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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospital-Acquired Infections and the Vulnerability of Medicare

costs to the tune of more than $10,000 dollars and also have to stay in the hospital an average of 3 to 4 days longer than they wo...

SECURITY AT ST. JOHN’S HOSPITAL

isnt being seen - and read - by unauthorized personnel (such as the cleaning crew or perhaps the cleaning crews friends). The like...

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...

Preventative and Curative Health Care: An Economic Approach

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

A Comparison of two New York Hospitals from a Marketing Perspective

appeal to a large market, or maybe a niche market, depending upon the way that the organization wishes to compete. It will also re...

Concept Statement: The Intelligent Bed Module

number of patients at any given time, and as such sometimes experience difficulties with tracking patients and with ensuring that ...

Policies in Long Term Care

to improve the system will grow, raising key policy issues" that cover all dimensions of the political landscape (Feder, Komisar, ...

Issues Pertaining to Hospital Facilities

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Hospital Setting

so because if such fears and problems are dealt with quickly, before they become firmly imbedded in a patients mind, they can be m...

Pros and Cons of QII

of projects is critical to the success elements affecting the Six Sigma program (Antony 3). Prioritization is often based on subje...

Missed Nursing Care/Research Article Critique

reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...

Coping with Being Understaffed

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

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...

Hospital Social Work

evolving to meet the needs of contemporary society (Globerman, White and McDonald, 2002, p. 274). For example, the Department of S...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

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...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

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...

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...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...