Long Term Health Care Unit
Health Care Workforce/Personnel:Q#1ANSWER;The health care provides do have a responsibility to repay the tax payers to meet their medical needs. This is so because the people pay taxes to the government to avail the public facilities like education health care etc. that the government provides. They do have social responsibility since the social position and the high compensation that they enjoy is due to tax payers.Q#2ANSWER;Health care is a field which can directly affect the health and well being of people and hence is a very responsible field where the acceptable margin for error is very low. This is a field where experts are preferred more often than any other field, even more than research. But it is also a very costly sector. Equipment, consumables, personnel are all costly.Cross-training personnel might offer higher cost efficiency and also flexibility. Non-medical job positions in a hospital can be done sufficiently well by cross trained professionals. The perk here for the workers is that it breaks monotomy where a person is stuck with a single repeated routine year round. Cross-trained workers can switch between positions as the need arises. This also provides the management flexibility in assigning unexpected load in particular tasks. Lets say there is a sudden need to clear all accounts within the month end people from front desk can be switched to handle the load.
Q#3ANSWER;Nursing is very crucial essential facet of healthcare now a days in united states in which elevating multicultural race and population that imposes an important challenge to health care practicing nurses to ensure and in providing essential holistic care to patients.Males are not attracted much towards this profession due to sensitivity of it. Also, males can do other jobs more easily than it.Health Care Financing:Q#1ANSWER;The health insurance industry: although the health insurance industry is for reducing the cost of medical care for its insurers but their increase operating cost and increased insurance premium has finally increased the cost of health careAdvanced in medical care technology: The advancement in medical care technology has increased the cost of health care and also increased use of medical technology has affected the cost at higher side and they are major contributors in the cost.Changes in U.S. Demographics: The proportion of elderly person is increasing so the cast of health care and elderly need better access to intensive care units and more high-tech medicine to extend their lives.Government support for health care: Government support for health care services are acting like some kind of balance in the cost and medical benefit to many needy person at reduced cost.Consumer expectations: when the consumer expectations increased, automatically the cost of health care services will be increased. because of higher expectations, the service providers have to be fulfill their expectations. for that they may required to pay higher amounts to professionals. higher amounts should be collects from the patients.Q#2Answer Just as society tries to ensure that no one starves by providing food stamps, etc. it makes sense that some medical procedures would be available to all based on need and not on ability to pay. A classical example are vaccinations against common diseases. On the other hand, there are some medical procedures which very few people would agree should be available to all without pay, but which most people are perfectly willing to have those can afford them pay for them. A classical example are cosmetic surgeries such as liposuction, breast augmentation, etc. So very few would agree that it is all one way or the other as in our question.