HOW TO PROVIDE BETTER CARE

How to Provide Better Care

Abstract

The combination of demographic change and limited budgets is forcing health care like any other economic sector to increase value-added process. While concentrating on performance and service scope as well as rise-demanding, it must take action in order to provide better results with the same staff. Against this backdrop, most hospitals, rehabilitation clinics, nursing homes, medical organisations are more involved with projects to reorganise its quality management or process management in order to improve its processes and reduce risks and unacceptable medical care for patients. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the health care sector and describe the unacceptable actions in health care.

How to Provide Better Care

Introduction

Health care as a profession has a social mandate to contribute to the good of society through knowledge-based practice. Knowledge is built upon theories, and theories, together with their philosophical bases and disciplinary goals are the guiding frameworks for practice. As a discipline health care needs multiple theories that embrace diverging paradigmatic perspectives. If health care is limited to being an applied science then borrowed knowledge will continue to be used for guiding practice and nurses can relinquish opportunities to conceptualise their own theories about human health experience. (Alexander 2002, Pp: 5)

While caring for the sick, health care considers a person as a person formed under the influence of certain social and cultural environment. This view of rights is a prerequisite for understanding of a person's feelings and needs in the spiritual, emotional and religious matters. Nursing care consists of the application of professional knowledge and experience of building trust relationships. It should be designed for the appropriate needs of the person needing care (Falcone and Broyles 2004, Pp: 583-95).

Health and illness are considered as a complex, dynamic interaction of subjective and objective state of mind of the human condition. It tries to provide support and assistance to a person in the current life situation (Smith and Liehr 2008, Pp: 18-25).

Discussion

The nature of health care involves various dimensions:

•Preventive

•Curative

•Palliative

These dimensions also rely on our relationship to time of disease. Indeed, care will prevent the preventive health and / or prevent the prevalence. Second phase consists of curative and palliative care in proportions depending on the state of health and future of the person (Falcone and Broyles 2004, Pp: 583-95). Thus, concerning the management of an acute disease, the proportion of palliative care is virtually nonexistent; the curative care occupies most of the area of care. The terminal phase describes the last moments of life, only palliative care are present because the curative and preventive care are no longer needed. (Billings and Kowalski 2006, Pp: 248-249)

The health care requires the following skills:

Technical quality of gestures made with dexterity;

Relational quality that is the heart of care.

These criteria allow the quality of care. There are many other criteria but these two are fundamental. The mission of health care in society is to help individuals, families and groups to identify and realise their ...