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Oral History vs the Clinical Record

story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...

Do Not Resuscitate Orders

This paper argues that DNRs should be eliminated form the hospital setting. An annotated bibliography (containing four sources) c...

Implementing Six Sigma at the Academic Medical Hospital

manner. This is an important time for AMH as the system can be rolled into other departments. 2. Current Issues and Opportunities...

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING AND HEALTH CARE

basic change in both direction and strategy that would impact the way in which an organization is structured (Business Definition ...

Health Issues in Managed Care

This research paper offers brief discussion of 3 issues pertaining to managed care, which are the advantages and disadvantages of ...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

Issues in Clinical Practice: Infant Abduction

justify its relevance to health care. The severity of infant abductions from hospitals should not be gauged by the frequency of oc...

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Security Concerns

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

Nursing Concerns at Large Hospital System

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

Johns Hopkins Hospital Improvement Assessments

is the worlds leading medical facility. Associated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the hospital has seen the bir...

Cost Management to Reduce the Cost of Oxygen Supply for Hospital

a change within a health organization to reduce the costs associated with the provision of an essential resource; oxygen, without ...

Reflection on a Project To Reduce Oxygen Supply Costs

care. The idea of reducing the costs associated with oxygen while not having a direct impact on staffing levels of quality of care...

Clinical Nurse Leader Project

for improving nursing systems. II. Introduction and Background XYZ Hospital is a suburban hospital, serving a regional populati...

Application Of Watson’s Care Model in the Clinical Setting

well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

Policies in Long Term Care

to improve the system will grow, raising key policy issues" that cover all dimensions of the political landscape (Feder, Komisar, ...

The Impact of Reimbursement Strategies on Healthcare Revenue

which was potentially the first ever schedule of physician charges (Jost, 1988). Today the issue is not as simple with a far more ...

Saving the Bilby Graveyard

all be traced, making the site one that not only documents history, but puts it in a meaningful context for the resident and visit...

SECURITY AT ST. JOHN’S HOSPITAL

isnt being seen - and read - by unauthorized personnel (such as the cleaning crew or perhaps the cleaning crews friends). The like...

Hospital-Acquired Infections and the Vulnerability of Medicare

costs to the tune of more than $10,000 dollars and also have to stay in the hospital an average of 3 to 4 days longer than they wo...

Preventative and Curative Health Care: An Economic Approach

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

Concept Statement: The Intelligent Bed Module

number of patients at any given time, and as such sometimes experience difficulties with tracking patients and with ensuring that ...

The Use of Presurgical Washing

& Wann-Hansson, 2010). The use of evidence-based best practice protocols introduced preoperatively by nursing staff can help to r...

WIRELESS NETWORK AND HOSPITAL

Aside from security risks, there are other problems with going wireless - one of which is, believe it or not, interference from te...

Filmless Radiographic Imaging - An Overview

obvious. By and large, film cameras have been replaced with consumer grade digital cameras, and more people now take photographs w...

PRESSURE ULCERS, HAC AND PREVENTION

which to do this. Pressure Ulcers and the Hospital Acquired Condition The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as w...

Needs Assessment and Simulation

evaluated stated that they are predominantly "hands-on learners." Eight of the 10 nurses evaluated stated they were hands-on lear...

Practices for Budget Management and Monitoring

compromising organizational goals. The first thing one should look at is revenue. The 2009 revenue for the hospital is reflected...

Jackson Memorial Hospital, An Overview

to be one of the finest healthcare institutions in the country. Founded in 1918, this 1500 bed facility is an accredited, tertiary...

Nursing Options for Patton Fuller Community Hospital

higher salary would increase job satisfaction, the ability to raise nurses salaries in light of successful budget performance woul...

MISSION, VISION AND STRATEGY STATEMENTS FOR A CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Though mission statements and vision statements are often confused with one another, they actually do two different jobs. A missio...