Essays on Checklists

Implementation plan

The problem of cancer pain amongst oncology care patients need to be given the required attention as a way of seeing to it that such individuals are able to emerge with desirable outcomes. It is important for pain alleviation programs to be put into place to make sure that such individuals are able to manage their conditions and assists them incorporate into the society. As such, it is essential that all due processes are followed to guarantee that pain alleviation amongst cancer patients is achieved. Having in place a proper implementation program will be an important step in achieving ...

I guess that every moment in this deal is important but if taking into consideration I have to choose only 3, I will pick up the most important and influential, in my humble opinion. The first two are the checklists which have names Planning a Contracting Meeting and Reviewing the Contracting Meeting. These two stages are similar in intentions and even actions but they differ in one thing – the first stage is aimed at determining a plan and the second one is for discussing what was done already and how it should be improved. In these stages, a client ...

The NYU hospitals centre located in New York City is an acute care facility which specialises in providing nursing care, cardiac surgery, general surgery and multispecialty surgical care. It is also responsible for storing data which assists in subsequent treatments of individuals who go through these hospital sections (Medicare Hospital Compare, 2016). The facility also employs the use of both inpatient and outpatient surgery checklists as a way of making sure that only the best in terms of medical care is achieved by the patients. These checklists have been maintained in an electronic system manner making their retrieval process ...

Leadership in Action

The judiciary is one of the most important arms in a free and democratic society and in many states, its duties are well outlined in the constitutions. By structure, almost all constitutions design it as an independent body and operate within the requirements of the principle of separation of powers (Forsyth, 2015). A strong public image and reputation are crucial in the dispensation of its duty, and the decisions made culminate into a lasting effect on individuals and society. For instance, it could define public policy. Considering its significance, an incompetent and misleading system could produce far-reaching implications in ...

Infections in hospital settings are a challenge in nursing because of the potential dangers that they pose to a wide number of patients. Bloodstream infections from central lines are particularly hazardous as they affect patients that are already vulnerable, meaning that they contribute to morbidity and mortality in the hospital setting (Rinke et al., 2012). Although the rates of central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) can be reduced by up to 67% through the introduction of checklists (Schulman et al., 2011), the issue continues to be important in a wide number of hospital settings. It is also important to understand the ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Abstract The intensive care unit in most hospitals plays the role of providing care to patients dealing with life-threatening conditions. The technological and other set ups in these hospital units are vital in ensuring that these patients continue to receive the best regarding care while with the intentions of having them emerge with desirable outcomes. There are however challenges relating to the care that these patients receive since, in most cases, they are usually under mechanical ventilation. A patient under this condition faces the risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia if the ventilators are not handled with the required care. ...

Ergonomics

Issues with subjective questionnaires? Subjective questionnaires in the collection of information are said to lack external validity. This is because they tend to limit the respondent’s feedback to the confinement of the specific details that whoever constructed the questionnaires wants. This type of questionnaires may not give accurate findings if not carefully constructed because they might enquire information which the respondent is not willing to answer due to personal and private reasons and this might yield false feedback or reluctance to respond. They subject the respondent to what they ought to answer and limit the information gathering scope ( ...

Abstract

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, central line-associated bloodstream infections lead to the deaths of thousands of people every year in the United States. These infections actually represent about 10% of all hospital-acquired infections translating to about 71, 900 infections per year in US hospitals. Also, this condition adds billions of dollars to the total health care system costs. However, these infections are actually preventable. This paper analyzes literature related to this topic and tries to establish the best method for solving the problem of central line-associated bloodstream infections. The paper suggests the standardization of central ...

Narrative:

The topic of the research is to eradicate childhood obesity. A database search was carried out on to identify material that fit the description of the research. The keywords used included obesity, which is a state where the body mass index of an individual exceeds 30. Obesity in children focused on material that focused the effects of obesity in children. Material that contained a reference to obesity in children as well as ways to eradicate obesity in children was considered for the research. Material that focused on obesity in general without being specific to children was excluded from the ...

TSU

Research in Nursing Practice Abstract Patient safety is important not only for patient but also for medical community, and this safety includes the reduction of medical and surgical errors. In the last few years, researchers have started showing great interest in the use of checklists before performing a surgery to reduce surgical errors. Usually, those checklists include the time out process, i.e. a kind of break or pause, before starting any surgical procedure. Those checklists may also include the information of patient, information of site or side, and information of procedure. Before starting any operation, operating staff communicate with ...

Mount Sinai Hospital is located in New York State. The exact location and address of where the hospital is located is One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, (212) 241-7981. It is an acute care hospital providing emergency care services. The benefit of utilizing the services of this hospital is that one is able to receive their laboratory results in an electronic manner (Medicare.gov, 2015). Additionally, patients’ data and referrals can be effectively tracked between the visits. In addition to these services, the hospital has also got a registry that contains database on nursing care, cardiac surgery, ...

Introduction

It is an integral part of communication in healthcare to transfer critical information and the responsibility of the patient from one health care provider to another. Such transfer points are called handoff. “An effective handoff supports the transition of critical information and continuity of care and treatment.” These handoffs have been found to be particularly hazardous, and particularly involve missing, incomplete, or inaccurate information and are also associated with adverse events. According to , medication errors are a major cause of injury to hospital patients, and it has been found that more than half of all the hospital medication errors ...

Activity Summary

Projects initiation was the first activity that we engaged in. It was undertaken after a SWOT analysis of the hotel identified that the POS project was the most valuable and most favorable at that time. The next activities that followed were project scope documentation, project approval and signing off. These activities involved definition of goals and assigning of tasks. They also involved the dividing the project into baselines (technical, functional and management and cost baselines). Project plan execution involved a number of activities that included the following: getting bids from suppliers, auction, procurement closure, enterprise information infrastructure design, training of implementers, ...

Introduction

Risk is very common in any business. According to the definition given by Knight (1999), risk is measurable ambiguity of outcome whose impact may be either optimistic or pessimistic. Usually, risk is measured and expressed in terms of strong index. Many researchers think risk as unwanted event and this risk have statistical expectation value for ranking the seriousness too. Risk analysis can be defined as mathematical product value of strong and disutility. Procurement management offers advantages on economies of scale in purchasing and delivering the goods and services at right time and right place in order to minimize the risk involved ...

Systematic review

Surgical intervention is one of the critical components in the field of medical practice. All surgical procedures aim at positive outcome, but is not the case in all procedures done. There are cases reported where complications arise that do not stem from the main or primary illness, but from procedural intervention during surgery. The main causes of these complications include wrong person surgery, wrong site surgery and wrong site marking. In regards to the commonality in these occurrences, various research articles have aimed to address these issues. The articles indicates that wrong site surgery is a rare occurrence, but once ...

The aim of this lesson is to create a vocabulary that describes emotion that will help pre-students express themselves in both languages and to bring into focus the conceptual clues falling under both natural and literary settings.

Materials needed:

Construction cardboard cut into circular shapes (about 6” in diameter) - 4 per child Plastic straw pipes – 4 per child Adhesive Color crayons Vocabulary: joyful, gloomy, shocked, smiles, moods, eyes, appearance, mouth, tear. Lesson: Before starting the lesson make 4 emotion masks out of construction paper and plastic straw pipes. Make out a tale in which different ...

Introduction

The logistics management involves the supply chain management that is charged with the responsibility of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient forwarding and the reverse flow of goods and the storage of the goods. It involves all the processes that take place from the time a good or service is produced to the time it will be consumed by the consumers. These must all be done in order to meet the use requirements (Lichtenstein, 1996). There are several risks that are involved during the time a given commodity is being transported from the point of production to the time it will ...

Question 2

During the last decade of the 20th century, the global production of ADHD medications increased by more than 900% and most of the increased production was consumed in the United States. Figure 1 below summarizes the trend. In concert with this trend, the incidence of ADHD among US children rose by more than 40% between 2003 and 2011. At the later date as many as 20% of teenage boys were diagnosed with the disorder. How can these remarkable and rapid changes be explained and why is the US the epicenter of this ne epidemic of childhood disorder. In addressing ...

Introduction

This objective of this project is to research the quality of accounting information as well as the factors facilitating and inhibiting it. In the absence of encompassing accounting theory (Belkaoui, 2005, p. 193), the quality of accounting information may be understood in different ways, therefore this report will be guided by IFRS Conceptual Framework which states that the main qualitative characteristics of financial reporting are relevance and faithful representation (IFRS Foundation, 2011, p. A25). Relevance of the accounting information is generally construed as its usefulness for decision makers that have an interest in the reporting entity. However, things of ...

Annual performance evaluations are often regarded as essential components of employee development. The mentioned performance review is prevalently geared towards balanced assessment of an employee’s performance coupled with fairness. Notably, employee evaluations elicited myriad concerns on the relevant systems that efficient and effective employee appraisal would rely on. The paper seeks to establish the relevant means of implementing effective performance evaluation processes. Prevalently, the mid-sized manufacturing plant initially based the evaluation on friendliness of an employee. The item of friendliness came to practice when the manager considerably awarded a medium rating on that scale. The evaluation emanated because ...

Section 1 – Describe a Crucial Conversation

It was again Patient X, brought in for the second time this month into the emergency department due to a new diabetes complication. The patient was a woman in her fifties, who previously had her leg amputated due to the advancement of diabetes. The physician who attended her ordered lab work to determine the level of glucose, which came back as 1200. The physician immediately asked intravenous insulin medication for the patient, yet Nurse A, who was in charge of the patient’s medication, was not administering her insulin as the physician instructed. Nurse B, who had a long history with ...

CrisisMgmt / Discussion 4

Part I: Example of Public Health Crisis Shortly following Hurricane Katrina, the less remembered Hurricane Rita struck Houston, Texas. Personally, I recall Rita because it caused my wedding to be delayed by two months. You might recall Rita because its poorly prepared evacuation plan resulted in absolute gridlock on the interstate highways. Motorists found themselves trapped on highways for endless hours, many running out of gas and sleeping in their cars. Fortunately, Texas got smarter from both Rita and Katrina. Years later, when Hurricane Ike ravaged Galveston, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) was ready. Public ...

Risk identification is the process of identifying risks that could affect the project and documenting their characteristics. Risk identification is performed by the project team members and experts in risk management; it can be participated by customers, project participants and experts in certain areas. It is an iterative process, because as the project progresses through its life cycle can be detected new risks. The frequency composition of the iteration, and each execution cycle in each case may be different. The identification process should involve members of the project team so that they develop a sense of ownership and responsibility for ...

Carmen Parsons-Bowie

A comprehensive exam response submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Kaplan University 2013 Confidentiality and originality Agreement I hereby acknowledge that all work submitted for this Comprehensive Examination Response will be completed entirely on my own. I will not discuss the questions in any form or manner, or collaborate with my fellow classmates or anyone else outside of KU who may have expertise in the subject. This work will be completed solely by myself, will be original work addressing the specific questions asked for this exam, and will be a reflection ...

Introduction

Approaches that incorporate various strategies and techniques in order to identify likely interventions and diagnose the causes meant for the solutions of problem behaviors is what is referred to as a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) (Durand and Crimmins, 1992). The functional behavioral assessment surpasses demonstrated behavior and instead focuses on discovering environmental, affective, social and biological factors that target, end, sustain or initiate behavior. This approach is paramount as it leads the observer way past the behavior or symptom up to the motivation underneath it. The following steps are highly recommended while implementing and planning an FBA (functional behavior ...

Introduction

The aim of the following assignment is to research into the crisis situation, which called forth the need of creating the report on the functioning of Aqua, a fine-dining boutique restaurant in Malibu, California, and form the body of the report, which is going to be submitted to the agent at Exit Reality. The purpose of the report is to get to know whether performance of the restaurant complies with the LA County restaurant grading ordinance, which provides for the ways food should be handled, stored and prepared. Despite the fact that Thomas is highly interested in Report’s stating ...

Improving Performance Through Quality Initiatives

Improving Performance Through Quality Initiatives 1. One of the most important ideas I learned in Part Four is that quality initiatives have proven to be highly successful using multiple metrics, including higher employee and customer satisfaction, higher productivity, increased market share and better productivity. Given the broad spectrum of impacts on the business, using quality initiatives within a business is a very supported and logical choice. The second idea that I learned was there were actually several methods of improving quality that have shown success, although many of them share similar underlying ideas about how it should be done, including ...

Medicine

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic disease which is increasing in the United States. On the one hand baby boomers are aging and have become at risk for CHF. People are also living longer. (Ideal, 2009, p. 2) The rate of people under 65 years old entering hospitals for CHF has increased. (Hall, Levant, and DeFrances, 2012, p. 1) In 1900 the number of people over 65 years was approximately 3 million but in 2010 the number is over 34 million; in 2020 the number is predicted to include about 20 percent of the US population. (Quaglietti, Atwood, Ackerman, ...

Introduction

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (2010) defines burglary as the unlawful entry into a structure in order to commit theft or a felony. The term structure refers to offices, apartments, houseboats used as homes, barns or railroad cars. It however does not refer to cars or ships. This entry need not be forceful. Burglary is classified into three forms; forcible entry, attempted forcible entry and non-forcible unlawful entry where no force is applied. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (2010) reports approximately 2,199,125 burglaries in 2009. This is less by 1.3% in comparison to 2008. This is however higher ...

Lisa Gomez

Argosy Online University This research was carried out as partial fulfillment towards the Research Methods course at Argosy University by Lisa Gomez. Abstract The study evaluates the research question: Does health promotion strategies help alleviate stress? The study uses a sample size of twenty five respondents; the five respondents were added to compensate for attrition. The study used the stratified random sampling technique. This technique is appropriate for the study because of the different levels of stressing factors the workers are exposed to due to the nature of their job. The inclusion criterion for the study is ...

Abstract

The following assignment is dedicated to the topic “Crime scene investigation”. The Introduction presents basic ideas related to the concept of investigation, the role of crime scene investigation in investigating the crime and most important functions, performed by crime scene investigator. Thereafter legal background and other relevant concerns are emphasized. Other concerns include adhering to ethical principles of crime scene investigator’s job, health and safety issues, and planning, organization and coordination phase, which precedes core crime scene investigation activities. Special attention is paid to practical importance of each of mentioned concerns. The rest of the course work contains a ...

Effective assessment and practices

Assessments remain a challenge for faculty and clinicians who are often inadequately trained in education. A variety of tools for student assessment are available. However, the empirical evidence on the inter-rater reliability and validity of most of these tools is very limited (Isaacson & Stacy, 2009). In this paper, two of these tools, rubrics and checklists, will be described, compared, contrasted, and the best tool amongst them identified.

Rubrics

A rubric is a scaled tool placed in a grid and which has levels of performance/achievement and clearly articulated criteria for each level. Rubrics are used to assess performance, procedure, or product. They are ...

This assignment made me think about the importance I place on money over how I value my time. Every day we make a series of small decisions about where we go to purchase goods and services. Sometimes, we will travel a bit further and spend a little more to get exactly the product or service we want. At other times, we will also extend ourselves that extra distance to save money. I realized I had been looking at this situation myopically factoring in the cost per gallon in fuel and the wear and tear on my car and not factoring myself into ...

In any organization, people spend about two thirds of their time in interpersonal situations. Organizations are now spending time and resources in perfecting the nature in which employees and members of a professional body communicate. For any success to be registered by any organization, communication must effective and perfected be it interpersonal, intergroup, intragroup and at external levels. Similarly nursing and the medical fraternity faces a myriad of problems associated with poor communication methods. Adverse clinical problems have been associated with poor communication and as a consequence several medical practitioners have faced negligence cases. While these issues may be real and affect ...

Introduction

In any scientific or social field there is a systematic way in which new knowledge is identified, offered credibility, and preserved for future studies. This procedure is termed as research and it involves two major approaches; qualitative and quantitative. Majorly, research entails solving pre-existing problems or observing instances that require proof in the society. Therefore, even though the two research methods—qualitative and quantitative—are vastly different, they also have some similarities, which will be highlighted in this article. This article will hence analyze the similarities and differences between the two methods of research.

Differences of Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods

Murray (2) asserts that qualitative and ...

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Racism has been dismissed as a vice of the past by many leaders; indeed some of them argue that the end of apartheid in South Africa marked the end of racism in this era of civilization. However, to any one who lives in a racially diverse community such as America, racism is not yet a vice of the past- it is still existent. It may not be well pronounced like was seen in South Africa or even during the Jewish Holocaust but it is still existent in our various social structures. In America, racial connotations such as the words ‘nigga’ and ‘ ...