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Nursing and the Importance of the Team Approach

Interdisciplinary teams have taken on a progressively more important role in healthcare over the...

Hand Washing Improvements

the staff themselves. The pressures include limited time with each patient and pressure to deal with a large patient load due to l...

QUESTIONS: ECONOMICS AND HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

hospitals are seeing this demand and are attempting to meet it. This means that another tool - opportunity costs - also mus...

Key People, Structure and Dispute Resolution in a Healthcare Organization

their relevant chiefs. This creates a complex organizational structure, as in addition to the organization to departments the has...

HEALTHCARE TEAMS AND CONFLICT

The first stage, that of forming, is when the team first comes together (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, 2010). Members of...

Ethical, Legal Views on Healthcare

expanded upon, specifically, in the Nurse Practice Acts that govern nursing in the individual states. New understanding relations...

Interview with An Executive Leader

it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

The Ethical Responsibilities of Health Care Organizations

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Solutions for Health Care Staffing Problems in Rural America

Resource Management Systems," 2007). Acquisition relates to recruiting employees as well as the selection process ("Contemporary P...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Affordable Healthcare in Australia

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

HEALTHCARE ECONOMICS: INCREASING INPUTS AND COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS

to go out the window, due to various situations. The healthcare industry is such a one, that may not perform to the usual demands ...

Healthcare in New Mexico

strategies and 10 tools that were used and to be able to relate examples of at least five of these. These goals support self-eva...

Administrative Assistant/Hospital Administration

for top executives of an organization (BoLS, 2008). They also aid physicians and researchers with the preparation of "reports, spe...

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...

Evaluation of Talent Management Strategies; A Case Study Of a University

automated systems. The internal talents of employees can also lead to better performance as well as aid with the potential devel...

Healthcare Industry Phase

of sales (Bergen, 2008). Consumers have accepted products from the sector or the entire industry and, in fact, demand more of them...

Communication in Healthcare

for any one patient can be almost overwhelming. Fortunately, numerous improvements are being made in health care that will better...

Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

A Memo Advocating that Pharmacists have Prescriptive Authority

error, is increased substantially. Not only does this result in a lowered quality of health, it results in a significant economic...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

Developing Health Policy Through Lobbying

Association (AHA) alone increased on internal and external federal lobbying to $12 million in 2000 from $6.8 million in 1997, whic...

Correcting Flawed Surgery Sites and Wrong Site Amputations

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...

Terminal Patients and Hospice Healthcare

we all must personally face. Dealing with the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the f...

Professional Nursing Dimensions

ethnic distribution of the population in Paramus: White Non-Hispanic (75.5%) Hispanic (4.9%) Korean (4.8%) Asian Indian (4.5%...

Minority Healthcare Disparities

U.S. health care system, shares some of the biases of that system (Eichner and Vladeck, 2005, p. 365). Instead of helping, Medica...