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Paper: My thoughts on Treatments in the Mental Health World

My thoughts on Treatments in the Mental Health World Word Count: 1836      Therapy, the age-old question is therapy good for the person or should you just go ahead and medicate them and assume the problem will solve itself. Personally, I think therapy is a wonderful tool for persons to use to finally face and release the troubles they have kept locked away. This however is contingent on the fact that they find a therapist who believes them and is empathetic instead of brushing them off. I chose the topic about psychotherapy and whether it is or is not effective due to having many family members with mental illnesses of varying sorts, I was interested to hear what the panel in the video would have to say about this topic.      The first topic from the video I would like to discuss is patients given medication when what they really want is to find someone who will listen to them and not mark them non-compliant just because they will not take their medication. This also fits under p
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What is Health Services Management?

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When you visit a doctor's office or hospital, you will likely interact with a receptionist, a nurse, a doctor, or maybe a radiologist or other specialist. But behind the scenes, there is a health care administrator making sure the facility runs smoothly. There are many more examples of what job you can have as a Health Care Administrator but here are a few:     -Medical Records Clerk     - Front Desk Clerk (checking-in patients, processing payments)     - Referral Coordinator (when your doctor sends you to a specialist)     - Patient Advocate (where you facilitate patient complaints and try to remedy them with your facility)     -Processing Insurance Claims Health care administration sits at the convergence of business and medicine. It is a field where you can apply your leadership and organizational skills to make a real difference in people's lives. Here are some essential skills you need for Health Care Administrations:     -Budgeting: deliver quality health care while meeti
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My Resume

 Jordan Atkins jordan.atkins.1@hotmail.com Professional Experience   UNITED STATES AIR FORCE – Various Locations 2007-2014 ABILENE DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC – Abilene, TX 2015-2016 MINDLEAF TECHNOLOGIES, INC – Dyess AFB, TX 2016-2017 SIGNATURE REFORMANCE, INC – Dyess AFB, 2017-2020   Medical Records Clerk/Medical Office Clerk   Served as a medical records clerk for 13 years. Trained three new clerks, providing positive guidance for their personal and professional development. Responsible for overall maintenance of 7.3K outpatient records. Scheduled appointments for patients. Compiled, verified and recorded patient records. Reviewed medical records to ensure correctness and completeness. Retrieved and delivered medical records requested by medical providers. Copied medical records keeping within 30-day standards required by Air Force. Maintained a 99% accuracy rate in filing of loose reports. Quick and adept at gathering and recording patients' demographic data. Fam
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About Me

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 Jordan Atkins is currently a student at Tennessee Technological University with a major in Professional Studies with a concentration in Health Services Management. She currently lives in Jamestown, TN but has traveled to many places including several U.S States and overseas to Germany, England, and Japan. Ms. Atkins has 13 years of experience in Health Services Management, 7 of those years in the United States Air Force. She has 1 cat called Auron and 1 Dog called Freyja and enjoys spending time as a homebody mostly playing video games and building cardboard houses for her cat to sleep in/destroy. Meet Auron. Current house for sleep/destruction. Meet Frejya. If you are having a bad day, please watch this video below of her sister's dog Xena chewing on her squeaky toy. Ms. Atkins also has an interest in psychology, here is a website I created for this topic:  Thoughts on Treatments in the Mental Health World . For the paper I wrote regarding this topic, please see the post. entitle
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