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A HOSPITAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

Types of medical data and information records relevant to this project. The importance of uniform terminology, coding and...

Leadership/Clinical Nurse Specialist

2003). As this suggests, a major factor in the leadership of CNSs is that they facilitate and implement educational initiatives. ...

Leadership/Clinical Nurse Specialist

2003). As this suggests, a major factor in the leadership of CNSs is that they facilitate and implement educational initiatives. ...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

Code Green: Addressing the Problems in Money-Based Hospital Decision-Making

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

Dialysis Profitability

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

Information Technology; Business Solutions

which may include the organizational goals and the need to be able to demonstrate accountability. One area where information tec...

Needs Assessment for an Administrator of Patient Care Services for Women's Healthcare Services

often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...

Enhancing Outcomes by Revising a Protocol Based on Evidenced Based Practice

populations, and changes within the structure of the hospital or facility as a whole. Because falls impact patients health, nursi...

AN ANALYSIS OF TWO HOSPITAL BUDGETS

-23.35% Sutures - Needles 17 0 0 (17) 0.00% Surgical Supplies - General 105...

Spirituality and Religion/Hospital Setting

the dietary restrictions of Jewish and Moslem patients should be honored and other tenets of these faiths should influence nursing...

A Hospital Change Initiative

based on a team approach and includes a wide range of professionals and support personnel. The successful operation of the OR is ...

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...

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...

Dealing with Change/Miami Valley Hospital

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

The Use of Healthcare Portals for Miami Valley Hospital

of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...

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...

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...