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a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...

instruments not trustworthy? This is just another meaningless slogan, a cousin of zero defects" (Deming, 1986; p. 66). The...

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

in the standard of care. But also risk management serves to prevent such incidents and promote patient safety. Risk managers analy...

Get my grandmother to the hospital right now! As far as I was concerned, the best way to do that was to drive her there as fast a...

either to reduce benefits or require employees to pay a greater share of the costs of their health care insurance premiums. Risin...

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

these issues(LaBar, 1997). While OSHA as an organization is necessary, it perhaps oversteps its bounds and makes arbitrary rules, ...

jobs. The evidence appears to indicate that the survivors will also suffer. There is a range of literature that outlines responses...

wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up. These horrific cases t...

to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

ineffective - organizational structure on the organizations ability to function at optimal levels has been known literally for dec...

litigious society where health care workers and institutions are open and easy targets, this dearth of lawsuits reported in The Ne...

occur in an EMS vehicle in the summer months (McElroy, 2002). Such degradation can occur with no visible changes to the medicatio...

its founding in the late 18th century, the United States has opened its borders to people from a variety of countries and cultures...

of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

employers are increasing employees portion of premium payments or ceasing to contribute anything at all. Many employers have ceas...

using this paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION Janet (an RN) and Carol (her manager) had been working together in the same Can...

leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level. Maras has full leadership of the department o...

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

aware that Faith Community hospital deals in "product" much more valuable than anything that could be produced by a factory or dea...

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...