Healthcare System and Regulatory : Question and Answer

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HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND REGULATORY
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HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND REGULATORY1
Referring to Question 1
The traditional hospital delivers multiple services toward the patients. The services
include laboratory testing, intensive care, maternity, surgical services, advanced imaging,
radiology, and more. Patients feel comfortable to visit a hospital as they find multiple
disciplinary services in a single platform. However, pharmacies, home healthcare
organizations, and ambulatory surgical centers are beneficial in delivering specific care to the
patients. Patients visiting the hospital are prescribed with medications. Pharmacy plays a vital
role in providing drugs to the patients, along with explaining the procedures of intake of the
medication (Alexander et al. 2014). Patients have their freedom of choice in availing of their
medicines. The hospital provides multiple services internally; however, due to the lack of
stock or inventory and scarce resources, independent pharmacies play a critical role.
Home health organizations play a major role in delivering care, especially to the adult
populations. These home health organizations provide services such as nursing services and
other therapeutic services. They meet the federal government guidelines and provides
additional care to the patients (Mankowska, Meisel and Bierwirth 2014). Patients do not have
to visit the hospital, and elderly people find it difficult to visits hospitals for routine follow-up
or other health-related issues. The home health organization improves the quality of care as
compared to the hospital. Hospital is a place where every age group of people visits, and due
to the larger inflow of patients, there are chances of lower satisfaction or poor experience of
care by the older adults. The home health organization is competing with a hospital in
respecting, providing support on a daily basis, availing the support from skilled nursing at
home, provides an effective diet, help in medication management. Besides, home health
organization provides effective health outcomes as they focus on the individual instead of
entire groups. Moreover, the cost of a home healthcare organization is lesser comparing to
the traditional hospital.

HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND REGULATORY2
Ambulatory surgery centers provide surgical procedures or services on the same day.
Therefore, it is also known as outpatient surgery centers (Fox et al. 2014). Hospitals have
more resources and manpower for performing any surgery, and hospital runs 24 hours.
Unlike ambulatory surgery centers, usually works under business hours. The significant
benefits of ambulatory surgery centers are patients who do not have to wait for a queue for
being operated. It is a cost-effective approach comparing to the hospitals, where patients do
not have to admit and stay longer for the recovery procedure. The ambulatory service centers
work in a team where a physician works conveniently and tailor facilities as per the needs of
patients. Another benefit of this center is it allows patients to communicate with the physician
directly without any wait time and intensify the quality of care.

HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND REGULATORY3
Referring to Question 2
a) In person-centered care, the healthcare provider involves making a decision. The
patient's age was 21 years old, and he uses an e-cigarette. As a physician, adopting the
shared-decision approach is more effective in making any ethical decision. Here, the
patient won't be forced, and the opinion of the patient would also be considered. By
providing a copy of the American Lung Association, the patient would understand the
risk of vaping and would discontinue the use of it.
b) The brochure includes multiple information and videos regarding the effects of
vaping. However, by explicitly mentioning the 'death of 22 years old', the patient
would able to co-relate himself or herself with the circumstances. In the shared
decision-making approach of ethical communication, the patients tend to respond to
the exact data or benefits of any circumstance and bring the changes accordingly. The
video consists of a similar age to the patients. As a physician, it is important to inform
the patient about the harmful effect of e-cigarettes.
The risk assessment is important as most of the patients are not aware of the post effect of
any unhealthy behavior or practices. The physician often finds an ethical dilemma in
revealing the mistakes of patients or disagreement with patients or their families. In this case,
also, the patients use e-cigarettes, which is very much harmful comparing with traditional
tobacco products. The effect of Vaping can be observed within the timeframe of 1 year.
However, people choose to adopt the usage of e-cigarettes by knowing the consequences.
Therefore, a physician often finds it difficult to communicate directly to the patients about
their unhealthy behaviors. A physician needs to consider the ethical decision that would
improve the health outcome of the patients.