Why is it important to have standards and guidelines in a healthcare facility?
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because without a standard of care, the treatment received by patients may be inappropriate to the point of dangerous.\nwithout a standard of care, and guidelines regarding protocal to follow concerning situations that may arrive in the health care environment, chaos and injury would surely ensue.\n\nFor instance, if there were no policy regarding using bed rails for patients who are prone to falls, then it wouldn't be established whether to put the rails up or down.  If the person were to come out of the bed and get hurt and questions regarding the bed rails were to arise, then the health care institution could be cited, fined and possibly closed down.  Not to mention the personal liability that the employee faces for being "negligent" in leaving the rails down resulting in the injury of the patient.  People have been sued for such issues.\n\nSo yes, it is important to have standards and guidelines in a health care facility, and the preceding answer justifies the why of the question.
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it's important to have some idea of what the hell a doctor might have written on the chart in order to code it...\n\nand coding correctly is crucial to making sure the patient gets the benefits he's entitled to.
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Your state Health Department would have the answer to your question.  Your best bet would be to find the funding source first, and then determine the process from the guidelines set aside for that particular funding source(i.e. Medicaid, Waiver, Medicare, private insurance, etc).\nBeyond that, you should consider the benefits of exceeding the state mandated guidelines for the benefit of both staff and client.  Happier employees are easier to manage.
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There are many qualites, there are just the ones, I think are important. They're not in any particular order of importance.\n1. You have to be smart to make it through a good college and medical school.\n2. You have to have patience and understand that things won't always happen when you want them to.\n3. You have to sympathize with others. When you're operating and the patient has passed away, you need to tell the family face to face.\n4. You have to be passionate about your job. It's usually long hours.\n5. You have to love the people you treat, each and every one of them. It's hard at times, but even if people don't show, they care about your opinino so much.\n6. You have to have responsibility for your actions. If you have someone the wrong prescription or operated and made a mistake, you have to step up and say, "It was my fault."\n7. You have to be honest, because people appreciate that.\n8. You have to have a reasonably good sense of "people skills" so you can make your patients comfortable in the enviroment.\n9. You have to realize that sometimes your patients needs come before your own and you have to make sacrifices from time to time.\n10. You have to be mature. People trust you, and it's your job to keep their trust and confidence.\nI hope I've helped  you a little.\nJ'adore,\nConnie
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Below is a link to a very complete checklist at the US Department of Health and Human Services - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.\n\nThe checklist has links to several resources to assist you.\n\nGood luck! :-)\n\nEditing to add a link to eBreastaug.com which has a fairly exhaustive link page. Don't let the name throw you, if you can check for one specialty, such as plastic surgery, chances are you can research other specialties.
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Start by reading the book "Business Planing For Healthcare Management" by  Carolyn Semple Piggot\n\nYou may also want to check out the resources in Healthcare Intelligence Network http://www.hin.com/ - it's a members only site but it seems to have excellent resources on the topic. It may be worth while to subscribe
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I'm not a nurse, or a medical professional of any kind for that matter but I have a suggestion.  I know that in the places where I have worked we always had someone in charge safety and/or safety inspections.  If you could get your hands on that persons check list (i.e. things they are supposed to check or look for) I would think that would help you.  If I missed the point entirely just ignore this.
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Because of patient confidentiality...Drug screens along with HIV test or any other test done by employees should be held in the strictist confidence by their employees.
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Communicating with doctors, nurses and patients is very important.\n\nYou have to  understand the doctors.  Relate to other nurses.  And figure out what patients want.
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Health records, when accurate, provide detailed information about the patient. This would include their medical history, allergies, and their previous experience with the procedure about to be performed.\nFor an allied professional this can be very helpful. In getting this information from the patient, a relationship can be developed that will ease the patient's fear about the process.\nTake for instance, a radiology technician. In reviewing health records, he or she can garner knowledge about the patient. Is the sodium level okay? Can she drink the contrast needed to show her her internal organs? Is there adequate kidney function so that the solution can be metabolized properly afterwards?\nThese questions, if not answered by reveiwing health records, can cause harm to the patient and end the student's career before he starts it.
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Sterile technique and Universal precautions. You should not being doing this. A trained healthcare worker should. What are you doing this for?
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Because health information is so senstive and so many regulations must be followed the largest of which is the Healthcare Information Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA).  An IT consultant would not all that needs to be known specific to healthcare of how data is managed, stored, retrieved, protected or shared.
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Minimum Data Set I think, It is state paperwork for coding the care and reimbursement of facilities based on the patients level of care.  Lots of paperwork and careplanning involved in that job.
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It was instituted by the United States Department of Health & Human Services and they continue to be responsible for same.  The law affects the release of protected medical information.  Violations of HIPAA are very steep and strictly enforced.
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To set a uniform standard.  Everyone has their own set of standards or ethics to live by.  You are correct that it is a matter of belief.  It is a philosophy of life (and death?) that is ingrained in us generally as children.  Sometimes our parents teaching does not take effect, or like a child, we decide the rules our parents set down for us are not for us.  At other times our parents don't teach us their philosophy, so society takes over and rules are made (hopefully for the good).  Sometimes, those in authority get a little carried away, then we have things like the Inquisition and Hitler.  Legislators try to take the middle path.  And who knows better than our legislators on how to straddle the fence.
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emts and paramedical professionals are required to generally assess the situation of the patient and communicate the same to the hospital so that the required doctors,medicines,equipments, etc are kept ready and are easily available. this also helps to assess the situations in the hospital prior to the patients arrival so that the required diagnostic procedures can also be kept ready and can be easily performed.emts and paramedicals hence need to know the bsaic anotomy and physiology of the human body whereby they can give as much as possible accurate condition of the patient. they need to hence know a lot of medical terminology scope of which is beyond this questions limits.
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Each of the pairs of principles you have mentioned can be thought of as a continuum with a principle at each end of a scale. Administrative practice consists of finding a balance point for the opposing demands of the principles that makes sense for the population for which the school is being administered. For example, most parents want a school for their children to be just. Some parents however, and the kids themselves, want the school to be democratic. Accommodating the conflicting perspectives and maintaining an atmosphere that promotes good learning and teaching is the challenge of administrative practice.