the cost of the house that burns down each year and make a slight profit. This is the same logic applied to the whole medical insurance market.
The cost of healthcare deters individuals from receiving treatment like a diagnosis. The awareness that society now has, that doctors don’t have all the answers, makes current and future patients susceptible to never the field of healthcare as a resource to handle any
I am a registered nurse and currently hold an associates degree. I am actively enrolled in TESU working towards my Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) which is the degree most employers seek when hiring nurses. Once I have earned my BSN, which will be in the summer of 2016, my plan is to then take certain certification courses. I am very passionate about learning wound, ostomy and incontinence care (WOC) and will take the classes and state exams I need to earn my certification shortly after graduating TESU. Wound, ostomy and incontinence care needs are growing, especially in the home care setting, and this will allow me to apply for positions that are more tailored to what I wish to specialize in.
Each morning patients came in for assessment and the treatment team developed or altered existing treatment protocols. I longed to be part of this team, working to stabilize each patient so they could return home to pursue their goals. The nurses stood out to me as the team members at ground zero in the unit, working directly with patients, and advocating for them in meetings. As a Nurse Practitioner, I will provide this same standard of holistic care to my patients, taking into consideration their biological, social, psychological and cultural needs while developing and implementing treatment decisions.
Imagine the frustration, and more significantly, the fear, the average patient experiences that does not have your resources. I am on a quest to change this and I would like your assistance. I have been a senior executive in the US healthcare industry for over 30 years and I can tell you that it is much worse than you experienced. Healthcare costs
Analysis of the Wound-Dresser: A Story of Compassion In Walt Whitman’s poem, "The Wound-Dresser," Whitman uses vivid descriptions and the utilization of a first-person point-of-view to give his readers a picture of the emotional and physical toll of war on the soldiers and those who care for them. While many war stories talk of triumphant heroes and the heroic deeds they perform, Whitman’s description of a simple wound dresser and the death they see gives the audience a grimmer, yet realistic idea of the horrors of battle. Like many of Whitman’s poems, "The Wound-Dresser" relies on his unique and unorthodox style of free verse that also incorporates repetition and anaphora to fully flesh out a story riddled with emotion, sorrow, and hope.
With 6 years of clinical nursing experience, working alongside vulnerable service users in both the New Zealand healthcare system and internationally, I am looking to transition from a clinical career into a role that utilises my nursing experience but provides me with new challenges and learning opportunities, and this position sounds like exactly that. My time spent working in the clinical setting has allowed me to develop sounds skills in assessment, planning and implementation of care, experience in providing initial and ongoing education to peers and service users and the establishment and maintenance of relationships with a variety of vulnerable service users and other health care professionals. While my formal sales experience is limited,
Reflecting on the past seven weeks I have acquired countless knowledge, which I will use to further strengthen my profession as an Advanced Practice Nurse. The course allowed me to think beyond my current practice knowledge and acquired innovative ways to evaluate the situation at hand. The learning objective in program outcome four helps set standards that I will use to guide my clinical practice to meet various healthcare needs. Using the case studies has helped to further enhance my knowledge on disease physiological state, using differential diagnosis, disease manifestations, and clinical presentation. It has also taught me the skills on how to differentiate between similar diagnoses to properly identify the problem and treat the patients.
Being an experienced nurse at the bedside in critical care unit it is my responsibility to ensure that high acuity and critically ill veteran’s and their families receive optimal care. My experience helps me to practice in settings where patients require complex assessment, high intensity therapies and interventions and continuous nursing vigilance. Critical illness can have huge impact on patient’s life both physically and emotionally. Fear, isolation and loss of control.
Today our clinical group participated in the hospital’s wound prevalence day where we helped the wound nurse do head to toe skin assessment to the patients who are not/at risk for developing pressure ulcer and do HillRom/CALNOC study checking the quality of the bed mattresses. In the early morning, we spent our day first thing by reviewing as many charts as possible and filling out the forms needed for the study. Nurse Brittany, the wound nurse, assigned the participants into teams which included one nurse with at least two students to various units. My two other classmates and I were assigned with Samantha, RN to do the prevalence study at Med-Surge and ICU unit. Some of the tasks we did as a group comprised of: assessing the patient; checking the mattress’s condition; counting how many layers of linen the patient uses; checking heels if they are offloaded; noting if patient has secure foley catheter; marking the mattress “G17” for good and “B17” for bad; educating the patient and family on prevention
Miss Alice Park, in the article in the Times Magazine, describes the inequality between the medical field, insurance companies, and their patients. More and more people cannot afford medical attention, either due to bills piling up, or insurance declination. Cancer is a major issue globally, yet people are not getting treated due to insurance declination. The issue is, the medical field is always advancing their practices, leaving insurance companies to play catch up. Doctors have the medicine to help cancer patients, but are unable to distribute them, for the patients not being able to afford them.
Going into my first my first clinical rotation I was not sure what exactly to expect. Within in our first 2 semester we covered orthopedics and in our third semester we covered as much acute care as possible. The UIW DPT program did an adequate job informing us with as much knowledge relevant to acute care in order prepare those students being assigned to hospital settings. I found myself only having to look few things up ranging from lab values to pharmacology.
Health care cost has seen to increase gradually as years go by. This has been influenced by major factors such as political influence, emerging chronic diseases, new procedures that are coming up including the technologies being invented for treating illnesses, pricing of medicines and treatment is not regulated and when treating ailment their may arise repetition of tests or a patient gets over treated for a particular ailment. The cost of healthcare has increased due to chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes etc. The lifestyle people are living in this generation has led to the development of diseases that are expensive to treat or has led to there being over treatment in such for a cure of a particular ailment.