YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :TQM in the Hospital Setting
Essays 361 - 390
of the primary focal point, which as been responsible for different values, assumptions and expectations. In this day and age o...
Companies who adopt JIT usually gain all of these benefits, which gives them a competitive advantage. Adopting the JIT philosoph...
that not only were nurses retained but that everyone on staff is motivated to be actively engaged and involved in the work environ...
intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...
graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...
is not the case with hospital employees. Not only does their continual use of the cafeteria provide a more realistic view of the ...
processed, but also in terms of the culture where employees feel appreciated. They are paid more than the average wage, on top of ...
All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...
to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...
employers are increasing employees portion of premium payments or ceasing to contribute anything at all. Many employers have ceas...
parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...
of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...
HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...
continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...
a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...
100 percent and also to create a neighborhood health and daycare facility. Another proposal is the creation of a preventative diag...
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...
jobs. The evidence appears to indicate that the survivors will also suffer. There is a range of literature that outlines responses...
valuable insight into the way in which the role of the researcher might be influenced by individual perspectives and how these can...
aware that Faith Community hospital deals in "product" much more valuable than anything that could be produced by a factory or dea...
(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...
to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...
these issues(LaBar, 1997). While OSHA as an organization is necessary, it perhaps oversteps its bounds and makes arbitrary rules, ...
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...
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...
provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...