Category: Health & Medicine 13691
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Florida Nurse Practitioner Community
Table of Contents Introduction NP Community in Terms of Scope of Practice The Impact of Restricted Practice on Patients The Impact of Access to NP on Healthcare Disparities Conclusion References Introduction Florida is the state with the restricted practice of NP. Due to House Bill 607, starting from July 1, 2020, the restrictions will lessen…
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Confidence Interval in Medicine
Notably, the confidence interval (CI) can be applied to medicine to enhance the quality of clinical decisions. He and Fineout-Overholt state that healthcare professionals may use CI to interpret research based on reliability and validity. Briefly, CI demonstrates the level of uncertainty related to the sample statistic. CI helps healthcare professionals determine the likelihood of…
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Healthy Nutrition: Fat-Free
Introduction A fat-free product ought not to contain more than ½ grams of fat-per-serving. This can only be attained if someone consumes the food’s serving size that has been stated. However, the moment someone consumes more than the stated amount, it stops being fat-free. The daily intake of fat is normally counted by the entire…
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Kendall Regional Medical Center’s Mortality Rate
Table of Contents A Quality Collaborative or HCAHPS Purpose of HCAHPS, Quality Measures, and Tools Description of Data A Comparison of the Measures with State and National Averages References A Quality Collaborative or HCAHPS Kendall Regional Medical Center is a 417-bed facility in Miami-Dade County, Florida. A CMS survey revealed that Kendall has below average…
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Maintaining Standards in Electronic Prescribing
Doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals are using modern technologies, which significantly assist them in their work. Electronic prescribing and telemedicine is coming in place of papers and hand-written notes for patients. It is a computer-based generation, processing, and filling of a medical prescription used by both hospitals and pharmacies (Ahmed, Jani, & Franklin,…
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Improving Outcomes by Implementing a Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program
Abstract The prevalence of pressure ulcers in immobile patients still presents an important issue in the field of health care. The given study uses a mixed methods design to contribute to the field and conclude on the effectiveness of improved PU prevention protocols. According to the research results, the use of an improved PU prevention…
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Risk of Tele-Medication on Controlled Substances
Telehealth medication enabled continuum health care in the U.S.A with minimal risk of Covid-19 transmission. However, despite the DEA restricting controlled substance prescription to only allow audio or visual programs that allow patients to speak with physicians in real-time, it could have negatively implicated the prevalence of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) in America. According to…
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Use of Anabolic Steroids: Adverse Effects
Modern science and medicine have developed many substances designed to make human life more comfortable. These include a variety of medications and supplements, such as vitamins. However, in most cases, these elements should be used strictly according to the doctor’s prescription to avoid the appearance of side effects due to improper use or incompatibility of…
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The Main Features of the Medicaid Plan
Medicaid is a joint program between the federal and the state program in which the former provides requirements and the latter implements the services. It provides healthcare coverage to American citizens, including low-income adults, pregnant women, seniors, and children (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2022). Key characteristics of the Medicaid beneficiaries are that they…
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Transcultural Psychiatry Rethinking Historical Trauma
The authors of the article argue for the need to rethink and reinterpret historical trauma as there is a significant difference in how people experience, approach, and transmit the instances of trauma. The conceptual intervention applied in the article relates to the person-centered ethnographic research intended to highlight the contextualization of historical trauma from the…