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Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

Should A Nursing Manager Quit?

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

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...

Creating a Consulting Firm

of health care is in and remains in flux as we seek systems that not only work in the present but also are sustainable over time. ...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Strategy Assignments

by 2010 (About Healthy People, n.d.). It has survived four presidents and several changes in congressional leadership based on pa...

Communication Management Between Doctors & Nurses

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

Johnson and Johnson Culture and Change

where employees are important stakeholders as seen with the "Live for Life" employee health program initiated in 1976, which was ...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Hospital Expansion Project

additional staffing, but that; expansion of the Emergency Department; and changes in local demographics all point to greater staff...

Marketing and Budgeting for a Recycling Project

eliminate the risk of non compliance and simply use new equipment each time. With mass production techniques it was possible to pr...

Research Study Proposal/Hand washing

to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

The New York Hospital Closure Controversy

The NYSNA representative agrees, suggesting that closing hospitals is not a good way to deal with the health care crisis ("Prevent...

Beehive Home Assisted Living Facility

care service has been the focus of greater scrutiny. Willging (2004) asks: "Just what is assisted living? There are still too ma...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Business Process Objectives

quality of the customer service. The measures here will be against the expected levels from past visitors as well as the levels co...

Staffing the VA Outpatient Clinic

and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its...

Balanced Scorecard; Financial Objectives

as such this will also lead to patient satisfaction. The cost per patient or per visit may be measured in financial terms; this ...

Learning and Growth Objectives

of that knowledge and create cost savings with the way it is implemented, such as new procedures, or new ways of managing old proc...

Balanced Scorecard Objectives

numbers and then as a percentage on yearly basis. The measure in the first year for reference only, in the second year the numbe...

Miami Valley Hospital & Performance Management

degree (Barnes, et al, 1999). At a time when many healthcare facilities were moving away from clinical ladders, Miami Valley Hos...

Humanistic Leadership & Nursing Unions

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

Duke Children’s Hospital; Introducing the Balanced Score-Card

of dissatisfied customers (patients and their parents) ad they were making losses which were increasing. The drive for change ofte...

Lomita Hospital Case Study

of the different types of procedure; the result is a weighted average cost calculation. The department must contest this if the so...

Identification Of Alternative Plans And Actions To Improve Levels Of Performance

so as to implement an effectively working TQM program. However, in order to achieve the highest plateau in relation to quality, D...

Failed Information Technology Project at Washington Mercy Hospital

but fails to deliver in terms of system response. The hospital and its IT contractor, DCS, are entering non-binding mediation in ...