Medicine

Introduction Disasters occur in different forms, from natural to man-made ones, and can they often happen without warning. When they occur, they have a direct and indirect impact on individuals affected, depending on their magnitude and intensity. As often observed, disasters disrupt daily life, lead to loss of life, and...

Introduction Jane is a client exhibiting medication management challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is old and lives with a mentally-challenged grandson in Honolulu. She suffers from a terminal heart disorder that depends on prescriptive drugs. Her life and ability to manage medication before COVID-19 were stable due to...

Introduction For a long time, investigative studies have shown that mental stress affects the immune system’ reactions, including erythrogenic activities, the ability to recuperate from injuries, and responses to contagious disease-causing micro-organisms. Nonetheless, the ability to handle stressful situations differs from one individual to another. The variations occur due to...

Introduction One rarely meets a person who is quite satisfied with their appearance. There is always something in the human body that can be improved. Although, in some cases, dislike for your own body or some part of it reaches the scale of a mental disorder, this problem is called...

I selected this news story about tobacco effects because smoking is common among my group of friends, and I am often subjected to the effects of second-hand smoke. Therefore, I, like many other people at workplaces or schools, am an indirect participant in the smoking process who will have to...

The publication under consideration narrates about the conditions, which determined the same patterns of COVID-19 spread in California and Florida, and claims the impossibility of making predictions due to the complexity of the examined issue. According to a February 2021 Healthline article by Christopher Curley called “Why do California and...

Introduction Management and leadership in the healthcare system is a unique set of measures, methods, practices, tactics, and strategies in the medical environment and sphere. Such actions, as a rule, are aimed at forming new aspects in healthcare, maintaining existing concepts, as well as their comprehensive improvement, drastic change, and...

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had devastating effects on people worldwide. The development of a vaccine against COVID-19 provides hope that the pandemic can finally be contained. However, there are controversies surrounding how the vaccine should be administered. Some individuals argue that everyone should be allowed to decide whether or...

Introduction Despite the significant wins achieved for civil rights, race still plays a major role in determining whether or not an individual receives adequate high-quality care. It is crucial to find a permanent solution for the ethnic disparity immediately because every 1 in three Americans self-identify as either American Indian/Alaska...

In clinical practice there is often a need for a universal system that could analyze heterogeneous data, both in a structured form and in an unstructured one. In addition, it should allow to automate a wide range of activities within the framework of the treatment process. This will improve the...

The demand for and importance of health services has increased due to the aging of the population, and health organizations have a special responsibility to society. In healthcare, managing different risks – safety, malpractice, or finance – is integral to the work processes. Risks include any phenomena that can lead...

Increasing consumption of junk food full of sugars negatively influences public health worldwide. Freedhoff’s concerns on this matter are addressed in his article, where he supports the severity of the issue with scientific evidence and his own medical experience. However, it seems fair to claim that Freedhoff’s article is challenging...

Project Format Proposal Infographics were used as the main format for the project on Marfan syndrome because it is a useful tool for presenting information clearly and concisely. The slides use different infographic ideas and patterns to make the information easier to perceive and analyze. Visualizing the statistics and other...

Introduction Among all American healthcare providers, the Asian Health Services (AHS) is outstanding. Namely, the organization was founded to help the US’s Chinese, Vietnamese, and Taiwanese minorities when such care was unaffordable. Although now there is less discrimination towards this group, ASH continues providing its services. The company seems to...

Precisely evaluating the issue and possible resolution strategies is a key practice for the Organization Development (OD) process. However, to properly encompass the complication and ensure efficient resolution, the OD consultant must consider the overall process of OD change and carefully follow the relevant methods. Selection of particular research methods,...

Introduction Cardiogenic shock is a condition caused by decreased cardiac output due to impaired contractility of the heart. Acute myocardial infarction is the main cause of cardiogenic shock which leads to multiple organ failure (Van Diepen et al., 2017). The patient developed this condition after post coronary angioplasty due to...

Assessment Tools and Diagnostic Tests Evaluation Gathering reliable data is critical to developing the most effective healthcare interventions. Unfortunately, the delicate nature of health status components and varying factors in the healthcare environment impact the validity and reliability of assessment and diagnostic tools (Noble & Smith, 2015). For example, childhood...

The coronavirus pandemic has been threatening the entire world since the end of 2019. The danger of COVID-19 is also manifested in the fact that new strains constantly appear, and they can have slightly different symptoms, cause other infections, and spread faster. Although some countries have succeeded in creating and...

Ethics is one of the important factors that help in determining disease prevention control measures and policies regarding the different methods used during control. In our current society, notifiable diseases have primarily been recorded and identified by various health authorities due to the exposed potential dangers. Contact tracing is one...

The development of the COVID-19 pandemic is a crucial issue for numerous medical workers, who continue attending to the infected individuals. Multiple reports have raised significant concerns regarding the physical and psychological well-being of the nursing personnel, impacted by the rising demands for patient care (Arnetz et al., 2020; Leng...

Diagnosis-related grouping (DRG) refers to a patient classification system intended to standardize future payments to healthcare facilities and encourage initiatives on cost containment. Overall, DRG payments are expected to cover all charges related to inpatient stays beginning from the admission point to the event of a discharge. The history of...

Based on the literature review in the beginning of the article, identify reasons why there has been a rise in the anti-vaccination movement The rise in the anti-vaccination movement is primarily attributed to misinformation among the general public as well as the fear of the unknown. The public has been...

Patient confidentiality is one of the most paramount ethical values a health professional should uphold during their care. A patient’s confidentiality, security, or privacy is the provision that the information disclosed by a patient to a doctor or a nurse remains secrete, and it is unlawful to disclose it to...

Patient privacy is a very critical concept in healthcare due to its effect on the entire service delivery. Therefore, it is the responsibility of healthcare professionals to ensure that essential patient information remains confidential unless the patient permits exposure. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a law...

Despite the fact that in the context of present-day developments, medicine is constantly progressing and supplies the most effective treatment options, there is still a likelihood of patient safety risks and health providers’ mistakes. In some cases, such errors may cost patients’ lives. Kohn et al. (2000) report: “experts estimate...

Introduction Medication errors can occur quite often in the neonatal care units, as in any other department. However, given the specifics of these departments and the vulnerability of young patients, such errors have much greater potential harm. Therefore, the topic of medical errors in the NICU deserves special attention and...

To begin with, the specific problem concerns the nursing shortage in the US. Some of the critical terms should be defined, such as “Shortage” and “Registered Nurses (RNs).” Shortage in economics is close to the term “deficit”, but can be implied to illustrate the deficit of the workforce so that...

Why was this study undertaken? The study “A systematic review of combinatorial treatment with warming and invigorating drugs and levothyroxine for hypothyroidism caused by Hashimoto disease” by Cheng et al. was undertaken to evaluate combinatorial treatment’s safety and clinical efficacy with invigorating drugs and warming and levothyroxine on hypothyroidism arising...

Introduction The radiology department subjects patients to an unsafe environment due to the potential risk of excessive radiation exposure, which is why the procedures and hospital policies have to be tailored to address this potential risk. There was an incident at the Medical City Plato hospital involving a radiology technician...

Over recent years, there has been an outcry over the rise of health care charges among many individuals globally. Brouwer et al. (2018) have argued that expensive technological advancements, strain from raised insurance costs, and high taxes have increased health care charges. Dieleman et al. (2017) have shown that high...

Introduction Within the field of healthcare economics, experts use various measures and tools to make informed decisions and meet the demands of the targeted patients. This would refer to the loss recorded when other alternatives are avoided. This outcome will emerge after one choice is made (Cookson et al., 2017)....

Depression in adolescents, especially in mid to late adolescence, is a common psychological health problem that can lead to adverse health outcomes if unrecognized or not treated. Untreated depressed adolescents experience mild to severe irritability and substance abuse (Beirão et al., 2020). The most significant concern is the impact of...

The culture-based perception of the disease affects the patient’s lifestyle, the relationship between the patient and the medical personnel, and the outcome of treatment. Positive changes in the demographic situation, as well as the multinational composition of the population, give rise to particular concerns about cultural issues in medicine. The...

Medicine in America is one of the critical factors in the social well-being of the population. The health care system in the United States of America has been a leader in the ranking for many years in terms of the scale of financial resources concentrated in it. Every year, the...

Misra, S., & Mohanty, D. (2019). Psychobiotics: a new approach for treating mental illness? Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, 59(8), 1230-1236. The modern approaches to treating mental illness may require health workers to evaluate mood and cognition behavior amongst the victims. Gut microbiomes can be used to examine...

As part of global tendencies, millions of refugees, which include underage children and adolescents, are undertaking high-risk journeys in order to flee from poverty, violence, war, persecution, and other adverse circumstances. Due to the experiences in their home countries, the grueling journey, being locked in facilities once reaching the U.S.,...

In the light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the US is lagging behind in vaccination rates. According to WHO, only 50% of the American population has received both doses of the vaccine (Ayers et al. 2). In order to improve the situation and encourage vaccinations, colleges and campuses are discussing...

Introduction I conducted an interview with my grandmother, aged 67 years, at my house. She will be called “Granny” here for privacy purposes. At the time of the interview, she was in a good physical and mental condition. Granny gave her consent for sharing personal information about her health and...

In human research, ethics and the focus on non-maleficence must always remain a priority. Unfortunately, ensuring that the rights of patients are appreciated and advocated for in the nursing context is not always possible. Over the past century, a range of atrocities have been committed in the name of medical...

When designing and creating test items, it is essential to pay attention to several key factors. Testing is necessary to track the quality of work and the delivery of health services. First, filling out test forms should reflect real-life situations. The main goal of the learning process is to acquire...

The most recent novel coronavirus pandemic has brought a glaring discrepancy of views on the vaccination process. The danger and necessity of vaccination against this disease led to one of the most heated debates in recent times. There are different perceptions of this issue which are further complicated by both...

Brief History of the Patient and the Diagnosis Richard Kuklinski, nicknamed “The Iceman,” was an American serial killer who was prosecuted of four capital murder in 1988 and a fifth in 2003, although he subsequently admitted to killing at least a hundred more and working as a contract killer for...

Women experience varying pregnancy-related symptoms because bodies are different. However, it is essential to understand their causes during gestation. Nausea and vomiting are associated with the rapid changes of the hormones’ levels such as the rise of estrogen (Sapra et al., 2017). As a result, these variations lead to diverse...

Significance of the disease Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, which affects more than 10 million human lives every year [1]. 1.3 million people are projected to die from tuberculosis each year [1]. The incidence of the disease is up to 400 per 100 000...

Electrolyte Normal Range Hyperkalemia Sign and Symptoms Treatment of Hyperkalemia Hypokalemia Signs and Symptoms Treatment of Hypokalemia Potassium Normal levels in the body 3.5-5.5 mEq/L Causes of potassium imbalances in the body include diarrhea, diabetes ketoacidosis, vomiting, folic deficiencies, excessive sweating, overdose laxatives and diuretics, excessive intake or decreased intake...

The Malcolm Baldrige Award is a national accolade given to organizations in the United States to recognize their outstanding excellence in their field of specialization. The sectors considered for this award include service, manufacturing, nonprofit, business, transportation, education, and health care (Brown, 2017). The President of the United States gives...

Like any other occupation, the nursing profession has been subjected to stereotyping. Myths held for nurses include that nurses are women, handmaids for doctors and that nurses can only manage simple clinical procedures. However, despite the risk of contracting COVID-19, nurses maintain the front line fighting the virus and providing...

Dahdah, M. N., Barnes, S. A., Buros, A., Allmon, A., Dubiel, R., Dunklin, C., & Shafi, S. (2016). The impact of preexisting illness and substance use on functional and neuropsychological outcomes following traumatic brain injury. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 29(3), 271-276. Web. The number of pages is 7; keywords...

Introduction Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed illness in American women compared to other cancers. It is also the second most significant cause of females’ deaths. Akram et al. (2017) state that the average risk of having this illness once in a lifetime is 13%, which is equivalent to...

Yaman, H., Karaoglu, A., Cayci, T., Akgul, E. O., Kurt, Y. G., Tunc, T., & Vurucu, S. (2012). Epileptic seizures associated with lactose intolerance in a child: A causal relationship? Journal of Pediatric Neurology, 10(2), 151-154. The report’s length is 4 pages; keywords are lactose intolerance, immune system, and nervous...

Introduction Medical anthropology is the subfield of human study that aims at determining the relationship between health, diseases, and culture. It uses comparative and ethnographic studies to research and collects data to describe how social and cultural factors influence the manner in which health and diseases are conceived in various...

Significance to Nursing Practice and Nursing Research Harm reduction incentives are gaining momentum, and more people are now involved in the discourse. The proposed quantitative and qualitative studies contribute considerably to nursing practice as they provide insights into the nature of the harm reduction approach and the exact method to...

Summary Nurse turnover has been a growing human resource issue with a significant impact on the healthcare sector. The problem perpetuates the shortage of nurses in both private and public healthcare facilities. According to Dewanto and Wardhani (2018), the rate of nurse turnover worldwide ranges from 15 % to 44...

Introduction: What is ADHD? Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – one of the commonplace developmental disorders; Can affect both adults and children throughout life; Can often be less obvious or detectable than other disorders. ADHD in Children ADHD is primarily found and diagnosed during childhood; Symptoms lessen with age in some cases;...

The COVID-19 symptoms have been particularly associated with thrombosis in patients. Indeed, according to Talasaz et al. (2021), “microvascular and macrovascular thrombotic complications including arterial and especially venous thromboembolism (VTE) appear to be common clinical manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019” (p. 4). The prevalence of thrombosis as a characteristic of...

Introduction Cultural competence is characterized as the capacity of professionals and service users to efficiently provide medical services that satisfy clients’ personal, social, and linguistic concerns. Thus, it is an essential value in nursing practice for optimal quality care (Henderson et al., 2018). The paper described culture-focused assessment and planning...

Introduction The healthcare system monitoring and evaluation is a multifaceted phenomenon that significantly impacts the quality of services rendered to the global human population. The World Health Organization (2010) researched the key variables that foster medical care and established six main building blocks. The pillars encompass governances, financing, access to...

Body portrayal problems keep on being puzzling and include the anatomical substrate that underlies the psychological portrayal of the body. These problems sit on the limits of neurological and mental disorder. Apotemnophilia or body integrity identity disorder (BIID) is defined by the wild desire to sever at least one functional...

Community Health Program Health programs are designed to meet the medical demands of community members, minimize risks, and address potential hazards and risks. The involvement of skilled promoters and health professionals can ensure that timely results are recorded. The selected community for this discussion and analysis is Gonzales, Louisiana. With...

Background Young people who inject drugs (PWID) often share the needles, thus exposing themselves to blood borne viruses including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), bacteremia/sepsis, Hepatitis B (HBV), and Hepatitis C (HCV) (Fernandes et al., 2017). The needle exchange program has been proposed by different authors for risk reduction among this...

Introduction Infections acquired in the healthcare facility is the main cause of deaths worldwide. Approximately, 2 million new preventable contaminations resulting to about 90,000 deaths occur annually (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020). This statistics implies that healthcare staff should be more vigilant in preventing disease spread at...

Patient centered care is rapidly becoming a subject of focus in healthcare as it allows partnership between individuals and providers to deliver individualized, respectful, and responsive cares. An individual understands from the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) module on patient-centered care that when the individual and family are...

Introduction The matter of end-of-life decisions is a highly controversial topic as it is always challenging to determine whether those decisions are justifiable in particular cases. People with severe illnesses often have two paths: to keep fighting for life or decide to end it. In many cases, such patients are...

Medication Errors Medication errors are a significant problem facing healthcare organizations today. These errors contribute to preventable injuries and deaths in the American population. It occurs following wrongful administration of a drug, wrongful patient identification, wrongful dosage, and wrongful route of administration of a drug. There are also documented low...

Background and Significance of the Problem Healthcare disparities exist at every healthcare system level, ranging from the patient and the provider to the healthcare system. Health disparities are the increased risk of individuals from certain minority groups suffering from adverse health conditions (Wheeler & Bryant, 2017). This is due to...

Introduction Mental health is now becoming a serious problem faced by many people. Most people have hidden mental health problems behind a curtain of discrimination and stigma (MentalHealth, 2017). Several myths have surrounded mental health issues, and it is time to bring them out into the open to clarify misconceptions...

A healthcare leader can implement many strategies to advocate for patients and improve health outcomes. For instance, they can focus on improving safeguarding to decrease potential risks, which involves ensuring proper medical error tracking and preventing staff misconduct (Abbasinia et al., 2019). Another strategy is to enhance apprising by making...

To say that people who suffer from mental disorders have multiple problems would mean to say nothing. The diseases of that kind can affect cognition, behavioral control, and the emotional sphere, sometimes completely eliminating an adequate social integration of a patient. However, this is not the main problem associated with...

Neurological disorders are therapeutically defined as conditions that disrupt the brain as well as the nervous system. Patients who suffer from neurological disorders need proper attention and require someone to be at their close look in any emergencies. These disorders could affect the spinal cord, brain, cranial nerves, and peripheral...

Introduction Inpatient falls, especially among elderly patients have continued to be a problem in the healthcare system’s functionalities and challenges in providing quality care to elderly patients. According to Narayanan et al. (2016) studies report that falls occur frequently between 1.3- 8.9 falls per thousand bed days among hospitalized patients...

Medicine is one of the most important branches of human activity, which requires enormous resources, including human ones, as various specialists. Therefore, the profession of a nurse is relevant, in demand, and respected. Coding and billing play an essential role in the relationship between medical professionals, patients, and insurance companies....

Timeline The flowchart (see Appendix A) is used to analyse all the events that took place in the Union Hospital Emergency Department that resulted in the patient in Case Study B to be harmed. Factors The root cause analysis (RCA) tool is used to establish factors that result in clinical...

History of Patients Joseph Lyle Menéndez and Erik Galen Menéndez, or the Menéndez brothers, are commonly known for their indictment in a high-profile conviction for their parents’ shotgun killings in 1989. The family resided in Beverly Hills, California, at the time of the crime. The siblings are inclined to spend...

Genetics is a part of the natural sciences that deals with the study and understanding of genes, genetic differentiation, and heredity in living organisms. It provides information on why people are different from others; it explains the transfer of genes from parents to children (Beery et al., 2018). Through the...

Background Clinical safety is pivotal when delivering care to patients in a health institution. Hospitals must strive to identify and eliminate risks that pose a threat to the patients with whom they interact in the healthcare system. Hospital falls are responsible for a high number of accidents within care facilities...

Chu, D., Duda, S., Solo, K., Yaacoub, S., & Schunemann, H. (2020). Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-Cov-2 and COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 72(4), 1500. Web. The article explores how the transmission of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 can...

There are numerous reasons why euthanasia should not be allowed in the United States. From an ethical standpoint, legalizing euthanasia is a statement that some lives are worthless. It communicates that the lives of people with impairment and those with chronic illnesses are disposable. Additionally, mercy killing of individuals with...

Obesity Is a Disease, Not a Choice Obesity is characterized by WHO as a non-communicable epidemic of the 21st century. More than a billion people on the planet are overweight, and 300 million of them are obese. About 39% of the world’s adult population is obese. In developed countries, more...

Children vaccination is a controversial topic because some people believe that parents should be allowed to exercise autonomy over the health of their young ones. While it is true that caregivers ultimately make decisions on their children’s health, it is essential to consider the repercussions of failing to vaccinate them....

Technology has been vital in the health sector in assisting medical practitioners in attaining efficient patient care. Technological advancements have positively impacted the health care sector in various ways, including improved patient care, digitalization of health records, improved public health care, and ease of workflow. With such technologies, doctors can...

Introduction Background Since December 2019, COVID-19 has spread worldwide in a span of a few months. The World Health Organization (WHO) later in March 2020 declared the disease which is caused by the virus as a global pandemic. From the initial investigations conducted, evidence showed that the older populations and...

External and internal stakeholders in healthcare settings are paramount in change proposals since they provide funds, guidance and ensure that healthcare facilities improve and maintain quality services. Stakeholder support is vital during change proposals and implementations since the entities decide whether to support or decline specific changes in healthcare organizations...

Connection Review Findings and Project Topic and Intervention A review of the Catheter-Associated Urinary tract infection (CAUTI) problem and the cultural assessment indicated that CAUTI is serious public health concern that is highly prevalent among patients during they hospital stay. The problem contributes significantly to mortality and morbidity especially in...

Introduction By nature, evidence-based practice (EBP) projects require healthcare support and a conducive environment to drive change. Several internal and external forces influence the implementation of EBP at all healthcare levels. These factors include organizational culture, human resources, and adequate funding. Planning for any EBP change requires the best data...

An organization’s success majorly depends on its strategic management strategies. “Silo mentality” is a mindset that happens in the organization, which is selfish and restricts sharing resources and information with departments and other individuals within the healthcare organization (Alves & Meneses, 2018). It happens when individuals often conclude that it...

Goal The main goal of this research proposal is to examine the problems and challenges of the Nigerian healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Third World countries, like Nigeria, healthcare systems are usually weak and underdeveloped. Healthcare workers and patients face such challenges as unconcerned and corrupt leadership, poor...

Patient safety refers to how healthcare providers work in unison to prevent the patient from harm during hospitalization. The concept exists to reduce the health risks that may be predisposed towards the patient (Philippe et al., 2017). Some of the patient safety concerns that might be depicted in the healthcare...

The interest in organ sales has expanded dramatically because of different variables. There are currently more than 100,000 people on the waiting list for organ transplantation in the United States (Human Resources & Services Administration, 2021). More than 15 people die daily because they did not receive the transplant in...

Chalazion is a chronic proliferative inflammation of the eyelid margin around the meibomian gland and eyelid cartilage. The disease appears when the outlet channel of the gland is blocked and the secretory fluid accumulates in it. There are many glands in the thickness of the eyelid, the secret of which...

Introduction The United States needs to implement comprehensive and free universal healthcare (UHC) for all Americans through a pluralistic system involving private organizations and the government or a publicly funded health insurance scheme. America’s healthcare structure is a complex combination of federal programs, private insurance firms, and political interference, which...

Introduction The debate about the legitimacy and ethics of abortion is still in progress, separating society into proponents and opponents of this medical procedure. Some countries banned abortion or allowed it with strict limitations, while others made this procedure completely legal. For example, some American states do not include abortion...

The provision of dental health in the U.S has been faced by various challenges affecting dental patients experiencing physical pain and financial constraints. The philosophy of capitalism has spread its roots within the medical care system. This has put the relative responders to dental care in a dilemma that places...

Introduction Primary healthcare is meeting the needs of the population (each person, family and community) by providing medical services at the first contact with the health system, comprehensive services close to the place of residence and work. Primary health care is currently defined as the zone of the first contact...

Introduction The influence of income for families is a predominant determinant of child obesity and the effects of obesity in their lives. Technological advancement, including video games and eating habits, displays a disparity in family income, which influences the nutritional needs of children. Kids from a single-parent home or those...

Introduction Population health is an approach that focuses on improving the health of communities through effective collaborations. It attempts to describe the health of a particular group of people at the national or community level, such as nations, ethnic groups, prisoners, or pregnant women (Bor et al., 2017). This view...

The Symptoms Exhibited by the Patient Exhibited symptoms include: Fear of infectious diseases such as HIV; The patient washes his hands up to 30 times a day; Avoiding touching object outside his home; Unmotivated fear of disturbing people around; Intrusive images of hitting someone; Apologizing when fears of sounding rude;...

For the assignment, it was decided to construct a healthcare clinic in the Philadelphia, Mississippi region of the US-based on the population needs. Mississippi is one of the United States regions where people are severely affected by health problems, with the main ones being overweight, obesity, and extreme obesity. If...