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Patient Safety and DMAIC

This research paper/essay pertains to a hospital improvement project that involved medication administration and involved the DMAI...

Self-Medication and Another Model

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

Myocardial Infarction, A Case Study

This research paper offers a case study of J.H., a 38-year-old father of 3, who has suffered a myocardial infarction. The case stu...

Overview of Type Two Diabetes Mellitus

This overview of diabetes mellitus, type two, defines the disease, discusses the importance of diet and exercise and presents a de...

Idealist, Realist Women, Shakespeare, Sheridan

This essay pertains to "The Comedy of Errors" (1594) and "Twelfth Night" (1601) by William Shakespeare and "The Rivals" (1775) by ...

The Individual Within the European State

Using Hitler as an example, the author delineates the error potentially inherent in an individual giving up his or her influence o...

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...

HP, IBM, Kodak, McDonald's Errors

This paper reports changes made at these four large corporations. The change processes are compared to Kotter's eight stage proces...

Example of How Research Can be Inaccurate

This essay discusses career development for disabled persons. More specifically, it discusses the potential for errors in that res...

A Just Verdict, Albert Fujimori

This essay argues the verdict reached against Albert Fujimori, former president of Peru, is appropriate due to the detriment, inju...

Speech Recognition Medication Dictation Technology

This research paper pertains to speech recognition software that is used in regards to creating medical reports, such as those use...

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...

Intelligence Lacks JonBinet Ransey MOVE

This essay explains and discusses three separate subjects. It reports some errors made in intelligence analysis by the FBI prior t...

Data Analytics Plan

Big Data Analytics is becoming more common in healthcare institutions because the outcomes include cost reduction, error reduction...

Breast Cancer and the Medication Tamoxifen

must be evaluated and considered against possible negative risks. The following discussion of tamoxifen looks specifically at the ...

Clinician Bias and Judgment Error

Why, after all, would he be without a home and gainful employment if he were of sound mind? This bias, which is based on popular ...

Project Risks of Boeing 787 Dreamliner

project. The two engines being used come from GE and Rolls Royce (AviationExplorer.com, 2005). A number of parts and components ar...

Article Review on Bisection Errors

two illustrations as to whether they were the same thing or different. The patient was able to detect a finger that was wiggling ...

Elderly Patients and Medication for Asthma

medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

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

Moore’s Law and Data Storage

the number of transistors (Jurvetson, 2004). However, the use of nanotechnology has extended the law from the boundaries that were...

Using Crew Resource Management In Health Care

into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...

Mathematical Errors in 7th Grade

The following is a breakdown of the problem example given and the way in which the problem can be used to demonstrate why the mult...

Human Behavior According to Freud and Nietzsche

is something that is not synonymous with love. At the same time, the sexual system is more than just something that involves a man...

Asthma Medication/Xolair

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

"Oregon v. Smith, et al"

Oregon for a determination of whether or not the use of peyote in church sacraments "is proscribed by the States controlled substa...

Study Proposal/Postoperative Nausea Medications

additional criteria for consideration is that the "ideal antiemetic drug" should be sufficiently cost-effective for routine use (D...

Using Bar Coding to Reduce Errors in Medicine Administration

technology systems" (Anderson and Wittwer, 2004, p. 5). Anderson and Wittwer describe the evolution of the system St. Marys uses,...

Hospital Disclosure

hospital is not exactly easy, and in some cases impossible." This would suggest that Auers (2006) reported average of five percent...