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Healthcare Environment
The last few decades have seen the healthcare environment change from one that was dictated by physicians to one that is dictated more by big business and government entities. That is particularly problematic, because that puts healthcare into the hands of people who are not really focused on helping people, and are, instead, focused on the financial aspects of ensuring that people get care. While healthcare should be about taking care of people who are ailing, injured, or sick, it becomes who has the most money or the best insurance provider. There are a number of segments to the healthcare environment, as well, and they all play roles in the mission that involves caring for the health and well-being of the greater society. Among these segments is the pharmaceutical industry, which has provided medicines for more than 100 years so that people with disease and health conditions could be treated. The industry, though, has not changed as much as the overall healthcare environment of which it is a part, however, which means that the pharmaceutical industry has fallen behind when it comes to the proper care of patients.
The research and development times of pharmaceutical companies are extremely long, as they have...
In order to meet current demands, though, these companies should be looking into new ways to conduct business (Tjandrawanata & Simanjuntak, 2012). Currently, it takes between 10 and 15 years and one billion dollars to develop a new medicine and bring it to patients. That drives up the cost and can make the medicine unattainable to many people (Stach, 2006). With that in mind, the pharmaceutical industry needs a more innovative approach to the development and discovery of medicines, as well as better control of expenses. This project will address those needed changes.
Educating healthcare professionals regarding patient simulation is vital, as this has been considered to be a valid method of confirming competency. Simulation works well as an education method, and also as a solution to validate competency assessments of RNs. The lecture format is currently used, but is not as succession. As the development of clinical situations tend to become more complex, there are increasing co-morbidities that have to be addressed with many patients. Nurses need to react with clinical judgment both quickly and appropriately in these…
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