Annotated Bibliography Health Care

I. INTRODUCTION Healthcare organizations today are capable of generating and collecting a large amounts of data. This increase in volume of data requires automatic way for these data to be extracted when needed. With the use of data mining techniques it is possible to extract interesting and useful knowledge and regularities. Knowledge acquired in this manner, can be used in appropriate area to improve work efficiency and enhance quality of decision making process.

The clients to be the center of the NHS and changing the emphasis of measurement to clinical outcomes, which is all relevant for the Fleetwood Hall Home. This act ensures that the policies have a specific standard and delivers a greater voice for the client’s health and safety by providing a better patient-centered approach. This will result in higher accessibility of care and improved health and social care competence. The Health and Social care act 2008 introduced the code of practice for healthcare and adult care for the prevention and control of infection. Some of

I find the uptake of evidence-based practice is one of the fields that has profoundly affected the paradigm shift and is woven into each of the nursing fields, and since wide researches have been conducted so far, it imperative to note that the available material will equip and provide needed assistance. Stevens (2013) argues that the use of the knowledge which is gained from quality improvement efforts will definitely generate evidence needed to make systems improvements and transform healthcare. Therefore, utilizing the available resources in addition to conducting further researches, exploring on well-intended expert opinions and working together with the willing partners from the academy for discovering what works to improve health care guarantees growth of the profession. It is true that there a number of challenges to improving the profession, but there is no magic bullet for bringing success into the practice, several strategies are needed. Furthermore, what works in the context of care should be identified and the context variables implementation.

Introduction People hope and seeks long and healthier lives. Thus, health care is the act of taking preventative or necessary medical procedures to improve people well-being. Improvement or preventative may be done with surgery, the administering of medicine, or other alterations in a person 's lifestyle. These services are usually offered through a health care system made up of hospitals and physicians. Although, the health care system is set up to reduce or to prevent disease etc., there is a gap or disparity in the US health care system.

By using balanced scorecard in healtcare management,which is the Office of Strategy Management,it can help the healtcare industry such as hospitals,pharmaceutical company and many more in focusing on strategy execution and alignment.From this,it can help against cost overruns and ineffificient implementation,as example the cost or fees at hospitals.Bob M.D,(2012). In hospital’s management,Balanced scorecard will get the focus towards the patient and meet the expectations.The patient(customer) are the perspectives that build the strategy map.This also will meet the patient at the hospital with the satisfaction of measurement of progress towards the target.So,when there are issues and problem happen in management,some approach of balanced scorecard can be used and solved,but balanced scorecard (BSC) is not the solvers that will fix everything.By having the innovative and skilled management teams such as the workers itself at healthcare service such as nurses,pharmacist and also human resource department,it can play the good role in helping healthcare organisation in having success in their mission and perform outstanding healthcare services to their patients which is their customers and also to the communities as

Introduction Inter-professional teamwork is a critical aspect in the health care profession. Ideally, taking care of patients is highly complex and requires collaboration between the social and health care professionals. However, many studies show that many professionals are not willing to join forces. This has led to the assumption of the Inter-professional Education (IPE) to help into advancing the Inter-professional Practice (IPP). In the medical grounds, IPE strategy is used to encourage professionals such as doctors, radiographers, nurses, therapists among other health workers, to come together, share their proficiencies and have a chance to interact with the aim of providing a better health care.

The areas comprise of health and the patients' well being. The health of patient is very important as it takes care of an individual's immediate needs because it offers services to patient with chronic illnesses. The well being of patient in other words public health, offers a wide spectrum of services to the community for healthy living standards. These two areas aim at providing as well as improving people's health hence reducing the cost incurred by the health care provider and the patient. Both disciplines ought to work together to ensure optimal health for all

INTRODUCTION The patient-practitioner relationship has undergone several changes in the past decades. It has moved from a paternalistic relationship, in which the practitioner acted as a guardian and made the decisions on behalf of the patient, to a deliberative relationship in which the patient is more autonomous, informed, empowered and involved in decisions regarding his healthcare. [1] Recently, there has been an increasing interest and research in shared decision making (SDM), which is one of the pillars of patient-centred care. [2] Research suggests that engaging patients in healthcare decisions makes a significant and permanent difference to healthcare outcomes. [2] This paper attempts to explore and understand what constitutes the

Work satisfaction was primarily derived from their clinical work, but also from fostering a happy team and from teaching. What is the purpose of this study? The aim of this project is to improve our understanding of how healthcare managers handle the demands and challenges, the motivations and rewards, of a changing service. We know very little about the work experience and attitudes of healthcare managers, but when things go wrong, this group often takes the blame. We will explore the impact managers have on the quality and outcomes of patient care, and we also want to find out how changes to working practices are managed after serious or ‘extreme’ incidents.

PHARMACIST-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP: Optimal medication management requires an effective relationship between the patient and health care professional. As pharmacists move from the traditional dispensing role to become more actively involved in patient care, factors influencing their relationship with patients need to be identified. A better understanding of these factors will facilitate more effective relationships. Pharmacists' professional roles have transformed to include provision of information, education, and pharmaceutical care services. These changes have resulted in a focus on collaborative pharmacist-patient professional relationships, in which pharmacists and patients both have roles and responsibilities.