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Non-Clinical Director Functions

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

Gov. Regulation at Bon Secours/DePaul Medical Ctr.

laws of the state and to prevent "illegal operations, e.g., operating without a license" (VDH). Regulations that are adopted by t...

Nursing Leadership Scenario

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

Marketing and Budgeting for a Recycling Project

eliminate the risk of non compliance and simply use new equipment each time. With mass production techniques it was possible to pr...

Research Study Proposal/Hand washing

to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...

Business Process Objectives

quality of the customer service. The measures here will be against the expected levels from past visitors as well as the levels co...

Staffing the VA Outpatient Clinic

and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its...

Balanced Scorecard; Financial Objectives

as such this will also lead to patient satisfaction. The cost per patient or per visit may be measured in financial terms; this ...

Learning and Growth Objectives

of that knowledge and create cost savings with the way it is implemented, such as new procedures, or new ways of managing old proc...

Balanced Scorecard Objectives

numbers and then as a percentage on yearly basis. The measure in the first year for reference only, in the second year the numbe...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Organizational Structure and Patient Care

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

MRSA Infection

a part of the normal flora of human beings and colonizes the anterior nares (Nicolle, 2006). However, it is also a significant pat...

Humanistic Leadership & Nursing Unions

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

Identification Of Alternative Plans And Actions To Improve Levels Of Performance

so as to implement an effectively working TQM program. However, in order to achieve the highest plateau in relation to quality, D...

Creating a Sexual Health Clinic

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

Missed Nursing Care/Research Article Critique

reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...

Coping with Being Understaffed

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

Family Values/ICU Environment

and the church" and encompasses "spirituality, social support, and traditional, non-biomedical health and healing practices," whic...

Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2009

which are factors that are likely to have a beneficial affect on the chronic nursing shortage that is currently affecting the heal...

Fourteen Forces Of Magnetism - Case Study

the others (Trofino, 2007). Those 14 Forces of Magnetism provide the conceptual foundation and basis for what became the Magnet a...

Pros and Cons of QII

of projects is critical to the success elements affecting the Six Sigma program (Antony 3). Prioritization is often based on subje...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

Impact of Professional Environment on Nursing Knowledge

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...