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The Use of Healthcare Portals for Miami Valley Hospital

of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...

Demographics: In and Around Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

future, 2007). This comment begs the question, what happened to the civic center, and does it have anything to do with the demogra...

Services Within 5 Miles of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

connections to finding after school day care, as well as connections to paying bills and locating special needs information. There...

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...

Community Health Facilities Near The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

For other health issues, such psychiatric help, aside from the Philadelphia Childrens Hospital which offers such services, there 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 ...

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 ...

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...

Spirituality and Religion/Hospital Setting

the dietary restrictions of Jewish and Moslem patients should be honored and other tenets of these faiths should influence nursing...

U.S. Nursing Shortage

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

Strategic Planning For Hospitals

and activities in which they need to engage to achieve the objectives (Kunders, 2005). Different experts suggest different approa...

A Hospital Change Initiative

based on a team approach and includes a wide range of professionals and support personnel. The successful operation of the OR is ...

Dialysis Profitability

procedure in which an individuals blood flows into a hemodialysis machine where it is filtered and "cleaned" of impurities and tox...

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...

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...

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. ...

Strategy Assignments

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

Should A Nursing Manager Quit?

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

Using Crew Resource Management In Health Care

into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...

Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

Dealing with Change/Miami Valley Hospital

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

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...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Communication Management Between Doctors & Nurses

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

Johnson and Johnson Culture and Change

where employees are important stakeholders as seen with the "Live for Life" employee health program initiated in 1976, which was ...

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...

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...

Hospital Expansion Project

additional staffing, but that; expansion of the Emergency Department; and changes in local demographics all point to greater staff...