Healthcare

Principles for Appropriate Use of Healthcare Technology Healthcare in the 21st century is embracing technology in various ways to reduce costs, improve patient outcomes, streamline operations and even as a method for medical professionals like doctors to advertise their practices. It is not uncommon nowadays for people to find full procedures especially in the areas […]

Preterm Births in Latin Americans Prematurity or preterm birth occurs when a child is born before the lapse of the 37th month of pregnancy. It is the most common problem in obstetric medicine in the United States. Preterm birth occurs when a baby is born before the end of the full pregnancy term.  Prematurity is associated

Patient Safety: Walkarounds Workarounds occur when healthcare providers use alternative approaches to bypass standard operating healthcare procedures in a bid to accomplish a goal (Seaman & Erlen, 2015). For example, instead of collecting and entering patient data into the Computerized Patient Record System themselves, doctors have been known to use pen and paper to make

Workarounds Workarounds are alternative methods through which providers bypass standard healthcare procedures and rules in order to achieve a goal(Seaman &Erlen, 2015). An example of a workaround is when doctors use pen and paper to write their orders and have the nurses enter them into the Computerized Patient Record System and then sign the orders

Hispanic Americans’ Health Hispanic Americans constitute the largest minority group in the United States. This population is disproportionately affected by poor daily life conditions that are shaped by cultural values, education, income, social support systems and occupation, among others. The leading causes of death among this population include cancer, cardiovascular diseases and accidents (unintentional injuries)

How Anticholinergics Relate To COPD Anticholinergics are acetylcholine activity impeding medications. Acetylcholine is a chemical courier that transmits messages that affect the function of the body between certain cells. These drugs constrain cholinergic-arbitrated bronchomotor tendency, resulting in bronchodilation by rivaling acetylcholine for postganglionic muscarinic sensory organs. Anticholinergics also prevents the binding of acetylcholine to its

Healthcare Technology: Mass Inoculation In my position as a public health nurse, the public health information I would deem important in justifying the need for a mass inoculation initiative includes; the mortality rate of the new influenza strain, the number of individuals being infected by the virus daily, the modes of transmission, the safety and

Interdisciplinary Care As healthcare technology advances over time, different methods to treat what were once considered fatal medical problems also increase. Since its introduction in the 70s, (ECMO), Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation has recently become a fairly common therapy alternative for newborns experiencing respiratory failures (Rehder et al., 2014). For example, the procedure can be used

Knowledge in Clinical Practice Data is defined as raw facts, context-free values or statistics(Dammann, 2019). Data includes the numbers obtained from sources such as measurements, images, simulations, sound recordings, survey results etc. Data in itself has no significance or meaning outside its existence which can be in useable or non-usable form. However, this data can

Support Group Experience The IAFF Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health Treatment and Recovery hosts a support group within their premises. This is a facility that focuses on addiction treatment for IAFF members with PTSD. In addition, there is also a focus on addiction and other PTSD related behavioral challenges. People suffering from PTSD are