Communications Effective communications between doctors and nurses has always been a high priority in the medical field, especially in an arena such as a hospital, health clinic or hospice. Communicating effectively between the nurses and the doctor 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...
Diabetes Management Early Detection and Management of Diabetic Neuropathy in a Clinical and Homecare Setting The objective of this study is to examine early detection and management of diabetic neuropathy in a clinical and homecare setting and spec Continue Reading...
Bass, P., Wilso, J. And Griffith, C. (2003). A Shortened Instrument for Literacy Screening. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 8(12), 1036-8. Berger, J. (2000). Corporate Health Plan Strategies and Health Literacy. National Health Communication Continue Reading...
It is feared that religious differences in decisions regarding when to withhold treatment are being ignored by the courts. The social and legal issues are highlighted in cases that involve pre-term infants. In the elderly, the cultural consensus is Continue Reading...
"A step backward -- or is it forward?" Diabetes Care, 31, 1093-1096. Huan-Cheng C., Yue-Cune C., Su-Mei, L., Mei-Fang, C., Mei-Ching, H., & Chin-Lin, P. et al. (2007). The effectiveness of hospital-based diabetes case management: an example fro Continue Reading...
Fire-Based providers as the sole form of EMS EU member states do not follow a uniform EMS model. This often leads to difficulties at the times of crisis as the preliminary response to the situation varies from state to state. Each region is characte Continue Reading...
Next, the amount of legal and ethical hoops that electronic health records must jump through is substantial and no doubt overwhelming to someone who is new to it. With the advent of laws like HIPAA and even general ethical concerns that are not tec Continue Reading...
Business Intelligence Creating, Implementing and Using Business Intelligence in Clinic and Resort Cases In the process of effective decision making for improving opportunities and performance of a business, a vital role is played by Business Intell Continue Reading...
Administration and Stakeholders Over the last several years, the number of medical errors that health care facilities have dealing with has been steadily increasing. A good example of this can be seen with a study that was conducted by the Institute Continue Reading...
Jody Smith: Application of the Moral Model… Applying Ethical Decision Making Model "Jody Smith Case Study: Application of Thiroux's Moral Model" The decision making model that will be applied in this work is the Moral Model (Thiroux 1977) an Continue Reading...
While this is an important first step, the overall bureaucracy of the hospital could pose problem over the long-term. To mitigate this situation, the hospital could implement a program of randomly monitoring the various departments that score poorly Continue Reading...
Leading Mergers and Acquisitions of Hospitals Merging and Acquisition When the size of an organization continuously increases in size, management problems arise. Such large organizations operate through bureaucratic structures. The main factors tha Continue Reading...
The facility should strive to bring the SSI rate down below the expected level for the types of patients and surgeries that the facility has. Plan of Action In order to achieve better-than-average results in the SSI rates for our facility, there a Continue Reading...
Err is Human It is the opinion of this author as a health care professional that much of the errors in the system are due to health care cutbacks first mandated by HMOs and what will now happen under the new federal laws and guidelines. Of course, Continue Reading...
40 43 23 16 12 10 0.50 42 22 15 12 10 0.70 51 27 19 15 13 0.90 66 47 38 32 Can you apply this valid, important evidence from a systematic review in caring for your patient? Do these results apply to our patient? Is your patie Continue Reading...
Risk Management Issue Over the last several years, the issue of patient safety has been increasingly brought to the forefront. Part of the reason for this, is because a number of high profile accidents have taken place. This has increase the chance Continue Reading...
Some of the funding is to come from a national prevention trust fund (Kaiser Fdn, 2010). However there are additional funding resources for the near-term that are readily assessable. Social Justice The National Secretary of Health has been called Continue Reading...
Improved communication was selected, because these issues are contributing to some of the different errors that have taken place. Training is when you are showing the staff how to trouble shoot, various issues that could occur. Backup systems are de Continue Reading...
health management systems designed to serve public needs during disasters and emergencies, two are discussed here: Emergency Prescription Assistance Program (EPAP) and state social media platforms. Each system addresses a different aspect of health Continue Reading...
Nurses and Pain Management Pain management has always been a critical goal of health care workers. Strategies for improved pain management guidelines have been in place since the early 1990s, with the aim of allowing clinicians to improve pain manag Continue Reading...
Mr. Medicare's Myocardia Mr. Medicare Patient and his wife Mrs. Medicare were sitting on the couch watching a football game one Sunday, when Mr. Medicare began to feel ill. It began with a feeling like indigestion, which he attributed to the spicy c Continue Reading...
door to balloon time is an important determinant of the prognosis of STEMI patients. To reduce D2B times, most centers implement a pre-hospital triage which involves the use of pre-hospital ECG to allow direct transfer of patients with confirmed STE Continue Reading...
Wal-Mart is also deemed to be a company that greatly mistreats and discriminates against its employees but there has apparently been no reliable empirical data to back that up (Van Riper, 2008). The article concludes by conceding to some Wal-Mart c Continue Reading...
Manage identification planning This chapter discusses the management and planning of change process within the clinical setting. Change management plan is very critical to the success of any healthcare unit. Change may be threatening to organizatio Continue Reading...
Patient Identifiers The Importance of Patient Identifiers Adverse events as a consequence of medical treatment are now recognized to be a significant source of morbidity and mortality around the world (World Health Organization [WHO], 2005). Somewh Continue Reading...
Patient Handoffs Majority of the medical errors take place in the patient's handoffs. A shift among the doctors is a common practice. There are a number of old patients who approach around 16 different doctors in a year, while young patients who are Continue Reading...
Sleep deprivation is frequently a direct result of the need for intensive care, constant surveillance and monitoring that combine to limit the opportunities for uninterrupted sleep in the intensive care unit (ICU). The problem is multifactorial, with Continue Reading...
Imogene King's Attainment Theory King's Attainment Theory The thrust of Imogene King's theory of goal attainment is a loosely-coupled partnership between the nurse and the patient that enables communication about the patient's condition, their heal Continue Reading...
This is important because the cost of hospital acquired infections run high. The cost to care for a patient with a hospital acquired infection is almost three times the amount to care for a patient without a hospital acquired infection (Hassan et al Continue Reading...
For its versatility in eluding new antibiotics, it can be life-threatening. One of these "superbugs" is VRE, which is transmissible by direct hand contact or through surfaces and equipment by anyone, including the health care worker (Capriotti, 2007 Continue Reading...
Another study found that there are many different strategies that are utilized when information technology is developed within the federal government and many of these tend to come not from the top managers but from the management instead (Gupta, Ho Continue Reading...
suffered from its quasi-experimental approach, as several participants left the study since they left the facility or otherwise were not permitted to participate -- for example, those patients who recovered sufficiently to conduct their own oral car Continue Reading...
Moreover, fully three-quarters of the surveyed nurses reported that the lack of adequate assessment of cancer pain was a significant barrier to effective pain management, and almost as many (72%) reported a lack of clinician knowledge as representin Continue Reading...
Wellness Program at Work Wellness programs at work Healthy workforce is a productive workforce (Bray & Bray, 2009). Healthy employees can give more attention to their job responsibilities, work more dedicatedly, and devote themselves whole hear Continue Reading...
Business Posts (1) Finance Balance Sheet ASSETS Non-current assets $30,000 Equipment $30,000 Current assets $170,000 Inventory $20,000 Accounts receivable $100,000 Cash $50,000 TOTAL ASSETS $200,000 LIABILITIES Accounts payable $1 Continue Reading...
People die each year of cardiac related health problems. Some die of heart attacks and others of congestive heart failure and so forth. This research proposal highlights five peer reviewed journal articles that show how to improve, step-by-step, the Continue Reading...
NMC Code: Patient Confidentiality The Nursing and Midwifery Code sets the standards by which UK nurses and midwives should conduct themselves both ethically and professionally (NMC, 2010). The main principles are patient autonomy, patient confidenti Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Medicine The process of evidence-based medicine is similar to any occupation within the healthcare discipline. However, differences emerge as a result of different theoretical models and practice domains used. Thus, the process for e Continue Reading...
Hydration Advocacy Campaign Health Advocacy Campaign Part 1 Developing a Health Advocacy Campaign Health advocacy programs are mostly tailored to specific groups of people that are in need of special attention. While this approach can be useful, s Continue Reading...
