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Hospice Care Medical Record
1,920 wordsAs we have learned, the hospice idea is not new. Literally meaning "given to hospitality, " hospices provided comfort, kindness, and nourishment to people in need hundreds of years ago. Today, hospices offer comfort to people as they near the end of life's journey. Hospice is a special way of caring for people with terminal illnesses and their families. It is a multidisciplinary health care program that is responsible for palliative and supportive care with consideration of the patient's and fam...
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Blood Sugar Patient Care
1,122 wordsThe night shift on the surgical ward began as usually with report without any interruption. There were 12 patients on the floor and 2 nurses including me and in-charge nurse. It was about 2 am when one of my patients, 32 year old woman, diabetic, approximately 12 hours postoperative reconstructive foot surgery became nauseated and had small emesis. She was on PCA Morphine, drowsy and responded appropriately to questions. Her pain was on 3 / 5 scale, her nausea persisted, capillary blood sugar wa...
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Impact Of On Nurses Working Conditions
1,600 wordsThe world health care sector, as the industrialized organizations, has undergone dramatic restructuring and downsizing during the past decades, which incurred serious changes of conditions in which nurses deliver healthcare. As human resources management strategies seemed to have had a positive effect on the similar problems beard by other industries, it appears that the public healthcare sector as failed to endeavor in the same way and is still struggling to design and implement effective schem...
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Human Resources Management Organizational Culture
1,560 words... nd more respected. Furthermore, they can greatly contribute to improving quality and reduction of costs. As Spence Laschinger et al. (2001) mention in their study, working in an environment favoring empowerment has many positive impacts. Firstly, nurses feel more satisfied with their work and secondly they are more committed to the organization. Meyer and Allen (1991) distinguished three types of organizational commitment, affective, continuance and normative commitment. The one we are refer...
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Hours Per Week Department Of Health
567 wordsThe ACGME currently has work-hour requirements that apply to all specialties. Residents must have at least one full day out of seven free of activities involved in patient care and must not be assigned on-call duty more often than every third night, both averaged over a four-week period. Otherwise, the standards vary widely among specialties. Five specialties (allergy and immunology, dermatology, internal medicine, ophthalmology, and preventive medicine) have a weekly limit of 80 hours of work, ...
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Health Care Professionals University Of Pennsylvania
1,705 wordsBachelor in Nursing Sciences During the past few years, nursing leadership skills have changed dramatically. Covering the schedule and ensuring orientation for new employees are not adequate skills for nursing leaders to measure up in today's health care industry. Today's nursing leaders are faced with such problems as justifying staff member and equipment expenditures, predicting staffing levels and hours per patient day, calculating the number of full-time equivalents (FTEs) needed, and predic...
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Hours Per Week American Medical Association
3,045 wordsAfter years of discussion, the system of training resident physicians in the United States has finally undergone substantial changes. As of July 1, 2003, more but not all residents were limited to 80 hours of work per week, averaged over a four-week period. The new requirements are part of a general effort to improve the safety of patients and the working conditions and education of residents. They are also designed to forestall federal regulation that could take away some of the authority of th...
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Chief Executive Officer Time And Effort
993 wordsHospital Management A person who is pointed a new position has always faced some problems especially if he or she has to change the place of work. The problems can be connected with the different methods of making decisions as well as problems of psychological nature. Recently Milton Siepman has been appointed a position of chief executive officer of General Health System. It is one of 30 hospitals in 12 states. They form Adventist Health System. Before the position Milton Siepman was a presiden...
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Weak Points Health Care
877 wordsHospital accreditation Before speaking about strong and weak points of Hospital accreditation it is necessary to define what accreditation is and why it is so important for health care establishments. Accreditation is a process in which an entity, separate and distinct from the health care organization, usually non-governmental, assesses the health care organization to determine if it meets a set of standards requirements designed to improve quality of care. (Hospital Accreditation Reports 1991)...
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Mandatory Safe Nurse To Patient Ratios
1,962 wordsMandatory Safe Nurse to Patient Ratios There is a constant conflict within the medical community regarding appropriate nurse to patient ratios. (Tieman, 10) By this moment, California has been the first state to pass the Safe Staffing Law (A. B. 394) mandating minimum ratios was enacted in October 1999 in response to legislators' concerns that quality of patient care is jeopardized because of staffing changes implemented in response to managed care. Now, the whole country may learn from the Cali...
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Standard Operating Procedures Doctor Or Nurse
1,692 words... the hospital to ensure that all employees are operating on the same wavelength. Now that we have analyzed the possible solutions, I have to make a decision on which solution has the most positive effect on our hospital. I have made the decision to use solution # 1. We need to create standard operating procedures for our doctors and nurses to follow so we can provide consistent high quality care foe every one of our patients. The management of Faith Community must consistently enforce the est...
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Knowledge And Skills Career Goals
1,245 wordsAdmission Essay to the Nursing School I have chosen a nursing career consider that it is one of the most humane professions. I was researching a career change and have always been stimulated by health sciences. Health care fields are static, in that they will always be needed, and dynamic due to the constant evolutions in providing patient care. Every new patient is a separate case which is needed to be specially treated. As I researched more I found the need both immediate and future to be quit...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Genetic Screening
2,601 wordsThe Positive And Negative Effects of DNA Profiling Justin Broyles Apr. 12, 1995 Justice Theory Lance Miller Genetic engineering has developed and blossomed at a frightening rate in the last decade. Originating as merely an area of interest for scientists, genetic engineering has now become an area of which all people should be somewhat knowledgeable. DNA profiling has many uses, both positive and negative, in our society. Aside from its usefulness in many legal investigations, DNA profiling can ...
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Vital Signs Respiratory Problems
1,216 wordsLegal Issues Case Study for Nursing Case 2 Nursing Situation: Cindy Black (fictitious name), a four-year-old child with wheezing, was brought into the emergency room by her mother for treatment at XYZ (fictitious name) hospital at 9: 12 p. m. on Friday, May 13. Initial triage assessment revealed that Cindy was suffering from a sore throat, wheezing bilaterally throughout all lung fields, seal-like cough, shortness of breath (SOB), bilateral ear pain. Vital signs on admission were pulse rate 160,...
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Health Care Industry Health Care System
1,536 words? Building the Heath Care Introduction? Building the Future of Health Care on the Foundations of Family Practice? is an excellent article that individuals in the health care profession should read. Although, this article is geared towards Family Practice the concept within this article can be applied to any scope of practice. After reading this article, I will be discussing the following three points: my reaction to the concept of the article, what positive out comes could be obtained by incorpo...
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Fee For Service Board Of Directors
2,219 wordsHMOs: The Health Care of the Beast Many people are concerned about rising health care costs. In reaction to this, some individuals and companies are gravitating toward the assumed lower prices of Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) health plans. HMOs spend billions of dollars each year advertising their low cost services. While these savings look good on paper, there are many pages of small print. The explanation after the asterisk indicates that not only do the HMOs lack lower costs, but they...
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Professional Development Continuing Education
2,524 wordsIntroduction Change which has been well planned can in effect be the most important contributory factor to any projects eventual success. Upton and Brooks [ 1995 ] say: dissatisfaction alone is not sufficient to bring about change: people have to believe that the proposed change would lead to an improvement All staff within the NHS in recent years have experienced change[ref], particularly change that has been politically led and therefore experienced a process which has in effect changed the co...
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Patient Care Medical Schools
1,334 wordsResident Physician Stress and Burnout Resident physicians are in the most stressful stage of their medical career. Normal stress may increase to the point where it becomes abnormal stress, which is thought to achieve a critical level at some point. This abnormal stress level can then lead to burnout; burnout can lead to impairment. Both professional and personal stresses make huge demands on the residents time. Unfortunately, there are only 24 hours in a day, and as a resident physician that day...
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Patient Care Pharmacy State
267 wordsPharmacists are responsible for safe transfer and drug administration for patient care; watching over technicians; order entry; drug monitoring and providing drug information to nurses and physicians. Dispenses drugs to wards, clinics, and clients; prepares special compounds and approved prescriptions and consults with medical staff about the use and control of drugs. The practice of pharmacy within each state is regulated by the laws of the state, including the regulation of licensure for pharm...
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Managed Care Plans Fee For Service
1,410 wordsMany employees must designate a health plan through their employer. These days, as HMOs (health maintenance organizations) and managed care plans continue to proliferate, that means a choice between bad and worse. As employees line up in the lunch-room for a process called open enrollment, they may be surprised to learn that managed care rates have gone up? again. The mirage that managed care is cheaper care is finally fading. And, for the first time in years, employees may also have the promise...
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