Hospital Research Papers Samples For Students

Over time, there has been a lot of publicity when patients’ medical data is accessed and disclosed to the media without authorization. To safeguard against this violation of patient privacy and security, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was enacted. The HIPAA stipulates the standards governing the handling of health information in terms of privacy and security. All health practitioners are expected to adhere to these regulations with prosecution in the case of breach (Vivian, 2009).
Compliance with the HIPAA is very crucial for the credibility and success of health institutions as patients have a better sense of ...

Sibling Support in End of Life Care

Clinical Question
P (problem/population) - siblings of actively dying patients
I (Intervention) - sibling preparation and involvement at patient’s end of life
C (comparison) - compared to no preparation and involvement

O (outcome) - impact grief response of the siblings

Target population – siblings aged between 3 and 21 years of incurably ill kids at end of life of patients.
Sibling Preparation: This refers to the age and support information on the patient’s end of life status. It provides various opportunities for the sibling to hold, ask questions, and visit. It also refers to the participation of kids in activities that make memory including; prints and hand ...

Being a good listener can seem like an easy thing to do. Many people believe that the mere act of having ears means that they are doing their job to show that they are listening. They think to themselves, “I am a person who can hear. How could anybody think I am not listening to them?!” But just having ears is not all there is to being a good listener; it takes much more. There are things such as eye contact, nonverbal communication, and gestures that can let a person know that you are listening. In settings such as ...

Abstract

The most widespread causes of seizures are infection. Seizure can occur in all ages and the infection can vary base from age. Toxoplasma occurs in newborns while Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease occurs in elders. Moreover, for some infections like neurocysticercosis, seizures are the only observable symptom. Seizure can be the only indication of global central nervous system dysfunction including rabies and sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis .
This paper focuses on the discussion of seizures, their types and causes, as well as the pre-hospitalization rehabilitation and hospital rehabilitation of seizures.
Seizure is a momentary absence of control usually in the company of unconsciousness, convulsions, ...

Quality Improvement Plan: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
[Institution Title]

Abstract

This paper present a Quality Improvement Plan for John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Specifically, the focus of the QI plan relates to advocating injury prevention programs as well rendering superior quality patient care, the quality improvement plan shall concentrate on this aspect of health care. The said plan is directed towards the patient service, My Cook County Health, and clinical service pertaining to the Psychiatry Department. The two areas were selected because of the direct correlation of the following departments and areas of ...

English

Abstract
This paper aims to discuss the duties and responsibilities of a chief executive officer (CEO) of a hospital which is considered one of the dream jobs of a person who works in the health care field. The details and information gathered in an interview with one of the CEO’s in the local community hospital was conducted to get a better insight on how CEO’s operate hospitals effectively. There will be a presentation of the sophisticated and specialized management techniques performed by CEOs which also involved activities outside of the hospital. The present hospital CEOs are required ...

Introduction

Background of the problem
Dramatic changes in the healthcare environment call for nurses to implement revolutionary changes. The health care industry is the most sensitive sector because it deals with saving lives of human beings. The industry currently faces many challenges due to evolving health problems, which lack adequate facilities and knowledgeable medical providers to offer the necessary solution. Nursing informatics forms one of the key areas of health care that need a thorough advancement. Effective application of nursing informatics supports safe and quality patient care. Physicians must utilize modern technologies now and in the future for quality improvement, ...

Pharmacists are one of the important medical staff in different settings in order to provide adequate medical assistance to their clients. There are various pharmacy settings in which pharmacists themselves must be aware of the roles they need to play so as to prevent medical errors.

Pharmacists’ Role and Different Settings

Retail Pharmacy
One of the pharmacy settings is the Retail Pharmacy. This setting is an independent pharmacy, which includes, but not limited to supermarket and chain pharmacy. Retail pharmacies have the license to dispense medicines to the general customers. However, this type of setting does not involve dispensing prescription medications either through nursing ...

The proposed intervention for this study is comprised of two parts. The first is proper fall assessment upon admission of the elderly patient and the second is customized fall prevention plan for the elderly patient. It is necessary that a thorough and proper assessment is done because the fall prevention plan has to take into consideration all the different factors that would contribute to the elderly patient’s performance in the hospital. The contents of the plan are based on the results of the assessment of the patient. It is customized because the individual characteristics of the patient, including ...

One of the 15 articles for my study is the research conducted by Mamun & Lim (2009) in Singapore entitled Association between falls and high-risk medication use in hospitalized Asian elderly patients. Below are the answers to three questions taken from Fineout-Overholt et al.’s Critical Appraisal Guide for Quantitative Studies.

What is the sample size?
The sample size is 596 patients. This is divided into 298 fallers and 298 non-fallers. The fallers were 65 years old and above (their average age was 75.8) and majority of them were male (60%). Those who experienced at least one fall during their ...

Introduction

The concept of Medicare indicates the support the US government provides to people above the age of 65, younger people who have certain disabilities, and people who suffer from End-Stage Renal Disease. There are four services that are offered via the Medicare program of the government. Medicare Part A is also known as hospital insurance. Part A of the Medicare program caters for the concerned individual’s hospital stays along with adequate nursing facility, and health care facilities at the patient’s residence. Medicare Part B is the medical insurance that the patient gets. As a result of medical ...

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With the advanced science, technology, and new medications, hospitals provide an opportunity to cure patients. Creating a healthcare system with healing, caring and loving environment is the ultimate challenge. There are three main components of healing hospitals. These are a healing physical environment; integration of technology and work design, and a “radical loving care” culture. A healing environment is made up of more than the patients only. It also comprises the knowledge to help family members and other people that may be part of the patients support group. Technology and work design are also crucial components to a ...

Introduction Conditioning refers to the process whereby predictable response is made from neurological patterns that have been established through reinforcement. Classical conditioning also called Pavlovian conditioning is one of the most influential conditional theories in Psychology (Bergin &Bergin, 2012). It was put forward by the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov in the 20th century. It is based on the association between environmental stimulus and unlearned or naturally occurring stimulus. Classical conditioning can be used to explain my childhood fear for people dressed in nursing gear. There are four basic components of classical conditioning namely; unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus ...

In this study, the aim was to validate a novel ML score HRV for risk stratification in comparison with the MEWS. This clinical process involves screening of the patients undergoing treatment. Risk stratification and other cardiac outcomes play an essential role in treating patients experiencing chest pains. Risk stratification involves the use of MEWS (modified early warning score), which is based on physiological parameters such as systolic blood pressure, pulse rate, respiratory rate, and temperature. Other commonly used methods include HRV (heart rate variation) and ML (machine learning), where HRV is the change of time intervals between heartbeats while ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), defined as pneumonia that was absent or not developing at intubation, is the second most common hospital acquired infection (Bahrt, 2009, p. 49). It is the most prevalent hospital acquired infection amongst mechanically ventilated patients in critical care units with an estimated 10-20% incidence rate in some hospitals. It affects approximately 28% of patients requiring mechanical ventilation for >48 hours (Button, Culmer, Southard, & Donaldosn, 2005). Patients on mechanical ventilation for >24 hours are 6 to 21 times more likely to acquire VAP than patients not on ventilator support. VAP is the most ...

The success of a shared vision can only happen through using the right channels of communication. The needy members of the community should also get the benefits that the hospitals give to the community. As a nurse leader in the hospital, i have the responsibility of ensuring that it delivers quality care to the community. This includes programs that ensure that all the community members get health care they need at effective costs and without discrimination. This calls for communication with the stakeholders of the hospital. The communication takes two forms: formal and informal communication (Rosdahl & Kowalski, 2008). The ...

Introduction

Background and Importance of Study
Surgery is a form of practice in the medical field, to put it crudely, it is the act of manually taking out the problem within a patient’s body. As with any other delicate practice within any profession, surgery is not immune to mistakes made by its practitioners. In the best case scenario, the malpractice is easily fixed, in the worst; it can lead to problems in the future of the patient’s life or even death.
Malpractice in the field of surgery is also as old as the practice itself with surgery dating ...

Classic English Literature

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, born in the small seaport of Taganrog, Ukraine in 1860, was a physician who wrote short stories and plays. While he spent his early years under the shadow of his father's religious fanaticism, he managed to support his medical studies by taking tuitions. As a doctor, Chekov spent his daytime caring for the needy while he spent the nights writing. His medical background is clearly evident in much of his plays as evidenced by the apathy many of his characters show towards tragic events. His plays and short stories are influenced by his doctoral research at ...

Nosocomial infections are infections that occur within forty-eight hours of being admitted in hospital, three days of discharge or thirty days of a surgery. Most prominent ones are pneumonia, urinary-tract infection, surgical and bloodstream infection. In the previous years, research indicated that at minimum 5% of patients develop nosocomial infections. With the increased use of invasive procedures, current research shows that more than 8% of patients now acquire nosocomial infections. Acquisition of the infection causes the patient to stay in hospital 2.5-times longer than expected and consequently incur extra costs (Ken & Alison, 2013). In extreme cases, the infections lead ...

Report Supporting Purchase of an

Executive Summary
The present report provides the support and justification for the purchase of an electronic medication administration records (eMAR) system for the hospital. Medication errors are a serious concern within the business of healthcare and information technology is now available to address the issues causing many of the more egregious problems in this area. In particular, eMAR systems have proven to increase the chances of the right patient receiving the right medication in the right dose through the right route at the right time. These aspects of patient care are fundamental to high quality and are too important ...

Overview

Before tackling the relationship the HITECH Act have on scorecards, key performance and dashboards, defining its context is equally important as exploring the aforementioned relationships. Having said that, HITECH Act is defined as the is a law signed by President Obama on February 17, 2009 with an objective to improve the quality of healthcare while maintaining a reasonable cost and invest on related infrastructure to make the America’s medical records completely computerized. In addition, the full implementation and use of EHR (electronic hospital records) will help to reduce waste, the need for repeat medical tests and eliminate red ...

Electronic Medication Administration Record System

Research Supporting the Purchase of an
Electronic Medication Administration Record System

Introduction

Medication errors in the United States are estimated to cause approximately 7000 deaths annually and cost approximately $2 billion in added health care spending. Improving the safety outcomes of medication-use processes in hospitals has been cited as a means of addressing this issue. Careful and planned use of information technology is a proven approach to solve a majority of medication errors made with paper-based systems (Paoletti et al., 2007). Computer-based systems have been found to provide much better compliance with the “five rights” of medication administration: right patient, ...

Impact of Effective Staffing on Organizational Performance

in Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi University

Summer-B- 2012-2013

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
With the passage of time, UAE has become the most peaceful and economically stabled region across the world. For an organization located in UAE, the achievement of goals and objectives relies highly on the ability of the company to recruit and select the most appropriate applicant from the talent pool available. But staffing has become a prominent challenge in today’s market in UAE (Heyer, 2007).
Corniche is one of the leading hospitals in UAE providing its patients with maternity and neonatal facilities (Corniche Hospital, 2011b). ...

Introduction

The Healing Hospital theme has considerably risen in the majority of healthcare setting. This brings about a situation in which families together with patients are feeling less stressed while at health care facilities as there are dedicated employees handling them. As such, the focus has been on the patient and care rather than the disease elimination. This assures the patient of a loving service in the hospital encounters as well as competent clinical care. Chapman (2011) states that Healing Hospital concept involves the act of serving others diligently by offering them quality health care service. Similarly, the healing paradigm ...

Abstract

Aims: To evaluate the outcomes of NIV versus invasive mechanical ventilation in COPD patients.
Data Source: Relevant articles were identified from the following journals CHEST, Respiratory Care, European Respiratory Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, and AHC Media.
Study selection: The articles identified consisted reports of two randomized controlled trials and three review articles which investigated the outcomes of NIV versus mechanical ventilation in patients with acute exacerbations of COPD, weaning of COPD patients on mechanical ventilation, and nocturnal management of COPD.
Data extraction: The study reviewed meta-analytic reviews, prospective randomized control trials, and retrospective observational studies. The various studies ...

When helping to complete a system development life cycle (SDLC) in a hospital organization, there are many things that must be done to ensure the best system is selected. First of all, the problems of the organization must be understood – in order to do this, a representative body of all major parties involved with the system should be included, from administrative down to the nursing level. The reason for this is that all people involved in the healthcare process will be using this HIT system, and so all of the problems of every department and every level of health ...

The study investigates the problem of nurse burnout present at Army hospital settings. The main purpose was to investigate certain nursing practice settings to find the reasons for burnout of personnel employed at a combat support hospital (CSH). Alongside, the other aim was to ascertain the differences in the burnout level between the deployed Army nurses and Army nurses at the U.S. Army hospital center.
The CHS is the unique site at which nursing is first provided to the injured U.S. combats. Later there are evacuated to Army hospitals in the United States and Germany. The duties of military ...

Introduction and Approval

For this particular research, the organization would need to provide the relevant support needed to make it a success. Moreover, more support would be required from fellow staff. This step would be vital in ensuring that the entire healthcare centre is a part of the study.This essay includes strategies that would be used to train nurses on the basics concerning earlier administration of therapeutic hypothermia to patients suffering cardiac arrest. In this essay, the methods of carrying out the research would be outlined in details. In addition, all the strategies involved and their outcomes will be looked into. For ...

One of the ways of improving the quality of care offered by nurses is by incorporating relevant technologies into nursing practice. Currently, technology is applied widely in patient monitoring but there are other potential applications. A recent technology tool adopted in the health facility I work in is the Real time locating system (RTLS). This is a computer-based RFID system that allows nurses to locate various movable objects in the hospital (Oztekin et al., 2010). Patient need tools such as wheelchairs or infusion pumps and nurses used to walk around the hospital looking for such equipments. With RTLS, a ...

Identifying Researchable Problem: Falls and Incontinence

Nursing practice has evolved a lot in the past century to meet the changing health care need s of the world’s population. One of the most significant changes has been the rise of Evidence Based Practice (EBP). EBP is the tendency to used evidence drawn from scientifically rigorous studies to make decisions on patient care. For instance, nursing practice code and hospital regulations require nurses to maintain hygiene in the hands to prevent the spread of hospital acquired infections and promote wellbeing in patients. Hygiene can be maintained through rubbing hands with alcohol wipes which are antiseptic or ...

Hand Hygiene Project in the Hospital

Hand hygiene is a practice necessary for ensuring proper healthcare and safety among patients and heath care providers in hospitals. In attending to their patients, nurses and other hospital staff enter their rooms. They may be directly in contact with the patient, such as in giving medicine and food, or not. It is attested that in this way, people inside the room or even in the hospital premises could adversely affect one another. In the mid-1800’s, hospitals were identified to have acquired diseases transferred through the hands of the health care workers (McDonald & May, 2011). Having these infections ...

Introduction

This paper will be focused on the hospital-acquired condition of surgical site infections (SSI)
. Surgical site infections are considered preventable. Because such infections are considered preventable, there are legal consequences directly connected to such a condition. Surgical site infection (SSI) continues to represent a significant portion of healthcare-associated infections. The influence on illness, death, and cost of care has caused in surgical site infections reduction being recognized as a highest national importance in the United States Department of Health (D, 2008). One of the good news about the whole thing is that the mainstream of surgical site infections are ...

MEDICARE

Scenario 1
- Medicare PART A,B,C
Different countries have distinct systems of healthcare put in place for providing diagnosis and treatment of health problems. In the United States, financing of healthcare is fundamentally via Medicare Insurance and it is categorized into Medicare Plans A, B, C, and D (Christiane, 2005). Individuals’ eligible for Medicare includes persons aged 65 years and over, the disabled, and individuals with end stage kidney problems.
Therefore, this is a case of Mrs. Zwick, a 77-year-old widow, admitted and booked for inpatient care for five days after she experienced a mild stroke. After ...

There is a need to offer quality health care that is safe and effective. This can be done through implementation of evidence based care under which all nursing interventions and decisions regarding patient care are based on evidence drawn from credible research and not only on hospital culture. A recent case in my hospital that demonstrates the need for evidence based care is that of Mark, a 9 year old boy who presented in the ER with pain in the right ear and was diagnosed to suffer from recurrent otitis media. Otitis media is the inflammation of the middle ...

Medical errors are common occurrences in health care settings and are a cause of mortality. To improve health care, it is important to address human errors in medical care. In a landmark report by the Institute of Medicine, a system wide change was recommended to address the problem of human error in medical care. Such changes call for review of policies that govern health care delivery, from hospital guidelines to federal policies and nursing code of ethics. There is a need to shift focus from errors to safety and this is best done by understanding errors. Health care providers ...

Chiropractic refers to a health care profession that uses alternative and complementary treatment in order to offer healing approach that is concerned with doing diagnosis, treatment, as well as prevention of various disorders that affect the neuromusculoskeletal system. The practice emphasizes on the manual therapy such as joint manipulation, as well as adjustment focusing mainly on the joint dysfunction. The increased cases of back pain and its recurrent and chronic nature in most of the patients are well known. However, there is no general consensus that exists concerning the best treatment that is effective. The greatest improvement has been ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) was founded in 1950 as an independent Federal agency. It operates as a regional hospital and offers the following services:

Index Page

After-hours care Caters for the needs of patients who have personal queries that need medical attention.
Methods of Payment Entails methods and details of payment for outpatients and inpatients treatment and medication
Policy on bringing all medications to each visit Procedures for bringing in medicine to the hospital by visitors and other interested persons

Patients Privacy Guidelines for protecting each patient’s information and their details in the hospital

Patients Rights Rights that every patient is accorded to give them the freedom they need
Visiting Hours and Policies Special ...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and a research facility located in Memphis, Tennessee. It was founded in 1962 as a non-profit medical corporation and has over the years given a helping hand to the less fortunate in the society by giving free medical services. Patients in St. Jude get free services whether covered by insurance or not. This well-known organization has been a helping hand to the society and has been ranked one of the best children hospitals in the region. St. Jude has a goal that is conveyed in four words: “Finding cures. ...

1. Scenario One: A medical assistant is working at a Catholic hospital but does not practice this religion. The Catholic hospital does not believe in the practice of performing tubal ligation procedures as birth control. The medical assistant has a patient who is 23 years old and currently has 5 children. She is requesting assistance in having this procedure done. The policy of this hospital is not to discuss any forms of birth control with patients. What should the medical assistant do since she does not believe in this policy?

Scenario One Commentary

Catholic hospitals are governed by Ethical and Religious Directives ...

Several general issues exist in relation to costs. When doing a cost benefit analysis, it is important that these issues be considered. In the first place, a decision has to be made on which costs are to be included and those that are not to be included in the analysis. Direct costs are mostly considered in the evaluation of costs. These costs can be measured in monetary terms. They can also be traced directly to the project. An example of a direct cost includes labour costs. The wages paid to the labors and the cost of purchasing a machine ...

Abstract

A hospital is a place where the health of patients is taken care of, making their live better lives. The performance in this institution should always be enhanced under all circumstances. Contrary to these, many hospitals are underperforming in nature. In an effort to understand these we visited a hospital that had recently drastically improved its performance. The performance resulted from the implementation of the cognitive behavior program that changed the perception of the workers towards work and thus increasing the output. Chances are still there that the performance would even be better as the hospital adds on other ...

Capstone Project: Patient Transfer from ER to Floor without SBAR

Introduction
The nursing practice has a goal of delivering quality health care and promoting health and wellness. The offered services ought to be safe, efficient, effective, timely, equitable and patient –centered. However, service delivery in hospital faces various challenges. The most important is maintaining the quality of care and continuity of care during patient handoff. A handoff occurs at the end of the shift or when a patient is transferred from one unit to another. It is important that the incoming care givers be fully briefed on the patient’s condition so as to continue offering quality services. Cohen & ...

Introduction

Medicaid, which is the nineteenth title of the Social Security Act in the U.S., is a dual state-federal program to finance healthcare services for specific portions of the population earning low income under rules disseminated by the federal government (Casto, & Layman, 2006). This paper presents an overview of Inpatient reimbursement approaches of the Illinois state Medicaid program, which is made up of close to 13 billion dollar programs or 25% of the state’s running budget. An estimation of 50% of the overall budget is typically underwritten by the federal government hence the state contributes less than 7 billion ...

As the current medical world continues to progress, it has become an integral point for hospitals to have ongoing quality improvements. This is done in a way to match the needs and desires of the patients who seek quality healthcare. Hospitals also seek to undertake quality improvement as a way of reducing infections amongst their esteemed clients. Quality improvement is a process that takes great use of the management and leadership of nursing. Thus it is highly expected that the leadership takes the first position in steering issues that regard quality improvement in nursing. It is believed that the ...

Question 1:

The many physical differences that exist between races have led to many believing that there are natural or biological differences between races. Numerous researches indicate that there are no natural or biologically based differences between the different race groups. All human beings crave the same things. This indicates that the various physical difference that are evident in the different races do not give any race an advantage over the others. Therefore, attempts to place inferiority or superiority on race is invalid since biologically all races are equal.

Question 2:

Yes, sorting promotes discrimination. Sorting highly relies on classifying individuals based on ...

Is the survival rate in ‘sudden death’ cardiac patients increased

when automated external defibrillators are used?

Introduction

Synthesis of Literature: Studies 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
- Aim of study
- Methodology
- Results
- Conclusion

Synthesis and Relevance to Research topic

Conclusion
- Summary Table

Is the survival rate in ‘sudden death’ cardiac patients increased

when automated external defibrillators are used?

Introduction

This literature review encompasses five studies relating evidence based practice regarding survival rates in ‘sudden death’ cardiac patients. These rates would be examined in relation to the use automated external defibrillators. Assessments of the research aims, methodology, results/ conclusions will be embraced.

Synthesis of Literature

Study 1
Aim
Comilla Sasson; Mary A.M. Rogers; Jason Dahl and Arthur L. Kellermann (2009) conducted a systemic review and Meta-Analysis pertaining ...

Introduction

Health care facility is an organization that is mandated with the prevention and treatment of patients. Health care facilities offer a range of services from different fields such as nursing, pharmacy, medicine, and dentistry. Globalization and market liberalization has led to increased competition in the market at large. The health sector has not been left behind due to privatization of various health institutions. The rise in population and need for fast and efficient services has also led to the emergence of private hospitals. Nevertheless, most governments have maintained public hospitals for patients who cannot afford costly services from private ...

Introduction

In a hospital setting, patients often arrive in various conditions. It is up to the nurses and other medical staffs to ensure the triage process is carried out successfully. The process of grouping patients on the basis of their conditions is often referred to as the triage process (Thomas, 2001). Triage is a simple process and involves careful observation of the patients as he or she arrives and the symptoms he or she presents so as to gauge clinically if he or she needs medical attention immediately or not (Donald, 2004). This process has to be effective at all ...

Arguably, much research is being carried out to develop strongest antiviral drugs that can treat many viruses. At St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, scientists assert that certain drugs can be used to inhibit and target an enzyme essential for influenza virus replication. In this case, drug molecules that designed to deal with influenza can be adapted to treat various viruses. The new strains have emerged due to development of influenza vaccine. Medical experts' belief that the development of very virulent strains may lead to a catastrophe. The process of developing such development may lead to the development of drugs ...

Within the state of Maryland in the U.S, is a hospital known as the John Hopkins Hospital. The John Hopkins Hospital has several functions. First, the hospital is used for biomedical research by students in the School of Medicine in John Hopkins University. Secondly, the hospital is also used as a teaching hospital by the John Hopkins University. Finally, the most important function of the hospital is the fact that it provides medical services to a large number of people in the U.S. The hospital ranks as one of the best hospitals in the U.S in terms of offering ...

Healthcare Corporation of America

Hospital Corporation of America is a company involved in the management of hospitals. The company owns and manages a chain of hospitals. The company operates on a profit-basis. The Corporation has a leading position in inpatient and outpatient services in the United States. The leading position of the company has provided it opportunities to further strengthen its position in the market. The business strategy of Hospital Corporation of America is to provide high quality and cost-effective services to communities. At the same time, the corporation also aims to increase their profitability and to create long-term value for shareholders. The ...

Research on the Web, Social Networking and the Network

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Virtual Organization

In the past few decades, in the increasing demand for technological innovation has taken the world by storm as all commercial, government and private organizations have relied to the convenience offered by technology in monumentally fast-tracking their operations. Among the many organizations that adapted into technological integration are hospitals and Patton-Fuller Community Hospital is no different. There are many technological advancements that aids organizations in infusing all elements of their business in one place and that is the use of The Web, Social Networking and Networking itself. Using the three has their own ...

Hygiene refers to the practices that communities perceive as upholding or preserving healthy living, while an infection is an attack of parasites on a host organism. Hospitals being public places where both sick and healthy people mingle are likely to be more vulnerable to infections compared to other places. The sources of infections in hospitals include hospital staff, patients and the inanimate environment.

Maintenance of hand hygiene is one of the simplest yet most effective methods in prevention of infections. In spite of the society emphasizing on the importance of hand hygiene, many people including health care personnel, do ...

Cardiovascular Diseases

The Maternity Center at St. Paul Medical center
The Obstetrics Department of the St. Paul Medical center is in currently the process of revamping its maternity center. This process would take about one and half years to complete. it is hoped that the whole process would meet every deadline stipulated for the project to be completed. In order to fully comprehend the process of the project, this paper hereby presents details about the hospital, the need for the expansion, the type of patient population that the hospital serves and a full description of the proposed facility.
St. Paul Medical ...

Bill S.864 National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act
The National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act bill creates requirements for the acute care facilities to provide registered nurses based on the increased patients’ acuity as long as the minimum nurse-to-patient ratios are met all the time. Direct care registered nurses are mandated to act in the exclusive interest of their patients, and possess the right to be patient advocates. The bill seeks to address a number of policy issues such as the growing nationwide shortage of direct-care registered nurses in hospitals, provide minimum standards for patient ...

Improving Care in Rural Rwanda

Improving Care in Rural Rwanda
Imagine you are a staff member at a hospital or clinic in a resource-poor setting. A team arrives and offers to help improve the quality of care. You are initially skeptical as prior quality improvement efforts have taken up considerable staff time and attention but have not resulted in sustained change.
There is no single, more reliable factor that a team leader can use when it comes to determining the team’s level of understanding of the underlying economic and sociopolitical context in the current situation in Kirehe than their performance. Naturally, a positive ...

Introduction to Apollo Groups of Hospitals

Apollo Hospital Enterprise Limited (AHEL) is Asia’s leading player in healthcare services in the private sector. In 1979, it was integrated as a public limited company. Led by its chairman Dr. Prathap C Reddy, the Chennai-based hospital was a comprehensive 250-bed medical institution that focussed mainly on speciality and super-specialities in more than 50 departments. A vast network of top primary, secondary and tertiary clinics and healthcare institutions are owned and operated by AHEL across India (Shaurya et al, 2009).

Today, the Apollo hospitals groups comprises of

More than 8500 beds across 50 hospitals within India and abroad,
Local clinics and diagnostic centres
...

Introduction

Performance management is a way in which steps are taken to ensure that objectives are constantly met in a well organized manner. Bench marking simulation software can be used to achieve this procedure. Nosocomial infections are infections that develop as a result of treatment in a hospital or a health unit. This type of infection is also known as hospital acquitted infection. The nosocomial infections have been found to be rising at Lenity Hospital for Advanced Care (LHAC). The rising rates have been caused by several factors in the hospital which ...

Handwashing is the gold standard for the prevention of health care-associated infections (HCAI), yet the rate of handwashing compliance is universally low. This study reviews the role of hands in the transmission of HCAI, factors affecting compliance, and suggested strategies to promote compliance. One of the first things they teach you in nursing school is that hand hygiene is critical to healthcare; yet health care-associated infections (HCAI) continue to represent a significant safety hazard to patients. The World Health Organization estimates that each year hundreds of millions of patients all over the world develop infections associated with health care. It is difficult to estimate the impact of HCAI on the burden of care: patients have to prolong their stay in hospitals, and hospitals have to spend more resources to care for HCAI in addition to other diseases. ...

Abstract

Hospitals globally need to ensure that they shift concerns to the concept of risk management. This allows for the identification, evaluation and prioritization of risks within the hospital environment. The process promotes good health among workers and patients by simply providing measures that may be implemented to combat risks that may adversely affect the well being of workers and patients and the public in general.
There are a lot of risks that may be experienced within a hospital setting. Among them is the risk of acquiring infectious disease. Therefore this calls for need of infection control from the perspective ...