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level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

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

human capital is aligned with business needs. The shape of contemporary business leadership has taken on a vastly divergent appea...

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

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

reassuring people that if they come to the hospital, they will get the best care possible, with the latest technology, and be retu...

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

imagines that implementation of the practicum could take several different formats. For example, it may consist of formulating a c...

Many of the physicians on staff had graduated from Harvard Medical School and tended to think themselves superior to everyone and ...

of their extreme fear, avoiding appointments if they have to meet their doctor at the hospital (Duffey, 2009). The nosocomephobic ...

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

they do and so are less valuable in health care (Cys, 2004). NPs are and have been nurses first, and a requirement for the Master...

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...

group took part in another education method via telephone as well, while the control group did not. Fifty-four respondents were c...

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

The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...

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 ...

any other industry, but health care is different in that practitioners are constrained by patient progress. A doctor may order a ...

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...

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...

which of these three factors was the most influential in propelling hospital quality improvement. This research revealed that the ...

employees feel valued; the conditions in their working environment; and resources and salary. Cline, Reilly and Moore (2003) con...

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 ...