980 Search Results for Medication Errors
Health Science in Regards to Drugs and Alcohol
Legalization of drugs
When Colorado and Washington legalized the use of marijuana for recreational purposes, issues related to legalization of all drugs became subject of public debate. Those who voted Continue Reading...
The importance of the workplace in mental, emotional, physical, social and economic welfare of employees cannot be under estimated.
Research shows a correlation between the health of the workplace, the well-being of the personnel, and the health of Continue Reading...
This is going to get done by means of using email, text messaging and the Internet to interact with my workers in a professional manner. Regardless, I am shaping my staff to change and become better people. I will have to maintain an open mind to th Continue Reading...
pregnancy alongside with discussion on an interview taken of a mother who shares her experiences of during and after pregnancy moments.
Pregnancy- an interview
Pregnancy is that stage of reproduction when the sperm has fertilized itself with the f Continue Reading...
Often home-based caregivers, either a spouse or adult child, rely on institutional care only as a choice of last resort, and this is often reported only after their own health and well being begins to be perceived as degraded by caring for the indiv Continue Reading...
The philosophy for example recognizes that more than one person is involved in the euthanasia process. The person in most physical distress is the one afflicted with illness and requiring euthanasia as a solution. What deontology does not recognize Continue Reading...
Healthy Employee Pay Less for Insurance Premiums?
Statement of the Issue
The objective of this work is to examine whether the healthy employee should contribute less towards their health insurance premium than employees who are less healthy. Emplo Continue Reading...
This is nothing to be ashamed of, it is as much as part of you as your eye color -- it just needs to be managed.
What are some risky behaviors teens often forget might aggrevate their diabetes?
A) Alcohol, B) Marijuana, C) Drugs such as cocaine, m Continue Reading...
The WHNP is important because they can take the time to educate patients on health matters and establish a rapport that makes the patient feel comfortable and at ease.
II. TRAINING and CERTIFICATION
Women's Health Nurse Practitioners can work in v Continue Reading...
These were categorized into three aspects, which the care provider could control for the benefit of the patients. These were satisfaction with the punctuality of the caregiver; the quality of interaction between the patient and the caregiver; and th Continue Reading...
The first condition of libertarianism is thus fulfilled. Now we come to the second part. If an employer chooses to have his employees tested, he should have made it absolutely clear when hiring them that they would be tested. It was then up to them Continue Reading...
Many advocates of the move feel that lower patient to nurse ratio would lead to additional savings because it would reduce nurse turnover rate, lawsuits, complications and length of stay. Nursing unions in the state of California have asked for a PT Continue Reading...
In most cases, recreational drug use is seen as a victimless crime and a harmless activity. This attitude changes in the workplace if the drug use impairs performance to the detriment of other workers or if the work involves public safety, in which Continue Reading...
Housing. Though one's medical health is usually not asked for on a lease application, the landlord might very well look it up, using an online service. One might ask why, but it is similar to the employer's reason: not wanting the tenant complaining Continue Reading...
emotionally charged concepts in the study of sociology is that of what constitutes "deviance." In common conversation, to call someone is a "deviant" is usually meant as an insult to that individual's character. It suggests that he or she lives beyo Continue Reading...
Women who see their physician two times a year for refills would see an individual cost savings of $85 per year for a total cost savings of $307 million for the population. In addition, approximately 2.1 million women would eliminate their annual gy Continue Reading...
Finance
Americans receive one of the most annoying health-care delivery systems even though they have the benefit of the most refined medical care that money can purchase. (Brownlee, 2003) There have long been niggling suspicions over whether health Continue Reading...
Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes has been among the illnesses that need rigid and proper attention to maintain the normal condition of the patient's body. Among the stages and types of diabetes, type 1 diabetes is the illness type that usually hits both the Continue Reading...
liability that a nurse encounters on the job. It provides a discussion about the legal risks involved in various health care settings for nurses. There were eight sources used to complete this paper.
For years, there have been reports of a nationwi Continue Reading...
.....prescription process can incur high costs in the healthcare industry due to poor risk management. Lack of continued assessment, technological upgrades, and information sessions can lead to an increased rate of data entry errors. Data entry error Continue Reading...
Health Care -- Statistical Thinking in Health Care
The HMO pharmacy is inaccurately filling prescriptions. Prescribers blame pharmacy assistants, the assistants blame pharmacists and pharmacists blame prescribers. Analysis of their system show point Continue Reading...
Bipolar Disorder generally sets in during adolescence or early adulthood though it may also occur late in one's life or during childhood. It results in terrible mood swings ranging from mania and euphoria to depression and suicidal tendencies. The ea Continue Reading...
Clinical Psychology Dissertation - Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings
An Abstract of a Dissertation
Dream Content as a Therapeutic Approach: Ego Gratification vs. Repressed Feelings
This study sets ou Continue Reading...
Physician Assisted Suicide in Patients With Unbearable Suffering or the Terminally Ill
One of the most hotly debated issues today is physician-assisted suicide. Recently, California became the fifth state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, and Continue Reading...
Introduction
In the US, healthcare safety isn’t up to the mark, as it ought to be. Figures from a couple of important research works reveal that between 44,000 and 98,000 individuals lose their lives per annum within healthcare settings owing t Continue Reading...
A1. Advantages and Disadvantages of a System
All health information systems (HIS) come with great advantages and some disadvantages that must be taken in account to keep patients safe. A HIS is a system that captures, retains information, and helps m Continue Reading...
Blueprint for Evaluating Patient Safety Competency in Nursing Students
Ever since the report To Err is Human was published in 2000 by Kohn and colleagues, healthcare stakeholders in Western countries have intensified reform efforts designed to incr Continue Reading...
MEDICAL NURSING Medical Nursing: PDCA Cycle (Time Management)The PDCA (plan, do, check, act) cycle is a useful management tool that helps a person create an effective approach for identifying problems and devising solutions (Wu et al., 2015). It is a Continue Reading...
NP HEALTH PROBLEM
Common Health Problem in Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Practice and Recommendations for Its Medical Management
Nurses are the initial point of contact for the patients in many medical settings, and the nurse practitioners (NP) are Continue Reading...
Quality & Safety
The quality and safety of health care services has been a major issue in the recent past because of the significance of these factors in the improvement of patient outcomes and enhancing the effectiveness of the health care syst Continue Reading...
ADHD (what it is this disease) and what are the symptoms and result of this disease. The paper also discusses the affects of ADHD on patients. In this paper the treatment of ADHD is also discussed and explained.
All the details relating to this con Continue Reading...
The first group will receive a placebo. The second group will receive a spiritual chakra treatment designed to correct electrochemical imbalances within the body. The third group will receive medication to treat psychosis. The specific medication do Continue Reading...
Problem Statement
This case involves the cardiovascular unit at a large general hospital in a major American city. New equipment and new medications had been introduced within the past month. Healthcare staff received training on the new equipment an Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership and Management and Field Experience
Nursing Leadership and Management Field Experience
Problem Identification
The problem identified concerns about patient safety and satisfaction arising out of shortage in nurse staffing. In th Continue Reading...
technology underlying healthcare information and determine the most pressing need for innovation.
Technology in any field is critical, but in healthcare, because of the importance of the product, it is even more important. Healthcare information te Continue Reading...
CPOE and CDSS
A CDSS (decision support alerts) Embedded in a CPOE (Prescribing Order Entry) for Intravenous HEPARIN
ORDER ENTRY
Weight, last heparin dose, and related laboratory tests displayed on the screenDirect by Test Doctor at 13th September Continue Reading...
Acute Pain Management: A Brief Overview
Course Number, Section, and Title
(Example: NURS 4000 Section 04, Research and Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice)
(enter the date submitted to Instructor)
CHANGE IN PRACTICE
Acute pain management is Continue Reading...
Grossman, J.M., Cross, D.A., Boukus, E.R. & Cohen, G. (2011). Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: experiences of physician practices and pharmacies. Journal of the American Medical Association. Doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000515
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