Healthcare Assignment Paper

Running head: HEALTHCARE ASSIGNMENT PAPER 1
Healthcare Assignment Paper
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HEALTHCARE ASSIGNMENT PAPER 2
Nurses and doctors usually determine the health of the nation and therefore, should be
keen on any care they give to a patient. This is because some attention typically worsens the
patients’ status while others increase the patients’ expenses in the health centre.
Define warranted and unwarranted care.
Warranted care is usually considered acceptable in any healthcare system. As an
illustration, this is a kind of care that is not just good but also desired. The warranted attention
usually occurs because of innovation in treatments or care (Menon, Cunningham & Kerr, 2016).
This includes the provision of high-value health services for all patients. Some of the warranted
attention are as highlighted below. Making the discharge process smoother. This helps to reduce
the bottlenecks and hence, steady patient flow (Peabody & Hauck, 2017). The hospitals should
implement processes which include discharge planning on date of admission in conjunction with
using checklists.
Thwarting the spread of deadly bacteria is also a good practice in healthcare nursing
along with the adoption of the telehealth in order to improve the patient outcomes. As an
illustration, it is stated that platforms which engage the patients before and after surgery usually
gets good results unlike the old approaches (Khobrani, Huckleberry, Boesen, Aljabri &
Patanwala, 2016).
The unwarranted care is where patients are over or undertreated, or treated with wrong
medications for their illness and always harmful for the patients and their families. At times
doctors usually arrive at the right diagnosis but then fails to recommend the right treatments.
These situations typically consist of malpractices which are referred to as failure to treat. These
kind unwarranted care usually occur, especially when the nurse or doctor is dealing with many
patients (Menon, Cunningham & Kerr, 2016). Unwarranted care is partitioned into three