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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...

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...

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...

Reactions to Threats and Challenges in Pathology in the UK

Approaches used may include the recruitment of pathologists from areas which are likely to present challenges to bring in experien...

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING AND HEALTH CARE

basic change in both direction and strategy that would impact the way in which an organization is structured (Business Definition ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Do Not Resuscitate Orders

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

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...

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...

Health Care Organizations :

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

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

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

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

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

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...

Missed Nursing Care/Research Article Critique

reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...

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...

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...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

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

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...

Dialysis Profitability

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