How To Find The Best Help For All Your Medical Needs

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How To Find The Best Help For All Your Medical Needs

Getting the best healthcare for medical needs is often a major concern among consumers. From choosing a healthcare plan that provides good coverage to finding the right doctor, diligent research and smart decision making will help ensure the best healthcare when you need it.

Finding the Best Health Insurance Plans

Having the right health insurance plan is the first step for good medical care. Although no one can foresee a sudden illness or injury, there are many medical needs that can be anticipated. For example, if you have a family history of heart problems, it’s best to make sure that the health insurance plan covers costs like cholesterol-reducing drugs and cardiac screening tests. For those just married and planning a family in the future, having coverage for both doctor maternity and hospital maternity care is essential.

 

The plan should also provide coverage for any medications that you regularly take or medical devices that you need to use, such as catheters or diabetic blood testers. If you have a specialist or primary care physician that you like, be sure these medical care providers are included in the network. Otherwise, you’ll wind up paying a lot more. In sum, identify all the must-haves before purchasing a healthcare plan.

Choosing the Right Doctor for Your Medical Needs

For the most part, a primary care physician is the home base for medical needs. Experts suggest starting with a primary care physician who can recommend the best specialist for your needs, such as a cardiac electrophysiologist if needed. Once it’s determined what type of specialist is needed, you should determine what experience and training are important to you.

 

Knowing where the specialist went to medical school and where the residency was completed are a good start. With a list of possible candidates, you can use Google for more insight into the specialists’ accomplishments, such as published research papers in medical journals. It’s definitely one way to determine the specialist’s strengths and interests. You can also use a specialist’s website to determine what kind of communicator he or she is. Are they available through email? This mode of communication may be important to you.

Where to Find the Best Plans for Your Medical Needs

The Health Insurance Marketplace is now open and a great resource for finding affordable healthcare coverage. Consumers can also find plans that cover pre-existing conditions and essential benefits. At the Health Insurance Marketplace, consumers can review and compare a wide choice in healthcare plans with benefits, network doctors, premium costs and co-pays.

 

Finding the best help for all of your medical needs isn’t rocket science, but it does take careful research and planning. Be sure to compare a variety of plans and doctors before choosing.

By Casey Haslem

Health care and finding what is best for your medical needs is critical.  Good and qualified health care professionals are critical in not just care but guidance.  AICHP offers certifications for health care professionals who seek to better themselves and help others.  Our certifications for health care professionals range from counseling and coaching to nursing.  If you are interested, then please review the program.

Home Nursing: An Alternative To Nursing Homes?

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Home Nursing: Is it Ideal for Seniors?

By Ashley O’Connor

Health care is vital for everyone specially the elderly and the disabled individuals. But it is not just the regular type of health care they need rather the high quality one. For some, they immediately go to a medical facility whenever they need health care. Several medical facilities are readily available willing to provide utmost health care services. With expensive facilities, seniors can rest assured of excellent service. However, there are elderly who prefer to stay and get the care at home.

What is home nursing?

As an alternative to medical facility, home nursing is designed to cater to the needs of seniors in the convenience of their own home. This means all forms of health care needed are performed at home. Thus, there is no need for the elderly to go to the medical facility and stay there to be treated. Patients who opt for home nursing will likely undergo similar services offered in medical facilities. In some cases, the overall environment has an impact on the recovery of the patient.

Primary benefits of home nursing

Is home nursing ideal for your senior? Maybe you are still wondering what benefits you and your senior will enjoy from choosing this option. Just like in heath care centers, home nursing boasts tons of notable benefits.

  • Privacy and Comfort of Own Home – Familiarity is considered as the prime benefit of staying at home. Being familiar with the surrounding makes it more comfortable to move around and stay independent. Some seniors easily get fret if they are in a different environment. Other seniors might not even get enough sleep if they are not at home. Meanwhile, if they are taking home nursing, they can still do their day-to-day routine or they can still stay functional. Being at home could also mean higher sense of security.
  • More Practical (monetary aspect) – For families who do not have extra or sufficient budget for medical facility, home nursing is the most ideal option. Let’s face it. Admitting your senior in a medical facility could mean shelling out certain amount of cash to ensure dependable health care. In home nursing, you only need to allot a budget for the healthcare provider and other stuff needed. Check different rates of medical facilities and compare.
  • More Homey – If you are living with your senior, it would seem like nothing has changed in your daily routine. There are so many things you can still do together including eating dinner or breakfast, watching TV, relaxing at the garden, etc. When you get home from the office, you can still see them waiting for you. And the list goes on. All these scenarios are beneficial to your senior.

Types of home care services

There are numerous forms of home care services. Thus, you need to determine what kind of home nursing service you need for your elderly.

  • Wound Care
  • Physical Therapy
  • Psychiatric Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Medication and disease education
  • Dietary management and education

For basic services, home nursing would be a perfect option. Is it ideal for seniors? There are different basis you must consider to decide whether to go or not to go for home nursing. Always take into account your elderly. Does he/she needs to be in a medical facility? No matter if you live in one of those apartments in Dallas or in a big mansion in Beverly Hills, it is always good to be at home.

 

Learning More About Case Management: Tips on Getting Life Insurance following Heart Surgery

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Tips on Getting Life Insurance following Heart Surgery

Are you interested in obtaining life insurance after having had heart surgery? It may be difficult but not impossible, and the tips listed below should help.  Many Case Managers would suggest these things

1. Wait a year

Your best bet in getting life insurance after you have had heart surgery is to wait at least one year before trying to obtain a policy. This type of policy will be simplified issue and will be available in almost all states. If you acquire guaranteed issued insurance, you will not need to wait a year. The policy will be issued immediately but will take up to two full years at a minimum before it will pay out 100%.

2. Medically underwritten policies

• If you are interested in obtaining a policy that is medically underwritten, you will need to meet certain criteria. It will be necessary for your heart surgery to be a one-time incident. It will also be necessary that you did not have a heart attack or suffered only a mild one. You will need to follow a lifestyle that is healthy for your heart, and you will also be required to have gone through enough time without incident that you are able to go off of any blood thinners. Even if all of these criteria have not been met, you may still be able to acquire a medically underwritten policy that contains what is known as a “flat extra,” which is an additional charge applied to the policy for a specified period of time.

• You will also be required to produce medical proof to your prospective insurer that you are in good health at the present time. This may include an EKG printout, stress test results, or a chest x-ray.

3. Check out a number of companies

You will want to acquire a number of quotes from a variety of life insurance companies to ascertain which agency can give you the best policy at the best price. You can do this on your own or you can go through the services of a reputable agent who will have firsthand knowledge regarding the best life insurance companies for individuals in your particular situation.

4. Lose weight, if necessary

If you tend to have problems with being overweight, it will help your health and your efforts to get a life insurance policy when you shed unnecessary pounds. Insurers consider your current lifestyle when you apply for a policy, and they will not want to see that you are carrying extra weight that could place an unnecessary burden on your heart.

5. Do not smoke

If you are presently smoking, quit the habit and stay away from all tobacco products. There is not an insurer alive who will want to provide a life insurance policy to an applicant who still smokes despite the fact that he or she has had heart surgery.

By following the tips that are listed above, you can greatly increase your chances of obtaining a good life insurance policy even after you have had heart surgery.

Author Bio: Claire Atkinson writes for  Kanetix.ca, a comparison website that has more information on obtaining life insurance

If you would like to learn more about insurance or if you are a qualified nurse or health care professional interested in learning more about case management, then please review the program at AIHCP

What Spiritual Directors need to know about Psychology

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courses in the spiritual counseling program
If you are interested in becoming a spiritual counselor then please review the courses in the spiritual counseling program

If you are interested in becoming a spiritual counselor then please review the courses in the spiritual counseling program

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

Spiritual counselors need to understand more than just their particular spirituality but also need some knowledge in psychology.  Without it, things that are clearly physical can be seen as metaphysical.

Spiritual directors or counselors can help their clients a lot just with basic psychological information about a variety of things ranging from grief to pathologies.  Of course, with this knowledge in psychology, they know when to refer a client to a clinical psychologist or licensed professional.

Spiritual counseling is not a licensed position but a certified one.  This means the state does not regulate it.  This does not mean anyone should just counsel.  Having a knowledge base in psychology is important and critical.

If you are interested in learning more about spiritual counseling, then please review the program.  After taking the core courses in the spiritual counseling program, qualified professionals are eligible for certification.  After three years, the certification is renewed.

In the meantime, enjoy the blog and articles and if you have any questions, please let us know

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The Simple Truth to Meditation

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The article, “The Simple Truth to Meditation”, by Jeff Cannon states

“Throughout your journey you will find moments of joy and pain, birth and renewal. You will witness wonderful things. Just remember that good or bad, they are all moments of empowerment if you learn to look deeply enough.”

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

Meditation has many traditional preconceptions but the reality is it is a good tool to face contemporary life.  it can help calm you, deal with stress and help you face the day.

It also has spiritual values which can make you feel closer to God, or enhancement of your spirituality.

The biggest is probably health.  Many people with bad health with high blood pressure or a bad heart can utilize meditation to find refuge and peace.

Meditation instructors can help guide people to achieve whichever goal they wish with meditation for whatever reason.

If you are interested in becoming a certified meditation instructor, then please review the program.  The program looks to certify meditation instructors after they take the core courses.  After completion of those core courses, a meditation instructor are then certified for three years.  During those three years, a meditation instructor need to practice and earn continuing education hours.

In the meantime, please enjoy the blog and articles.  if you have any questions, please let us know.

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Philippines typhoon aftermath: Religion as solace

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The article, “Philippines typhoon aftermath: Religion as solace”, by Jethro Mullen states

“The day after the typhoon, Father Edwin Bacaltos stepped out of the compound of the Church of Our Mother of Perpetual Help in central Tacloban and began his work.”

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

Where was God admits such suffering and pain?  This is a good question and even Christians in moments of despair, feel the need to call it out.  It is human nature to question and become frustrated but like Job, we must find true understanding.

If our life revolves around a contract with God instead of a covenant, then we do not truly love him.   We are his servants and love him for him, not what he does or does not do.

His will is beyond ours and while blatant suffering is not good, nor willed by the Father, nature nevertheless, in this fallen world does strike.

Human free will can also strike us.  So we must be ready for man made evils as well.  The fact is God is there with us during these things.  The world, as a fallen place, is what hurts us, never our Lord

But in these dark times, God’s presence is felt through the help of other good people, or aid.

Christian Counselors should remind their clients as well, that our God did not merely abandon us and teach us through word only but became man and suffered for us and shared in every discomfort we have.  This is a God of action not a God speaking from a distant throne.

If you would like to earn a certification in Christian Counseling, then please review the program.

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How To Start Meditating — And Stick With It

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How To Start Meditating
How To Start Meditating

The article “5 Ways to Get Your Meditation Practice on Track”, by Michael W. Taft states

“We all know by now that mindfulness meditation can create positive changes in your life. It works, but you pretty much have to practice it every day to really reap the benefits.”

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

Want to Learn How to Start Meditating?

Many times we will start something up, just to later quit it down the road.   This often happens with a new exercise routine or a diet.    It can also happen to meditation.   Lucky there are ways to stick with meditation.

Once you have learned how to start meditating, use these tricks of the trade to stay with it.   Try simple things like scheduling it.    More often than not if you write something down and say at 5 PM I need to meditate, you are more likely to do it.    Something simple as writing it down mentally makes us feel the need to complete it.

Try group meditation.   Social pressure can have a big pull at staying with something.    Having someone else lean on you to meditate with them is an excellent way to stay motivated for something.     By doing this you and a friend can help better each other.

Try to schedule your meditation during the time of day where you will be the least distracted.    During that time turn off your phone, computer, tv, etc and dedicate yourself to your meditation.   Do not let anything stop you.   View it as your personal time.

Meditation is easy to do and to teach if you have the right education.    The American Institute of Health Care Professionals has an excellent online meditation instructor certification.   If you feel you would make a good teacher then maybe this is someone you should look into further.

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The Aspect of Abuse and Children

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Anger Management Certification: The Aspect of Abuse and Children

Abuse introduces a massive change into the life of a boy or girl no matter what the age. Witnessing abuse be in from an outsider, a family member or even worse from one of his or her parents tends to take a heavy toll on the mind and emotional well being of a child. Here are various types of it.

Types of child Abuse

Abuse of children and disregard happens in a reach of scenarios, for an extent of explanations. In this area, we plot diverse manifestations of ill-use which are most generally recognized via research and a percentage of the results of this ill-use for victimized kids and mature people. In damaging homes, kids are infrequently subject to one type of misuse. They regularly preserve numerous manifestations of ill-use on the double. The most intense impacts of kid misuse frequently don’t come to be evident until the misused youngster develops to adulthood, at which focus the grown-up may experience a reach of mental, enthusiastic and social issues identified with youth ill-use.

  • Physical abuse – Physical assaults that might not be kidding criminal offenses if carried out by limited against an alternate case in point, hitting, slapping, or hitting with an article – have been legitimately and socially authorized when perpetrated by a man against his wife and youngster, or by folks against their kids.
  • Neglect – Complaints of disregard has a tendency to get constituted when a guardian or parental figure neglects to satisfactorily accommodate a tyke’s needs through procurement of sustenance, sanctuary and garments, by guaranteeing their right to gain entrance to therapeutic forethought when vital, by giving them mind, adore and back, by practicing sufficient supervision and control of the youngster, by indicating fitting ethical and lawful direction or by guaranteeing that the kid customarily goes to class.
  • Emotional abuse – Emotional abuse alludes to the mental and social parts of kid ill-use, and it is one of the primary drivers of damage to mishandled kids. Numerous folks are zealously damaging without being brutal or sexually injurious. Psychological mistreatment does not just happen in the home. Youngsters might be enthusiastically misused by the educators and different mature people in a position of control over the child.
  • Sexual abuse – Sexual abuse portrays any occurrence in a grown-up captivates a minor in a sexual enactment, or opens the minor to wrong sexual conduct or material. Sexual misuse likewise depicts any episode in which a kid is pressured into sexual action by an alternate kid.
  • Family violence – Family violence or down home roughness, for the most part alludes to the physical ambush of youngsters and ladies by male relatives, ordinarily a father or a male figure.

There can be different kinds of anxieties, bed-wetting, crying at bed times, whining, tantrums, clinging and temporary loss of established self-care skills, all of which can compel parental attention so that they stay with the child all the time. This way, the child ensures that he or she is safe and will be monitored round the clock. This is where Educare can come handy and make children come out of such symptoms. It makes them more confident, independent and self reliant as children, which makes it easier for them to cope up with the situation.

Author Bio

Educare possesses expert psychologist that deals with children who are affected by abuse irrespective of the nature. He feels that educating the parents of their actions can make them deal in an intelligent manner.

 

Anger also plays a big role in abuse.   An Anger Management Certification can be utilized for counselor to help people manage anger and not be abusive.  I hope you enjoyed the informative blog above and also hope you review our Anger Management Certification Program.

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health care life coaches: Five Important Things Before a Doctor Visit

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People regardless of any geographical location consider themselves a patient after 100 degree Celsius of fever or something similar. They contact a doctor and doctor give them medicines, in all they waste their time and which can easily be saved if they wait a bit and go through certain checkups on their own and then decided to go to a doctor if there is a need of it.

Here are few of the checks  recommended by Health Care Life Coaches that you should consider doing on your own before contacting a doctor and paying their consultation fee.

–          Symptom check

Most people, women especially, tend to think they’re “sick” and need to check with a doctor about their illness. Why are you so excited about it? Stop. Take a moment to review the symptoms. Are you actually sick? If the symptoms suggest its normal and you can stay home, rest and get better on your own then you definitely don’t need to visit the doctor.

If the symptoms suggest otherwise, of course that’s when you step out of your home. Many medical websites offer the facility to help you check yourself against symptoms. So you definitely need not to panic.

–          Home Remedies

Now that your symptoms say “yes, you are sick”, you still don’t need to run for a doctor. You’ve heard a lot of people tell you of remedies for every single problem, right? Try those out. Of course not like experiments. Make sure they’re approved, tested and give results. If it is a fever, you know the simple old method of cold wet towel. If it is stuffed nose, you know how to steam it out. Even if it is something a bit bigger, try something a bit better.

Ask your nanny, your old aunt who always keeps telling you “you’ll get ill if you don’t …” or ask any friend who went through the same problem. The best thing to do is look online on medical websites that are trustworthy.

–          Stress check

This is important! Sometimes, it’s just our hectic routine; the change in schedule causes stress on our body. Be it backache, neck stretch trouble, eye pain, hair loss etc, they could only be because of stress. Our body needs rest; it needs us to take care of it.

Give your body some time to get out of stress. Take proper sleep, food and liquid intakes. You yourself will know whether what you’re facing is actually troublesome or not.

–          Not Improving

So before going to the doctor, does a patient really have to wait and go through all these processes which seem like they’ll take forever? No. Today, approximately 177,000 Americans will visit a doctor, even though they have absolutely no symptoms. That is the only reason why I want you to be careful about visiting the doctor unnecessarily. If your problem is a serious one like cardiac pain, genital pain, even unending fever or relentless flu, you surely need to go to the doctor. As soon as you realize your problem is not settling you don’t need to wait anymore. That’s when you run to the doctor.

–          Doctor Check

The last step and of course the most important one is to know whether the doctor you’re going to visit is a professional and renowned one or not. Don’t go and waste your money and time (the least of your actual problems) with a doctor who is just going to play with your money and order needless tests. Know who you will be visiting and prepare before going. Make a checklist of things you’ll need over there too. Like your prescriptions, allergies, reaction to any drug, questions you want to ask, symptoms you’ve been facing etc. Only good doctors will check your history and discuss with you in detail. When you are unclear with the doctor, it may result in wrong diagnosis thus wrong medicine. Also, doctors who just perform unnecessary surgeries and suggest useless tests must be checked before you go.

Visiting a doctor is important but when you are planning to visit unnecessarily, it wastes your time and money. The idea is to keep the above given checks in mind and then if you think visiting a doctor is important then you should not wait for a second more and visit the best doctor for your problem.

About the Author:

Selena  Mitchell use to write about medical and technology related topics.

Health Care Life Coaching can also supply information regarding if a doctor is needed or not.  Health Care Life Coaches not only can help us when we are healthy, but also when we are sick.  If you have a certified health care life coach working for you, then their information and guidance should definitely be utilized.

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Certification in Grief Counseling: A Case for Watching Time of Death

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The article, “A Case for Watching Time of Death”, by Rev. Dr. Martha R. Jacobs

“We don’t always have the luxury of being able to manage our death, but there are options other than aggressive treatment that may be more appropriate for us — depending on whether quality of life or quantity of life is more important to us.”

American Institute Health Care Professionals’ insight:

Certification in Grief Counseling

This is a good blog to remind people of the importance of not avoiding the topic of death with our loved ones.  These are themes and questions that cannot be answered after they are gone and in some cases, not comfortable conversation when the person is sick or terminally ill.

A healthy respect for death teaches us that we live today and should do what is needed.  Grief counselors encourage a healthy discussion of death among family members.  When we have a morbid phobia of death, it can cause problems later.

The blogger encourages people to watch “Time Of Death”, a documentary about this subject to help open up people and their eyes to the reality of death for themselves and their loved ones.

If you would like to take grief counseling courses, then please review the site and blog.  Overall, there are four courses in the grief counseling program.  After completion of those courses, a qualified professional is eligible for certification in grief counseling. If you have any questions, please let us know.

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