Health Care Dissertations Samples For Students

Hospital administrators need transformational leaders who can manage personnel crises in order to maximize staff retention and patient satisfaction. Transformational-leader candidates can be identified among students and graduates engaged in managerial studies, as well as among executives in other fields (Rudnick Jr., 2007). Hospitals’ administrative employees and working staff (doctors, nurses) also represent potentially significant sources of transformational leaders. They are familiar with the specificities of health care environments, and with the procedures of their respective health care institutions. While this makes them suitable candidates for hospital administration positions it is not sufficient for managerial positions, least of all ...

Introduction

Transformational leadership is associated with a positive environment meant to attain organizational change, transforming the actual order into a more benefic one for employees, clients and other stakeholders. In the health care domain, transformational leadership stays at the heart of employees’ satisfaction, staff retention, strong hospital administration, with satisfied patients (Robbins & Davidhizar, 2007), likely to become loyal patients (Worman, 2008). Transformational leadership effects also include reducing burnout, decreasing the overall level of employees’ stress, while increasing the level of staff well-being (Weber, 2010). However, the nature of health care system is an atypical one, because, as Rudnik Jr. (2007) observes, it deals ...

Abstract

Technological inventions in the healthcare sector are ever-growing. Healthcare providers are always looking for advanced technologies that will help in the efficient and effective delivery of healthcare. There are numerous technology-based healthcare solutions, and most are striving to reduce the common face-to-face practitioner-patient interactions. There are numerous benefits of this such technologies, as well as a host of limitations. Technology has modernized healthcare delivery because modern technologies help empower patients to be in charge of their health, and this in turn minimizes doctor consultations (Katz, Nissan and Moyer 2004). Technologies such as telemedicine, internet, robotics and telecoms have revolutionized the ...

Capstone Project: Healthcare Administration

Introduction

Capstone project also called culminating project, the capstone experience, senior exhibition, and the likes. It refers to a multifaceted assignment serving as the culminating intellectual and academic experience for students during the final year of the academic course being pursued. It resembles a very great extent a college thesis, but capstone project has a wide variety of forms. The most common feature is the handling of long-term investigative projects culminating in a final presentation, product, or performance. Usually, students are to choose a topic, a social problem or profession of their interests. They conduct researches on subjects selected, maintain a portfolio of the results or ...

Abstract

This study analyzes the benefits and challenges of implementing an electronic medical system in both hospital and clinic environments. The overall research problem addressed in this study is determining how to effectively manage and communicate expectations associated with perceived benefits and challenges derived from a new install of an electronic medical record. The purpose of this study is to analyze perceptions associated with both the benefits and challenges derived from installing an electronic medical record system. This problem is relevant to many such as those who ...

Abstract

Background: This research is based on the background that human resource management and activities in the health sector of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is generally not evaluated as a unique component of independent studies. However, there is evidence that human resource management in the healthcare sector is very different from that of other sectors around the world. Therefore, the study sought to study the demographics, education, experience, career development and levels of job satisfaction amongst HR professionals in hospitals in Riyadh.

Methods: The study evaluated various components of the HRM practices and processes of hospitals in Riyadh. All ...

Improving Health Quality

The main research question will be restated as follows:
Is there a relationship between the quality of healthcare to ICU patients and the costs?
The quality of healthcare is often associated with an increase in the cost of healthcare because providing better quality care requires more resources of higher quality. Therefore, the null as well as alternate hypothesis will be as follows:

Null Hypothesis

There is no relationship between the quality of healthcare to ICU patients and the costs.
H0: β = 0
Null Hypothesis

There is a relationship between the quality of healthcare to ICU patients and the costs.

H0: β ≠ 0
Independent and Dependent Variables
This study seeks to assess whether cost reduction is associated with a ...

Transfer of professional responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of care for a patient, or groups of patients, to another person or professional groups on a temporary or permanent basis is referred to as clinical handoff. Transfer of patients and their information has an element of risk. This process can involve a written report, however the process mostly involves verbal information exchange between allied health staff, nurses, and physicians. There are minimal guidelines for information exchange, and nurses can take a major role and participate in interprofessional collaboration to improve the practice.
Substandard handoffs potentially can place patients at risk ...

Background to study

Various factors contribute to increased health care costs, which include inefficient use of medical advancement, improper payment system, the high cost of health care services, and failure to align the health care objectives of the facilities with those of national government. The rationale behind improving the sector is that it provides diverse opportunities for everyone to engage in healthy lifestyles. Scholars such as Frank-Lightfoot & Davis (2016) have linked effective control of the health care costs with better health outcomes. For instance, in the U.S, the health care spending has increased rapidly over the past century, yet the quality of ...

Improving Quality of Health Care While Cutting On Costs

Improving Health Care Service while Cutting on Costs

Spending in the healthcare sector has grown substantially fast in the past few years (McClellan & Rivlin, 2014). Most countries have experienced a substantial growth in health care expenditure, but the expenditure in our country seems to be too high. Currently, the healthcare industry accounts for more than 17 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (“Centers for Disease Control,” 2013). Medical practitioners among other stakeholders have strived for the best in ensuring quality patient care. However, such efforts have had little impact on the ground as many care-seekers lack quality services as they ...

IDENTIFYING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS TOWARDS TAKING UP AND SUSTAINING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN OLDER PEOPLE WITH TYPE II DIABETES

(PART 2)

Introduction

Type II diabetes mellitus has a wide prevalence in the UK and across the globe, with significant impact on the aging population. Literature reviews have been consistent to define the disease as a growing epidemic with lifestyle implications. Lifestyle modification has been considered to be an important preventive measure against the development of the disease. Feinglos and Bethel (2008, p. 337) supported this view, indicating that behavioral and lifestyle changes should be included in the treatment program for diabetes mellitus, not only as a treatment approach but also as a preventive measure as well.
However, it is ...

Chapter # 1 Introduction

Introduction
The studies conducted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute predicted that every year about seven-hundred and eighty-five thousand and four-hundred and seventy thousand US people experience new coronary and recurrent attacks respectively . The diagnosis and treatment of chest chain are imperative because this syndrome exposes dangers to the life of an individual. The advent of overcrowding in hospitals is a significant problem and it is gaining momentum with the passage of time. The overcrowding at Emergency departments (EDs) confirms insufficient quality care and established a systematic issue pertaining to patients that have the right to quality care ...

Improving Quality of Health Care While Cutting On Costs

Method
This paper will make use of mixed methods of data collection. There is a growing awareness in the benefits of merging qualitative and quantitative methods to health research. Mixed methods research is also fitting when assessing complex interventions in healthcare. A mixed methods approach yields to more comprehensive analysis of data unlike either purely qualitative or quantitative methodologies. The logic for utilizing mixed methods is based on the assumption that the weaknesses in one method will be offset by the strengths of the other (Farquhar, et.al, 2011). Furthermore, there is evidence that mixed methods research is also increasing ...

QUANTITATIVE (Statistical) Studies Only

This Research Plan form, version 2.42, must be completed and reviewed before taking steps to collect data and write the dissertation. In the School of Business and Technology, its satisfactory completion satisfies dissertation milestone 5, indicating that the RP proposal has passed the “scientific merit review,” part of the IRB process.
Before going any further, review carefully the Research Plan Instructions, v2.4, available on iGuide. It will be difficult to complete the RP without using the Instructions.

Specialization Chair’s Approval after Section 1

When you have completed Section 1 along with initial references in section 8, send the RP to your mentor for review. ...

Introduction:

As the population of the world increases, a reduction in health care costs becomes a paramount significance. Within the last few decades, most researchers have attempted to come up with a way of reducing the costs of hospital systems that can assist in maintaining and even improving the quality of healthcare. Surgical units, for example, are a major section of hospitals cost containment for a different reason. One, the surgical units form part of the most costly and least applied units in a hospital. Second reason is that a patient who undergoes surgical operations forms a significant part of ...

Sex Trafficking Survivors

Muraya, D.N & Fry, D. (2016). Aftercare services for child victims of sex trafficking: A systematic review of policy and practice. Sage, 17(2); 204-220.
The study employed the use of current practice, a systematic review of unpublished and published research and organizational policies to explore the various aftercare services that are afforded to the victims of child sex trafficking. The study explored the various services that children survivors involved in sex trafficking are provided with and the policies in place to ensure they are taken care of. There was need for the development of best practices related to the ...

Introduction

The United States is one of the countries that is best known for its comprehensive and outstanding social services programs. There are numerous departments and government-related agencies and organizations that have been given the task to direct and regulate the different social programs that the government has put in place for its citizens and other qualified candidates. In terms of healthcare, for example, thanks to the latest healthcare reforms, a considerably larger percentage of the total U.S. population ...

2.7 Population and Sampling Size (Qualitative Only)
There are several factors that affect the size of the sample that are needed for an accurate measurement of data. The principle of saturation needs to guide the process. The saturation point in homogenous groups appears to be about 12 participants. Homogenous groups are those composed of people having the same level of the knowledge about the study. Saturation is important to obtain the proper results but, in many studies, the saturation point changes as the group changes. When this occurs another group is formed through the process of the study by ...

Selection from an 8 year-period of pulmonary valve replacement and cross sectional follow up of a commercially available biological valve, assessed with established and a new method

What This Thesis Is About

Pulmonary valve replacement is a procedure necessary in many congenital heart defects and in-valve degeneration cases. Surgical results are excellent, but the longevity of artificial valves is very limited. Our goal was to give a retrospective overview of methods and results from the year 2000 until 2008 at Rikshospital, as well as the prospective five year follow-up of a biological valve made from bovine pericardium. Follow up included clinical examination with ECG, echocardiography, spirometry, treadmill testing, echocardiography ...

Theoretical/Conceptual Framework of the Research Problem

2017
Supporting Problem Statement: Theoretical / Conceptual Framework
Introduction
Further effort is directed at the examination of additional literature which has been conducted into the topic and problem statement namely, the theory pertaining to business managers in Nigeria who lack understanding of the business development process needed for successful growth in the quarry mining industry in Akamkpa, cross river state of Nigeria. Furthermore, research is conducted to further understand the nature of this case study into mining and quarrying activities in the Akamkpa region in terms of its research approach, design and method. This expanded research investigates how the ...