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Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...

Patient Advocacy, A Concept Analysis

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

Logotherapy and Narrative Therapy: Two Different Methods

the arsenal of the therapist. It has been an effective tool for getting to the bottom of the emotional and spiritual malaise so p...

Cost Management to Reduce the Cost of Oxygen Supply for Hospital

a change within a health organization to reduce the costs associated with the provision of an essential resource; oxygen, without ...

Negative Aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...

Using Evidence Based Practice to Explore the Effectiveness of Constraint Induced Language Therapy

non-intense application produces better results, while others claim that intensity is the key to results. This paper will explore ...

Euthanasia Should be Patient Determined

The concept of euthanasia, prematurely ending anothers life or choosing to end ones own life in the name of compassion seems to...

Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice

get abortions (National Abortion Federation, 2010). This means that women could see certified physicians instead of finding quacks...

The Thao Case/Medication Error

prohibited from working over 12 hours in a 24-hour period or more than 60 hours per week for 2 years ("Criminal case," 2007). Th...

The Medical Environment and Entrepreneurship

who perofmed the first heart transplant and Patrick Steptoe who was responsible for the first test tube baby. These are m...

Pro-Life Demonstrators

the people who are trying to obtain services. Historical Overview of Planned Parenthood Legal Status The 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...

Ethics and Disclosing a Terminal Prognosis

This paper pertains to withhold a terminal prognosis from the patient and the ethicality of this action. Four pages in length, fou...

Patient Safety and DMAIC

This research paper/essay pertains to a hospital improvement project that involved medication administration and involved the DMAI...

Stem Cell Research and Essentials VIII

This paper reviews the important criteria of Essentials VIII professionalism and discusses how they apply to nurses working with p...

PATIENT COMPLIANCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A SOCIAL NET

A literature review about the importance of friends, family and neighbors on patient compliance when it comes to healthcare. There...

An Attempt to Stope Corruption in one City

In 2013 New York passed the 'Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013' to tighten governance and financial accountability rules and re...

Total Joint Patients, Decreasing Infections

This research paper pertains to decreasing surgical site infections in total joint arthroplasty patients. The writer draws on rese...

IMPLEMENTING DVT PROPHYLAXIS AT HAMPSHIRE MEMORIAL

This is an executive overview of the need for DVT prophylaxis implementation among diabetes patients at Hampshire Memorial in West...

Health in Richmond County NY

This essay offers an overview of health and safety in Richmond County, NY (Staten Island). Demographic data and health data are in...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper pertains to an EBP project proposal that involves a shift from SSI (sliding scale insulin) to the basal-bolus approach....

Patient-Centered Medical Homes an Article Analysis

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of the article titled Guiding Transformation: How Medical Practices Can Become Patient-Centere...

Throughput and Management Strategies, Emergency Departments

This research paper addresses the issue of patient throughput in overcrowded Emergency Departments (EDs). Management and throughpu...

Decreasing Re-Hospitalization in CHF Patients

This research paper pertains to a proposal for a capstone project in which telemonitoring and skilled nursing visits are utilized ...

Reducing Re-hospitalization of CHF Patients

This paper presents the speaker notes to an eighteen page PowerPoint presentation, khteleCHF.ppt, which pertains to a project that...

Heart Failure and Telehealth

This research paper presents an descriptive discussion of scholarly literature that pertains to telehealth technology and its appl...

Mandatory Overtime, An Issue that Endangers Patients

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

A Review: Bae (2011)

This research paper presents a review of the research conducted by Bae (2011). This study consists of a systematic review of empir...