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1. The Role of Healthcare Professionals in Ensuring Patient Safety:
This essay will explore the duties and responsibilities of healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, and technicians, in maintaining a safe environmen Continue Reading...
72). This initiative would also relate to Initiative No. 6 discussed further below.
Potential Benefits. This approach could even benefit the hospital's Human Resources Service. For example, in their essay, "Determining the Size of the Temporary Wor Continue Reading...
nurses play a very important role in the emotional, spiritual, and physical care of the patient with different illness. When it comes to nursing homes, nurses are responsible for the well-being of the individuals there. Even though majority of the p Continue Reading...
Nurse Communication
Communication is one of the most important aspects of nursing, as the case study of the student and the instructor indicates. The student nurse failed to communicate to the instructor the patient's abnormal oxygen saturation read Continue Reading...
Nursing Handoff Communication Research
Nursing handoffs are important components in the modern health care setting given their role in transfer of the responsibility and authority of care from one practitioner to another during shifts. Generally, nu Continue Reading...
Stakeholders
The insurance defense lawyers association as well as plaintiff bar associations have a great deal to lose through medical malpractice tort reform. Likewise, medical malpractice insurance companies also have an interest in the legislati Continue Reading...
Health Systems Administration - Improving Patient Safety
Medical errors are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 48,000-98,000 patients each year. Such errors are estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital, an Continue Reading...
Discharge Education to Promote Self-Efficacy in Heart Failure
An Education Intervention For Patients With Heart Failure
Management of congestive heart failure (CHF) continues to be a financial burden on the economy of the United States of America ( Continue Reading...
Medication Administration Tech
Policy and Procedure Change Bar Code Reader System for Medication Administration
Though the Utah State Hospital has an integrated electronic prescription system there is no evidence that the institution utilizes bar c Continue Reading...
Clinical Decision Making Process in Regards to Drug Therapy for the Elderly
The objective of this study is to examine how an undergraduate student nurse would use the clinical decision-making process in regards to drug therapy for the elderly. Inclu Continue Reading...
Research risk management programs for health care facilities or organizations
· Introduction
Healthcare risk management entails the administrative and clinical processes, systems and reports applied for the purpose of detecting, assessing, mon Continue Reading...
The Major Leadership Ideas/Theories
Various theories exist to explain the practice and concept of leadership. This section offers a brief overview of the better known or most dominant theories. They include the trait, situational, participative and b Continue Reading...
Acute care facilities try to maintain low costs and employ quality nurses. Within this statement is a double standard. How can we have quality nurses and cut costs at the same time? This is where the skill mix comes into play. In the skill mix, the Continue Reading...
PICO
The PICO question for this study is: Among nurses, how effective is nursing peer review as compared a basic civility tutorial intervention in moderating lateral violence and incivility in the workplace?
Introduction: Key Issues
How Incivility Im Continue Reading...
Evidence of improved access and cost effectiveness should soon follow. Over the next two decades, e-health could deliver patient, provider, and planner/manager interactions for all aspects of health care (Detmer, 2000, p. 181). Detmer continued on t Continue Reading...
B. This study used cross-sectional design and may tend to under-select individuals who have been exposed. This is known as "late-look bias." The possibility of nurses recalling MAEs over their careers may result in reporting of, or remembering info Continue Reading...
In the twenty-first century, women should have easy access to available resources to assist them in their pregnancy. In addition, available technology to detect difficulties during pregnancies is widespread in the medical field; however, disadvantag Continue Reading...
Nursing Fiscal Plan
The author of report is asked to assess a budget framework and compare what has happened to what is set to happen through the rest of the year and ascertain how best to close out the year. The author is asked to assess budget lin Continue Reading...
The success of PPACA, and its provisions for people who are currently or chronically uninsured, will depend on reform of public programs as well as private insurance practices to create "new pathways to coverage (Gulley) and address the problematic Continue Reading...
(1996). In this study, weight, height, and dietary patterns were obtained from 540 adolescent girls aged 12 to 18 years. These researchers used the body mass index of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANESI) as their reference Continue Reading...
Compliance and the HR Functions
Human Resource function is an important aspect for nearly all organizations regardless of whether they are small or medium-sized organizations with 20-100 and 100-500 employees. The significance of this function is sh Continue Reading...
Then, the patient can receive free care or referrals to specialists from the doctor. GPs thus can provide comprehensive data regarding patients with a variety of conditions, from a wide range of demographic groups. Currently, 3,500 GP practices, enc 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...
Figure 1 portrays the state of Maryland, the location for the focus of this DRP.
Figure 1: Map of Maryland, the State (Google Maps, 2009)
1.3 Study Structure
Organization of the Study
The following five chapters constitute the body of Chapter I Continue Reading...
Falls
THE ISSUE OF ACCIDENTAL FALLS
At some point, anyone who had learned how to walk has had the experience of falling down -- it is a universal experience for infants as they gain ambulatory ability. In hospitals, however, the accidental fall is Continue Reading...
S. than in any other developed nation, yet the quality of care, even for those who are insured, is mediocre at best (Hawkins, 2007).
Doctors and hospitals often treat patients free of charge, if they do not have health insurance. However, that raise 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...
System
Design Considerations and Workarounds
Implementation of an informatics system in nursing
The nursing profession continues to evolve with the advancing technology, ensuring that it maintains standards of quality in service. In the endeavor Continue Reading...
Initial tests may be culdocentesis, hematocrit, a pregnancy test, a qualitative HCG blood test, a transvaginal ultrasound or pregnancy ultrasound and a white blood count test. An ectopic pregnancy can be distinguished from a normal intrauterine preg Continue Reading...
08% or higher. Blood Alcohol content is the concentrated amount of alcohol in the blood, and this number can be assessed via chemical and Breathalyzer tests. Though this limit was previously as high as.10% in some states, even the lowered limit is no Continue Reading...
Nursing Leadership and Management
Introduction
Nurse handoff communication during shift change is one of the most frequent, though key, nursing duties which provides the basis for delivering safe, reliable care (Eggins & Slade, 2015). Study res Continue Reading...
Staff Nurses' Perceptions of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Rapid Response Teams
Rapid Response Teams (RRT) are critically important in hospital settings to reduce the failure to resuscitate patients however, there are questions as to the perce Continue Reading...
Figure 1 portrays three of the scenes 20/20 presented March 15, 2010.
Figure 1: Heather, Rachel, and Unnamed Girl in 20/20 Program (adapted from Stossel, 2010).
Statement of the Problem
For any individual, the death of a family member, friend, pa Continue Reading...
Pitocin Induction and Postpartum Hemorrhage
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Is Pitocin Induction a Factor in Postpartum Hemorrhage?
The induction of oxytocin injection has been a bane of contention in the medical community not only because it has been listed Continue Reading...
Flight Data Recorder
From a system viewpoint, prevention is a great deal less expensive than accidents. Two Boeing 737 accidents remain entirely unexplained at this time (Colorado Springs, 1992; Pittsburgh, 1994). Both airplanes had older digital fl Continue Reading...
Nursing Critique
Comparison of the Effect of Risk and Protective Factors on Suicide Attempts in a Group of Triethnic Adolescents Divided According to Race, Gender and Age.
This is an critique on a research paper about self-reported suicide attempts Continue Reading...
Leadership and Management
In the medical field, the recent topic of debate relates to Nurse Staffing Ratios where many argue that governments need to intervene in setting minimum staffing laws. Currently, the only state that has enacted a law is Ca Continue Reading...