939 Search Results for leadership and the effect on health care quality
1. Nursing Theorist Overview
Theory guides nursing practice and provides a framework for nurse leadership and healthcare management (McKenna, Pajnikar & Murphy, 2014). All prominent nursing theorists like the individuals covered in the multimedia Continue Reading...
Magnet Status in Hospitals
Overview of A Magnet Facility
A Magnet facility is defined as a healthcare organization where nurses have a high level of job satisfaction, nursing delivers excellent patient outcomes, and there is low nurse staff turnove Continue Reading...
Healthcare: Clinical Integration
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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...
Healthcare Financing and Organization
Healthcare is a field that is constantly evolving. This is because of fundamental changes in their financing and organization. The result is that the entire operation is shifting. To fully understand what is occ Continue Reading...
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IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY WITH EVIDENCE-BASED RESEARCH
My workplace is currently experiencing the need for improvement is in the area of enforcing and communicating hospital policies/procedures regarding care of patients requiring special Continue Reading...
Health Care Organization Strategic Plan: The Case of Samaritan Medical Centre
Strategic Planning and Organizational structure
Organization Structure
Strategic Planning and Organization Structure
Present strategy of the Organization
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Health Care Staff Trends
The healthcare system has seen various changes over the decades with the aim of making the care more efficient and quality to the citizens. One of the most important changes is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (PPA Continue Reading...
Technology in Healthcare
It is a fact of life today that technology pervades everything. It is hardly a surprise that this is true for health care as well. Indeed, the very nature of health care, in that it provides human beings with a better chance Continue Reading...
In case of referrals, the physicians are able to share information with ease allowing a more accurate diagnosis to be made and the sending of reports between the two physicians becomes easy since it is electronic. In these ways, electronic medical r Continue Reading...
Universal Health Care - Literature Review
Universal Health Care
Universal health care is a hot-button topic for many people, especially since "Obamacare" was passed into law. However, there has been some discussion of a health care bill of some kin Continue Reading...
The subject is now part of a national political task force, with the goal of eliminating the problem within one generation (Ferran, 2010).
Formally, teen pregnancy is based on a woman who will not reach her 20th birthday by the expected birth of he Continue Reading...
Gene Rogers who served as the medical director for Sacramento County's Indigent Services program for the most of the last decade who has "waged a long fight against the central California country's practice of providing non-emergency medical care to Continue Reading...
Social, Cultural, And Political Influence in Healthcare Delivery
Social, cultural, and political inequalities are detrimental to the health and healthcare system of the U.S. This is because the U.S. is one of the most multicultural, overpopulated, d Continue Reading...
Financial Management for Nurses
The modern healthcare industry is extremely labor intensive. To be effective, a modern nurse manager must balance patient care vs. staffing, procedures vs. patient load, and fiscal budgets in line with appropriate lev Continue Reading...
Stress Management in the Caregiver Setting
An increasing body of evidence points to the intensity of the labor involved in caring, and the impact it has on the caregiver in a healthcare setting. Whether lay or professional, it seems that the potenti Continue Reading...
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Holstein, William. "A Drug Maker's Views of What Ails Health Care." New York Times, September 8, 2007 [online] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/business/08interview.html accessed Ju Continue Reading...
Inefficient Healthcare Routines, Examples of Participative Decision-Making in the Workplace
Routine practices are performed on the premise that all clients, patients, their families, visitors and residents are potentially infectious even without vis Continue Reading...
Mission, Vision, And Values of Healthcare Organizations
This paper discusses four healthcare organizations in the best way about their missions, visions and value. The featured four healthcare organizations include Nightingale Home Care Inc., Scripp Continue Reading...
Risk Management
When creating a risk management plan for a government program a number of important (even crucial) steps must be taken. In this paper a review of those steps is presented. Also, interventions which are important for improving healthc Continue Reading...
Compliance Manager
THE COMPANY OVERSEER
Compliance Manager in the Healthcare Industry
Job Description
The Compliance Manager oversees compliance throughout the healthcare company as an objective and independent function (ACHE, 2012). He makes sur Continue Reading...
Nurse Leadership Literature
Cummings, et al. (2010) found that relational leadership led to greater productivity, effectiveness, and extra effort when compared to task-focused leadership styles. The importance of the study to the current research i Continue Reading...
How Healthcare Policy Impacts APN
Explanation of how healthcare policy can impact the advanced practice nurse profession
The role of APN is to provide primary, specialty, and acute care through assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of those who seek h Continue Reading...
Inequality of Socioeconomics with Regards to Access to Health Care
This topic was selected because I am pursuing a degree in health care administration/nursing and I want to show how inequality of access to health care is determined by one’s so Continue Reading...
Employee Motivation
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is perhaps the most commonly known theory of motivation, which is likely due to the broad applicability of the theory. Maslow developed his hierarchy of needs as part of his research on human potential Continue Reading...
Mandatory Overtime Policies
Organizational Culture and Readiness Assessment
The results of the Organizational Culture and Readiness for System-Wide Integration of Evidence-Based Practice checklist, which summarizes the survey results, are discusse Continue Reading...
Introduction
Organizational behavior is the study of the way people interact within an organization. The aim of organizational behavior is to facilitate efficiency within the organization. The better understood the interaction of workers within a gr Continue Reading...
Nigeria: Economic and Human Health
Lending Institutions, Healthcare, and Human Capital
Nigeria is the largest country in Africa and is home to 47% of the continent's population (World Bank, 2013). Nigeria is the largest oil exporter and holds the m Continue Reading...
size is an important consideration with regards to data collection for statistical analysis in a study. Sample size plays an important role in a research process since the identification of a suitable sample size for statistical analysis is crucial Continue Reading...
Al-Sawai, A. (2013). Leadership of Healthcare Professionals: Where Do We Stand?.
Oman Medical Journal, 28(4), 285-287 3p. doi:10. 5001/omj.2013.79
This study defines leadership as behavior that drives a group towards an identified goal, and it desc Continue Reading...
cultural diversity issues and its impact on nursing professionals' practice. It assesses a client hailing from a different culture, and employs information derived from the assessment determining and reflecting on health practices and beliefs of the 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...
Benjamins, M., Whitman, S. (2014). Relationships between discrimination in health
care and health care outcomes among four race/ethnic groups. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 37: 402-413.
The researchers are based out of Sinai Urban Health Institut Continue Reading...
Quality Improvements in Emergency Services
Consumers in the form of patients and other stakeholders are increasingly demanding for proof that the care being delivered or rendered to them is of high quality. In general, the public is cognizant of, de Continue Reading...
Financial Analysis
UCSD is a health care provider that is considering the purchase of an MRI machine. An MRI is a tube that is surrounded by a giant circular magnet. It is used to scan patients, and has the benefit of being very safe relatively to r Continue Reading...
Excessive Wait Times in Healthcare
Literature Review
Excessive wait times in healthcare are a problem for both patients and care providers as they affect patient satisfaction, which in turn impacts the job satisfaction of nurses and other care provid Continue Reading...
In these kinds of situations, the health care professional is taking the middle ground to satisfy both parties (which will lead to a number of challenges). This is from both sides feeling that they have won and will want more down the road. The only Continue Reading...
Health Systems Issues and Strategic Planning
The delivery of high quality healthcare services requires a sophisticated health system infrastructure that provides a multidisciplinary team approach. This health system infrastructure varies from countr Continue Reading...
Health Policy Influence
Health policy has a big influence on health care leadership. The decisions made about health policy are the driving forces behind the actual health care that is offered to society (Torrens, 2013). In turn, that affects the le Continue Reading...