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Columbus, More and Renaissance Thought

writing, Columbus vacillates between viewing the American natives as subjects of either the Chinese or Japanese emperors, as he th...

Organization That Contracts Services to Hospitals

This paper reports a number of issues in which the organization is involved. Issues include: measurements for performance and how ...

Reducing Hospital Acquired Infections

This essay briefly reports study results from ten journal articles. The topic is hand hygiene and its effects on HCAIs. The simple...

Hospital Standard vs. Policy

This research paper concerns the difference between policy and standards, with special focus on an example from St. Joseph Medical...

TQM in the Hospital Setting

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

quite a leap to effectively apply its principles to service industries, but TQM is as much at home in health care as it is in manu...

The Protection of Hospital Computer and Information Systems

2006). Finally, the Mayo Clinic has its own take on privacy and does not only provide HIPAA guidelines, but implements very strict...

The Use of E-Commerce at the US Naval Hospital in Guam

medical field is in sharing medical records which can be financially advantageous (Maduri, 2004). It is also a practice that can h...

OSHA Guidance, Hospital Risk Management

This research paper pertains to risk management and OSHA guidelines, with particular focus paid to the topic of needle-stick and s...

Cycle Time Throughput Time Hospital

The focus of this paper is colonoscopy procedures at a clinic. This essay discussed cycle time and throughput time, the percent va...

Hospitals and Practitioners, Nationwide Health Coverage

This research paper examines various aspect of the Affordable Care Act within the context of the need for national health coverage...

Massachusetts General Hospital and its Patient Care Delivery Model

the mid-1990s and later. The hospitals purpose in implementing the PCDM was to decrease costs of both operation and labor, while ...

Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Inclusion of a Child Life Therapist

adding a child life therapist for a neonatal intensive care unit (ICU). This person would be a trained therapist, with the sole pu...

What Happens to Corporate Culture when Two Hospitals Merge

merger, middle management and staff are not allowed to discuss the merger or have any impact on the decision to merge but they hav...

Case Study of D.U. Singer Hospital Products Corporation

In eleven pages this paper discusses the corporation's development and marketing of a new long term antiseptic. Twelve sources ar...

Hospital Administration

as a facilitator of human resources, but also encompasses consideration of financial resources. These two roles were selected as m...

San Diego Hospitals and the Impact of Uninsured Individuals

trouble is, no one seems to want to point the finger at the cause. In fact, there is no one person, organization, or government ag...

Comparison Of Oakwood Southshore Medical Center And Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital

with the patient. The extent to which cancer is as much an emotional disease as it is a physical one, Oakwoods cancer center stri...

Projections for 2010 at the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital

be noted that the 15% is of a relatively small amount, so the monetary value is not a particularly large increase. However, when l...

Terminally Ill Patients and Hospital Resource Allocation Ethics

In four pages this paper considers terminally ill patients, space making allocation, and the ethical dilemmas that surround this d...

Hospital Setting and Decision Support Systems Potential

In twelve pages the healthcare industry as it relates to Decision Support Systems are discussed in terms of analytical instruments...

Hospitals and Nursing

Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...

Newark Beth Israel Hospital Geriatric Patient Post Discharge Monitoring

and is a major referral and treatment center in the northern New Jersey metropolitan area (2001). Affiliated with the complex i...

Spinal Cord Injuries and Pre Hospital Use of Methylprednisolone

injury is something that has gone from impossible to repair to something that can be repaired. While such injuries still do create...

Implications Of Implied Warranties In The Technology Sector

protect consumers from shoddy workmanship and defective products. The small print on the back of a package or bottom of a service...

Hospital Expansion Project

additional staffing, but that; expansion of the Emergency Department; and changes in local demographics all point to greater staff...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002: Intent And Drawbacks

is the economic reality of a company. This leads to a lack of transparency and deception in the structuring of financial transact...

Strategic Planning For Hospitals

and activities in which they need to engage to achieve the objectives (Kunders, 2005). Different experts suggest different approa...

Analysis Of Change Process In A Hospital

all staff members. In so doing, he also followed Kotters next step which is to communicate that vision to the staff (Kotter, 1996)...