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Dialysis Time Out Safety Check

Dialysis Time Out Safety Check Select one question below (only 1 question) Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs, with a minimum of three sentences each paragraph (125 words per paragraph minimum) Format: APA format according to Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (7th ed.) ISBN: 978-1-4338-3216-1 Format: APA style 7th Edition. Please […]

important to managed care

 important to managed care To help you to better understand why case mix is important to managed care and reimbursement methods; here are some fictional heart attack mortality rates for three different hospitals. Consider the national average for heart attack death rates to be 16%. Hospital Mortality Rate National Mortality Rate Hospital A 16.1% 16% […]

Medical Job Description of a Healthcare Needs

Medical Job Description of a Healthcare Needs Peter R Kongstvedt states, “The case manager is consistently challenged with managing fiscal constraints with patient expectations in light of orders and expectations articulated by the care team. This requires a highly skilled individual, certainly not a job for the faint of heart.” The case manager can also […]

Unhooking From Thoughts

Mindfulness Exercise: Unhooking From Thoughts Excerpt from Practicing Mindfulness by Matthew Socklov Thoughts are a part of everyone’s human experience. However, you do not need to push them away to practice mindfulness. Rather, learning to bring your mind back from thoughts is the practice. This exercise offers a way to “unhook” yourself from those thoughts […]

Health Care Strategic Plan

Health Care Strategic Plan to Access Good Health Care Library Research Assignment As the newly appointed public health director in your county of residence, you are charged with increasing the health care utilization in your county. Document your high-level strategic plan by responding to the following: Summary: Who are the stakeholders in this situation? Analysis: What factors […]

Biostatistics in Healthcare Administration Gestational Age Hypothesis Testing

Biostatistics in Healthcare Administration Gestational Age Hypothesis Testing summarizing Data Collected in a Defined Population Sample This week we are learning about ordinal/categorical, continuous, and dichotomous variables. Using the Gestation Demographics SEU dataset that is located in the tabs at the bottom of the Framingham dataset provided, perform the following problems using R Studio or Excel. […]

Health & Medical Patient Centered Care

Health & Medical Patient Centered Care   NUR3805 Nursing Role and Scope Research Paper # 2 The paper should address the following: 1. Describe the dimensions of Patient-Centered Care and how do you apply PCC in your current practice. 2. Effective communications between health care providers and the patient is an essential component of PCC, […]

Elimination of The Mosquito Species

Elimination of The Mosquito Species 1- John I agree with the proposed deliberate elimination of some mosquito’s species, especially the ones that carries deadly diseases. I think this is the best solution to the problem that we can do in order to prevent people from getting sick from mosquito bites. This could bring multiple consequences to […]

Performance Programs

Strengths and Weakness of Pay For Performance Programs Since P4P has been around for a number of years, one would think that its effectiveness should be clearly documented. However, Peter Kongstvedt says that results have been mixed. He concludes that “positive results remain ambiguous, at least on a broad basis.” Review various P4P program results […]

Systems for Healthcare System Development Life Cycle

HI300: Information Technology and Systems for Health Care Discussion Topic: The System Development Life Cycle INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to all posts; response to classmates should be thoughtful and advance the discussion, response should make and/or frequent informed references to unit material or scientific literature, follow APA style if resources are used, 75 word minimum in response […]