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the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...
of health care is in and remains in flux as we seek systems that not only work in the present but also are sustainable over time. ...
and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...
by 2010 (About Healthy People, n.d.). It has survived four presidents and several changes in congressional leadership based on pa...
into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...
some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...
Spence (1973) proposes that employers rationally offer higher compensation to those workers who have completed a higher level of e...
regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...
hospital will have to reduce costs by 15 percent to break even. 5. Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders are implemented differently by ...
The primary ethical issue lay in whether to terminate the pregnancy. The doctor of record resisted abortion as an option, in fact...
stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...
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...
I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...
the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...
has emerged since the existing systems originally were placed into service. There are more reasons than only convenience fo...
considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...
Boyer explained the learning community as: 1. A purposeful community-a place where faculty and students share academic goals and w...
respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...
continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...
data needing a broad bandwidth, but also the need for security as patient files are confidential and security measures are not onl...
so as to implement an effectively working TQM program. However, in order to achieve the highest plateau in relation to quality, D...
of the different types of procedure; the result is a weighted average cost calculation. The department must contest this if the so...
When all other approaches have appeared to have failed, or if the individual commits an act for which accommodation is not an opti...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...
a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...
you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...
quality of the customer service. The measures here will be against the expected levels from past visitors as well as the levels co...
and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its...