Policy of choice: Patient Safety The provision of healthcare services is a complex responsibility that the professionals in healthcare risk management must never take lightly. Hospital regulations and accreditation standards make the safety requires Continue Reading...
Patient Safety Outcomes to ADN and BSN Nurses: As evident in theme of national reports in the health care field, promoting higher education for registered nurses has been a topic of increased concern. These recommendations are primarily based on ov Continue Reading...
Workplace Demands Influences Patient Safety PICOT Question PICOT Question: How can the implementation of accurate safety standards reduce errors that hamper patients' safety in healthcare facilities in the short and long run? P -- Patients in hea Continue Reading...
Blueprint for Evaluating Patient Safety Competency in Nursing Students Ever since the report To Err is Human was published in 2000 by Kohn and colleagues, healthcare stakeholders in Western countries have intensified reform efforts designed to incr Continue Reading...
" (Morris & Woodcock, 2004) V. Murakami et al. (2003) In the work entitled: "Deep Venous Thrombosis Prophylaxis in Trauma: Improved Compliance With a Novel Miniaturized Pneumatic Compression Device" the authors state that: "Intermittent pneumat Continue Reading...
Abstract In order to gather the challenges, it is necessary to rehabilitate organizations into learning institutions at the first step, so as to make them superlative. To make a change from a traditional to a learning organization, the main factor is Continue Reading...
These studies demonstrate that there are several factors associated with patient noncompliance, regardless of the disease being treated. Medication side effects represent only one of these issues. Nurse practitioners could help to resolve many of t Continue Reading...
Within some managed care systems, physicians who perform more procedures and spend more time with patients than is deemed necessary are penalized or physicians are simply paid based upon their number of patients, rather than the extent of the care t Continue Reading...
clinical cases and examine malpractice perspectives. Background Info Concerns over mounting healthcare expenses have resulted in increased inquiry into medical practices. With the rise of malpractice risk and medical liability to unprecedented lev Continue Reading...
Introduction As of now, at least fourteen states across the country have legislations on safe staffing. Although California is among the fourteen jurisdictions, it is unique in the sense that its legislation includes a nurse to patient ratio clause. Continue Reading...
Introduction Patient-centered care is the goal of many healthcare organizations, but the ability of an organization to deliver patient-centered care is influenced by a number of factors both internal and external. Business practices, regulatory requ Continue Reading...
Policy, Politics and Global Trends in Health Sector Why the Public Policy Issue Was Chosen? According to the report released by National Priorities and Goals -- aligning efforts meant to transform America's Health care (NQF, 2009; Partnership, 2008 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...
Lack of a comprehensive education and lack of knowledge in EBP could lead many of the nurses that work in hospitals around the country to make errors, which would negatively affect the patient care and predispose them to increased chances of litigat Continue Reading...
Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property Ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety Various organizations often find themselves in the wrong side of the law when undert Continue Reading...
Controlling Violent Health Care Patients and Employees This is a paper discussion on the identification and control of violence amongst health care patients and employees. It has 11 sources. An Introduction to Violence Violence has become a commo Continue Reading...
Employee's Rights to Health and Safety in the Workplace The objective of this study is to analyze the rights of employees to health and safety in the workplace in regards to the scenario as follows: DoRight has recently been hired as the President Continue Reading...
It is essential for company managers, safety practitioners and manufacturing engineers to be informed of and gain sufficient knowledge about current research developments in this field and implement safety strategies as well as systems to minimize o Continue Reading...
Legalization of Marijuana ease Patient Suffering? Patients with illnesses that cause significant suffering, such as cancer, AIDs and others often find themselves in a dilemma. The dilemma is whether to give up and die, or accept treatment that will Continue Reading...
The list of ethical relationships continues to include procurement and communicability, behond the space for the present report. There is probably no way to include all stakeholders in this decision since that group includes future applicants as ye Continue Reading...
Introduction Since 1986, the World Health Organization has promoted a Healthy Communities/Healthy Cities initiative, also known as the Alliance for Healthy Cities, with hundreds of participating municipalities across the world (Hancock, 1993; World Continue Reading...
Health Policy Analysis for Maryland AC (Affordable Care) Act McLaughlin, & McLaughlin (2014) rank 11 areas of health innovation based on their impact on costs and quality of healthcare delivery. The process improvement is the highest ranking ite Continue Reading...
Quality Management Relating Risk management policies and practices to quality management Quality Management for X Medical Facility Quality management in the health care aims at ensuring that patients, who seek their services, obtain an exceptional Continue Reading...
Case Report: Application of Quality and Safety Concepts Introduction This report will describe an ethical predicament situation encountered by a nurse in line of duty in an emergency department. The predicament will be analyzed using the algorithm fo Continue Reading...
Stakeholders' interest, power, and influence Outpatient unit administration has a principal reputational and financial interest in any alteration made within a healthcare setting. This comes from having the authority and power to carry out or reject Continue Reading...
Patient Safety Against Injurious Falls Description A White-Paper Testimony on Current Risks With more than a thousand preventable deaths a day, the need to pay greater attention to improving current patient safety conditions and standards is unque Continue Reading...
Organizational Leadership in a Health Care Setting Current Practice Setting Recent work environments among practicing nurses show that the domain of personnel lacks in collaboration with patient and family in the job descriptions and policies durin Continue Reading...
Prison Population Explosion The incarceration rate in the United States is alarmingly high given the advanced nature of the country overall. Indeed, prisons have become the de facto asylums of the current day. While many people in prisons should abs Continue Reading...
Health Care Reforms Legislation and Its Effect on Nursing Practice One of the milestone legislations that President Obama signed into law in 2010 was the Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) and the Health Care Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010 Continue Reading...
Cannabis in the UK: De-Penalisation, Decriminalisation, or Legalisation? In October of 2015, the Parliament of the United Kingdom was forced to debate whether the current prohibition on cannabis should end in some way. "Forced" is the correct word h Continue Reading...
Some of these causes include shift work/long work hours, sleepiness, social/familial disruptions, vulnerable groups, long-term effects, and injuries. This is an indication that various institutions should focus on the evaluation of the causes of ris Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage Review On Nurses Shortage The supply of professional nurses relative to the increase in demand for their services has been on a general decline over the years. As a career choice, nursing has been facing perennial shortage of profe Continue Reading...
Government-Mandated Microchip Implantation Government-Mandated Chip Implantation in Citizens: Technological Breakthrough or Privacy Disaster? Government-Mandated Chip Implantation in Citizens: Technological Breakthrough or Privacy Disaster? In a Continue Reading...
Nurses and Ethics of Code Regardless of what institution or department a person is in, there would be violation of the laws in the workplace. Healthy workplaces basically contribute to the job satisfaction of all the people who are working there. Le Continue Reading...
Schneck Medical Center Provide a description of the company, its mission, and values SMC (Schneck Medical Center) is a nonprofit healthcare organization that provides specialized and primary care services. The center was established in 1911 with a 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...
