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Care Management and Case Management, 2008.
This paper discusses current challenges in the healthcare system and offers case management and care management as a path to the solution.
1,123 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 38.95
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This essay states that the greatest challenges in the healthcare system currently consist of controlling costs, improving clinical outcomes, and ensuring quality care. Barriers to those goals include the nursing shortage, a rapidly aging population, competition, and reduced government reimbursement. This article addresses the most problematic issues in healthcare today but offers direction for their solutions rather than facile solutions. The paper goes on to claim that the overwhelming question for the current healthcare system presently concerns how to improve quality while reducing costs. Case management and care management are two valuable strategies which can control costs while improving clinical outcomes and ensuring quality care.
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Introduction
Rationale
Case Management vs. Care Management
Attempts for Quality
Journal Selected for Submission
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"The current nursing shortage appears to be intractable. Recent government downsizing and cutbacks have been followed by reduced funding for the healthcare system that is about to be overwhelmed by the baby boom generation. Never have there been so many obstacles to cost-effective, quality care. Two choices are available: case management and care management, with the latter actually being the common alternative. High-risk patients need individual case management but the vast majority of patients require some form of care management (Doyle et al., 2003). Care management is evidence-based practice since such practice is an essential element in clinical pathways and protocols. Even though standard pathways are used, stringent pathways are being eliminated since evidence-based protocols and guidelines are becoming the norm."
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Self-Care Management for Vulnerable Populations, 2008.
A critique of the theory of self-care management for vulnerable populations and its practical application for those afflicted with sickle cell disease.
1,162 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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This paper examines Coretta Dorsey and Carolyn Murdaugh's theory of self-care management for vulnerable populations, in particular those afflicted with sickle cell disease. It begins by reviewing sickle cell disease. It then explores the five intra-personal factors to empower the less privileged of society with the personal tools to combat the adverse symptoms of the affliction. The paper compares the practical application of the theory to similar theories and finally provides a critical judgment on the theory.
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Critique of the Theory of Self-Care Management for Vulnerable Populations
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"The theory that Self-Care Management will increase health status and quality of life while reducing the urgent need for crisis episode intervention appears to be superficially self-evident. The basic concept of a good positive mental outlook, coupled together with increased self-esteem, armed with knowledge and a supportive social network is the recipe for success in most self-help seminars. This is generally accepted as true, and the authors of the theory provide of their theory through extensive research references, not the anecdotal testimonies associated with the above referenced seminars. Further, comparison to these self-help gurus is not meant to diminish the theory, or bring disrepute, the parallels are draw because, by a large part, those that properly practice these self-help techniques are successful in their endeavors. These intra-personal factors can be applied to any adverse personal circumstance, health related or other. The research is as sound as it is extensive, however the practical application of the theory is where the proponents made what may be fatal errors."
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Self-Care Management, 2008.
This paper examines the theory of self-care management for vulnerable populations, particularly for those afflicted with sickle cell disease.
2,199 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 68.95
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The paper looks at the self-care management theory that seeks to mitigate the circumstances of the vulnerable population through a positive approach to the symptoms of the disorder. The paper focuses on sickle cell disease and explores the five intra-personal factors that can empower the less privileged of society with the personal tools to combat their afflictions. The paper compares the practical application of the theory to similar theories. The paper contends that the research is as sound as it is extensive, but in the practical application of the theory there may be fatal errors.
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Theory Description
Theory Critique
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"This theory proposes methods and strategies to increase health and quality of life for members of vulnerable populations afflicted with Sickle Cell Disease. The vulnerable population is defined as members of social groups that experience a functionally lower level of health care due to lack of resources. (Dorsey & Murdaugh p. 43) Membership in this disadvantaged social group is typically predicated by being a person of color, living in poverty, those marginalized due to sexual preference, immigrant status or religion. Additionally non-English speaking individuals, people with AIDS, and homeless families are general members of this social group. (Dorsey & Murdaugh p. 43)"
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Health Care Management, 2002.
A paper that explains why a student would want to pursuing a master's degree in health care management.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses why a particular student wants to pursue a master's degree in Health Care Management.
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Health Care Management, 2001.
A look at three options of employment in the health care management field.
600 words (approx. 2.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 21.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes three career paths in health care management technology and suggests which career path to follow. The careers examined are medical records director, admitting -registrations clerk and health service manager and administrator.
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"The Medical Records director is responsible for a staff of medical records clerks, who maintain patient medical records for a hospital, nursing home, or large medical practice. The job description on JobScience.com reads, "Directs, establishes, and plans the overall policies and goals for a medical records department. Requires a bachelor's degree in a related area with at least seven years of experience in the field. Generally manages a group of exempt and nonexempt employees. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Typically reports to an executive" (JobScience). This job pays an average of $73,804. About 50 percent of workers in this career can expect to earn between $65,426 and $83,228."
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Health Care Financial Management, 2003.
A comparison between financial management issues for health care institutions vs. other industries.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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This paper addresses the differences between financial management in health care and that in other industries. In particular, the paper examines the challenges facing health care financial management during the summer of 2003. The paper also looks at the need for health care organizations to avoid risk and to engage in financial risk management.
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Health Care Management in Queensland, Australia.
This paper discusses the mission of the Queensland government to promotion a healthier Queensland, Australia, through good management of the health care system.
2,410 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper explains that the Queensland government builds the health care organization around four core values of professionalism, teamwork, performance accountability and quality, and recognition. The author points out that the group managing health care is a partnership with all federal, state and local governments and other non-government organizations with a common goal to ensure policies, programs and activities actively supporting good health. The paper relates the post-graduate education support, the management of redundant employees, and retrenchment.
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"They are continuously in the process of developing strategies for the prevention of illness and injury and that is the area where they believe that there can be a great improvement. They are in the process of regularly identifying people who are at the risk of injury, illness or complications from their existing conditions of health and are in the process of taking steps to reduce the risk they are involved in and thus improve the quality of life for the people. There is a common strategy of all health care providers, both within and outside the government sector so that a stronger and more responsive primary health care sector can be built. At the level of the hospitals, the aim is to provide them with high quality, equitable acute and emergency care along with improved community based services."
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A Care Management Model, 2007.
This paper analyzes the management model of continuous quality improvement in an intensive care unit.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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The paper explores organizational theorist W.E. Deming's philosophy of management that stresses cooperation rather than competition in the workforce. The paper discusses how Deming's theories are particularly helpful in creating an effective management philosophy of care in a busy healthcare environment, where employees must work together to achieve a common objective of patient care and health improvement and where subverting one another's needs and expectations is counterproductive. The paper explains that the theory places a stress on serving the needs of the health care consumer. The paper applies this theory to Tulane University Hospital's CHF (Congestive Heart Failure) intensive care unit.
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"Deming's management philosophy is defined by what he calls a system of "Profound Knowledge" that appreciates the unique demands of a particular organizational system, stresses the pooling of combined knowledge to create a more responsive organization, forming a holistic theory of organizational knowledge, and finding a balance between different employees' psychological makeups. (Deming, 2000) This is ideal for creating an underlining philosophy of care according to the management model of Continuous Quality Improvement."
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Health Care Management, 2003.
This paper is about total quality management (TQM) in health care.
3,876 words (approx. 15.5 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 106.95
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An examination of this form of management, which originated in the automobile and engineering industries and has now moved to the health care industry. It looks at how this form of management is applied within health care by looking at a case study of a hospital pharmacy.
Executive Summary
Total Quality Management
Case Study: Hospital Pharmacy
Quality Improvement: Performance Assessment
Find a Process to Improve
Organize Team that Knows the Process
Clarify Current Knowledge of the Process
Quality Survey: Customer Satisfaction
Use of Qualitative Measurements on Service Quality
Analysis and Reporting of Process Variation
Select the process improvement
Conclusion
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"The five pillars of TQM include the product, process, organization, commitment and leadership. These five pillars form the basis for quality assessment and continuous improvements in the product, process, organization, commitment and leadership in the competitive business environment. A case study of TQM in a local community hospital pharmacy is illustrated. It contains the performance assessment of quality improvement. The acronyms of this TQM are FOCUS-PDCA. They are to find a process to improve, organize team that knows the process, clarify current knowledge of the process, use of qualitative measurements and select the process improvement by planning, doing, checking and acting to hold and to continue quality improvement."
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Health Care Manager, 2004.
Examines the roles and responsibilities of a health care manager.
793 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper looks at the importance of health care managers within a hospital setting and the responsibilities that the position encompasses. Job difficulties often encountered by health care managers are also discussed.
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"The occupation of a health care manager can include many different responsibilities. Health care managers are necessary in many organizations, from hospitals to HMOs and other insurance programs. A health care manager in a small hospital may have very different responsibilities than a health care manager at a huge hospital complex, and both deal with very different issues than a health care manager that works for an HMO. However, the qualifications are very similar. To be a health care manager one must have a degree in health care management (or be a doctor with experience and training in management) and be able to organize and oversee aspects of management and patient care. The responsibilities also have one thing in common: a health care manager is someone other than a patient?s personal physician who has the difficult task of deciding what kind of care is appropriate and arranging circumstances so that can be provided."
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American Health Care Managers, 2007.
This paper discusses the state of the American healthcare system and the challenges faced by health care managers.
1,460 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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The paper relates that inequalities in the American healthcare system present a number of challenges to American health care managers. The paper explains that health care managers manage the state of affairs and day-to-day operations of this extremely complex system. The paper discusses their problems that include universal access to healthcare for all Americans, use of modern technology in every aspect of healthcare, universal insurance coverage for all Americans, adequate staffing in all urban and rural areas and lastly, communication with the patient so as to attain consumer satisfaction on a daily basis.
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"Current trends show that the American healthcare system has been consistently on the decline. A gloomy picture depicted by World Health Organization (WHO) is a mere reflection of the current state of affairs. For instance, in 2000, a pioneering WHO report, which assessed healthcare systems of each and every country, positioned American healthcare system at 37 squeezed in the middle of Costa Rica, at number 36, and Slovenia, at number 38 (Lander, 2000). This rapid decline has been taking place despite the fact that America's health care expenditures are by far the largest amongst the 191 members of W.H.O."
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Health Care and Managed Care, 2002.
Shortcomings of health care with the implementation of managed care.
4,150 words (approx. 16.6 pages), 17 sources, $ 151.95
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This paper discusses the shortcomings of the American health care system with the implementation of managed care. The risks and future trends in the system are looked at as well as examples of what the system has faced.
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Health Care Managers and Health Care Delivery, 2004.
Examines the relationship that exists between health care players, how they perform their duties, and how they join their forces in health care delivery.
2,367 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 72.95
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This paper examines and provides information on the roles and responsibilities that health care managers are tasked to accomplish in today?s health care systems. Moreover, this paper examines how a health care manager's job as a leader who ensures a smooth and organized management and operation of health organizations, influences his/her perspective on health care professions. The paper emphasizes the importance of understanding how health care managers perceive their duties in health care service.
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"The basic role every manager must be able to render is the task of providing good human relations to everyone at work. Through this role, the objective of accomplishing jobs in an environment where good work relationship is maintained can be made possible. In the field of health care, healthcare managers must have the ability to perform this basic responsibility. A healthcare manager should be a specialist in managing the condition of the healthcare staffs. Though this duty may be perceived as a simple task, it is critical that a good human resource management be delivered to a health organization to ease the stress and pressure that health care providers, such as the doctors and nurses, experience from their duties."
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Health Care and Managed Health Care: The Need for Sweeping Reforms, 2002.
A look at role of primary care nurse practitioners in relation to health care reforms.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper investigates the role of primary care nurse practitioners in respect to health care and health care reform. The failure of primary healthcare is critically assessed, in the respect that health care is currently "managed" by independent "for- profit" organizations, where there is an emphasis on financial success rather than patient welfare. This paper also places a strong emphasis on the role of nurse care practitioners in the state of Florida and in community health care clinics.
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Managed Care?Managed Fair?, 2003.
A look at the current state of health care in the United States.
2,615 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper considers the concepts of Insurance Providing Organizations (IPOs) and managed care and whether they indeed provide health care and save the economy money. It looks at the history of managed health care in America and the current advantages and disadvantages of the system.
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"Insurance Providing Organizations (IPOs) and managed care have risen in popularity over the past twenty years. Commonly thought to be better for the economy by saving money, many people jumped on the health care bandwagon and joined these insurance-providing agencies. Statistics from the past eleven years show that managed care has reduced national health care costs and the yearly inflation rate from 12% in 1993, to less than 5% in 1996 (Furrow, n/p); but at what cost? The driving factors behind managed care in today?s society are becoming ever more skewed. Governmental health care reform in the United States has been so concerned with money that it has compromised the quality and standard of care. In the end, cost constraints are not proving effective because the readmission rate has risen due to care being provided at a lower standard. Quality of care is also being compromised by the constraints put on care to control expenditures by medical facilities."
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