The United States has ranked below other developed countries in maternal morbidity and mortality for several years and has not met the associated Healthy People 2030 goal. Maternal health is a critical factor for the live birth of a healthy infant. Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) along with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are factors […]

Gastrointestinal Function: R.H. is a 74-year-old black woman, who presents to the family practice clinic for a scheduled appointment. She complains of feeling bloated and constipated for the past month, some-times going an entire week with only one bowel movement. Until this episode, she has been very regular all of her life, having a bowel […]

Guided Worksheet 4 Considerations and Challenges for Implementation and Outcomes section Week Five For this worksheet, you will identify considerations and challenges for implementation and the expected outcomes sections of your project. You will post this as your initial post, receive suggestions and questions from faculty and student colleagues, then copy/paste the worksheet contents into […]

Please help  Do you recommend criminalizing healthcare errors as an effective approach to holding healthcare providers accountable for their mistakes? Why or why not?  How can healthcare providers balance the goal of high-quality care with the potential risks and consequences of errors?  Are current legal and regulatory frameworks adequate to address healthcare errors? If so, […]

A healthcare risk management case emerges when a patient sues an outpatient provider due to a missed cancer diagnosis related to a failure to conduct timely and appropriate colon cancer screening. A patient visits an outpatient clinic complaining of gastrointestinal symptoms, but the provider overlooks the patient’s risk factors and fails to recommend or perform […]