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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...

Hospital Expansion Project

additional staffing, but that; expansion of the Emergency Department; and changes in local demographics all point to greater staff...

Measuring Performance of Healthcare Organization

The Balanced Scorecard allows managers to look at their business from four critical perspectives, financial, internal business, in...

Stop Smoking in Psychiatric Ward

Numerous articles conclude that people who have mental health disorders are more likely to smoke than people who do not have such ...

Mental Health Hospital Quitting Smoking

There are hundreds of smoking cessation programs in the country. Most focus on a specific population. This essay is part of a prop...

Quitting Tobacco Use

This paper includes one Table and one Gantt Chart. One of the two heaviest smokers are the mentally ill. Why is not exactly known....

Break Addiction to Tobacco

This paper continues on in the quit smoking program in a mental health hospital. The paper reports a simple revenue and expense bu...

Organization That Contracts Services to Hospitals

This paper reports a number of issues in which the organization is involved. Issues include: measurements for performance and how ...

Using NPV to Assess a Project

The writer uses a case study provided by the student to assess the potential of a new project using internal rate of return (IRR)...

Electronic Medical Records, An Analysis

This research paper describes the factors that hospitals purchasing an electronic medical records (EMR) system. Fifteen pages in l...

State Differences Scope of APRNs

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) are licensed registered nurses (RNs) who have advanced graduate degree education. They ...

Introducing Technology - Smoking Cessation Program

This is a followup paper to a proposal to implement a smoking cessation program in a mental health hospital. In this essay, a heal...

Moving to Evidence Based Practices

This paper reports one change that was made in a hospital. An announcement was made that nursing staff would be required to use ev...

Prenatal Education in a Military Program

This research paper addresses a scenario that describes a prenatal education class that pregnant military personnel and wives are ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Nosocomial Infections

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

Reducing Hospital Acquired Infections

This essay briefly reports study results from ten journal articles. The topic is hand hygiene and its effects on HCAIs. The simple...

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...

Health Care Reimbursement, Its Future

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

Hospital HR, An Overview

This essay presents an overview perspective of the human resources department of a large hospital. Five pages in length, six sourc...

Hospital Standard vs. Policy

This research paper concerns the difference between policy and standards, with special focus on an example from St. Joseph Medical...

Case STudy Hospital Readmissions

Hospital readmissions of patients is upsetting to patients and families, especially when that readmission occurs within 30 days of...

Hospital Upgrades IT Again

Memorial Hermann is a hospital system in Houston. This institution has been on the cutting edge of technology for years. They have...