What are the major staffing and human resource issues faced by your chosen facilities?

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What are the major staffing and human resource issues faced by your chosen facilities?
Course Project: Long-Term Care Facilities I
Choose two long-term care facilities—one from nursing facilities, assisted living, or subacute care and another from adult day care, home health care, or hospice care—on which you would want to base your research work. Research the South University Online Library and the Internet to read about your chosen long-term care facilities.
Assume you are responsible for the management and administration of the two facilities. You have to orient the newly appointed manager by providing an overview on managing long-term care. You also need to discuss the programs of the two facilities. From this perspective and based on your research about the facilities, prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of 10–15 slides including the following:
What are the various multidisciplinary departments (teams) included in your facilities?
Who comprise the target population being served by the various programs provided by your chosen facilities?
What are the major staffing and human resource issues faced by your chosen facilities?
What are the significant trends in long-term care likely to impact the operation of the various programs provided by your chosen facilities, and what is your plan of action to overcome them?
What are the various forms of cooperation and integration existing in your chosen facilities? Discuss the nature of management, financing, and quality issues related to integration and cooperation in the facilities?

Summarize the issues facing rural health care providers’ efforts to deliver quality care.

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Summarize the issues facing rural health care providers’ efforts to deliver quality care.
Preparation
Search the Capella library and the Internet for scholarly and professional peer-reviewed articles on medical technology used to manage patients post-hospitalization. You will need at least three articles to use as support for your work on this assessment.
Directions
Assume you work in a rural health care center. The facility just received a generous grant from a health care foundation. The funds from this grant must be used to acquire new technologies to foster better health outcomes for residents who live in remote areas. The Director of Nursing has formed a committee to research types of patient care technologies that are available to manage and monitor patients upon their release from care. You have been asked to look into the different types of technologies available for patients who are discharged from the hospital and cannot travel hundreds of miles for frequent follow-up appointments. You were also asked to provide evidence-based research to support your selections.
Write a 3–4 page report for the committee that provides your findings:
Summarize the issues facing rural health care providers’ efforts to deliver quality care.
Explain the use of information management tools and technologies to monitor and improve outcomes.
Recommend three new technologies that improve patient outcomes post-hospitalization, in rural settings.
Support your recommendations for new technologies with evidence-based research.
Format this report following current APA style, paying close attention to headings and subheadings, paragraph structure, and proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Additional Requirements
Your report should meet the following criteria:
Contain between 750–1000 words (3–4 pages).
Include a minimum of 3 references. (These must be recent, from within the past five years.)
Be double-spaced in Times New Roman font, 12 point.
apa format

Define and describe how ″Supply and Demand″ has impacted two changes in the delivery of medical care over the past 20 years in the U.S.

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Define and describe how ″Supply and Demand″ has impacted two changes in the delivery of medical care over the past 20 years in the U.S. 2. Identify a correlation of ″Supply and Demand″ and the cost of healthcare or healthcare spending. 3. Identify one way that ″Supply and Demand″ correlates to Fuch′s reasons for changes in healthcare spending. 4. Describe any relationship between ″Supply and Demand″ and healthcare as a commodity. Identify if it does not apply and why. 5. Explain how ″Supply and Demand″ relate to the role of a doctor. *Include reference page/APA format.

health promotion and maintenance

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1. After educating a 19-year old client about possible adverse effects of her oral contraception, which of the client’s concerns shows a lack of understanding?

Headaches

Weight gain

Ovarian cancer

Nausea
2. On discharge from the hospital, the health care provider prescribes lisinopril (Prinvil, Zestril) for a 54-year old male client. Which common side effect should the nurse teach the client?

Cough

Hypokalemia

Constipation

Hypertension
3. A patient diagnosed with trichomoniasis is being treated with metronidazole (Flagyl). When teaching the patient about this medication, which of the following will the healthcare provider include?

“Do not drink alcohol while you are taking this medication.”

“Call our office if you experience any tendon pain or tenderness.”

“You should avoid milk or dairy products during therapy.”

“Report the occurrence of pain in your upper abdomen immediately.”
4. When meeting with a pregnant client to teach about prenatal nutrition, the nurse’s FIRST step is to

Conduct a diet history to determine her normal eating routines.

Teach her how to meet the dietary needs for herself and her family.

Ask her to keep a food journal until her next appointment.

Explain the nutritional changes required during pregnancy.
5. The healthcare provider is performing an assessment on a patient who is taking propranolol (Inderal) for supraventricular tachycardia. Which assessment finding is an indication the patient is experiencing an adverse effect of this drug?

Paresthesia

Dry mouth

Bradycardia

Urinary retention
6. Before receiving a transfusion of whole blood, the laboratory and blood bank require a sample of the patient’s blood. Which test will be run?

Blood type and antibody screen

Blood culture and sensitivity analysis

Complete blood count (CBC) and differential

Blood type and crossmatch
7. A patient who has a history of chronic back pain requires a higher dose of an opioid medication in order to achieve adequate pain relief. The healthcare provider suspects that these findings are a result of which of the following?

Tolerance

Addiction

Dependence

Pseudoaddiction
8. The healthcare provider is assessing the glucose level of a patient with a diagnosis of diabetes. Which of these is most helpful in evaluating this patient’s long-term glucose management?

Fasting blood glucose level

The patient’s food diary

Urine specific gravity

Hemoglobin A1c
9. An hour after a surgical procedure, a male client who received a epidural anesthesia requests to get up to go to the bathroom. He still has an IV infusing and is being assessed every 15 minutes. What is the nurse’s best response to maintain client safety?

“Okay, first let’s see how well you can stand and bear weight. Then we’ll decide.”

“Can you sit at the edge of the bed for a few minutes, to see how you feel?”

“Let me get the nursing aide to help you, since it’s your first time getting up.”

“It would be better if you waited until the 15 minute assessments are complete.”
10. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 specifies the right to

Use a sliding scale payment plan for all health care

Have equal access to health care regardless of race or religion

Choose any physician and healthcare coverage

Receive free medical benefits as needed
11. After a patient arrives in the pre-op area before his surgical procedure, the nurse asks if he has any allergies. He says, “Everyone has asked me that already! It’s on my chart! Can’t you read it for yourself?” The nurse should respond

“We ask with each new phase of treatment, for verification and to keep you safe.”

“You can expect to hear it again and again as you go through surgery.”

“We want to give you every opportunity to recall if there are any additions or corrections.”

“I’m sorry! I’m required to ask that question for my pre-operative checklist.”
12. Before administering a dose of furosemide (Lasix) to a 2-year old with a congenital heart defect, the nurse should confirm the child’s identify by checking the hospital ID band and

Verifying the identity with a second nurse.

Verifying the child’s room number.

Asking the child to tell you his name.

Asking the parent the child’s name.
13. After the hospital Quality Improvement Team discovers a sudden increase in IV site infiltrations on a surgical unit, they implement a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) initiative. Which step will come first?

Analyze the data.

Perform chart audits.

Monitor which IV needle gauges are used.

Implement a new IV insertion policy