Work-Life Balance Does Leisure Time Affect Work Performance? Employees are the most valuable asset that any organization has in their possession. Many times it is difficult for employees to balance their obligations of work, yet still maintain a fu Continue Reading...
Purpose and Overview Nurse consultation involves the application of change management principles and visionary leadership to the improvement of healthcare organizations. Guided by evidence-based practice and ethical principles of the healthcare prof Continue Reading...
A. Identify a current nursing practice within your healthcare setting that requires change.HIS in Nursing practice1. Describe the current nursing practice.HMISs (Health Management Information Systems) are included among the building blocks vital to s Continue Reading...
Aureus Current Areas of Research Much of the current research on staphylococcus aureus centers on the emergence of antibiotic-resistance strains. In particular, the resistant strain MRSA is resistant to methicillin and related drugs. This has creat Continue Reading...
Current Issue in Nursing: Nursing Shortage Nursing quality and adequate staffing are intertwined. Adequate levels of nurses, lower nurse to patient ratios, and also more highly trained nurses are associated with better health outcomes and lower morta Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Evolution of Hospital Design and Architecture: Adapting to Changing Health Care Needs: Explore the historical development of hospital architecture and how the design of these critical healthcare fac Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Role of Bylaws in Ensuring Quality Patient Care: Explore how comprehensive hospital bylaws contribute to the quality of patient care by establishing clear protocols, outlining professional expectati Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Evolution of Hospital Design and Architecture: This essay could explore the changing face of hospital design from historical to modern times, examining how advancements in medical technology, patient care philosophies, an Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Impact of Patent Laws on Healthcare Prices: Explore how the protection of pharmaceutical patents contributes to high healthcare costs. Consider the balance between encouraging innovation and ma Continue Reading...
Healthcare: Clinical Integration Item Page What is clinical integration History of clinical integration Goals of clinical integration Importance of clinical integration Health reform New payment models IT advancement Barriers to clinical int Continue Reading...
Patient Satisfaction In the hospital and in other health care settings, patient safety has become one of the most important considerations. This is particularly so in terms of the increasing complexity of related technology. Indeed, it is common for Continue Reading...
Health Care Reform Effecting Public Health United States Healthcare reform is an integral part of the United States healthcare system. Below is an evaluation of the effects healthcare reform has had on healthcare in the U.S. Internet sources as well Continue Reading...
Health Information System Promoting Action Design Research to create value in healthcare through IT Recently there has been varying proof showing that health IT reduces costs while improving the standard of care offered. The same factors that had c Continue Reading...
Healthcare in Canada: To Privatize or Not to Privatize To Privatize or not to Privatize: Healthcare in Canada Canada prides itself in one of the most generous healthcare systems in the world. Canadians do not have to rely on their employers for hea Continue Reading...
IT Acquisition Management for a new Video Shop Individual Project Activities Identification of a problem Organization: Component: Showtime Video Store Business Capture Group The problem is that there is no real information technology security Continue Reading...
Health Informatics: Project Management Case Study A major focus area, for several years now, in healthcare settings has been the support of data collection and transmission of information on patients through computer-based workflow systems deployed Continue Reading...
Nursing Problem: Shortage of Nurses in Healthcare Nursing Shortage The researcher works at Phoebe Memorial Hospital, where there is an extreme nursing shortage. Without an adequate amount of nurses, patient care and safety may turn out to be compro Continue Reading...
Health Information Exchange BOON OR BANE? Health Information Exchange in the U.S. The Guidelines Benefits Privacy and Security Challenges and Strategies Why Clinicians Use or Don't Use HIE Doctors' Opinion on HIE Consumer Preferences around Continue Reading...
Healthcare Financial Management To quote Jonathan Clark at the beginning of his article, "Improving the revenue cycle can be a daunting task due to the scope and complexity of the interdepartmental process." Of the suggestions offered by the authors Continue Reading...
Healthcare Policy Systems: Hong Kong, Australia VOUCHERS FOR THE ELDERLY Healthcare Policy Systems in Hong Kong and Australia Primary Health Care for the Elderly in Hong Kong Primary care is the starting point in the healthcare process (PCO, 2011 Continue Reading...
Hospital Readmissions In any profession today, quality control means the prevention of problems that were the aim of the business to solve in the first places. Recurrence of these problems means that the business has not been functioning optimally a Continue Reading...
Therefore in the economic sense many institutions have been viewed to lay back. Knowledge and Expertise in Telemedicine Another challenge has to do with the limited knowledge and expertise in telemedicine as well as the need for enhanced and modif Continue Reading...
Healthcare System in South Africa Healthcare policy Influences on public health outcomes Critical analysis of the pressures on the health care delivery It is observed that there are numerous cultures, societies, political systems in the world. Th Continue Reading...
Health Care in the U.S. And Spain What Can the U.S. Learn About Health Care from Spain? In 2009, Spain's single-payer health care system was ranked the seventh best in the world by the World Health Organization (Socolovsky, 2009). By comparison, th Continue Reading...
Health Policies Medicare When everyone in our country finally starts to reach the age of 65 years of age or older, then every person will become eligible for Medicare. It is clear that there are some elderly that are having minimum health concerns w Continue Reading...
Health Care -- Licensing, Accreditation and Certification -- Case Assignment King/Drew Medical Center JCAHO accreditation is a formal "seal of approval" by an authorized organization while JCAHO certification is a "gold seal of approval" by a privat Continue Reading...
This is being done by disseminating and using practice guidelines for various medical conditions and by profiling individual physicians' provision rates. Demand side cost sharing is where patients must contribute more to their healthcare by paying Continue Reading...
Health Care Finance Financial analyst Eric Feigenbaum (2009) notes that while we like to think of hospitals in terms of compassion, patient care and dedication to altruistic aims, they are businesses concerned with revenues and expenses like any oth Continue Reading...
Healthcare Budgetary Decision Making With resources becoming increasingly limited in the healthcare industry, managers are continually challenged with devising effective strategies for dealing with budgetary concerns. The most prominent challenge co Continue Reading...
While the study had a number of scientific limitations; the two most significant were: 1) although the response rate of interns that volunteered to participate was 80%, those that did participate may not have been representative; and 2) the case-cro Continue Reading...
At present, we spend nearly 15% of GDP, or $7,000 per man, woman and child in the United States on healthcare. The next highest nations, Germany and France, spend only about 10% of their GDP on healthcare. The additional 50% we spend does not reward 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...
Health and Nursing Reduction of bedsores through implementation of Hospital wide turntable Does the implementation of a hospital-wide turntable team have a positive impact on the reduction of bedsores? Reduction of Bedsores A pressure ulcer (PU) Continue Reading...
Health Insurance Costs Perhaps it is simply that we all need a few good villains in our life, and with the Cold War firmly over we must look closer to home to find our bad guys. Or perhaps it is simply that there is a great deal of villainy in socie Continue Reading...
Healthcare Organization and Finance Scenario Medicare covers healthcare services such as surgeries, laboratory testing and doctor visits. It also covers supplies such as walkers and wheelchairs. These services and supplies must be considered as ind Continue Reading...
(Worcestershire Diabetes: a New model of care Stakeholder event, 2007) The continuum of care for the diabetic patient is shown in the following illustration labeled Figure 1. Diabetes: Continuum of Care Source: Worcestershire Diabetes: a New mode Continue Reading...
Therefore, I would tell the patient that their symptoms should not be considered in isolation of their whole person. Websites that address symptoms only are not taking into account the wealth of factors that can influence the diagnosis of a specific Continue Reading...
Health Care Quality Management as it Applies to Managed Care In the current age of improved answerability for quality of care, every healthcare expert should be conversant in the theory and paraphernalia of quality management) Quality Management-QM Continue Reading...
Healthcare Government Regulations The role of government regulatory agencies and government regulations in general is particularly important in health care. The reasons for this are many, but the most important of those reasons is that health care d Continue Reading...
