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California Nurse-Patient Ratios

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

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

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

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...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

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

HMOs Evaluation

In five pages this paper considers an evaluation of HMOs and how integrated systems and hospitals can go about becoming more aggre...

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...

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...

Future Issues Impacting on Pathology in a Teaching Hospital

as well as retaining accuracy. The epidemic may not reach the levels that have been speculated, but concern regarding the potentia...

Reactions to Threats and Challenges in Pathology in the UK

Approaches used may include the recruitment of pathologists from areas which are likely to present challenges to bring in experien...

Oral History vs the Clinical Record

story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...

Implementing Six Sigma at the Academic Medical Hospital

manner. This is an important time for AMH as the system can be rolled into other departments. 2. Current Issues and Opportunities...

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING AND HEALTH CARE

basic change in both direction and strategy that would impact the way in which an organization is structured (Business Definition ...

A Comparison of Two Hospitals

for a health care organization. Genesys took on an elaborate task in creating a wellness center where state of the art care can be...

Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

Do Not Resuscitate Orders

This paper argues that DNRs should be eliminated form the hospital setting. An annotated bibliography (containing four sources) c...

Interview with Director of Critical Care

a top priority for many hospitals; however, the competition among hospitals for these nurses is intense (Thomason, 2006). Problem...

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT AND HOSPITALS

taking on the role of a newly promoted operations manager of a small hospital. The writer, in this scenario, has been asked to cre...

Managing Materials in the Hospital Setting

Management practice in the hospital setting and how materials are managed are things addressed in this four page paper. There are ...

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...

Implementing Service Line Approaches in a Hospital Department

a framework including a definition of each line, many hospitals appear to get stuck at this stage due to the difficulty in untangl...

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...

Value of Ratios

been a significant increase in the level of performance, with this we can see a significant change shown in table 1 below Table 1 ...

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...

DUKE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AND BALANCED SCORECARD

Focuses on how Duke Children's Hospital relied on the balanced scorecard system for improvement. There is 1 source listed in the b...

Marketing a Hospital

the west Los Angeles market, this requires an increase of 9% as the hospital currently has a 6% market share. This should be achie...

Analysis of Pharmacies

a dilemma in the United States, a dilemma in the true sense of the word in that there is just no win-win solution. When we conside...