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Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

Should A Nursing Manager Quit?

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Using Crew Resource Management In Health Care

into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

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

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...

Duke Children’s Hospital; Introducing the Balanced Score-Card

of dissatisfied customers (patients and their parents) ad they were making losses which were increasing. The drive for change ofte...

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...

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 ...

Miami Valley Hospital & Performance Management

degree (Barnes, et al, 1999). At a time when many healthcare facilities were moving away from clinical ladders, Miami Valley Hos...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nosocomial Infections

This research paper reports on recent studies that concern the most prevalent pathogens causing nosocomial, that is, hospital-acqu...

Assessing Risk in Critical Care

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the problem of infections contracted in the hospital setting and considers the i...

Nursing Leadership and Hospital Strategic Planning

This research paper presents a discussion of the nursing leadership role in regards to hospital strategic process planning. Five p...

Reducing Staff Healthcare Facility

Most healthcare facilities today are short staff, especially nurses. Still, this paper discusses things to consider when reducing ...

Health Care Seeking Behaviors

Many elements converge to determine whether or not an individual will see a physician or go to a hospital, or avoid the system ent...

Health Care Reimbursement, Its Future

This research paper discusses reform trends pertaining to hospital reimbursement. Several new Medicare rules and initiatives are d...

Nursing Director, Hospital Hiring Practices

This research paper discusses hospital hiring practices and policies and specifically focuses on the position of nursing director...

Outsourcing Hospital Functions

This research paper explains how many hospitals are turning to outsourcing, that is contractual arrangements with outside vendors ...

MRSA Article Critiques

This paper critiques three articles that focus on the control, treatment and prevention of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant...

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...

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...

Financial Planning at Patton-Fuller Community Hospital

in 2009 leading to an overall loss of $41,390 (Patton-Fuller Community Hospital, 2010a). Ultimately, the ending cash and cash equi...