Category: Healthcare

Healthcare, throughout history, has undergone a profound evolution, shaped by cultural, scientific, and technological advancements. From ancient civilizations’ rudimentary remedies to the sophisticated medical technologies of the modern era, the journey of healthcare reflects humanity’s relentless pursuit of understanding and healing. This essay explores this evolution, highlighting key milestones, challenges, and the transformative impact on society.
Ancient Beginnings: The Origins of Healing
The origins of healthcare can be traced back to ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China, where early medical practices emerged from a blend of empirical observation, spiritual beliefs, and natural remedies. In Mesopotamia, clay tablets recorded treatments for various ailments, showcasing an early form of medical knowledge. Egyptian medical papyri, notably the Edwin Smith Papyrus, detailed surgical techniques and diagnostic principles, providing insights into early anatomical understanding.
Similarly, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) emphasized the balance of yin and yang and the flow of qi through meridians, laying the foundation for acupuncture and herbal remedies still practiced today. These ancient systems reflect humanity’s innate drive to alleviate suffering and prolong life, demonstrating the early recognition of healthcare as a fundamental human need.
Classical Antiquity: Medicine and Philosophy
Classical antiquity marked a pivotal period in healthcare’s development, particularly in ancient Greece and Rome. Hippocrates, often revered as the father of Western medicine, introduced a rational approach to healing based on observation and natural causes rather than supernatural influences. His principles, encapsulated in the Hippocratic Oath, emphasized ethics, professionalism, and the importance of patient care, principles that continue to guide medical practice today.
In Rome, Galen’s anatomical studies and writings on physiology significantly advanced medical knowledge, influencing medical education and practice throughout the Roman Empire. These contributions laid the groundwork for empirical medicine and the systematic study of disease, marking a shift towards evidence-based healthcare.
Middle Ages to Renaissance: Revival and Advancement
The Middle Ages witnessed a decline in scientific inquiry in Europe, with medical knowledge preserved and advanced primarily by Islamic scholars in the Middle East. Avicenna’s “Canon of Medicine” synthesized Greek, Arabic, and Persian medical knowledge, becoming a foundational text in medieval Europe. Meanwhile, hospitals founded by religious orders served not only as places of care but also centers for medical education and research.
The Renaissance saw a revival of scientific inquiry and a resurgence of interest in human anatomy, driven by figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius. Vesalius’ groundbreaking anatomical studies, detailed in “De humani corporis fabrica,” challenged Galenic teachings and laid the groundwork for modern anatomical understanding. This period marked a transition towards empirical observation and experimental medicine, setting the stage for the scientific revolution in healthcare.
The Modern Era: Science, Technology, and Public Health
The advent of the scientific method and the Enlightenment era propelled healthcare into a new era of discovery and innovation. The discovery of microbes and the germ theory of disease by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch revolutionized understanding of infectious diseases, leading to improvements in sanitation, vaccination, and public health measures that dramatically reduced mortality rates.
The 20th century witnessed unprecedented advancements in medical science and technology. The development of antibiotics, beginning with penicillin, transformed the treatment of bacterial infections and saved countless lives. The discovery of insulin revolutionized diabetes management, while advancements in surgical techniques, anesthesia, and diagnostic imaging further expanded treatment options and improved patient outcomes.
Moreover, the establishment of universal healthcare systems in many countries during this period aimed to provide equitable access to healthcare services, addressing socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. The World Health Organization (WHO), founded in 1948, became a global advocate for health, promoting international cooperation and public health initiatives to tackle global health challenges.
Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Healthcare
Despite these remarkable achievements, healthcare faces ongoing challenges in the 21st century. Rising healthcare costs, unequal access to essential services, and the growing burden of chronic diseases pose significant obstacles to global health equity. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted vulnerabilities in healthcare systems worldwide, underscoring the need for robust pandemic preparedness and resilient healthcare infrastructure.
Technological innovations continue to drive progress in healthcare delivery. Telemedicine and digital health platforms have expanded access to medical services, particularly in remote and underserved areas. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning hold promise in enhancing diagnostic accuracy, personalized medicine, and drug discovery, ushering in a new era of precision healthcare.
Moreover, the integration of genomic medicine and personalized therapies is transforming treatment paradigms, offering targeted interventions based on individual genetic profiles. Breakthroughs in regenerative medicine and stem cell research offer potential cures for previously untreatable conditions, heralding a future where diseases like Parkinson’s and spinal cord injuries may be effectively treated or even cured.
Conclusion
The evolution of healthcare reflects humanity’s enduring quest for knowledge, compassion, and innovation in the face of disease and suffering. From ancient civilizations’ rudimentary remedies to the cutting-edge technologies of the 21st century, healthcare has evolved into a complex ecosystem of science, ethics, and social responsibility. While challenges persist, the trajectory of healthcare advancement offers hope for a future where equitable access to quality care and transformative medical breakthroughs improve the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide. As we continue to navigate the complexities of modern healthcare, the lessons of history remind us of the profound impact that scientific inquiry, compassion, and collaboration can have in shaping a healthier, more resilient world.

Policy Brief 
NY State bill: Senate Bill S8765A
2023-2024 Legislative Session Provides for qualified mental health associates
Website: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8765/amendment/A
Rubric
Executive Summary
20 to >10 pts
Full response
Complete concise summary of background, significance, position taken on issue, and recommendation for action.
Background & Significance
30 to >15 pts
Full response
Clear statement of issue with context, overview of root cause, and policy importance and relevance. Use of variety of references. Refers to any charts or graphs in the narrative with citations of sources.
Position/Policy Statement
30 to >15 pts
Full response
Clear, concise, detailed discussion of failings of current policy approach (if any); actionable steps stated using policy language and active voice.
Reference List
20 pts
Full Credit
At least 10 references using superscripts with sequential numeric referencing of sources related to issue.

For this assignment, you will need to write a 2000 to 2500-word essay in which you analyze Human Resource Management (HRM) issues and make recommendations for the employee handbook of a hospital. First, you should perform research on the Internet and select an actual hospital that has its employee handbook published online. Once you’ve selected the hospital, assume that you work for the organization you’ve selected, and that you’ve been given the task of researching ways to improve the employee handbook and reduce HRM risks.
Once you’ve selected the hospital and its employee handbook to use for this project, you will need to do the following:
• Identify and explain specific HRM risks that the hospital faces with respect to (a) recruitment and hiring, (b) terms and conditions of employment, (c) compensation and benefits, (d) employee performance and evaluation, and (e) employee discipline and termination. Identify areas in the employee handbook that can be revised or supplemented to mitigate these HRM risks.
• Propose language for five specific revisions to be made to the employee handbook. When writing your essay be sure to include:
• An introduction that identifies the hospital that you’ve chosen, describes the community that it serves, and provides an overview of its employees.
• Why HRM risks and the
recommendations you are making are important.
• Differentiation between peer reviewed research and any other sources of information utilized.
• Analysis of specific risks within each of the five topic areas.
• A reference page in APA format and APA formatted citations throughout the essay.

Use Hospital Compare and find the hospital you work at or a local
hospital of interest to you.
www.medicare.gov/care-compare/?redirect=true&providerType=Hospital
Identify three areas where this hospital shows
quality outcomes that are better than state and national averages.
Identify three areas where the quality outcomes
are worse than state and national averages.
In your own words describe your thoughts on how
consumers can best use this data
Describe the “Meaningful Use” Measures
and the process of how the implementation of electronic health records
will improve quality of care and patient safety.
Contrast the accreditation process with other
Certification and Licensure Processes.
Why do hospitals have “deemed status”
when other health care settings must experience state and federal
licensure surveys?
If you work at a hospital what organizations
provide your accreditation process?
Do you believe the accreditation process ensure
regulatory compliance? Provide a detailed answer to support your belief.
Differentiate between licensing, accreditation,
and certification processes, and if possible, illustrate this with any
personal experiences and/or first-hand knowledge that you may possess
about these processes.
The
book which is used for this course is:  Spath, P., Kelly, D. (2017). Applying Quality Management in
Healthcare. A Systems Approach. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press 4th
Edition. IBSN 9781567938814
Attention please: I do
not work at hospitals now, but I used to work at Cedars Sinai hospital ER(
Emergency Room) for 2 years as a volunteer. Please use this hospital when you
do this assignment.
Thanks,

3 full pages (no more, no less). Remember to write a brief introduction clarifying your topic, which philosophers you’ll be discussing, and your thesis. No need for lengthy summary at the end.
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GOOD LIFE TOPIC
We read Judith Butler’s chapter entitled: “Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life?,” which is from her book, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly.
Her question–Can One Lead a Good Life in a Bad Life?–is now the topic of your paper.  Working with the terms Butler uses to frame and address the question:
(I) Explain how she answers it and
THEN also
(II) Explain your own answer while discussing at least three (3) other philosophers we’ve read this summer session in your discussion (Butler + 3),  even though they do not address the question directly, as they may help you clarify your own view.
For example,
How might Plato’s attempt to decouple justice from the “interest of the stronger” be relevant here?
Or is Aristotle’s account of justice helpful in answering this question, as he talks about happiness, plus justice is being fair to oneself as well as fair to others?
Or, what about Epictetus’s distinction between what is up to us according to nature and what is not up to us according to nature?
Or, is Luther’s concept of faith an example of an internal perspective on the good life?
Or, Kant’s conception of Enlightenment plus his private/public uses of reason distinction might help to think about good life?
Or, Russell’s concept of happiness, which we read as the good life, would seem to be clearly relevant, but what about his criticisms of self-absorption?
Or, does Noddings’s concept of care/caring contribute to your understanding of the good life?
Or consider Beauvoir’s conception of the ethics of ambiguity, where existential uncertainty and dependency on other people is a starting point for ethics and the good life?
Or, might Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness and Marx’s notion of alienated labor clarify a “bad life,” as Butler calls it, and place any constraints on the good life?

A key part of your proposal will be to identify benchmarks and trends for the topic you have chosen for your documentation review. Benchmarks can come from national or state quality standards or trends. If your proposal is approved, you as the office manager will want to try to answer this question: How does our office data compare to national or state trends?
You need to identify your benchmarks before you can collect and then compare the data. You decide what your benchmarks are. They could be based on national averages, state averages, or quality standards. For example, here is one quality standard: All patients with chronic, stable coronary artery disease are on an antiplatelet therapy or have supporting documentation as to why they cannot take an antiplatelet therapy. For instance, they may have an allergy.
Another question to consider when establishing benchmarks is this: Are you comparing apples to apples or apples to oranges? In addition, if you are retrieving information from a national database or data from an HIE, how do you know your office data is comparable to the information you are retrieving? Consult your suggested resources for answers to these questions.
For this second assessment, you are to:
Analyze statistical trends and assess quality measures relevant to your proposal.
Assess the compatibility of data drawn from multiple sources.
Determine the effects of health information quality on an HIE.
This assessment is completed in three steps:
Step One – Preparation: Locate data related to quality measures or trends relevant to your topic from specific websites.
Step Two – Data Collection: Create a data collection tracking spreadsheet and dashboard.
Step Three – Data Compatibility: Write a short paper on data compatibility and quality.
Please study this assessment’s scoring guide to better understand the performance levels relating to each criterion on which you will be evaluated.
Step One: Preparation
Locate data related to quality measures relevant to your topic from one or more of these websites:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.). https://www.ahrq.gov/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). https://www.cdc.gov/
The Joint Commission. (n.d.). https://www.jointcommission.org/
NCQA. (n.d.). https://www.ncqa.org/
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (n.d.). https://www.osha.gov/index.html
Any other site that contains national or state health care quality measures.
Step Two: Data Collection
Using the Data Collection Spreadsheet Guide [XLSX] Download Data Collection Spreadsheet Guide [XLSX]as an example, ;create a spreadsheet containing three tabs: Dashboard Tracking, Data Collection, and Trending.
On the first tab, Dashboard Tracking, draw from the information you gathered in Step One as part of your preparation for this assessment:
Identify the specific benchmark data you will compare with your office data. Remember it is up to you to establish your benchmarks.
Organize or create a spreadsheet to display the totals, percentages, averages, and so on of your office data and of the national or state data you will be using for comparison. Note: Your Office Data column will be blank because you are not collecting any office data. This is only a proposal to do an information review of the quality of care provided by the physician group. Data does, however, need to appear in the Benchmark (national/state) data column.
Include at least one comparison graph of your choice on this tab.
On the second tab, Data Collection, draw from the information you gathered in Step One as part of your preparation for this assessment:
Create a form you will use to collect specific data from the patients’ records.
Include a row for each patient.
Provide a column for each data collection point (quality measure) you will be comparing.
Note: The information on this page is totaled, averaged, et cetera, with the results linked to the first tab.
To create your third tab, Trends, you will need to do some additional research. Identify national benchmarks for the condition you have chosen that could be compared to your office data. For example, if the trend in your office is that you are seeing more patients with asthma, but the national trend is decreasing, you have discovered a discrepancy that needs to be investigated.
To perform your analysis:
Visit one or more of the following websites containing national data:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.). Healthcare cost and utilization project. https://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/#setup
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). CDC WONDER. https://wonder.cdc.gov/WelcomeT.html
Any other site that contains national or state health care data.
Locate and analyze statistical data relevant to the selected condition.
Examine trends:
What other meaningful trends exist? For example, consider the number of new cases, increases or decreases of cases within a specific age range or location, et cetera.
How do the national and state trends compare?
Is the national trend increasing or decreasing?
What is the percentage of cases who expire from the disease?
Identify the trending of one statistical result relating to the condition you selected over the last 5–10 years.
Create a line graph on the third tab of your spreadsheet, Trends, that illustrates the national and/or state trending of the disease you selected over the past 5–10 years.
Note: Remember you have not collected your office data yet for comparison purposes. You could add that data at a later time.
Step 3: Data Compatibility
Write a short section to add to the proposal you will complete in Assessment 3. Be sure this section of your proposal includes all of the following headings and your narrative addresses each of the bullet points.
Introduction
Provide a brief 1–2 sentence, high-level summary explaining data compatibility.
Data Compatibility
Assess the compatibility of the data:
How can you ensure data from multiple sources is compatible?
How do you know the data you are using for comparison is compatible with your office data?
What challenges are associated with data standardization? We do not want to compare apples with oranges. You want to be sure data from multiple sources:
Represents the same condition.
Uses similar statistical analysis.
And so on.
Effects of Health Information Quality on the HIE
Explain the difference between an HIE and a national database.
Explain what problems can develop if facilities submit incomplete or inaccurate information to an HIE.
Explain what problems can develop if facilities submit incomplete or inaccurate information to a national database.
Explain how incomplete or inaccurate data may affect your proposal.
Conclusion
Briefly reinforce your paper’s main points.

Role Playing Exercise – Your supervising manager has shared the many of the leaders have identified some issues for the each of their different job roles. Your supervising manager would like you to email the identified issues to them so each leaders’ issues and solutions can be appropriately reviewed with each of the interdisciplinary teams. The assignment must be based upon your selected job role and the selected course’s case study.
Write a professionally-crafted email to address to the supervising manager (your faculty) with regard to the predisposing factors affecting the health care services delivery situation at that time. This submission does not require citations or references. The goal is to demonstrate your critical thinking (analysis and application of the general concepts) in the assessment of a health care sector service delivery.
Read about critical thinking in your course Syllabus.
Watch the Managerial Decision Making Video
Post your email in your interdisciplinary group discussion area and submit correctly formatted and written professional email into your assignment dropbox. Identify and Discuss at Least Two Issues Based on Your Job Role: List a minimum of two issues that contributed to the situation from the perspective of your job role. For example, if your role is the supply chain management one of the issues might be the absence of the sharp disposal containers due to flood in the warehouse where they are stored off-site.
Identify and Discuss Potential Solutions for Each Issue: Recommend a realistic solution to each of the listed issues. For example, recommend using thick plastic water containers labelled with permanent markers as a temporary solution. (Do not use the provided example in your submissions).
Identify and Discuss the Workforce and Stakeholders: List the workforce and stakeholders necessary to achieve the proposed solutions. For example, the food supplier/manager needs to be contacted about the empty water containers. The custodial chief needs to be contacted about the storage locations and restrictions enforcement.
TIPS:
Know the definitions of terms: predisposing factors
Make sure the factors and proposed solutions are reasonable and achievable. Do not make general or common sense statements. Think about how you would address these issue in real life and consider the solutions you may propose to address these issues in your job role. Learn how to write a professionally-written email, crafted to your supervising manager regarding the issues you have identified with potential solutions along with the details regarding the workforce as well as stakeholders. Know the name of your Supervising Manager.
Case Study Link:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6627a1.htm

please answer ONLY ONE question from the 4 question options. ONLY ONE QUESTION and please state in your responce which questuon you chose. 

Explain how the use of CBT in groups compares to its use in family or individual settings. Explain at least two challenges PMHNPs might encounter when using CBT in one of these settings. Support your response with specific examples from this week’s media and at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources. Explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly, and attach the PDFs of your sources.

PRELICENSURE NURSING APPLICATION ESSAY
The purpose of the application essay is to demonstrate to the Prelicensure Admissions Committee your understanding of the Registered Nurse role, and how the WGU B.S. Nursing Prelicensure program might prepare you to meet the healthcare needs of your local community or population of interest. This is an opportunity for you to communicate directly with the admissions committee, highlighting how your life, professional experiences, along with your attributes have prepared you for the transition in your current role to that of a Registered Nurse. 
Instructions
Use the information from your own personal and professional preparation to answer the following questions in your application essay for the B.S. Nursing Prelicensure program:   
How have your life and professional experiences prepared you for the WGU B.S. Nursing Prelicensure program? 
Previous experience 
Educational background 
Community involvement 
How can the WGU nursing program prepare you to deliver and/or support healthcare to the community in which you live? 
Tell us about the characteristics, abilities, and skills you would bring to the nursing profession. 
Reflect on your decision to become a nurse and tell us about any concerns that surfaced and how you overcame those concerns.     
The B.S. Nursing Prelicensure program is writing intensive, and this essay will give you the opportunity to represent your writing skills to the Nursing Admissions Committee.  As you answer the questions above, we will examine your application essay to ensure your writing meets the following criteria: 
The Essay you submit should be 2-3 pages in length
Plagiarism will result in an automatic decline during the competitive selection process.  
Originality and uniqueness are expected. Writing is self-reflective, creative, innovative, and diverse. 
Writing directly addresses all four application essay questions. 
Writing is clear and appropriate for the purpose of the assignment.  
All evidence and examples are used effectively and are specific and relevant.  
Ideas are coherently and logically organized with well‐developed paragraphs and effective transitions.  
All sentences are well written with varied sentence structure and are free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.  
Maintains appropriate tone, diction, and vocabulary for various modes of writing.  
Work demonstrates clear understanding of the target audience.   
PLEASE NOTE: 
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