Category: Healthcare

  • Costing Effect on Canadian Healthcare After COVID-19

    Table of Contents Introduction Causes of Upsurge of Healthcare Costs in Canada during the COVID-19 Crisis Effects of Upsurge of Healthcare Cost in Canada during the COVID-19 Crisis The Future of Canada’s Healthcare sector post-COVID-19 Conclusion References Introduction The spread of COVID-19 had a significant impact on the Canadian population and its government. The pandemic…

  • A Manager’s Power Bases in a Healthcare Setting

    A healthcare manager is a person who organizes the work of a certain number of employees in a market economy based on modern management methods. He or she is a specialist in managing and controlling processes in the health promotion and system. It is necessary to consider many nuances related to employees’ activities in the…

  • Analytical Tools Used in Healthcare

    Introduction Newborn and infant mortality rates are measures of the probability of death expressed as the rate per 1000 live births. Conversely, the Bed Occupancy is a ratio expressed as a percentage to show the proportion of beds occupied at a hospital at any given time. The newborn mortality rate is used to measure the…

  • Healthcare Thesis Statement: Examples of Universal Healthcare Pros and Cons

    Every citizen of every country in the world should be provided with free and high-quality medical services. Health care is a fundamental need for every human, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic status. Universal health care is the provision of healthcare services by a government to all its citizens (insurancespecialists.com). This means each…

  • Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle in Healthcare

    Table of Contents Introduction Description Feelings Evaluation Analysis Conclusion Action Plan References Introduction Healthcare givers utilize Gibbs’ reflective cycle to develop a learning structure from experience. It was created in 1988 by Graham Gibbs and has been very critical in the field of medicine (Ezezika & Johnston, 2022). Repeated experiences and encounters with the patients…

  • Patient Falls Within the Healthcare Facility

    The strength of the quality improvement in relation to patient falls within the selected healthcare facility includes capabilities of the current policy for limiting adverse effects of falling and internal resources such as staff and equipment that can address the particular issue. The weaknesses include gaps in the company operations when dealing with patient falls,…

  • Measuring Quality in Healthcare Facilities

    Table of Contents Introduction Quality Measure 1: IQI 17 – Acute Stroke Mortality Rate Quality Measure 2: IQI 24 – Incidental Appendectomy in the Elderly Rate Quality Measure 3: IQI 19 – Hip Fracture Mortality Rate Conclusion References Introduction Measuring quality in facilities serving hospitalized patients is a complicated process requiring software access and accurately…

  • Healthcare Financing in the United States

    Table 1. Bloom, 2017; Josephson, 2020. Undoubtedly, the regular tax payments for social services should be reduced to increase medicine availability. Without going into detail about the benefits of affordable medicine, it is only essential to clarify that this policy has serious advantages for the government, so officials should take care of developing optimal insurance…

  • Healthcare Administrators’ Qualifications and Skills

    Health administrator is a job, which involves a significant amount of responsibility. In addition, an employee should be capable of coping with tasks in different fields of healthcare. An effective method of evaluating the qualification of a candidate is interviewing. Consequently, conversations with two current hospital managers were conducted to identify the qualities and factors,…

  • Policy Competence and Policymaking in Healthcare

    Policy competence refers to the ability of a professional to partake efficiently in the preparation and implementation of relevant policies. In the case of healthcare, this term implies that this ability is applied to health-related policies that affect the particular area of expertise, in which a medical professional operates (Meacham, 2020). Indeed, the key property…