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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...

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...

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. ...

Theories of Organizational Change

The process of successful change was observed by Lewin as occurring in three stages; unfreezing, change and refreezing (Lewin, 195...

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 ...

Challenges, Opportunities, Healthcare Management Operations

This research paper reports on different perspectives on the role of knowledge and evidence-based practice and design in hospital ...

Patient Safety and DMAIC

This research paper/essay pertains to a hospital improvement project that involved medication administration and involved the DMAI...

Baldrige Process and MHSL

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

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

HOW TO MANAGE ERP IN A HEALTHCARE SETTING

Discusses the process of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in a hospital setting. Issues discussed include implementation and get...

Treatment and Jehovah's Witnesses, An Ethical Dilemma

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

Do Not Resuscitate Orders

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

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...

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...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

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...

Staffing the VA Outpatient Clinic

and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its...

Balanced Scorecard; Financial Objectives

as such this will also lead to patient satisfaction. The cost per patient or per visit may be measured in financial terms; this ...

Learning and Growth Objectives

of that knowledge and create cost savings with the way it is implemented, such as new procedures, or new ways of managing old proc...

Balanced Scorecard Objectives

numbers and then as a percentage on yearly basis. The measure in the first year for reference only, in the second year the numbe...

Humanistic Leadership & Nursing Unions

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

Business Process Objectives

quality of the customer service. The measures here will be against the expected levels from past visitors as well as the levels co...

Identification Of Alternative Plans And Actions To Improve Levels Of Performance

so as to implement an effectively working TQM program. However, in order to achieve the highest plateau in relation to quality, D...

MRSA Infection

a part of the normal flora of human beings and colonizes the anterior nares (Nicolle, 2006). However, it is also a significant pat...

Nokia in China

market and market share is growing in a rapidly expanding market (Yin, 2006). For Nokia, or any of the companys existing or pote...

Organizational Structure and Patient Care

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

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...

Strategy at and for General Motors

"employee pricing" incentives, eliminated Oldsmobile after a century of continuous production and formed alliances with others. T...