Hospital Article Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

Korrane in the article “The Role of the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital” discusses the complexity that defines long-term health care where patients present themselves with a wide range of system failures, organ transplant complications, trauma brain injuries, acquired brain injuries and complex wounds. These failures do not just require a need to be treated to facilitate normal physiologic functioning but also hold a significant concern for the patient’s survival. Korrane notes that the most challenging aspect is to monitor a host of dysfunctions of the vital body organs and implement the most reliable techniques to help the patient regain a normal life.

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The topic of this paper is regarding the effects of the nursing shortage on patient safety and adverse events. Due to the nursing shortage, there is an increase inare registered more patient adverse events and there is increasedthe risk to the patient’s safety increased. If the nursing shortage problem is not correctedsolved, then there will be a continuance ofcontinue increase in the risk to patient safety risk , andas well as harm to the patient. In the paper there is provided Aan explanation of the nursing shortage, the its cause of the shortage, how the shortageit affects patient safety, and ...

The quality control process is an essential part for all spheres of lives. When it comes about the health care institutions, the quality control process is vitally important. An article “Evaluating implementation of quality management systems in a teaching hospital’s clinical departments” is about a quality improvement system implementation in the 2000-bed teaching hospital and a short evaluation of the experimental application.
The total quality control comes to the hospitals very slowly, as it requires many transformations, as the changes in behavior, habits, culture, power systems and sociological hierarchy. A hospital departments autonomy, mechanical and professional bureaucracy are the obstacles ...

Integrating Hospitals into Community Emergency.

Article review
The contemporary terrorist attacks and natural disasters necessitate the complete scheme for response measures to be carefully examined. The hospitals and their integration to the whole response process are considered the weakest link. Therefore a special attention has to be paid to this particular section of the planning of the response process.
In the article Integrating Hospitals into Community Emergency the authors evaluate the role of the hospital personnel in the counteractions to disasters and the way the hospitals have to react according to the disaster’s type and location. The mechanism of an effective response ...

Patients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity

Patients who Lack Decision-Making Capacity
This article discussed the proper assessment and management of a patient who may be lacking with decision-making capacity (DMC). The lacking of decision-making capacity is the patient’s condition in which oftentimes diagnosed as to be suffering from dementia, delirium, or other psychiatric issues. Specifically, this article provided hospital discharge against medical advises (AMA) as an example, wherein a patient who lacks decision-making capacity would demand to leave the hospital. It was described that being discharged from the hospital against medical advice would occur to a higher chance of readmission and has been linked to higher ...

Discussion on Ethical Issue

The situation at the healthcare institute on moral grounds is not sound at all. The aggravated situation is caused by the added financial stress that is faced due to the Affordable Care Act and changing reimbursement strategies. Human Resource in the institution is lacking due to the reason that we have not opted to recruit any further new graduate nurses in order to tackle the financial stress that the institution is facing. Morally the situation is worsened, as the institution will have to deal with the situation with the remaining registered nurses. Human Resource is not that much which ...

The American hospital system is in a state of crisis. On the one hand there is competition to increase the profits that hospitals generate. On the other hand there is a concerted effort to improve the quality of care that is delivered by them. In some sense, these are competing values insofar as quality healthcare is an expensive proposition. Medical error accounts for a large portion of the failure in quality as well as the perceived lack of quality in care. In some respects, medical error is unavoidable. Physicians are humans and they will make mistakes. Furthermore, many hospitals are also teaching ...

In an international context, the United States carries a long-standing reputation for boasting some of the highest quality health care and medical services available anywhere in the world. Despite appearances, however, health care in the United States remains imperfect. Not all medical services and hospital organizations attain the highest quality, despite what many think. The concern of this paper, therefore, is firmly grasp the core elements of quality and to assess their presence or lack thereof by analyzing two United States hospitals. Using available data via the Hospital Compare site from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services(CMS), two hospitals ...

Ray WA, Chung CP, Murray KT, Hall K, Stein C. Prescription of Long-Acting Opioids and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain. JAMA. 2016;315(22):2415-2423. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.7789.

Prescription of Long-Acting Opioids and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain
Wayne A. Ray, PhD1; Cecilia P. Chung, MD, MPH2; Katherine T. Murray, MD2,3; Kathi Hall, BS1; C. Michael Stein, MB, ChB2,3
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JAMA. 2016;315(22):2415-2423. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.7789.

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Importance  Long-acting opioids increase the risk of unintentional overdose deaths but also may increase ...

Management and Control of Overtime Costs

Management and Control of Overtime Costs

Summary

The paper is based on the review of peer article “Management and Control of Overtime Costs” that has been written by Thomas P. DiNapoli in 2012. Thomas P. DiNapoli (2012) in the article made an attempted to analyze the effectiveness and control system of overtime costs of HHC’s (New York City Health and Hospital Corporation) employees. For the attainment of this purpose, the researcher audited the organization from 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2009.

Background

DiNapoli analyzed the overtime payments of 2009 of 54 employees of HHC. The research presents the salaries ...

Exam 1

- In experimental studies, the subjects receive treatment and are observed, and a control group is used to verify the effect of the intervention performed on the experimental group. On the other hand, in non -experimental studies, the subjects are not subjected to any process of treatment. In this study, the subjects have not received any treatment at all and data is collected from archived secondary sources. Additionally, experiments usually have both dependent and independent variables. Finally, experiments involve randomization of the sample population into groups which are later to be subjected to specifically defined treatment. This is a non-experimental design. ...

Organizations serving the public should have a well-defined disaster management plan, which ensures potential disasters are identified and countered before they happen. Structuring the emergency services effectively ensures that the consequences of disasters are duly minimized, and people who would be planning to attack a given facility draws back. According to Kim (2014), organizations such as hospitals should ensure that collaboration of all departments should be highly acknowledged since emergency control department cannot singularly handle disasters in the entire hospital without reinforcement from other departments. It is, therefore, important that every stakeholder or employee in the hospital be taken ...

The research article chosen to critique is, “Using Mock Code Simulation to Improve Responder Performance During the First 5 Minutes of a Code” by Delac, K., Blazier, D., Daniel, L., & N-Wilfong, D. (2013).
Introduction: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a lifesaving technique, and is very useful in emergencies like drowning or accidents, where the patient is likely to have a heart arrest. Nurse educators are responsible for training nurses and students on this important technique. Training program differs from real life scenario. In real life scenario, nurses go through a range of emotions like fear, confusion, anxiety, etc., that immobilizes them, ...

Collaboration and Care Coordination in Healthcare: An Analysis Overview

The structure of a bureaucratic healthcare organization can garner improvements in partnerships leading to increased care quality as a result of key collaboration efforts, and coordination. The data indicates that a 30 percent ratio of traditional Medicare payments will gradually tie to value, or quality models, like accountable care organizations. Bundled payments are anticipated as optional choices in this scenario by the end of 2016, as well. Secondly, 50 percent of payments will tie to these models by 2018 especially considering that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a goal of attaching 90 percent of all traditional Medicare payments to ...

Article critique

The article critically analyzes the diseases by pointing out some of their characteristics giving readers more information regarding them. These diseases are initially treated in the ED; they are common and associated with significant mortality and morbidity. They have evidence based time sensitive therapies which affect mortality. The objectives of this article is
The objective is clearly pointed out in the abstract and introduction of the article where the authors explain their mission to concentrate on establishing how the health care system has lagged in handling AMI and PNA, specifically in the hospital EDs. The hypothesis of the ...

Part 1. Differences between quantitative and qualitative research

Research is the parlance used to refer to the search of knowledge. It is described by Kothari (2004) as both a scientific and systematic search for information and an art of scientific investigation. There are two approaches used in research, namely quantitative and qualitative research and they vary greatly on how the research is done. Quantitative research only uses measurable data to analyze while the qualitative research approach mainly uses data that are narrative and subjective. The goal or research objective of quantitative data is to use statistical models using a systematic procedure. This approach uses various steps to progress logically ...

` Literature Review
Will the implementation of strict count process and other means lower the retention of surgical items (foreign bodies) in patients and during surgery and how does it help to increase patient safety?
Ali, A., Omar, B., Okacha, N., Abderrahmane, A., & Mohamed, B. (2012). Paraspinal Textiloma. After Posterior Lumbar Surgery: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. World Neurosurgery, 77(2)375-380. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2011.07.017
Paraspinal Textiloma is a complication that is common after posterior lumbar surgery. This study aims to inform spinal surgeons and radiologists on the experience of Paraspinal Textiloma so as to minimize unnecessary death that is ...

Article Review

ARTICLE REVIEW
The article titled as “How nurses and their work environment affect patient experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study” explains how incorporating different elements of patient care in the nursing practice can influence the level of patient satisfaction and help in promoting better healthcare. The article is based on a qualitative research performed on four groups of nursing professionals. The study design consisted of twenty six registered nurses responsible for providing utmost level of patient care in a hospital setting. The interviews conducted with these nurses were recorded and later transcribed for a thorough analysis.
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Article #1: Becker, R., et al. (2011). “Functional dysphagia therapy and PEG treatment in a clinical geriatric setting.” Dysphagia, 26, 108-116.
1). Summary: The article by Becker et al. delves on the outcomes of two Functional Dysphagia Therapy (FDT) with one group using percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), and another group of non-PEG users.
2) Element: The victims of stroke and those with cerebrovascular diseases have neurogenic dysphagia, 50% and 30% respectively. The result of this study revealed a mortality rate of 19.7%, and lower for the second group of non-PEG users which is at 8.6%.
3) Outcome: Those ...

The article by Cummings, Midodzi, Wong & Estabrooks (2010) concerns the contribution of hospital nursing leadership styles to 30-day patient mortality.

The Journal

This article was published in Nursing Research, a prominent nursing journal which has a peer-review system. Its impact factor is 1.856, which is fairly high. It is associated with the Eastern Nursing Research Society and the Western Institute of Nursing. It does not allow for authors to pay for their articles to appear.

The Article

The article was written by various nurses who evidently have expertise and qualifications. It was supported by a New Investigator Award and a Population Health Investigator ...

Introduction

The discharge planning process is highly imperative in ensuring a smooth, rapid and even rapid transition of the patient from one healthcare environment to another. The discharge process entails the arrangement of necessary resources, social work evaluation, high-risk screening operations, patient advocacy, chart documentation, collaboration/consultation, family and patient awareness and most importantly counseling. The process is, therefore, complex and seriously requires a personnel with a large assortment both organizational and clinical skills to tackle the diverse patient needs, healthcare schemes, and patent's families and also to promote the optimum functioning of support systems, patients, and families. Delay factors may ...

David Rosenhan’s experiment, conducted in several psychiatric institutions throughout the USA, served to be the topic of his well-known article “On Being Sane in Insane Places” (1973). The experiment has uncovered some serious issues in the field of patient treatment in psychiatric hospitals as well as determining the diagnosis of those who really need psychiatric treatment. With the outcome of the experiment shaking the ground of trust to and competence of psychiatrists, it gave much food for thought in terms of improving ways of identifying psychiatric patients and providing them with suitable conditions for effective treatment.
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Article Analysis

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First, all patients were admitted to the trial wards and those who met the inclusion criteria were considered. Secondly, the members were recommended by ward staff to the study nurses. Thirdly, the entry criteria included; age of 65 years and above; the pressure ulcer risk of 15 to 20 based on physiologic, demographic, and disease specific features and consent to regular examination of pressure areas. Also, the members were transferred to the trial beds after their consent was sought. In addition, the exclusion criteria were employed such as obesity greater than 155 kilograms, ...

Rationale

It is apparent that the entire healthcare system is grappling with nursing shortages-a phenomenon that is characterized by improper nurse-patient ratios. This has adamantly hampered the quality of care provided and adversely affecting patient outcomes and satisfaction. According to the American Nurses Association, proper staffing and hence patient-nurse ratios is an integral aspect in improving the quality of healthcare provided. High nurse-patient ratios means that nurse have to deal with huge numbers of patients leading to clinical errors, clinically acquired infections or premature discharges from hospital. This leads to high readmission rates and increased hospital costs due to recurrence ...

The study aimed to offer description on the use, as well as the effect resulting from low-dose ketamine or LDK for the analgesia cases in the emergency department (ED). The study used a retrospective mode of data collection where information on patients who received LDK for analgesia were used to describe the effectiveness and safety of the drug. The study used those patients who were aged 18 years and above and were given ketamine in the ED within a period of two years when the study was conducted. Parameters such as dose, route used to administer the drug, as well as ...

Introduction

This paper aims at critically analyzing the role played by the knowledge possessed by nurses and how it helps in the delivery of services in health cares. The research also seeks to highlight the importance of the resources used by nurses to acquire the much-needed knowledge (Barker, 2009). The staffing crisis problem occurs when knowledge in the provision of care is limited in nursing. When nurses lack inadequate knowledge in providing care, it is equal to not having enough staff. The costs of healthcare are very high, which means that patients need to get the best form of care ...

1) Purpose of study
A statement of purpose clearly specifies what a researcher wants to learn or attain at the end of the study (Kothari, 2004).

The purpose of the study is to describe decision making by caregivers of patients with Heart failure.

2) Research question
The implicitly stated research question for the study is, “How do caregivers of family members with HF make decisions?”3) Research designResearch design according to Kothari (2004) refers to the general strategies a researcher in cooperate several components of research in a systematic manner that the research problem is address at the end of the research.

The research design employed in the research is qualitative research design

4) What characteristics does this study possess that are qualitative in nature? Review Chapter 2.
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This essay analyzes the published article: “Overuse of Antibiotics Spurs Vicious Cycle” (Jun 2010). The article is published by Dr Joseph Mercola on his website: “Mercola. Com: Take control of Your Health” and seeks to educate and persuade readers that current overuse of antibiotics in treating people is likely to cause patients to develop resistance to the drugs, which can have a residual effect for as much as a year after the medication is ended.
Summarizing Mercola’s article, he uses logos in suggesting that the more these antibiotics are prescribed routinely to treat mild illness such as coughs and ...

Healthcare Class: Comparison and Analysis of Two Critical Articles

Introduction
This paper reviews the two critical articles written on American healthcare system. The author, David Goldhill, has narrated his personal experience of American healthcare system in his article “How American Health Care Killed My Father” (Goldhill 2). Whereas the other article “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us” written by Steven Brill is essentially a critique on the current US healthcare with much of its emphasis on current US President Obama’s healthcare policies recognized as ‘Obamacare’ (Brill 7).
The complexities of US health care system has raised countless debates and discussion in the American social ...

“Nurses' Willingness To Take Care Of People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS)- Does A Teaching Intervention Make A Difference?”
Did the study ask a clearly-focused question?
The researches have clearly posited a focused question in the study: “Does a teaching intervention make a difference?” (Mockiene et al. 617). As well, from the research question, it is evident that the proposed intervention is an education intervention. The chief goal of the study is to determine whether the education intervention can have a material effect on the willingness of nurses to care for people living with human immunodeficiency virus/ acquire ...

Indwelling Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection

In the article, Poudel, Baniya and Pokhrel (2009) conduct a prospective study to investigate the microbiological profile as well as the resistance pattern of the strains that cause urinary tract infection associated with the use of Foley’s Catheter. In the study, 100 catheterized adult patients, all above the age of 16, in a hospital participated. The patients used the indwelling Foley’s catheters for both short and long intermediate purposes. 3 ml urine samples were aseptically taken from the patients at the repeat of the catheterization and repeated on unevenly in subsequent days and weekly until the patient ...

The following is the critique of the research article titled: “Measuring the nursing workload per shift in the ICU”.

Research problem/purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the differences in nursing workload between consecutive shifts, using a nursing workload measurement tool. The aim of the study is to measure the workload of nurses between two consecutive shift using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS). This study is designed to solve a common problem related to handling of nursing manpower in the ICU. The research is in line with existing knowledge about man power placement and workload. This research addresses an important issue pertinent to managing the global problem of nurses man power shortage and finding ways to ...

Nursing Burnout

Nursing Burnout
Nursing burnout is a major area of concern as it relates to human resource development and patient care. As nurses reach burnout, their job satisfaction declines, and errors in patient care increase. This study sought to determine what work environment characteristics most relate to an increase in burn out, across multiple departments, in the hospital setting. In other words, the research question was: regardless of nursing area, are there certain factors that increase nurses’ experience of burnout. The hypothesis was that certain personal characteristics, work conditions, and relationships between colleges would all contribute to burnout, thus negatively ...

The chasing zero targets the consumers, the people who give care and also the leaders in the health care sector. Its goal generally is inspiring these professionals to act in prevention of health care harm. People think that there is healing and hope in the hospitals but these hospitals can be very scary places for the patients. The professional in these hospitals are trying to help these patients. These best hospitals we know can be very dangerous because many people nowadays die because of health care harm. The war itself is not targeting the bad people but it is ...

Scientists have found metallopolymers. Metallopolymers are used to make strains vulnerable to antibiotics. Previously, bacteria were resistant to these antibiotics. Tang and his colleagues noted that a significant fraction of infection is caused by bacteria such as MRSA. MRSA is spread through contaminated hands. The presence of MRSA in the body causes pneumonia and deters treatment by traditional antibiotic such as penicillin when they produce enzymes. Although much effort has been made to inactivate this enzyme, a successful resolution has not been reached. In the process of coming up with a better alternative, Tang’s team tested a recently discovered class against a number ...

Telemedicine is the exchange of medical information between two parties with the use of electronic media. With the progress of internet and its usage on smart phones, ipads and other wireless techno gadget telemedicine has become ore easier today than it ever was.
It is the real time communication between a patient and his doctors both staying at two different locations. Its use has spread rapidly between hospitals, government health groups and private practices. It is usually not taken as a separate medical study but is now taken as a regular set up where physicians are trained to adapt to situation ...

The article covers the concept of physician and patient relationship. It also explains how it is important to create on in order to go through a successful treatment. The relationship starts when the patient goes to the physician for his treatment and the physician accepts the patient. The relationship is not emotional but a contractual one in which legal duties and obligations have to be fulfilled. The article talks about how this relationship is created which is due to mutual consent of the physician and the patient. Furthermore, it says that once the relationship is created, the physician owes duties to ...

CRITICAL REVIEW

CRITICAL REVIEW

Gairik Sengupta, Subhrojyoti Bhowmick, Avijit Hazra, Ananya Datta, and Musfikur Rahaman (2010), wrote on the “Adverse drug reaction monitoring in psychiatry out-patient department of an Indian teaching hospital”. The topic as stated by the authors shows only a general possibility in the medical field. In this case, the authors do not seem to be specific in which drug is been studied. At this point the reader of the article is left guessing what could be the drug under investigation. The need to have a single or a range of particular drugs give the researcher specific objectives other than the blanket ...

Tort Law

Tort Law Article Review
The article was written by Becca Aaronson and was published at the New York Times in January 2013. It was about the case of Connie Spears who later suffered from legs amputation after an initial alleged misdiagnosis of her medical condition at Christus Santa Rosa hospital. The concept of this article is about the Tort Law's provision when it comes to being a state law that would help the people within the state of Texas. It aims to show how the Tort Law’s provision could affect an individual’s case proceedings right after it ...

Hospital CEO ad CIO perspectives on information technology issues in health care is a survey of 1400 US hospitals. The article is aimed at establishing the CEOs and CIOs think about Information technology I healthcare. The themes that were under survey are; implementation of electronic medical records and improving health care quality through information technology. Improved medical services include; security, accuracy and change management in hospitals. Other themes in this article include; healthcare supply chain, compliance with regulations, decision support systems, national database and consumer empowerment.
The article starts with an introduction to Healthcare Information Technology (IT) and how ...

Introduction of the research project

The purpose of this article was to assess the rate at which bacteria contaminate the surface of ventilator equipment and other equipment being used by the hospital for the patients care. The implications of this study are many, as there are many microorganisms that can grown on environmental surfaces and causes severe bacterial infections in the patient. The hypothesis is that the use of 75% alcohol will decrease the contamination rate of mechanical ventilator systems.

Methods

The study was done at Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei City, which has a 15- bed respiratory care center. All patients included in this study ...

Article Review Report

Kornmann O, Dahl R, Centanni S, Dogra A, Owen R, Lassen C, Kramer B. Once-daily indacaterol versus twice-daily salmeterol for COPD: a placebo-controlled comparison. European Respiratory Journal 2011; 37(2):273-279.

Why are you looking at this journal?

The European Respiratory Journal is a credible source of information because it is peer-reviewed. It is an official publication of the European Respiratory Society. My interest in the journal lies in the focus of the articles it publishes. The journal publishes experimental and clinical work on all aspects of respiratory medicine including the biology of lung cells, pathophysiology, epidemiology, immunology, thoracic imaging, thoracic surgery, occupational medicine, pediatric pneumology, intensive care, ...

Method of obtaining necessary approval

The plan needs support and high levels of corporation from everyone in the organization. Therefore, there are numerous ways i can use to obtain the necessary support from the managers and fellow staff Members. Some of the methods that can be used to gain their support and total commitment to the project include writing a rough draft on the proposed project and then presenting it to the management in an effort to get their support. This will help in gaining and bringing it to their attention the need to undertake the projects. The other methods that can be used is doing ...

Joelving, Frederik. “Hospitals hype robot surgery for women: Study.” The American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. (2012). Accessed October 29, 2012. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/20/us-hospitals-hype-robot-surgery-idUSBRE86J0UQ20120720
This resource highlights robotic surgery for women and identifies better outcomes. Basically, the article makes a reference to the better result of robot surgery since the approach offers a surgeon a magnified 3-D view with excellent imaging of extremely small blood vessels. While doctors make long incision in an open surgery which makes patients profusely bleed and take time to heal, robot surgery facilitates faster recovery and reduced blood loss. However, the article notes increased operating time and higher cost ...

Economy

Economically, Mexico is emerging from a ‘rock bottom’ situation. After the signing of the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 1993, nearly 10 million farmers were left bankrupt (The Economist). This because cheap food stuff was imported into Mexico from other neighboring countries making farmers in northern Mexico unable to continues with farming.

Experts further assert that the economy worsened during the financial crisis suffered the United States, the biggest trading partner of Mexico. Recession in United State’s economy reduced exports from Mexico by about 25%. This decline in exports pushed the economy of the country into deep recession. Mexicans ...

Technology: IT in the medical field / Outsourcing in IT

Cedars-Sinai Doctors Cling to Pen and Paper

Computers are becoming an integral element in our daily lives, and the medical field is not an exception. This is because of their ability to store enormous amounts of data and fast information processing capabilities and intelligence (Bansal, 2004). Computers play an integral role in medical operations ranging from aiding complex medical operations to simple procedures such as file and record keeping. Ceci Connolly notes a typical case in Los Angeles whereby Cedar-Sinai doctors are clinging to the traditional pen and paper to undertake their daily operations at the hospital. The effectiveness of ...