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Hospital Workplace, Communication, and Nursing

In seven pages this report examines the importance of workplace communication between nurses in a hospital environment. Six sourc...

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...

Johns Hopkins Hospital Improvement Assessments

is the worlds leading medical facility. Associated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the hospital has seen the bir...

Health Issues in Managed Care

This research paper offers brief discussion of 3 issues pertaining to managed care, which are the advantages and disadvantages of ...

Cost Management to Reduce the Cost of Oxygen Supply for Hospital

a change within a health organization to reduce the costs associated with the provision of an essential resource; oxygen, without ...

Reflection on a Project To Reduce Oxygen Supply Costs

care. The idea of reducing the costs associated with oxygen while not having a direct impact on staffing levels of quality of care...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

an assessed internal rate of return of 4.46%. This assessment was made using the accounting convention of conservatism. However,...

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

Issues in Clinical Practice: Infant Abduction

justify its relevance to health care. The severity of infant abductions from hospitals should not be gauged by the frequency of oc...

Network Systems at Patton-Fuller Hospital

in that the structure of an organization will either facilitate or inhibit that organizations ability to effectively pursue its or...

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Security Concerns

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

Nursing Concerns at Large Hospital System

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

Patton-Fuller Hospital: The OSI Model and Network Protocols

the use of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) technology within the structure of a complex organization. Because the hospital is a...

Networking Structure in Patton-Fuller Community Hospital

demographic; for this reason, it is imperative that the organization takes great care in the integration of database management an...

Improving Human Resources in Health Care

The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...

Marketing a Hospital

the west Los Angeles market, this requires an increase of 9% as the hospital currently has a 6% market share. This should be achie...

Analysis of Pharmacies

a dilemma in the United States, a dilemma in the true sense of the word in that there is just no win-win solution. When we conside...

DUKE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AND BALANCED SCORECARD

Focuses on how Duke Children's Hospital relied on the balanced scorecard system for improvement. There is 1 source listed in the b...

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Jackson Memorial Hospital is an accredited, non-profit, tertiary care hospital located in Miami, FL (Jackson Memorial Hospital, 20...

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...

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...

Hospital Administration and Retention

at improving management systems and supporting a positive organizational culture based on employee commitment. Body Introduc...

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...

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...

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT AND HOSPITALS

taking on the role of a newly promoted operations manager of a small hospital. The writer, in this scenario, has been asked to cre...

A Comparison of Two Hospitals

for a health care organization. Genesys took on an elaborate task in creating a wellness center where state of the art care can be...

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...