The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which became Public Law 111-148, is probably the most significant legislation affecting healthcare since the passage of the Social Security Act of 1965. This historic legislation marks a watershed moment for the nursing profession. Through the...
In this personal eye view article Alister shows how the engagement with research leads to reflective practice and greater support for practice. He gives an account of his own journey into research and the advantages that this has given him in terms of his working life. I am just one of a ...
healthcare researchers have worked to gather evidence outlining how those long-term disparities came about. Central to that has been data outlining the role that weathering has played in carving out health disparities.
In 2016, even with Obamacare, there were about 28 million Americans without health insurance. There appears to be a consensus that the current system needs to be transformed, but any health care system comes with trade-offs. Trade-offs mean that there would be some winners and some losers. ...
The same drug may be on tier 2 in one plan’s formulary and on tier 3 in a different plan’s formulary. Formularies change. A plan may add or remove a drug from its formulary or move a drug into a different tier. Usually, plans must inform members in advance if a drug is...
Although mental healthcare is increasingly delivered in community-based settings, narratives of safety pertain primarily to hospital-based mental healthcare. Therefore, through exploratory qualitative interviews and one focus group, we aimed to examine how service users, carers, and healthcare providers ...
I mean, truly. But we who work in it are also unwitting agents for a system that too often does not serve. Why? There's actually a pretty easy answer to that question and explains a lot. Because healthcare was designed with diseases, not people, at its center, which is to say, of...
"The doctor said his heart had a hole. As I stood there, my legs were loose. I don’t think that in all my life I could ever experience the gravity of my son's illness” said a father (P14). The catastrophic burden of care Caring for a child with CHD is difficult due to ...
What Does Hospitality Mean to You essaysIn my opinion, hospitality has existed since the beginning of the human race, because it carries the principle values of the human beings. Through out time, hospitality has played an essential role in our social li
I'm a physician now, a hospice and palliative medicine doc, so I've seen care from both sides. And believe me: almost everyone who goes into healthcare really means well -- I mean, truly. But we who work in it are also unwitting agents for a system that too often does not serve....