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Social Work, An Ethical Dilemma

This essay pertains to a ethical issue that involves untrained workers being asked by the social worker's agency to instruct intel...

Increasing the Quality of Care in Nursing

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

Reliable Information on Providers, Facilities

This research paper discusses how patient can obtain valid information on reliable providers and health care facilities and the re...

Literature Overview on Medical Errors

Mistakes are sometimes made in transcribing data, or at the level of the practical or registered nurse. If patient data is not app...

Answers to Question on Army Healthcare

process or service: The service vision of health care consists of four basic elements, which are "a targeted market, a well-define...

Medical Insurance - Appeal Processes and Potential Claim Errors

a minimum value hurdle met, so avoid wasting time on small claims. In Medicare cases where there is a denial as a result of a mi...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

Documentation Errors and Incorrect Abbreviations in Medical Documentation

may matter (Arevalo, 2007). At the least, they force people to stop what theyre doing to track down someone who can clarify the ab...

Mistakes in Medical Abbreviations

in the fact that the abbreviations largely come from the Latin: "OD" is intended to mean "once daily" but is sometimes read as "oc...

Abandoning Abbreviations in the Medical Arena

common practice of writing out dosages using a "trailing zero" (Landers 1). When the doctor rights 10.0 mg it is simply too easy ...

Communitarian Perspective, Informaticist

a negative effect on patient care. Sara will most likely need to use conflict management strategies. These include using active ...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Ethical Issues and Medication Errors

In five pages this paper examines medication error issues from an ethical perspective. Eight sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Health Care Industry and Medication Errors

potential for depression. It stands to reason, therefore, that if nurses in critical care units are experiencing higher rates of ...

Standardized Testing - Overview

under similar conditions and when responses are scored in the same way (FairTest, n.d.). Standardized tests include those devised ...

Non-punitive Nursing Culture/Medical Errors

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

Reducing Medical Errors

focuses on methods to reduce errors and also improve the safety will focus on individual nursing skills and adherence to protocols...

Human Factors in Aircraft Repairs

of human error. Khalil (2007) reported that 70-80 percent of airline accidents are due to human error. Graeber (n.d.) put the rati...

Medication Errors

in control of the medication. Worse, not all medication errors are reported. If the wrong medication has reached the patient, the...

Reducing Errors in Research

necessary to choose the most appropriate method, in many cases this may include the use of screening and stratification in a numbe...

An Analysis of Medication Errors

it can be catastrophic. Indeed, in England and Wales recent medication errors have resulted in thirty-seven deaths (Nursing Stand...

Type I and Type II Errors and Statistical Testing Uses

to third world countries where there are problems such as hunger and famine. The development of foods that need lesser levels of w...

Aviation Maintenance

mobile offices" (Pryma, 2002, p. NA). The portability of the laptops allows maintenance workers to bring them on the plane, if the...

Learning from Errors - The Impact of Organizational Perception

If organizations and individuals are to learn from mistakes, the organization in which they occur need to have a positive approac...

SELECTION ERRORS AND THEIR COSTS

Discusses the costs of false positive errors and false negative errors when it comes to recruitment and hiring. There are 3 source...

Patient Safety and Human Factors

This research paper pertains to nursing errors that threaten patient safety, such as medication errors. Five pages in length, five...

Medical Error Disclosure: Is It Safe To Say You're Sorry?

Appropriate treatment decisions and planning require this level of honest communication. The decision to disclose shouldnt revolv...

Identifying Ethical Issues

Psychologists must live by the APA Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct. They will be sanctioned if they violate these principle...

Mental Disorders and Medical Concerns

In fourteen pages this paper examines depression, attention deficit, and various types of mental disorders and how to deal with th...