Category: Health & Medicine 13691

Introduction Per-member per-month (PMPM) cost is an important metric used in different spheres. It is often utilized to calculate premiums for group health insurance or capitated payments to providers. The present paper aims at estimating the PMPM rate for Bay Pines Medical Center and analyzing how reductions in base case utilization and total cost characteristics…

Table of Contents Introduction Coordinating Services Patient Monitoring Planning Foster Communication Provide Health Education Evaluating and Updating Conclusion References Introduction Case management is a joint process that involves case management nurses working collaboratively with communities, and a vast array of medical and non-medical experts. Case managers promote quality health care both in hospitals and in…

Table of Contents Introduction Advanced Practice and Its Competencies Advanced Practice Nurse The Role of Education in Advanced Nursing Practice Advancement in Nursing Practice Conclusion References Introduction The role of any medical worker is hard to overvalue; these people make an enormous input into the development of clinical organizations and patient treatment. In particular, nurses…

With the development of clinical pharmacy clinical staff started specializing in different clinical areas. (Stephens 2003) The course in Clinical Laboratory Support is aimed at people who work in pathology laboratories. It has been designed to “allow staff in these posts to learn underlying theory and gain credit for their practical experience.” (Pit and Cunningham…

Table of Contents Legal Standards Ethical Guidelines Primary Crises Secondary Crises Tertiary Crises Importance Reference Legal Standards According to the case, a Pacific Islander family received a letter in which the apartment management company claims that Anamalia should move house because some of her neighbors are scared of noise during family arguments. As a reply…

The article on the topic of the role of nurses in an interdisciplinary team that will be summarized is “Teaching nurses teamwork: Integrative review of competency-based team training in nursing education” by Barton et al. It concerns the measures that are taken by the educational facilities to prepare future nursing personnel for working with multiple…

In the health care settings of the United States, medication errors are one of the most frequent errors that occur. The Institute of Medicine reports that more than 1.5 million people are harmed every year. According to this report, on average, one patient will suffer one administration error each day. The records also show that…

The chapter focuses on explaining epidemiologic research designs and predictive correlational designs. It starts with the explanation of epidemiology as a discipline and subdisciplines such as Descriptive and analytic epidemiology. The first is focused on the description of the distributions of determinants and diseases (Drummond & Murphy-Reyes, 2018). The second tries to quantify the association…

There is a higher risk for an adolescent mother to have pregnancy complications including pallor, and hypertension. Gestational diabetes typically disappears after the mother conceives an offspring. If untreated, gestational diabetes can cause untimely birth, the child having breathing issues upon entering the world, jaundice, or low glucose. There are two sorts of hypertension during…

Behavior that would make me label a patient as difficult is when a patient somatizes. This type of patient manifests all the psychological stress they have been going through physically. For example, a patient may decide to punch holes in walls and injure themselves when stressed. Other symptoms may be severe, ranging from loss of…