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'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

The History and Mission of Tripler Army Medical Center

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

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...

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,...

The Terminal Patient: A Case Study

paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Teenager's Perspective on Speeding

Get my grandmother to the hospital right now! As far as I was concerned, the best way to do that was to drive her there as fast a...

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...

Mentally Challenged Individuals and Contract Law

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

External Environment of Shands Healthcare

either to reduce benefits or require employees to pay a greater share of the costs of their health care insurance premiums. Risin...

Case Study Analysis of Patient Confidentiality

the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...

University Healthcare Call Center Construction and Implementation

nurse desk or to another location for prescription refill. Messages are recorded on paper message pads, after which the message i...

Computer System Development

data needing a broad bandwidth, but also the need for security as patient files are confidential and security measures are not onl...

A Case Study of Mediation and Negotiation

100 percent and also to create a neighborhood health and daycare facility. Another proposal is the creation of a preventative diag...

Developmental EECP Plan

of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...

Questions Regarding Issues in Managed Care

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

Beyond Caring by DF Chambliss

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

EMTs and Medications That Are Sensitive to Temperature

occur in an EMS vehicle in the summer months (McElroy, 2002). Such degradation can occur with no visible changes to the medicatio...

Health Care and Organizational Structure

ineffective - organizational structure on the organizations ability to function at optimal levels has been known literally for dec...

Organizational Structure of New York City's MHC

litigious society where health care workers and institutions are open and easy targets, this dearth of lawsuits reported in The Ne...

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...

Accounting Case Study

once again making a profit, with a gross profit margin of 7% and an operating profit margin of 4.81%, this is significant not only...

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...

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 ...