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Running head: WESTERN MEDICINE Discussion: Western Medicine
NSP 3185 Professional Ethics and Diversity
Professor Carol Neil
Nerly K. Semelfort
09/29/2019
Western Medicine
Western Medicine is a system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals including nurses, pharmacists, and therapists treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery. The goal of western medicine is to intervene with effective measures
of eliminating or limiting the source of disease, thus promoting healing. Western medicine focuses on pathology and curing of disease while alternative medicine focuses on the health and healing of the person. Western medicine is also driven by science which focuses on how physical
systems in the body function. (
Tseui, 1978). Some components of western medicine are melorism, dominance over nature, activism, timeliness, therapeutic aggression, future orientation
and standardization. Timeliness
Timeliness refers to an appropriate time in which information regarding an event must be used before it loses its ability to influence the decision-making process. Timeliness of care in practice is the ability to quickly provide care after recognizing a need. The timelier a provider, the better their patients' health outcomes. (Stone e
t al., 2019) In nursing, time is the most important thing. Timeliness of care can improve healthcare, health outcomes, patient experience and patient engagement and more. For patients in the hospital being not in their element takes a lot of effort the affects the patient mentally and emotionally. timely delivery of appropriate care can reduce mortality and morbidity. In oncology patience are dealing with a disease that does not
wait for time. In oncology care delivery is made up of the measurement of a patient's perceptions
of care experiences. Time in their case helps them to become diagnosed before the disease progression is fatal. (Stone e
t al., 2019)
Standardization
Standardization is been defined as the process by which healthcare products and services are chosen by a committee of stakeholders, factoring evidence-based results, to ensure quality patient care while adhering to responsibility. Standardization also brings innovation, first because it provides structured methods and reliable data that save time. (
Rosoff, 2004). Standardization ensures that products, services and methods are appropriate for their intended use. Standardization decrease ambiguity and guess work, guarantee quality care, improves clarity
giving employees protocol and guidelines. In Healthcare medication by nurses are given through protocol and standards of the organization. Without protocol the wrong patient could consume the wrong medication leading to death or injury. (
Rosoff, 2004).
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