YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Births in Hospitals vs at Home
Essays 541 - 570
instruments not trustworthy? This is just another meaningless slogan, a cousin of zero defects" (Deming, 1986; p. 66). The...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...
continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...
2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...
HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...
ineffective - organizational structure on the organizations ability to function at optimal levels has been known literally for dec...
litigious society where health care workers and institutions are open and easy targets, this dearth of lawsuits reported in The Ne...
occur in an EMS vehicle in the summer months (McElroy, 2002). Such degradation can occur with no visible changes to the medicatio...
differs from HHC, it does not make that information readily accessible. The mission statement of the larger organization is in pa...
or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...
employers are increasing employees portion of premium payments or ceasing to contribute anything at all. Many employers have ceas...
of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...
into operation, it meets all the other requirements. The following reflects the costs involved in this project. * $450,000 is the...
processed, but also in terms of the culture where employees feel appreciated. They are paid more than the average wage, on top of ...
All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...
(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...
wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up. These horrific cases t...
to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...
these issues(LaBar, 1997). While OSHA as an organization is necessary, it perhaps oversteps its bounds and makes arbitrary rules, ...
therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...
Let it pour." The major problem facing Faith Community Hospital can be found within its mission statement, which reads, "With t...
to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...
parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...
environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...
provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...
completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...
adding a child life therapist for a neonatal intensive care unit (ICU). This person would be a trained therapist, with the sole pu...
aware that Faith Community hospital deals in "product" much more valuable than anything that could be produced by a factory or dea...