The patient spent most of his time on the right hip. The left shoulder is slightly elevated compared to his right shoulder, and his slightly more forward. He has an anterior pelvic tilt, with hyperextended knees. He walks with an AFO on his right foot, which is slightly pronated. The patient mental status was alert, aware,…
She notes recent increase in her left elbow pain. The patient has acute pain flare up of her elbow pain. She states she never had PT for her elbows. Pain is rated at 5-6/10.…
When you visit the doctor’s office a person doesn’t think about all the steps it takes to process your visit and what the office does to receive payment from the insurance company. As a patient, the focus is seeing the doctor, telling him or her the symptoms, getting the doctor’s assurance that your health will be back to normal in a few days to a week and getting a prescription for medication. There is a process to making the following steps work smoothly and precisely. The procedures begin with preregistering the patient, establishing financial responsibility, check the patients in, reviewing coding compliance, reviewing billing compliance, check out patients, monitor payer adjudication, generate patient statements and finally follow up payments and collections. Each step has to be done thoroughly by attaining the information necessary to process the claim for the care provider.…
Term Paper Proposal: Clinical Case Assessment Research Paper Introduction The character, Melvin Udall, from the film As Good As It Gets (1997), played by Jack Nicholson, will serve as the client for this case study. Previously, Melvin, a successful author, received a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder by his psychiatrist, Dr. Green.…
ABSTRACT Based on studies access to healthcare services and long waiting time, is one of the main issues in OECD countries including Canada and United States. Healthcare organizations can’t increase their limited resources nor treat all patients simultaneously. Then, patients’ access to these services should be prioritized in a way that best use the scarce resources. Some challenging aspects in patients’ prioritization problem are; considering multiple conflicting criteria, incomplete and imprecise data, associated risks that threaten patients on waiting lists, uncertainties in clinicians’ decisions, involving group of decision makers’ opinions, and system’s dynamic behavior.…
Being presented with evidence based articles such as the ones provided by Mr. Jones, influences my teaching by changing my initial patient evaluation process. With this information in hand there are certain characteristics about Mr. Jones that I immediately know about him, such as his level of education and his self-efficacy. These initial pieces of information influence how the session will unfold. The level and complexity at which the conversation and material are delivered are impacted by his educational abilities and interest in his health outcomes. It is important to acknowledge Mr. Jones’ information as being important, whether he is information literate or not, recognizing his efforts for self-advocating and to self-manage is significant.…
When it comes to worldview the patients ‘care different from my own, I provide care with comfort, respect, and dignity. I keep open mind to understand their concerns and religious belief or practices as they need. I treat each patient with respect and dignity as they deserve. Not only that, I also respect their religious practices that includes prayer, chanting, and try not to interfere on them. If I don’t’ have enough knowledge of their ritual prayer, being simply present and participating in healing services may help to provide support and comfort to them.…
9:10pm This undersigned witnessed patient standing in the hallway facing the nursing station when he turned around his foot was rolled over by a peer in a wheelchair. Patient observed extending his hands in front of himself when he lowered himself to the floor landing on his hands and knees. His head did not touch the floor. The patient immediately stood up and positioned himself in the medication line.…
Diagnostic Essay – Expressing an Opinion College is not right for everyone. With that said, everyone is not college material. Some students are not ready to go off to college right after graduating from high school.…
REASON CHIEF COMPLAINT: Re-evaluation initiated; however, patient being discharged. S Patient has no showed for the last two weeks of speech therapy. SLP met him at his room today and he stated he did not want to do speech therapy any longer.…
There are several methods to acquire feedbacks to improve quality care. One way is patient’s survey, it can be done by mailing questionnaires, interview over the phone or in person. Another way is listening post, it is important to become in tuned to what the patient or customer is communicating. Listening post strategies include focus groups, walk-throughs, complaint and compliment letters, patient and family advisory councils. Patient’s and customer’s feedback is important for an organization growth.…
Test #2 Correction Question 2. Diagnosis Phase: When I first read the question, it reminded me of my multivariable calculus first class session where my professor used an example of a plane being landed in windy weather, to teach us a concept of vectors. Initially, I began to picture the scenario of a plane flying under consideration of wind being involved instead of looking at the numbers. Afterward, I drew the free body diagram of how the problem looked as using numbers and direction. Since the problem stated that the wind approached west of north, I merely drew a line going to the west of north direction within the given angle.…
A patient navigator can be an asset to a health care clinic. Their job focusses on providing the ins and outs of the health care setting. They apply knowledge that helps patients to navigate the healthcare system and receive the timely care they require. When patient navigators started being utilized in clinics and hospitals, they were solely used for cancer care. Now that is has been shown that patient navigators are a vital part of the healthcare team, they are being used to help patients with other chronic diseases.…
A chronic illness is a disease that persists for a long time. There are numerous chronic diseases in the world, many of which are the leading causes of death. At any time, 50% of the population has some sort of a chronic condition. My grandfather is a part of this population, and suffers from type 2 diabetes. Having a chronic disease impacts an individual’s life heavily.…
In my kindergarten classroom, we use a variety of diagnostic assessments. Diagnostics assessments are used to help us determine areas that need clarification, and help us plan future lessons. At the beginning of the year the students were assessed to determine their prior knowledge on math and reading content. Using these results we were given information on our students prior knowledge, which helps us plan instruction that is appropriate for our students. We are currently assessing students over concepts of print for report cards.…