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(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

were those who didnt like the "gatekeeper" mentality, the fact that any referral or recommendation needed to come from a "primary ...

2008). This should be a good incentive for all health care institutions to do a better job of controlling and preventing infection...

at any given time. More than a decade ago, Bigelow and Arndt (1995) suspected value in TQM in the hospital setting but wrote, "Th...

and age there is the ability to add valuable data to the way in which hospital resources are allocated to different areas and to a...

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

millennia ago, it is the first recorded use of pooled payment systems to proved healthcare. There are many examples of similar soc...

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...

of outcomes of care - Source of unnecessary - and high - costs - Fragmented state to state - Based on varied data * The problem ha...

to transfer data recorded by the monitors by telephone to the clinic. Nurses orchestrate this data transfer and conduct an initia...

individual and small-group insurance will operate in a manner similar to large-group coverage by pooling risks (Iglehart, 2010). I...

at both the federal and state level. This also holds true for the health care industry, and perhaps more so because of the impactf...

In two pages this paper examines the nursing field and the growing complexities involving managed health care. Two sources are ci...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

once again making a profit, with a gross profit margin of 7% and an operating profit margin of 4.81%, this is significant not only...

to proper interaction with culturally diverse patients: "These standards provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence,...

Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

This paper analyzes an article by Suzanne B. Johnson that discusses the paradigm shift in health care away from the biomedical mod...

single assessment process will allow, with Gladyss permission, for information to be shared between the different professionals th...

which are applicable to Lisas case, but also the ways in which they can best be enacted, given these constraints. One of the most ...

loss of life. New laws specified that there must be two exits per floor, one of which could be a staircase, but the other had to b...

And, in truth, the world of industry, all industries, is expected to only become more complex and more competitive. Without proper...

moral and legal issues under constant debate over the issue of abortion but many of them are misleading, use misinformation and ar...

the local communities in which it operates. Outsiders roundly criticize the company for not paying its employees a living wage as...

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

extent to which the managed care approach has created a complicated, ineffective health care system is both grand and far-reaching...

a history of proactive surveillance beginning in 1933 when a rule decree was implemented in order to help prevent the spread of co...

This paper considers the relative impact of Obamacare. Texans in particular have not always benefited from the federal mandate on...