Quality Over Quantity Of Medicine

his or her patients feel better. However, there are cases where a doctor can only do so much.

The intended use of medications is meant to improve a person’ health, it is very important the individual administering medication or self-medicating use the drugs correctly, by following the doctors’ instruction for the medication prescribed. Medication is given to diagnose, treat, and prevent illness. Medication can be very dangerous, which can potentially cause harm or even deaf if it’s not used properly.

As the medical field is growing at a very fast pace, one must always remember that the patient always comes first. After all isn’t helping individuals get healthier in their time of sickness the sole purpose of becoming apart of the medical profession? As a practicing pharmacist, my sole purpose will be to aide all my patient’s needs in whatever way that they need to be assisted in.

In addition to exploring and identifying contributing factors to health-related quality of life or HRQL, Gorecki et al also determined if there is a relationship between health-related quality of life (HRQL) outcomes and these contributing factors. While this latter objective cannot be quantitatively determined, Gorecki et al have determined from their study that there are indications that indeed, HRQL outcomes are influenced by the identified contributing factors among PU patients. The contributing factors discovered and identified in the study were the

The United States is constantly changing and with it there are bound to be changes in how we care for our patients. Nurses must be diligent and learn about their patients and the individual’s cultural values. The Health Assessment tool is important in learning about a patients way of life and preferences on how the want to be treated. According to Leininger (1991), “health refers to a state of well-being that is culturally defined, valued, and practiced, and which reflects the ability of individuals (or groups) to perform their daily role activities in culturally expressed, beneficial, and patterned lifeways” (Creasia & Friberg, p. 109). This is essential to avoid conflict and stereotyping, and help with increasing dialog that can help the healing process.

The purpose of medicine is as contested of a notion as the term patient. While there are certain ends in which it is clear that medicine seeks to achieve, controversy often arises over how medicine chooses to achieve these certain goals. One such controversy is the treatment of patient-symptoms, more specifically, the role of medication in treating patients. The purpose of this essay is not to discuss the general issues of prescribing medication. Rather, the purpose is

Patients seek medical attention for preventative measures, as well as, diagnostic measures. Patients must have a trusting rapport with their collaborative medical team, as the nurses and the doctors are the people who they trust their lives with. Patients do not always present to hospitals, urgent cares, walk-in clinics, or even doctor’s offices only when they are sick; patients visit to ensure their good health will continue, treatment regimens are of benefit, changes that may be needed in regimen. When someone thinks of a patient they may think of some of these characteristics: illness, disease, hospital, medications, health, and prevention.

A. Explain how your own perceptions about quality of life and health promotion might affect your care for a dying patient with a lingering illness such as cancer My perceptions about quality of life are that every one lives with happiness and enjoyment in a health way not only on physical but also on mental. Happiness and enjoyment of life may be various, because different people have their unique expectation about their lives to meet their defined happiness and enjoyment based one their own education, culture, religion and experience. Those factors affect their satisfaction in some degree about their lives. To be simple, quality of life is to live with healthy, emotional and social wellbeing (Quigley and Watts Ltd).

When delivering care to a patient, their wellbeing includes more than just their physical state; patient’s wellbeing also contributes to their mental and emotional state. Nurses need to view the whole patient because it uses a holistic approach and can stimulate further healing. Sandra, one patient in the module, had numerous problems when she visited her nurse. However, the nurse looked at Sandra in a holistic way; the nurse knew that Sandra could improve her lifestyle by helping Sandra determine the stressors in her life. Sandra discovered that her diet impacted her fatigue, anxiety, and depression levels and her eating habits contributed to her gas and bloating. With a change in eating habits, Sandra lost weight, slept better, and reduced the dosage of some of her numerous medications. All three aspects of Sandra’s wellbeing: mind, body, and spirit, were accomplished by using a holistic approach. I will implement the whole person approach in my career because it incorporates the patient’s physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing which is a central idea that we as nurses strive to

There are many health professionals out there who do help patients out, but some professionals like doctors don’t know to treat their patients or how to make patients at easy if something goes wrong. The doctors should have a lot of confident, experience, and treat patients with easy. According to “Wedmed” “Doctors traits should be Confident, empathetic, humane, personal, forthright, respectful, and thorough” (2006). The reason is because patients shouldn’t feel like they are patient of some type of game to that they don’t get better. If they don’t want to treat patients and their families right maybe they should not be part of the this type of professional because it does take a lot of schooling and a lot of time form this type of work. There

Essential components of QOL include human condition whether if it is physical, psychological, social, cultural, or spiritual. QOL is strongly worked by subjective health professionals are able to adjust their practices by assessment of the QOL of the patient. Studies related to the quality of life of a patient can bring knowledge to improve the quality of health interventions as well as assist them in planning and implementing actions that can promote improvement in their life.

Like the other metaparadigm concepts, health is also quite general. Health does not deal with well being in a strictly clinical manner. The concept of health must include an individual's physical, mental and social well being. A person's health must be seen as relative, as it range is quite broad, as it goes from a high level of wellness to terminally ill (Fawcett, 1996). “A person does not need to be disease free to be healthy; rather one must simply maximize optimal potential to be in a healthy state” (Selanders, 2010, p. 85). It is the responsibility of nurses to identify where the patient's health may be on that scale and to take steps to improve their health.

However, healing implied the mobilization of the body, mind and spirit to control symptoms, promote a sense of well-being, and enhance QOL are the goals of chronic care (Eliopoulos, 2014) which nurse serve a healing role. Pender’s Health Promotion Model is an explanatory model of health behavior that emphasizes the role of expectation in the shaping of behavior (Pender et al, 2006) which can improve quality of life. According to the study about An Explanatory Model of Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Chronic Disabling Conditions of Stuifbergen, Seraphine and Roberts (2000) the results indicated the effects of severity of illness on quality of life were mediated partly by health-promoting behaviors, resources, barriers, self-efficacy and acceptance.

The World Health Organization defines quality of life as a person’s perceptions of their position in life in the setting of the culture and value systems in which they live in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns (Krageloh et al., 2011). The WHOQOL-100 was developed by the World Health Organization composed of many different doctors and other healthcare providers in order to develop an assessment that could be used internationally and cross-culturally to measure a person’s overall quality of life and well-being, instead of a specific disease. This assessment led to the development of the WHOQOL-BREF, which is an abbreviated version of the WHOQOL-100 because the WHOQOL-100 is too lengthy for practical use; WHOQOL-BREF includes instructions for administering and scoring the assessment. The purpose of this assessment is to provide quality assessments in healthcare, focus attention on all aspects of health, and produce interventions that increase focus on a patient’s well-being (Harper, 1996). There were three main stages to the development of the WHOQOL assessment. The first stage of development consisted of the establishment of a definition of quality of life and how the assessment would be used internationally. The second stage of development explored the quality of life cross-culturally among different fields to establish relevance to the quality of life assessment. The third stage of

The primary disposition towards medicine involves the telos of medicine; that is to do no harm, and to heal and make better. This teleological purpose is fundamental/integral to the practice of medicine. (SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HIPPROCRATIC OATH). Health as an end purpose of medicine can be related to the human species’ desire to be in a position advantageous to survival. This may be related back to the evolution of humans, and the ‘survival of the fittest’; the idea of continued existence of an organism if it possesses characteristics that will ensure its survival and ability to produce offspring to carry on genetic material. Hence, the biological purpose of a species, including humans is to ensure its survival by reproducing. However in order to do so one must have a sufficient level of health to be able to reproduce. Nowadays, there is an additional emphasis on the importance of health in living a good quality of life, especially in an ageing population that has been partly/largely the result of advancing medical solutions.