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of that knowledge and create cost savings with the way it is implemented, such as new procedures, or new ways of managing old proc...
numbers and then as a percentage on yearly basis. The measure in the first year for reference only, in the second year the numbe...
you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...
so as to implement an effectively working TQM program. However, in order to achieve the highest plateau in relation to quality, D...
of dissatisfied customers (patients and their parents) ad they were making losses which were increasing. The drive for change ofte...
a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...
caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...
eliminate the risk of non compliance and simply use new equipment each time. With mass production techniques it was possible to pr...
to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...
The NYSNA representative agrees, suggesting that closing hospitals is not a good way to deal with the health care crisis ("Prevent...
Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...
This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
where employees are important stakeholders as seen with the "Live for Life" employee health program initiated in 1976, which was ...
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...
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 ...
can be defined as any threat to maintaining standard operations or a threat to the protection of rights of patients. Because hosp...
old systems to new needs, but Acme Hospital appears not to be hindered by this affliction. It fully expects to acquire all new ha...
employees feel valued; the conditions in their working environment; and resources and salary. Cline, Reilly and Moore (2003) con...
it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...
interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...
nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...
When all other approaches have appeared to have failed, or if the individual commits an act for which accommodation is not an opti...
of the different types of procedure; the result is a weighted average cost calculation. The department must contest this if the so...
degree (Barnes, et al, 1999). At a time when many healthcare facilities were moving away from clinical ladders, Miami Valley Hos...
with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...
Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...