SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Hospital Patient Safety

Essays 901 - 930

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

External Environment of Shands Healthcare

either to reduce benefits or require employees to pay a greater share of the costs of their health care insurance premiums. Risin...

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...

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...

A Look at Two Mergers

the FTCs complaint is true, "alleging that the systems three hospitals extracted huge price increases from payers after the deal a...

Should A Nursing Manager Quit?

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

Using Crew Resource Management In Health Care

into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...

Theories of Organizational Change

The process of successful change was observed by Lewin as occurring in three stages; unfreezing, change and refreezing (Lewin, 195...

The Use of Healthcare Portals for Miami Valley Hospital

of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...

Strategy Assignments

by 2010 (About Healthy People, n.d.). It has survived four presidents and several changes in congressional leadership based on pa...

Exposure of Sanitation Workers to Disinfectants in a Hospital Environment

and staff. Of lesser concern have been the indirect impacts of disinfectant use, including the risk to the sanitation workers due ...

Dorothea Dix, Pioneer of Nursing

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

Gov. Regulation at Bon Secours/DePaul Medical Ctr.

laws of the state and to prevent "illegal operations, e.g., operating without a license" (VDH). Regulations that are adopted by t...

Nursing Leadership Scenario

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

Demographics: In and Around Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

future, 2007). This comment begs the question, what happened to the civic center, and does it have anything to do with the demogra...

Non-Clinical Director Functions

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

A HOSPITAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

Types of medical data and information records relevant to this project. The importance of uniform terminology, coding and...

Services Within 5 Miles of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

connections to finding after school day care, as well as connections to paying bills and locating special needs information. There...

Community Health Facilities Near The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

For other health issues, such psychiatric help, aside from the Philadelphia Childrens Hospital which offers such services, there i...

AN ANALYSIS OF TWO HOSPITAL BUDGETS

-23.35% Sutures - Needles 17 0 0 (17) 0.00% Surgical Supplies - General 105...

Strategic Procurement in the Construction Industry

client as a result of the delays, but could be substantial to the relevant contractors. The current project is one that provides...

Health Trust Change

jobs. The evidence appears to indicate that the survivors will also suffer. There is a range of literature that outlines responses...

Theory and Nurse Leadership

leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level. Maras has full leadership of the department o...

Hospitals and OSHA's Impact

these issues(LaBar, 1997). While OSHA as an organization is necessary, it perhaps oversteps its bounds and makes arbitrary rules, ...

Medical/Surgical Nursing and Documentation

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

Early Educational Programs Within Public Hospitals

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

American Hospitals and Medical Mistake Causes

wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up. These horrific cases t...

Saudi Arabia and Health Care

to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Beyond Caring by DF Chambliss

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...