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Hospital Social Work

evolving to meet the needs of contemporary society (Globerman, White and McDonald, 2002, p. 274). For example, the Department of S...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

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...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

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

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

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

Hospital Administration and Retention

at improving management systems and supporting a positive organizational culture based on employee commitment. Body Introduc...

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...

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...

Marketing a Hospital

business plan, the role of different stakeholders all decision-makers, and the way that the leadership should be involved with the...

Michael Corleone as the Psychological Center of the Hospital Scene

service. The police made them leave about ten minutes ago" (Dirks, 2008). The tension is high as Michael suddenly realizes what th...

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...

Temporary Agency Nurses' Accountability and Competence in a Hospital Setting

not only better oriented overall to do the job but who also would be paid enough to have an incentive to stay in the job or put ma...

Hospitals and Diversity Management

environment (Austin, Trimm and Sobczak, 1993). The problems seemed to be a lack of communication between departments and failure t...

Hospital Organization Case Study

to the CEOs statement, the difficulties which the hospital is experiencing can be divided into two main but overlapping categories...

Hospital Revenue Cycle Process Changes

purchasing health insurance. The reasons given for these dramatic increases are: * Exorbitant Rise of Prescription Drug Costs. * T...

Hospital Computerization

In twelve pages computerizing a hospital is examined with a consideration of benefits, problems, and solutions. Ten sources are l...

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 ...

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...

Dorothea Dix, Pioneer of Nursing

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

Dialysis Profitability

procedure in which an individuals blood flows into a hemodialysis machine where it is filtered and "cleaned" of impurities and tox...

Exposure of Sanitation Workers to Disinfectants in a Hospital Environment

and staff. Of lesser concern have been the indirect impacts of disinfectant use, including the risk to the sanitation workers due ...

Code Green: Addressing the Problems in Money-Based Hospital Decision-Making

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

Community Health Facilities Near The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

For other health issues, such psychiatric help, aside from the Philadelphia Childrens Hospital which offers such services, there i...

Services Within 5 Miles of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

connections to finding after school day care, as well as connections to paying bills and locating special needs information. There...

Demographics: In and Around Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

future, 2007). This comment begs the question, what happened to the civic center, and does it have anything to do with the demogra...