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Overview of the Mayo Clinic

2003). Its thirty-member board oversees daily operations to maintain the Clinics stellar reputation. "There has to be an underly...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

Theory and Nurse Leadership

leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level. Maras has full leadership of the department o...

An x of the Need to Address Problems in the Hospital Setting

they fear for the fiscal integrity of their employer. Added to these ethical problems, Faith Hospital does face financial proble...

Hospital Policy in a Case Study on Critical Thinking

facing the Executive Assistant is to decide which of the various and interconnected issues which have been presented by the CEO ar...

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...

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...

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...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

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...

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. ...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

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...

Faith Hospital Case Study

hospital will have to reduce costs by 15 percent to break even. 5. Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders are implemented differently by ...

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...

Disposable Hospital Glove Stocking

is a delicate balance between cost, supply, usage and contingency measures. Though the hospital needs to carry adequate supplies ...

Hospital Learning Community Development

Boyer explained the learning community as: 1. A purposeful community-a place where faculty and students share academic goals and w...

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...

Case Study on an Ethical Dilemma in the Workplace

The primary ethical issue lay in whether to terminate the pregnancy. The doctor of record resisted abortion as an option, in fact...

Student Case Study on the Redesign Initiative of Victoria Hospital

a form for which most governments attach themselves. New, innovative companies today often take the team approach and hire project...

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...

Hospital Obstetrics and Risk Management

in the standard of care. But also risk management serves to prevent such incidents and promote patient safety. Risk managers analy...

Hospital Emergency Department and Supply Chain Management

platform that could standardize procurement. Thus, there was no way to assure each emergency department was paying the guaranteed ...

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 ...

Sarasota, Florida's Doctors Hospital

I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...

Hospital and Home Nursing

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares hospital and home nursing in terms of role similarities and differences. Eleven ...