YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Critical Concepts in the Hospital Environment
Essays 601 - 630
The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...
fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...
is the worlds leading medical facility. Associated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the hospital has seen the bir...
a change within a health organization to reduce the costs associated with the provision of an essential resource; oxygen, without ...
any other industry, but health care is different in that practitioners are constrained by patient progress. A doctor may order a ...
markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...
feel that ongoing, regular access to and the use of health information is essential to achieve important public health objectives ...
but fails to deliver in terms of system response. The hospital and its IT contractor, DCS, are entering non-binding mediation in ...
in the world (McClory 2002). The Cardinal had lost his battle with cancer and he was ready to let go (McClory 2002). Letting go a...
which of these three factors was the most influential in propelling hospital quality improvement. This research revealed that the ...
matter crucial in todays health care industry. The health maintenance organization (HMO) was born of an effort to reduce the rate...
of such fires; and learning how to prevent them. Some of the material addresses all three points, some does not. Because there are...
can be defined as any threat to maintaining standard operations or a threat to the protection of rights of patients. Because hosp...
old systems to new needs, but Acme Hospital appears not to be hindered by this affliction. It fully expects to acquire all new ha...
employees feel valued; the conditions in their working environment; and resources and salary. Cline, Reilly and Moore (2003) con...
The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...
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...
data needing a broad bandwidth, but also the need for security as patient files are confidential and security measures are not onl...
in the standard of care. But also risk management serves to prevent such incidents and promote patient safety. Risk managers analy...
Get my grandmother to the hospital right now! As far as I was concerned, the best way to do that was to drive her there as fast a...
platform that could standardize procurement. Thus, there was no way to assure each emergency department was paying the guaranteed ...
the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...
the FTCs complaint is true, "alleging that the systems three hospitals extracted huge price increases from payers after the deal a...
stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...
considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...
I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...
nurse desk or to another location for prescription refill. Messages are recorded on paper message pads, after which the message i...