306 Search Results for Professional Accountability and Patient Safety
Smart Goals
In health care, leadership is one the most critical factors in determining how to deal with a host of challenges. These issues will decide the way staff members should address various problems and improve quality. Two SMART goals that we Continue Reading...
Nurses during Emergency
During the tackling of disasters, teams from varied fields, experiences expertise and education come together; these group present broad spectrums of capabilities and qualification; essential for assistance in situations of Continue Reading...
Nursing Informatics Field
Definition of informatics nurses
Example of nursing informatics in practice (software applications)
Recent Growth
Nursing shortage and its impact
Need for automated processes over manual processes
Need for increased pa Continue Reading...
Clinical Assessment of Learners
Clinical assessment involves the evaluation of technical skills, communication skills, professionalism, knowledge base, and teaching skills, where applicable, of students who are about to enter independent practice. T 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...
Electronic Health Records
Since the introduction of electronic health records, the U.S. government, information systems developers and associations of healthcare providers have worked toward establishing a uniform, integrated system of electronic he Continue Reading...
Personal and Professional Accountability
Personal Growth and Development
The concept of professional nurse accountability has been defined by professional nursing bodies and nurse education credentialing bodies as an essential factor underpinning p Continue Reading...
However, because they make billing more efficient, the majority of large urban practice groups and hospitals have already made the switch to electronic records, according to Michael R. Costa, attorney and associate at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, in Bost Continue Reading...
Stated to be barriers in the current environment and responsible for the reporting that is inadequate in relation to medical errors are:
Lack of a common understanding about errors among health care professionals
Physicians generally think of erro Continue Reading...
Nursing informatics has been defined as, "a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice" (Shuler, 2011). The systems devel Continue Reading...
Nursing Home
Report on Conditions at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
The following report is based on extensive observation of the conditions for patients living at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. While so Continue Reading...
Fault: An Alternative to the Current Tort-Based System in England and Wales
The United Kingdom
statistics regarding claims
THE NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM
OBSTACLES TO DUE PROCESS
THE CASE FOR REFORM
THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
THE RISING COST OF LI Continue Reading...
The RN verifies comprehension with the nursing assistive personnel and that the assistant accepts the delegation and the responsibility that accompanies it;
7) Communication must be a two-way process. Nursing assistive personnel should have the opp Continue Reading...
Improvement of Human Resource Management in a Respiratory Care Center
When individuals play as a team they tend to achieve greater clinical and organizational outcomes in a healthcare institution like the respiratory care center. Clinical and financ Continue Reading...
Mental Illness
The ability for patients to access mental health services these days are more wide ranging than ever before. This is in part due to the fact that the realm of mental health, once simply governed by physicians, is now peopled by staff Continue Reading...
, 2005). In addition, the workload on clinicians is often increased past the point of reasonable because it is too intrusive and time consuming to document patient encounters during clinic time (Grabenbauer, Skinner, and Windle, 2011). The amount of 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...
Ethical-Legal Nursing Discussions - Part II
Moral Distress and Moral Integrity Comment by Ileana: OverviewMoral Distress in Advanced Practice NursingThe meaning of moral distress has been changing in nursing. No definition fits all dilemmas. Moral d 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...
Competence
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In nursing, one is expected to be accountable and responsible for one's own actions. This is also true for anyone the nurse delegates a task to. A nurse has the right to delegate or not delegate, dep Continue Reading...
In the emergency room, this distinction can have a determinant impact on the ability of the staff to preserve life and diminish pain and suffering.
The introduction of a bioethical perspective into this dialogue invokes a question as to the primacy Continue Reading...
The obesity crisis is, I believe, even more important than problems surrounding food safety-borne epidemics. Despite the recent attention given to obesity in the popular media, obesity is in some ways more difficult to treat than food safety issues. Continue Reading...
Holistic Care and Healthcare StructuresThe field of health care consists of structures and processes through which organizations determine the quality and efficiency of care provided to patients. Structures will range from hierarchical management sys Continue Reading...
Nursing
There are more than two methods that can be used to display leadership regarding an interdisciplinary team even if the person is not in a formal leadership position. One of the methods used can be to always present a positive attitude, even Continue Reading...
S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011). Furthermore, subpart C explains the privileges and the protections of confidentiality that is attached to the patient's record along with much exception (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Continue Reading...
By improving their self knowledge, leaders can change and develop as leaders of people. Clinical supervision for leaders is sometimes called administrative clinical supervision. This is managerial clinical supervision with a focus on problems relate Continue Reading...
Attorneys, however, note that the suits are reflective of an increase in negligent doctors, who are hard pressed to serve a larger and more demanding patient load. Medical care is more costly and it is true that doctors fail to establish bedside rel 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...
Technology Decision Making
Effect of technology decision making
Technology has been growing over a period of years due to globalization. All individuals, organizations, and even the society as a whole have been affected by the information and comm Continue Reading...
Medication Errors
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Medication errors pose a significant threat to patients. The results of medication errors vary from mild to deadly. No facility is immune from the Continue Reading...
Competency in Entry-Level Nurses
Competency In Entry Level Nurses
Competency in entry-level nurses: Implications for practice
Given the responsibilities shouldered by nurses, it is essential that all new nurses are competent to practice their prof Continue Reading...
Nursing
Electronic Medical Records, Documentation, and the Role of the Nurse
Efficient use of time is one of the primary methods healthcare professionals use to save lives. When there is very little time available, and decisions have to be made wit Continue Reading...
Limit Two to a Page
Speculate on the efficacy of web-based computers in health care. Cite one new article.
One of the most famous -- and to some, one of the most frightening -- developments in the world of computers was the creation of IBM's 'Wats Continue Reading...
Joint Commission is a self-governing, not-for-profit organization, that certifies almost 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is known nationwide as a sign of quality tha Continue Reading...
Development of a Nursing Peer Review Process at Cypress Fairbanks Medical CenterTask 1: Project ProposalClinical/Organizational ProblemThe need for establishing a nursing peer review (NPR) process has been identified by researchers in the healthcare 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...
Training Program ProposalTraining is an essential part of customer satisfaction since better-equipped employees would give better services to the customers. The world population has become a consumer of health care, which is considered one of the maj Continue Reading...
Security in Healthcare
The recent advances in technology -- databases that store personal medical records and information -- are bringing tools to patients, doctors and other healthcare professionals that were simply not available just a few years Continue Reading...
Management Performance Within Elderly Care Homes in Gibraltar
The elderly nursing community in Gibraltar is dispersed and characterized by different institution specific challenges and particularities. The current project assesses the general level Continue Reading...
Advance Information Management and the Application of Technology
In this modern age, the incorporation of information technology (IT) with the health care system is important. With the need of quality care within the industry, there is great signifi Continue Reading...