How can the CEO ensure that hospital management is effective in whatever they do? Answer: For management to be effective, it must first be involved in maintaining the financial stability of the hospitals. Major strategic goals should be initiated in promoting, improving and protecting the health of the ones in a certain specific district and also expedite the independence of people with disabilities in a […]

Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction Nursing is a Medicare field that has been changing since time immemorial. This constant change has been as a result of various challenges to healthcare professionals in providing not only efficient, but also effective public healthcare services. Due to raging waves of change, paradigm shift always occurs on the way as described by Samueli Institute (2008). As compared to […]

What is the importance of good governance in a hospital? Governance is best known in the achievement of concerns of ownership, strategic goals, self improvement and quality management and at the same time being aware of the cost of the governance. In order for the hospital to have a good government, the management of the hospital should involve different groups (Preker & Harding, 2003). There […]

Patient and Family Rights (PFR) Overview Each patient is unique, with his or her own needs, strengths, values, and beliefs. Health care organizations work to establish trust and open communication with patients and to understand and protect each patient’s cultural, psychosocial, and spiritual values. Patient care outcomes are improved when patients and, as appropriate, their families or those who make decisions on their behalf are […]

Effects of Qui Tam healthcare act on organization False claim act’s enactment influenced the performance of health care organization both positively and negatively. Though it’s well intentioned, it is quite challenging to anyone handling federal funds in organizations. Having the ability to sue entities, whistle blowers who may include; former employees, bounty hunters geared by greed and competitors may take advantage of the Act. Considering […]

Strategic Healthcare Spending and Finance: Recommending Financial Strategies Background It is important for any nation to have a secure and sustainable financing of health so as to maintain a healthy population. The government therefore has a duty of ensuring that the healthcare financing and spending is structured appropriately to effectively meet the needs of the population in a country. The healthcare policy also has to […]

Health Care Law and Ethics Health care is guided by laws and ethics as defined by the medical ethics. Moral principals are expected to apply sound judgments and values in the medical practices in the heath care institutions. Ethics is critical in diverse aspects in the delivery of health care, it has been noted that medical professionals works in accordance with the code of ethics, […]

Chief complaint: patient’s age, sex and presenting symptoms A 10-year-old female patient presents with an initial episode of having a ‘fit’ where she fell unconscious for a brief period of time as reported. She hassigns of a fever, persisting for four days. She complains of headache and dizziness brought on upon by standing in an upright position for long periods of time, however is relieved […]

Introduction In bilingual health care, providers and patients often differ in their understanding of the illness and preferences for treatment [1]. Interpreters often are perceived as the solution to bridge these differences[2,3]. The challenge of the interpreter-mediated medical encounter is that providers, patients, and interpreters need to negotiate meanings across variouslanguages, cultures, and expertise [4,5]. Although the providers’ medical expertise and interpreters’ cultural and linguistic […]

The Effects of Behavioral/Cognitive-Behavioral The CDATE project coded studies of treatment/intervention programs in prison, jail, probation, or parole settings reported from 1968 through 1996. Meta-analyses were conducted on the 69 primary research studies on the effectiveness of behavioral and cognitive-behavioral treatment in reducing recidivism for offenders. Results on this heterogeneous collection of studies show that this treatment is associated with reduced recidivism rates. However, this […]