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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...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Hospital Setting

so because if such fears and problems are dealt with quickly, before they become firmly imbedded in a patients mind, they can be m...

Pros and Cons of QII

of projects is critical to the success elements affecting the Six Sigma program (Antony 3). Prioritization is often based on subje...

Hamot Medical Center Organizational Analysis

northeastern Ohio. It is not only a general care facility but maintains many patient-oriented programs and services. Some of the...

Hospital Social Work

evolving to meet the needs of contemporary society (Globerman, White and McDonald, 2002, p. 274). For example, the Department of S...

Creating a Sexual Health Clinic

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

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...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

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

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...

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...

Antibiotic Resistance Treatment Through Placebos and Vancomycin

as the last hope when trying to cure a bacterial disease" (Introduction to Vancomycin: a history, 2002). Like most antibiotics,...

Births in Hospitals vs. at Home

counseling and support to a woman and her newborn throughout the childbearing cycle" (What is a Midwife? 2002). With a descripti...

Clincal Practice Guidelines and Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis in Children

Such statistics demonstrate that it is important for healthcare professionals, especially those associated involved with the treat...

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...

Hospital Cost Drivers

the importance of the demographic mix, the provision of some services will be less expensive to provide, For example, where there ...

Medical Consent and Dependents Over the Age of 18

have declined given their knowledge of the fact that the pain their daughter was experiencing was not that atypical and was obviou...

Communication Management Between Doctors & Nurses

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

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...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

The New York Hospital Closure Controversy

The NYSNA representative agrees, suggesting that closing hospitals is not a good way to deal with the health care crisis ("Prevent...

Marketing and Budgeting for a Recycling Project

eliminate the risk of non compliance and simply use new equipment each time. With mass production techniques it was possible to pr...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Training, Teamwork and Benefits in Patient Care

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

Should A Nursing Manager Quit?

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

Creating a Consulting Firm

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. ...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Registered Nurse's Hospital Role

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

Strategy Assignments

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