Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act

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    industry consists of many different areas such as Dentists and doctors, protective care and nursing, pharmacies, allied medical, health services, and hospitals. With the creation of new inventions and new technology developments the health care industry is catching up with the other leading industries. The Health Care Industry is one of the largest industries catering to the medical needs of innumerable people around the world. These facts that is in this paper will be very helpful to those that are

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    Even the illegal immigrants don’t have a big impact on U.S. wage rates, because most Americans don't directly compete with illegal immigrants for jobs. There is still one group of Americans that would benefit from a dramatic cut in illegal immigration: high-school dropouts. Economists believe that the wages of low-skill high-school dropouts are suppressed by somewhere between 3% and 8% because of competition from immigrants, both legal and illegal. Illegal workers can take the jobs of legal workers

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    that I respect the patient’s rights. The rights of the patient includes the right to receive the organizations patients bill rights, the right to know about their rights, the right to know the hospital adverse effects and the right to access their medical records (Pozgar, 2012). The patients’ bill of rights stipulates the patients’ rights the patients’ rights and sets out the hospitals policy on informed consent, confidentiality, privacy, communication, responsibilities of the patient and the institutions

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    Emergency Care Analysis

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    reading the chapters, one of the major themes in the modules is the emergency care. The emergency care is very critical in a hospital setting and the doctors are expected to maintain due care when they are dealing with the patients. Some of the key lessons learned about emergency care is that the records of a patient in an emergency care together with accompanying documents ought to be well maintained and they should detail emergency directions. Many physicians ignore this aspect, but they never know

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    to health care consumers otherwise known as patients (http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Health+care+service+provider). Health care providers are vital because they are trained to provide health services to patients which help treat illnesses, diseases, broken bones, or any injuries or health issues in which they are trained to treat. One type of health care provider is preventive or public health and they provide treatment to prevent sickness and health issues or to prevent issues from

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    discharge treatment plan and additionally, can care for themselves. Nevertheless, if a patient is well and chooses to return to the street, they maintain the legal right to do so. Patients retain their civil rights even if they are hospitalized, unless a court of law has specifically limited or removed those rights (Disability Rights Washington, 2015). Do hospitals have a legal right to transport undocumented immigrants to their native countries without their consent? The Emergency Medical Treatment

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    the nationwide problem of crowding in the emergency department. Crowding in the emergency department creates delays in care and has been proven to be most prevalent in urban and teaching hospitals across the country. The authors infer that since the institution of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) in 1986, record numbers of individuals seeking care through the emergency department has skyrocketed. Patients either use the emergency department as the first line of care or

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    EMTALA Problem Statement

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    nurses having no formal education or training in Emergency Severity Index Algorithm. These nurses were noted to consistently over-triage and or under-triage patients. Consequently, patients were being assigned inaccurately, slowing down efficiency, frustrating providers, and tying up resources, rooms and nurses. Second, the ED also lacks a formal program for educating staff nurses on the appropriate use of the ESI 5-level triage acuity system. The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) recommends that

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    In the given scenario, I am a family nurse practitioner in a busy emergency room. Early in the evening hours, I am presented with a concerned mother who is seeking medical attention for Paige, her six-year-old daughter. The mother reports the patient has been displaying cold symptoms for a few days with a cough that continues to worsen. The issue that the patient faces is limited access to healthcare providers in the area who accept Medicaid, which is Paige’s health insurance provider. After discovering

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    Going to the emergency room is not something most people want to do. However, on occasion it is necessary to utilize the emergency room services (ED). What necessitates that trip is debatable; social norms, prevailing trends, environmental demographics, culture, individual factors, the perception of illness and access to healthcare have all been discussed. It is not this authors intention to determine the root cause, but merely raise awareness that issues exist. Increased Patient Wait Times Result

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