1000 Search Results for Trends in healthcare
Hospitals
Health care in the United States has evolved through governmental and private answers to historical trends, starting with the first days of the United States. Often arising as responses to serious gaps in health care, these remedies tradit Continue Reading...
Reports from medical center services and committees concerning patient incidents are used to develop appropriate interventions.
Trended data of patient incidents can point to shift and date where most incidents occur.
Desired Outcome
A 50% reduc Continue Reading...
Hygiene as a pivotal method of preventing infection in a health care setting
Hand Hygiene as a Pivotal Method of Preventing Infection in a Healthcare Setting
Carpetti, G.M., Sandri, F., Trridapallli, E., Galleti, S., Petracci, E., & Faldella, Continue Reading...
Regionalization
Effective Regionalization
Globalization has become a ubiquitously word in the last few decades. Much of the globalization trend is driven by the fact that many organizations operate internationally and supply chains have become soph Continue Reading...
Both of these devices "allow handwritten data entry including sketching with 'electronic ink' and handwriting recognition that converts scribble into typewritten text." (Wales and Zabrek, 2003)
Full integration with hospital servers of these device Continue Reading...
Infant Mortality
Health Care Disparities in Infant Mortality
Numerous empirical studies have demonstrated a significant discrepancy in survival rates of newborns of different race. It has been shown that black infants are two times more likely to d Continue Reading...
The issue could still be argued in terms of the ethics of withholding care, but it is not discriminatory.
Age Discrimination vs. Race Discrimination
In principle, age discrimination is like race discrimination in that it results in different right Continue Reading...
Restatement of Mission Statement and Care Values
Mission Statement. This will vary from healthcare facility to healthcare facility, of course, but for the purposes of this analysis, a representative mission statement would be as follows:
We recog Continue Reading...
Agency's Role
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is an agency under the prison health care systems. The Institution was established to provide a more humane and modern care for state prisoners, make the prison service more professional, and to ove Continue Reading...
Briefing Note
The recent economic climate has been a challenge in all sectors of life, including the health care sector. The purpose of this document is therefore to propose a 10% budget cut for health care in the province, based on the fact that se Continue Reading...
United States' President
Comparing and contrasting the U.S. healthcare system with that of various other nations is not a simple job. There are a lot of details that are not just arranged in a variety of methods however likewise they are made use of Continue Reading...
Schneck Medical Center: The Baldrige Award
Schneck Medical Center: Overview
The Schneck Medical Center according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology -- NIST (2011) "is a 93-bed nonprofit hospital providing primary and specialized Continue Reading...
Treatment for Emergency Medical Conditions and Women in Labor
The objective of this study is to complete a policy analysis on examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions and women in labor. Arising from the policy analysis will be th Continue Reading...
Merger and Acquisition
Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is an aspect of business strategy dealing with the amalgamation of two or more companies of similar entities or buying, selling or dividing different companies. Desp Continue Reading...
Pandemic Flu
Apart from the seasonal influenza epidemics caused by antigenic drifts, a significant change in the virus's virulence through antigenic shifts has been a major source of concern for healthcare professionals. These new strains may reach Continue Reading...
Population
The accessibility and affordability of medical care is significantly promoted and influenced by health insurance since it protects against risks of costly and unexpected medical events. However, many underinsured Americans i.e. both the Continue Reading...
Schneck Medical Center
Provide a description of the company, its mission, and values
SMC (Schneck Medical Center) is a nonprofit healthcare organization that provides specialized and primary care services. The center was established in 1911 with a Continue Reading...
Improving Customer Service on a Medical Surgical Nursing Unit
Quality Improvment Project-Customer service on the nursing unit
The hospital medical-surgical nursing unit is usually referred to as the "catch-all" department for different types of pat Continue Reading...
Green provides some clear guidelines to assist health education and promotion specialists in the identification and design of health promotion techniques for implementation in health promotion and disease prevention programs. Discuss how five of the Continue Reading...
Uninsured |
Healthcare
The Uninsured in the United States
According to Newport and Mendez (2009) about 17.3% of the American population does not have health insurance. The uninsured are seen in families that work. Studies show that 51% of the fami Continue Reading...
S. health care system, although it is the heavily financed and sponsored by different public and private agencies, therefore it is believed that the adoption of the similar system in the state of America will not only degrade the health and medical s Continue Reading...
Business Terminology in Health Care
The Health Care Industry, idealistically is a large conglomeration of helping individuals and organizations who's sole purpose is to help people become more healthy, be that through prevention of disease or treat Continue Reading...
Nigeria and the impact of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, and the impacts of those institutions in the country. The IMF is "an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stabi Continue Reading...
playing ground for healthcare organizations has and continues to change; so does the relationship of health care entities to their method of access and availability, degree of consumer choice, competition, financing, effect on advanced practice nurs Continue Reading...
Randolph County
Community Vitality
The area that consists of Randolph County, NC is quite vital for this region of the country. According to the United States Census, the 2012 population estimate is 142,466 people for this region. The population is Continue Reading...
writergirl Please answer questions straight acceding order. 1)Discuss role federal, state, local legislation related health care?(100) 2) How federal, state, local legislation compare similarities differences? Provide examples.
The role of the fede Continue Reading...
Breach Notification
The confidentiality of medical and personal information of every patients or other individual is a serious issue in the health sector. However, governments such the United States and European Union have put into operation data br Continue Reading...
Computerized Hospital Management Systems
The paper is about the benefits and costs of a computerized hospital management system from a nurse's perspective. The author is placed in the position of a nurse of a small 100 bed-community hospital who is Continue Reading...
CIO Interview -- Lakewood Hospital
How were you trained or and how did you decide upon your career?
I received my formal technical training in the Midwest. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Loyola University in Chicago, and Continue Reading...
Healthcare Practices in Nursing Today
Over the last 50 years, health care systems all over the world have experienced rapid and significant changes. Some of these changes have been the result of innovative developments in medical science and techno Continue Reading...
The independent physician groups and hospitals provide services under the organization's guidelines, but they may also care for patients who are not members. (1997)
While managed care does offer employers more control in choosing the specifics of t Continue Reading...
Patton Fuller
Provide a comparative analysis of the last two years of data.
In the case of Patton Fuller Hospital, they have been increasing their total amounts of debt, liabilities and assets. This is weakening their financial position with admini Continue Reading...
Aging and Social Policy
Trends in Aging Social Policy
The Rise of the Contenders
The number of citizens above the age of 65 has expanded dramatically over the past 100 years. In 1900, the average life expectancy was just 47.3 years, but a child bo Continue Reading...
Medical Errors:
Faulty Health Care System
[N a m e]
Medical or health professionals are considered to be the most respected and most valued persons. These professionals are source of hope for people suffering from different diseases. This puts add Continue Reading...
These dynamics suggest sample means may indicate questionable results without further testing to verify if skew distorts generalizability. There are plausible cases where such an extreme value would be kept, say if we were testing for risk of a rare Continue Reading...
Policy Making Process
Welfare Reform Policy Analysis
Success of welfare reform is ambiguous. Media and well-known public officials claim to have had achieved welfare reforms. However, after 4 years of new policy regime, majority also accepts that Continue Reading...
Nurse-Patient Ratio on Care Quality
Nurse Patient Ratio
The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality
The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality
It would be hard to understate the importance of a high nurse to patien Continue Reading...
nurses will continue to wrestle with is patient safety. This is because of the increasing demands and larger roles for these health care professionals are continually shifting. To deal with these challenges, a number of facilities have been utilizin Continue Reading...
Nursing Process Improvement and Change
Change management or process improvement in healthcare guarantees that the vital systems in the healthcare organizations are functioning at their optimal. The objectives of healthcare procedure enhancement are Continue Reading...
It was based on good practices within homes and outside to the general community. The field test revealed that this model is a useful managerial tool to assist home-based health care volunteer in strengthening their existing community health service Continue Reading...