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Hospital Obstetrics and Risk Management

in the standard of care. But also risk management serves to prevent such incidents and promote patient safety. Risk managers analy...

Teenager's Perspective on Speeding

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...

Case Study Analysis of Patient Confidentiality

the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...

Disposable Hospital Glove Stocking

is a delicate balance between cost, supply, usage and contingency measures. Though the hospital needs to carry adequate supplies ...

New Lights for an Operating Room Purchase Recommendation

has emerged since the existing systems originally were placed into service. There are more reasons than only convenience fo...

Sarasota, Florida's Doctors Hospital

I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...

Hospital Nurses, Employment Stress, Performance, and Social Support Among Other Nurses

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

Hospital Learning Community Development

Boyer explained the learning community as: 1. A purposeful community-a place where faculty and students share academic goals and w...

Computer System Development

data needing a broad bandwidth, but also the need for security as patient files are confidential and security measures are not onl...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Problem of Uninsured Patients and New York's Metropolitan Hospital Center Operations

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

Uninsured Issues for Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York II

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

Classifications and Divisions of Hospitals

a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...

Hospital Chaplaincy Outcomes

Hospital chaplains are an essential part of the health team because he or she is the only one with the education and training to m...

Treatment and Jehovah's Witnesses, An Ethical Dilemma

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

HOW TO MANAGE ERP IN A HEALTHCARE SETTING

Discusses the process of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in a hospital setting. Issues discussed include implementation and get...

Hospital Chaplains and Elderly Illnesses

Dementia is a debilitating disease that strikes mostly older people. The focus of this essay is Spiritual care for people with dem...

Impact of Professional Environment on Nursing Knowledge

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

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

Hospital Administration and Retention

at improving management systems and supporting a positive organizational culture based on employee commitment. Body Introduc...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

Missed Nursing Care/Research Article Critique

reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...

Coping with Being Understaffed

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...