Question

Upon your arrival at the hospital, the nurse specialist examines you and consults with the radiologists, the gastroenterologist, and the general surgeon. Your medication is reviewed by the pharmacist and your meals by the clinical nutritionist. Throughout the hospitalization, you are followed by a hospitalist. Once you get back home, the home care team comes to see you regularly for the first 2 weeks, and the certified physician assistant (PAs) and the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) see you in the office. You realize that health care is no longer just about doctors and nurses. Explain the roles that of these healthcare workers provide to the hospital and the patient. In other words, I want you to explain the functions of each of these types of healthcare workers and describe why they are important to the health of the patient. You are interested in clinical care, as well as public health. I need to make a choice, you think to yourself. “Not necessarily,” your advisor says. “There are many ways to combine clinical care with public health.” After a little investigation, you find out that undergraduate public health education is increasingly seen as preparation for clinical education, and clinical prevention and population health are increasingly becoming part of clinical care. In addition, many careers, from health administration, to health policy, to health education, to clinical research, combine the individual orientation of clinical care with the population perspective of public health. So what is the best pathway to a public health career for you and why?

Answer 1

The health care system not only includes doctors but also variety of other staff. The physician assistant has a very important role because doctor can't get time to write the notes and repeating the same prescription. Here the physician assistant can play a major role. They are trained in such a way that they can easily grasp what physician orders and can understand the treatment plan easily.

Nurses are the core staff in the hospital who are involved in patient care .In the similar way many other health care workers like laboratory technician, x ray technician,pharmacist and the waste management personal all have an important part to play.