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Trends in Maternal and Child Care
Trends in Maternal and Child Care
Trends in Maternal and Child Care
The settings for maternal and child health care are changing to better meet the needs of increasingly well-informed and vocal consumers
Managed Care
Managed Care refers to a system of health care delivery that focuses on reducing the cost of health care by closely monitoring the cost of personnel, use and brands of supplies, length of hospital stays, number of referrals requested.
- Limiting the number of hospital days. Before managed care, women stayed 3 or 4 days after childbirth; today they rarely stay over 48 hours.
- Distribution of personnel. Before nurses completed al care procedures for patients, no matter how small or unskilled the task. Today with managed care ancillary personnel such as unlicensed assistive personnel, perform many tasks under the supervision of the nurse.
e.g. preterm labor that has been halted, hyperemesis gravidarum and hypertension.
They are allowed to return home on medication with continued monitoring. The routine hospital stay for mothers and newborns after an uncomplicated delivery is now 2 days or less.
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT OF 2007 Filed on October 2, 2007 by Defensor Santiago, Miriam
Long title: AN ACT GRANTING FAMILY AND TEMPORARY MEDICAL LEAVE UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES
Scope: National Legislative status: Pending in the Committee (10/3/2007)
Delegation
is the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities.
However the person who delegated the work remains accountable for the outcome of the delegated work. It empowers a subordinate to make decision.
Accountability
is a concept in ethics and governance It is often used synonymously with such concepts as responsibility,answerability, liability, and other terms associated with the expectation of account-giving.