The demand for health care workers is growing, as aging in America is far outstripping the newer and younger workforce which is shrinking, given the Double Income No Kids Syndrome, a phenomenon, that is worrying economists not in the US, but elsewhere also. That’s one reason why there are a number of advertisements in other developing countries which match at least 90 per cent of the health care professional requirement in the US. So far this has been for nursing positions. But the day is not far off when other health care workers will also be in demand.
It is a fallacy that Healcare employment agencies only place temporary positions. In fact, they do both permanent and temporary position filling, in hospitals, in private nursing homes, and in private homes also. Giving the aging factor, as represented above, the demand for private nursing of the elderly is going to far outstrip the supply. That’s one reason why the US and other developed countries are scrambling to find professional nurses in other countries, which have at least the minimum standards, which they can help improve once in position, and become more fully qualified.
Generally,companies and employers prefer to employ a professional agency, because they are best suited to screen the candidates, and have special skill sets, to match the requirements with the qualifications. it also saves them the bother of having to screen them, even if they wanted to. Given the time and energy required, it certainly makes sense to outsource it to a professional agency.
Nurses also prefer to go through professional agencies for placement. One reason is that nursing agencies fully understand the trails and tribulations that nurses undergo in hospitals, as they move from patient to patient, dispensing medication, adjusting IVs, and other sundry tasks the physician has written out. In fact, if one were to look at it dispassionately, the doctor spends less than 1 per cent of the time with the patient, when compared to the time the nurse with the patient. And the blame if any for an overdue or oversight lies with the nurse. Plus, they face the public. Sometimes, since they spend time with the patients, it is not unnatural for a bonding to take place, and therefore there is every chance of emotional trauma involved.
All this is understood by the Nursing employment agency, and they try to put them in jobs which merit understanding, care, and emotion. Since it is a highly traumatic job, nurses sometimes prefer to get away after a few years from the hospital or hospice they were in, and move to a different city, or even go in for private nursing, where the trauma is often less, and yes, it is more paying.
There are other health care workers also whose future is in demand. They involve the lab technicians, the radiotherapy technicians, medical secretaries, physiotherapists, etc. The list is large, when you really look at it. Add to this new technology that is streaming in. You have ultrasound operators, CT scan operators, MRI technicians, truama specialists, hospital administrative staff, dialysis technicians.. and more.
As new technologies emerge, these semi-skilled or even skilled technicians and support staff to the doctors also grow.
Since there is beginning to emerge a shortage of such semi or skilled technicians and support staff, it is natural that such shortage would create a demand for these people. And since this involves lives, and there are very strict and rigorous laws regarding treatment, hospitals and doctors would prefer to have a fully qualified, thoroughly vetted professional assisting them. Otherwise they would be liable for huge damages.
Thus it is only right that professional healthcare employment agencies should be used, and sought after by everyone concerned with the health care business.
A word of caution is also necessary. It is imperative that whoever chooses such an agency should first of all be wary, and thorough research of the agency should be conducted before doing business with them. As with others, it is not impossible that there may be a bad apple amongst them as well.
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/health-care-employee-how-to-use-an-employment-agency-703125.html
can you translate this to english to tagalog?
Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.
- Health care" means preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance or palliative care, services, procedures or counseling, including appropriate assistance with disease or symptom management and maintenance, that affects an individual’s physical, mental or behavioral condition, including individual cells or their components or genetic information, or affects the structure or function of the human body or any part of the human body. …
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
A health care provider is anyone who provides health care to another person or persons as a profession.
- means any person, corporation, facility or institution licensed or otherwise authorized by the Commonwealth to provide health care services, including, but not limited to, any physician, coordinated care organization, hospital, health care facility, dentist, nurse, optometrist, podiatrist, physical therapist, psychologist, chiropractor or pharmacist and an officer, employee or agent of such person acting in the course and scope of employment or agency related to health care services.
Health care providers include
1.physicians,
2.nurses,
3.physician assistants,
4.nurse practitioners
5.and other specific provider of health
TYPES OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES:
1.HEALTH PROMOTION AND ILLNESS PREVENTION
Health Promotion – addresses areas such as adequate and proper nutrition, weight control and exercise, and stress reduction. It emphasizes the important role clients play in maintaining their own health and encourage them to maintain the highest level of wellness they can achieve.
Illness prevention- maybe directed at the client or the community and involved in such practices as providing immunization, identifying risk factors for illness, and helping people tae measures to prevent these illness from occurring. It also includes environmental programs that can reduce the incidence of disability and illness.
2.DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
-Hospital and physicians’ officer have been the major agencies offering these complex services.
DIAGNOSIS- the identifying of an illness or disorder in a patient through an interview, physical examination, and medical tests and other procedures
TREATMENT- the application of medical care to cure disease, heal injuries, or ease symptoms
3.REHABILITATION, HEALTH RESTORATION, AND PALLIATIVE CARE
REHABILITATION- is a process of restoring ill or injured people to optimum and functional level of wellness
REHABILITATIVE CARE- emphasizes the importance of assisting clients to function adequately in physical, mental, social, economic, and vocational areas of their life.
PALLIATIVE CARE-providing comfort and treatment for symptoms.
RESTORATION-the return of something that was removed, or the restoring of something to a former condition.
TYPES OF HEALTH AGENCIES
1.Hospital- building for medical care: an institution where people receive medical, surgical, or psychiatric treatment and nursing care
2.Public health- community health: the general health of a community and the practice and study of ways to preserve and improve this. It includes health education, sanitation, control of diseases, and regulation of pollution.
3.Ambulatory Care centers-a medical treatment centre where simple operations are performed on outpatients
-also called “clinic”
- have diagnostic and treatment facilities providing medical, nursing, laboratory and radiological services. They permitted the client to live at home while obtaining necessary health care, and they freely costly hospital bed for seriously ill clients.
4.Occupational health clinics
-is gaining importance as a setting for employee health care.
–it includes screening for such health problems like hypertension and obesity, caring for employee following injury and counseling.
I got as far as Tagalog, then i was lost. Unsure if there is a question in there somewhere
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