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Baldrige Process and MHSL

This paper offers an overview of the Baldrige Heath Care Criteria for Performance Excellence program and Memorial Hermann Sugar La...

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...

Health Care Three Ways

is relevant here is that the authors note that the goal of a CEO performance appraisal should be to link its results to the execut...

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...

Sick and Dying Catholic Ministering

in the world (McClory 2002). The Cardinal had lost his battle with cancer and he was ready to let go (McClory 2002). Letting go a...

Health Care and Information Technology Utilization Increases

matter crucial in todays health care industry. The health maintenance organization (HMO) was born of an effort to reduce the rate...

Intensive Car Unit New Graduates' Retention

employees feel valued; the conditions in their working environment; and resources and salary. Cline, Reilly and Moore (2003) con...

IT Project Task List and Risk Management Plan

old systems to new needs, but Acme Hospital appears not to be hindered by this affliction. It fully expects to acquire all new ha...

Information Needs Of Doctors And Nurses

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

Empirical Research; The Link Between Age and Hospital Visits

and age there is the ability to add valuable data to the way in which hospital resources are allocated to different areas and to a...

Preventing Infection In Health Care Settings

2008). This should be a good incentive for all health care institutions to do a better job of controlling and preventing infection...

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 ...

Suggestions for a Psychiatric Practicum

imagines that implementation of the practicum could take several different formats. For example, it may consist of formulating a c...

Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2009

which are factors that are likely to have a beneficial affect on the chronic nursing shortage that is currently affecting the heal...

Health Care Organizations :

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

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...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

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

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...

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...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

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

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...

Family Values/ICU Environment

and the church" and encompasses "spirituality, social support, and traditional, non-biomedical health and healing practices," whic...

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...

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...

The Economic Impact on Home Health Issues

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

Reduction of ICU's Nursing Ratio and Change Management

The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...

RN and LPN Nursing Wage Disparities

Spence (1973) proposes that employers rationally offer higher compensation to those workers who have completed a higher level of e...

Overview of Respiratory Therapy

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

Needs Assessment for an Administrator of Patient Care Services for Women's Healthcare Services

often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...