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Enhancing Outcomes by Revising a Protocol Based on Evidenced Based Practice

populations, and changes within the structure of the hospital or facility as a whole. Because falls impact patients health, nursi...

Information Technology; Business Solutions

which may include the organizational goals and the need to be able to demonstrate accountability. One area where information tec...

Decreasing Nosocomial Infection Rates,Hand Hygiene,

This research paper presents project, which is designed to decrease the ratite of nosocomial, that is, hospital-acquired infection...

Do e-cigarettes Work

The question is whether or not e-cigarettes work in terms of quitting smoking. This paper continues some earlier papers that were ...

Program in Mental Health Hospital

This essay adds to the papers on conducting a smoking cessation program in a mental health hospital research project. It discusses...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Code Green: Addressing the Problems in Money-Based Hospital Decision-Making

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

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 ...

Reactions to Threats and Challenges in Pathology in the UK

Approaches used may include the recruitment of pathologists from areas which are likely to present challenges to bring in experien...

Future Issues Impacting on Pathology in a Teaching Hospital

as well as retaining accuracy. The epidemic may not reach the levels that have been speculated, but concern regarding the potentia...

Oral History vs the Clinical Record

story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...

Implementing Six Sigma at the Academic Medical Hospital

manner. This is an important time for AMH as the system can be rolled into other departments. 2. Current Issues and Opportunities...

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING AND HEALTH CARE

basic change in both direction and strategy that would impact the way in which an organization is structured (Business Definition ...

Do Not Resuscitate Orders

This paper argues that DNRs should be eliminated form the hospital setting. An annotated bibliography (containing four sources) c...

A Comparison of Two Hospitals

for a health care organization. Genesys took on an elaborate task in creating a wellness center where state of the art care can be...

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...

Interview with Director of Critical Care

a top priority for many hospitals; however, the competition among hospitals for these nurses is intense (Thomason, 2006). Problem...

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT AND HOSPITALS

taking on the role of a newly promoted operations manager of a small hospital. The writer, in this scenario, has been asked to cre...

HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL TURNAROUND

which will contain state-of-the-art equipment. In interviewing Mr. K., the questions and answers could run something like the foll...

Strategy Recommendations for Perpetual Mercy Hospital

ambulatory facility design to offer a range of services to individuals within the area. The research indicates that it will appeal...

Case Study Analysis of Health Care Organizations

in a health care organization as being a part of a merger with a pervious competitor. This is not an unusual situation. Firms com...

Hospital Accreditation from the Point of View of the Nursing Supervisor

and each staff member were knowledgeable of hospital standards and policies in preparation for TJC or DHS inspection. We always ha...

Why Going to the Hospital Can Overwhelm Even a Healthy Personality

of their extreme fear, avoiding appointments if they have to meet their doctor at the hospital (Duffey, 2009). The nosocomephobic ...

Merger Leads to Redsigning Jobs

Many of the physicians on staff had graduated from Harvard Medical School and tended to think themselves superior to everyone and ...

Managing Materials in the Hospital Setting

Management practice in the hospital setting and how materials are managed are things addressed in this four page paper. There are ...

Watson's Nursing Model in Rural Setting

Watsons model is holistic and strives to achieve harmony. Watson stated that "the goal of nursing help persons gain a higher degre...