Essays on Facility

An essay exploring the effect of the macroeconomic environment in Italy and Russia as it relates to Proctor and Gamble’s international economic activity. Procter and Gamble [P&G] is the world’s top producer of household products. P&G manufactures a wide range of products from toilet paper and sanitary products to food and cleaners. It can be said that the company produces everything a consumer could need to stock their homes comfortably. June 2014, P&G reported over eighty-three million dollars in revenues during that fiscal year (MarketLine, 2015). P&G’s headquarters are located in Cincinnati, Ohio but the massive ...

Quality and Safety Practice: Prevention of Patient Falls - Literature Review

Introduction Whether an elderly person is living alone, with others, within a nursing home, or under care in a medical facility, falling is a major threat. For seniors older than 65 years of age living in a community situation, one in three will suffer a fall every year; for individuals over 85 years of age, the rate climbs to half of all residents (Cameron et al., 2010; CBO, 2004; Neyens, 2007; Tinetti, 2003). If an elderly adult is institutionalized, the possibility of falling in a year rises to 1.5 to 2 times (Dijcks et al., 2005) and a serious ...

The health care sector in the U.S has had predominant influences from the improvement of technology. This is one of the major reasons that has led to more involvement in the medical science field which is directly associated with the education of the health care practitioners. The health care system need to improve has been rising due to various goals and strains that have faced the American people. They include the need to check the costs of health care that are soaring, improve the quality of health care and cater to the increasing number of Americans in need of ...

The provision of quality healthcare whose value matches the health and safety needs of patients remains the biggest challenge for most health care organizations and centers. With dynamics in the healthcare sector and the introduction of healthcare legislation such as the Obama Care Act that emphasize on the provision of quality and equitable healthcare to consumers of healthcare services, most healthcare organizations have had to device strategies and come up with initiatives for ensuring quality in healthcare delivery to patients. Višnjić, Veličković and Jović (2012) define quality healthcare as one that meets and satisfies that health and ...

Jails and prisons both share the characteristic of being correctional incarceration facilities. However, the purpose and intent of these types of facilities differs.In your initial response, compare and contrast jails vs. prisons. As part of your comparison discuss the purpose and intent of each type of facility. Consider the type of inmate that is housed in each facility as part of your evaluation of these correctional facilities. There is no doubt that incarceration of any kind is considered as an unpleasant experience, since a convict is deprived of freedom. It is worth noting that the rights, policies as well ...

Focus group carry a very high importance for the business’ decision-making process, and with help of appropriately designed focus groups, an organization can implement necessary changes or make useful improvements for the enhancement of customers’ experience. In such a way, designing right questions is one of the key factors in drawing usefulness from focus groups. There are various types of questions, such as multiple choice or open-ended. Taking the given scenario about the healthcare organization and the emerging issues in it, one of the ways of constructing the questions is the following: How would you describe your experience with ...

Write a policy and procedure for determining eligibility for charity care.

Departments: Billing and Insurance Purpose of policy: This policy will determine who meets the requirements for charity care. Procedure: Patient makes an appointment. Evaluate the patient’s information to prove he/she cannot be able to afford the medication. Ensure that the medication does not exceed $150. Have the patient sign an agreement that any payments over the limit of the charity will be paid in full by the patient. Have the patient understand and commit him/herself in writing that the cost of transport or any other cost related to the treatment that need to be acquired from outside the ...

Cost Plus Reimbursement: Cost plus Reimbursement means that a health care provider is paid for all incurred costs upward to a pre-defined limit, and then paid more to make a profit. Respite Care: Respite Care is provided by a type of so-called "nursing home" to the needy elderly, very ill, or disabled persons, in order to give their usual caregivers a break from their daily responsibilities. Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990: This Act, or law, (the PSDA), requires that patients of HMOs, nursing homes, hospitals, many hospitals, and even home health agencies, provide information about advance directives (which give ...

The supply chain is an activity that involves movement of business or company’s products from producer to the consumers. It does not involve the producers, consumers and the consumer only, but it also includes the other parties that facilitate the movement. These parties include transporters, warehouses and the customers themselves. Many factors are considered in the choice of a supply chain by the company. The aim of the paper is to analyze the supply chain of Ford Automobile and to discuss management and strategy of the firm. The figure above represents a simple diagram of the supply chain ...

Introduction

Patient safety is undoubtedly linked to health care quality; patient safety may even be considered as the cornerstone of health care quality. That statement alone, makes the ethical and legal concepts that are required of health care organizations in the delivery of high quality health care highly important when talking about patient safety. Quality health care is an umbrella term that encompasses many aspects. Moreover, many also consider patient safety as indistinguishable from quality health care. Nevertheless, a quality health care has indicators such as safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, time, efficiency and equity. The focus of this paper will ...

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Source: Law Office of Shawn M. George <http://www.smgapc.com/practice-areas/california-three-strikes-law/ Every generation in the United States has seen new tactics designed to continue the oppression of racial minorities, abjuring the rights the Founding Fathers deemed necessary and irrevocable for all people in the nation. Many African Americans were denied their right to participate in the growth of the new nation. Centuries later, the United States is still far from being called a true “egalitarian society.” Racial segregation and bigotry have been evinced in a number of forms; over the years, these forms have changed and evolved but the ...

ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF A HEALTH CARE FACILITY

Hospitals are complex business structures in addition to complex medical organizations. The structure of the hospitals is very important to ensure that all departments are properly supervised and functioning. Hospitals are sorted by bed count and on average a medium size hospital contains an inpatient unit of approximately 200 beds . Regardless of bed size all hospitals need certain departments functioning to be able to provide services and meet the overriding regulations that are required. The following organizational chart serves most hospitals well. Of course, larger hospitals may find that the departments need to be separated further and other managers ...

Building information modeling (BIM) simply means the use of a digital model to help people understand a building or a certain facility. It represents all the functional and physical characteristics of a building. It helps people make decisions concerning the development of buildings right from when the designs are put in place for the time when the building is being constructed till it is fully complete. Also, it provides a basis used for evaluating the construction, demolition and even reuse of building materials. (InfoComm International 2010) The design process is the most critical when it comes to the life ...

The Cloud for Digital Photography

CONVENTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: STORAGE & MANAGEMENT ISSUES The advent of photography in late 1830s (Roosa, n.d.) has mandated later introduction and development of memory storage methods. The capacity for cameras to preserve in photographs personal and collective memories has made permanency a more urgent issue as photographs became household collectibles. Moreover, as development methods improved, older photographs (developed using outdated methods) required more maintenance during storage, particularly photographs produced by acetate negatives, chromogenic color film, polyester film and instant color print processes (Roosa). The deterioration of photographs by poor environmental storage conditions, poor storage enclosures, inadequate handling and shelving conditions, and ...

I have toured a local Jewish psychiatric hospital situated in Miami Florida city, viewing to about 25 people who are under rehabilitation, and joined in playing the piano, singing in a small choir and doing a concert for about four-hour involvement. It was indeed a pleasure to at least make these unfortunate citizens happy and to make them worry not of their misfortunes. It was such a great association as we had the opportunity also to provide food for them. In between the short art performances, we were able to make food packages, contribute time talking to them and ...

Management Information System

Management Information System

Abstract

Management Information System (MIS) has the ability to create reports in most valuable features. The internal reports and information allowed the managers understand all the relevant data and grouping data in a logical way. The corporate managers of McDonalds and Microsoft companies viewed or showed their labor hours, profits, expenses, and which store performs better through the systems. The employees assigned to the front line used MIS to perform their works effectively and efficiently. The employees at all levels consulted MIS to thoroughly check the status of inventory items, internal transfers of materials, and statistics of ...

This paper was prepared for ENS 215 Research & Writing

taught by Professor The growing conversation over global outsourcing of jobs has been a source of fury and heated debate in the national conversation, particularly in the past 15 years with rise of globalization. In 2004, then chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Gregory Mankiw made a public statement endorsing outsourcing as a likely plus for the economy, and characterizing in neutral terms (as quoted in Kierkegaard (2004): "Does it matter from an economic standpoint whether values of items produced abroad come on planes and ships or over fiber-optic cables? Well, no, the economics is basically the ...

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CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY

3.1 Introduction The chapter three is comprised of the research approach that will be applied in order to examine the factors of attractiveness of Kuwait shopping malls from the shoppers’ perceptions. In this manner, the current study aims to analyze the accessibility, parking, store tenant mix, atmosphere, orientation and infrastructure facilities of Kuwait's shopping centers and their relation to the shoppers’ perception of the mall's attractiveness. The current research will also enlighten the problem statement, research objectives and research questions. Afterwards, the research will incorporate the research design in accordance with its purpose and methodology. The structured ...

Healthcare professionals are responsible for not only facilitating recovery of a patient from health issues, but also preventing injuries to the patient during and after care. Despite the immense efforts by stakeholders in health to ensure safety of the patients under care, zero cases have not yet been achieved, as sentinel events are still a major challenge to patients and the healthcare industry. Park-Lee and Caffrey (2009) estimates that 9.2% of all people admitted in hospital acquire one or more nosocomial infections. The Joint Commission (2015) defines a sentinel event as an unexpected situation that leads to the physical ...

Special education for children with disabilities is a complex field of study. There are people on all parts of the disability spectrum that require assistance in terms of educational advancement; some people who receive special education are extraordinarily intelligent, while others are average, and some are intellectually disabled (Johnson & Kastner, 2005). Although sometimes associated only with individuals with intellectual disabilities, special education processes and facilities can often be made available to children and young adults with many different sets of needs (Turnbull et al., 2013; Murphy & Carbone, 2008). One of the most important facets of special education is that ...

A change which was introduced in my facility was clinical bedside handover between nurses. The Australian Commission on Safety & Quality in Health Care defined clinical handover as “the transfer of responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of care for a patient, or group on temporary or permanent basis” (quoted in Anderson, Malone, Shanahan, & Manning, 2015, p. 2). The change to bedside clinical handover occurred slowly over time, and may be described as evolutionary. There was a change agent that headed a team responsible for the change. The change agent and the team helped members of the staff ...

Introduction

The Queuing theory is the study of waiting lines and has many applications in the real world. Since Waiting lines are seen everywhere in day to day life and business, the theory has become an important part of operations research. Examples of waiting lines are queues at a fast food takeaway or cars waiting to be repaired or patients waiting their turn at a clinic. Analytical models of waiting lines can be used for ascertaining and evaluating the cost and effectiveness of the model used in a given situation or setting. The present paper illustrates one of the queuing ...

Abstract:

St. Elizabeth of Hungary School is a Catholic run academic institution established on September 12, 1958 in Texas. At its inception, the school had a population of 27 students. The teaching was done by Catholic nuns in portable buildings, with the use of traditional writing materials and implements. To transform an academic facility into a center of moral and educational excellence, this calls for skillful direction and management. Such management can only be realized through definite procedures and regulations that effectively steer conduct and safeguard the professional ethics. Subsequently, the school has a definite code of its practice; with ...

Introduction

Resorts constitute an inevitable segment of the tourism and hospitality industry. This paper will critically compare two resorts, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and the Mirage, taking their amenities and target demographic market into account.

Critical Comparison

The resorts taken for comparison are the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and The Mirage that are owned respectively by The Blackstone Group and The MGM Resorts International. Both these resorts are operating in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is located on the Las Vegas Strip and it has close proximity to the airport, Sands Expo Convention Center, Clark County Library, and ...

The university Starbucks is located on campus. It is accessible to students and faculty, but also individuals who are visiting the campus for tours and other general purposes. The physical position of the Starbucks is relatively central in relation to the rest of campus. It offers a positive location for students and faculty alike to visit it and take advantage of its facilities. Inside, it is spacious, featuring chair and tables for occupants to lounge at while waiting for drinks, or to do school work and chat. Large windows throughout the building allow for more natural light than synthetic ...

Introduction:

The Wounded Warrior Gym is a fitness center that is set to specialize in about ten physical fitness spheres that enhance its competitive edge across Virginia, namely precision, agility, strength, muscle power, coordination, vigor, flexibility, cardiovascular and respiratory resilience (Murphy, 2012). The facility is an affiliate of the CrossFit Inc., a consortium of over 13, 000 affiliated gyms which nearly half of them are located across the United States. The Wounded Warrior’s competitors’, such as the Fit Slim and Mayfair Fitness, branding strategy is significantly efficient, in clearly and consistently defining the organization and its products. As this ...

Introduction

When it comes to the renowned chemical organization globally, the name of BASF SE appears the mind. The head office of BASF SE is based in Germany and this term is known as Baden Aniline and Soda Facility. The organization in the culmination of 2009 had fifty-thousand workers in Germany and the entire workforce was one-hundred and ten thousand in the all-inclusive workplace. The purpose of this essay is to shade light on the conflicts of interest emerge amid multiple stakeholders at the workplace; after identifying conflicts, this essay suggests solutions to the probable disagreements that emerge.

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Introduction

Bousso, Poles and Cruz (2013) refer to a concept as an abstract image or a representation formulated in the mind. Therefore, it may mean one thing to one person and another thing to someone else. Concepts are important in the work of research in that a probe into their occurrence leads to the development and formulation of theories (Bousso, Poles, & Cruz, 2013). Thus, the development of theories in nursing practice and research is heavily dependent on the analysis of concepts; which are the structural elements of theory, which inform nursing practice and research (Bousso, Poles, & Cruz, 2013). Examples of ...

Public Announcement to the Press

A police officer should ensure that a press announcement is concise and as short as possible. Specifically, the police officer should communicate effectively in varying intensities. They should use accurate vocabulary, and the communication should be focused on particulars to avoid unnecessary embarrassments. Furthermore, an officer should be careful in their choice of words to avoid creating ambiguity. In most instances, ambiguous words send the wrong message to the media, and may result in misinformation of the public. Schmalleger (2012) suggests that a police officer’s facial expression should be consistent with the verbal message. The press quickly picks ...

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 ...

Term and Year

Nosocomial infections are among the most causes of infections on hospitals. In fact, nosocomial infects are the cause of some of most prevalent complications occurring to patients admitted in hospitals. Conservative estimates in the United States show that nosocomial infections are attributable to over two million infections in the country’s hospital. Estimates in the country further show that over ninety-thousand people die every year from nosocomial infections. In addition to the prevalence of the nosocomial infections and its effect on patient outcomes, there is also the aspect of the economic cost (Guggenbichler, Assadian, Boeswald & Kramer, 2011). Estimates from ...

Training Needs

This topic has a range of tools that used to analyze training needs. Training depends on the subject that helps in identifying that which is required by an individual, department and an organization in general. With minimized budget and the need for solutions that prove to be cost-effective, every organization is responsible for ensuring that the invested resources in training are directed to areas where training is needed, and a more profitable return on the investment is guaranteed. Analyzing what training requires is an important approach for effectiveness in any training programs or events (Noe, 2002). The topic calls ...

The cost of care has in recent years become a focal point along which the quality of care can be determined. Cost effectiveness is today a major strategy in the metrics of care quality and the effective utilization of resources and it is regarded as a defining patient outcome. While the quality of care has significantly improved in relation to the advanced technologies, it is also without doubt that the determination of costs and values need to be based on affordability of these services by the population (Mountford, p.520). This does not necessarily mean that the costs of care ...

An Assignment Submitted by

Background of the Community Health Needs Assessment The healthcare system has been a topic of heated debates among a great number of specialists, governmental officials, and the random citizens. Increased costs for healthcare services, deterioration of their quality, and the increase of the U.S. population are only some of the issues targeted in such discussions. It was clear that the healthcare system required reform as soon as possible. After a long time of development and endorsing the reform President Barack Obama introduced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010 that after numerous debates and protests was ...

AND THREATS (SWOT) -

OUR LADY OF KRISTIN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (OLKC) Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities And Threats (SWOT) - Our Lady of Kristin Community Hospital (OLKC) Introduction Using the SWOT analysis tool provides a framework for the potential of the Our Lady of Kristin Community Hospital (OLKC) as a promising new enterprise (Goodrich, 2015) and important for taking strategic management focus. Saint Theresa University Medical Center (STUMC) is a large academic medical facility in an urban area. Over the next year one of its main goals is to expand into the suburban community by opening a new community hospital, OLKC to further serve the ...

Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management (Benchmark Assessment)

Introduction Leadership is an art as well as a discipline that guides, motivates, directs and inspires an organization towards fulfillment. The nursing leadership, therefore, has much to do in today’s healthcare environment, that undergoes intense and continuous reforms. Gifted nurse leaders and managers strive hard to impart higher quality of life in patients, while accelerating the health care systems to inspire the next generation of leaders (Edmunds, n.d.). The Magnet Designation is an important step in achieving such competences among the nursing workforce. Magnet hospitals are hailed for their high quality care delivery and innovative nursing environment. The ...

Concept of organizational management

The four functions of management in healthcare can be described as the main activities that outlines the major duties of a manger in a given health organization. They can be categorized as planning, leading, controlling and organizing.

Planning

It is the process in which the management decides on where the healthcare facility should go, by outlining the steps that would make the facility reach there. Planning is considered a common model in healthcare management because it allows the managers to first know the challenges that are affecting the healthcare facility. Planning requires the top management to make future predictions on ...

Introduction

It goes without saying that during the last decades a great number of countries face a growing number of diseases, which noticeably affect our planet’s population. The main danger is posed by the previously unknown viruses or mutated forms of familiar diseases. Obviously, treating such serious illnesses require highly qualified staff, modern equipment and implementing of information technologies in healthcare projects. Fulfilling of all these conditions on a regular basis in health care organizations will surely make diagnostics and treatment of a great number of illnesses safer and faster, reducing medical errors. Considering all these reasons, in the ...

1. Abstract The emergence of home healthcare as an industry could be attributed to the growth of modern communication technology. As the term indicates, the concept refers to patients’ scope for getting quality care within their own comfort zone. Healthcare organizations today strive to meet customer requirements in this regard considering the growing completion and changing customer choices alike. Hence, innovations are likely that can enhance the quality of overall care provided. This paper will closely examine the implementation of home healthcare applications by Florida hospital. This will also give specific focus to the aspects like organization information, information ...

Part A

Since my arrival in the United States from Nepal in (Insert year here), I have worked very hard to overcome the cultural and language barriers that initially confronted our family. Due to financial difficulties and my mother’s illness, it became necessary for me to leave high school and study independently at home in order to provide care for my mother. I found that the independent study was not challenging enough so I undertook extra classes at a local college so that I did not fall behind academically. As my mother’s health improved I was able to commence ...

Response to Q1a

Strategy 1: Aggressive. As per strategy 1, the Total funds requirements are to be divided into permanent and seasonal requirements based on the premise that permanent requirements are essential and the seasonal requirements vary and hence the permanent requirements need to be allocated out of the total monthly requirements based on Polly’s assessment of short term and long term average monthly requirements as shown below. Strategy 2: Conservative. For Strategy 2, the conservative funding requires Polly to allocate the whole amount to Permanent requirements with long term funds equal to $1,500,000 and the seasonal requirements to ...

ASSIGNMENT 01 (UNIQUE NUMBER: 863996)

1. If you want to know whether the university has received your assignment, you must contact 1 your lecturer 2 assignment department 3 the secretary 4 student registration department 2. The first assignment is important because it 1 gives you entry into the examination 2 contributes to your year mark 3 indicates important areas to study for the exam 4 enables the university to keep track of you

Choose the appropriate combination (questions 3-6)

3 Thevideo conference is important because a you will meet the lecturer b you will meet your fellow students c it is compulsory d the examination demarcation will be discussed e ...

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Children in Prison

In the definition given by the General Medical Council (2016), the term “children” refers to “younger minors who do not have the maturity or understanding to make important decisions for themselves.” In the same report, the term “young people” is used for individuals who are “older or more experienced children and are more likely to be able to make decisions for themselves.” The law holds that when an individual reaches the age of 16, adolescents have the ability to render decisions regarding their respective welfare and status, though there are differences with regards to legal investigations ...

Management Summary

Baptist health Orthopedic works towards diagnosing and treating various disorders, musculoskeletal injuries using its advanced techniques and a team of medical professionals across the hospital networks of Orthopedics. The hospital management is dedicated to helping people to keep fit so as to be active and free of any injuries whatsoever during their lifetime. To manage a comprehensive health care to their esteemed clients, the hospital has a team of specialists that can address various sorts of health conditions like injuries, disturbance, tumors and infections among others (Considering a provider, 2015). The hospital has proved to be a leading institution ...

Introduction

My name is ENTER NAME. The school that I will be representing is Georgia State University (Not to be confused with the University of Georgia Bulldogs). Georgia State University—also referred to as Georgia State or State—is public commuter school located in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The university was founded in 1913 initially as a night school but grew to a full-time university in the later 1940s. State is a part of the University System of Georgia's four research universities and has over 32,000 undergraduate and graduate students as of fall 2015 (Georgia State University: ...

Business Decision-making Plan:

Introduction: Decision making is an important aspect toward the survival and success of any business. Decisions that are entrenched on a substantial body of facts and logical reasoning can steer the company into long-lasting prosperity (Walden, 2014). However, decisions that are made based on inadequate logic, emotionalism, and imperfect information can drastically bring the business down and fail in its operation. Bad decisions have been the prime contributors to the decline and fall of vast, capital-intensive companies over time. All entrepreneurs realize the painful demand and necessity of choice, which is often inevitable.

In the management of the Newman ...

The preceding report has yielded the following findings:

Asda is one of the largest retailers in the British market. Asda is willing to liquidate its flaws in order to ensure customer satisfaction and increase consumer base connection to the brand. Improvements manifest themselves through an increase in the number of stores and the enhancement of the quality of services provided, including the online ordering of home delivery, email sending, and club cards.

Improvements are expected to convert customer satisfaction into stable repurchase behavior.

Asda is taking great pains to generate new ideas stimulating the happiness of consumers following their purchase experience. With readiness to change and openness to new ideas in mind, the company will most likely be ...

The procedure of sports facility management is a tedious and lengthy subject. A proper understanding of the details of sports facility management can deliver an enjoyable experience to the managers. Facilities management is not limited to designing, planning, leasing, product management, space planning, capital management, property management, construction management, and real estate planning, acquisition and disposal. It is a much broader concept than the activities mentioned above. A sports facility manager must understand these disciplines to conduct the event in a successful manner. The essay deals with the role of a facility manager, the health, and safety legislation that ...

The treatment, generation, storage, transportation and disposal of hazardous and solid waste are regulated by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is given the authority to conduct evaluation and compliance inspections of facilities producing hazardous materials and waste under RCRA subtitle C-section 3007. The EPA inspector ensures that firm producing hazardous waste material is regulating, and ensuring compliance with the regulations of RCRA. The EPA inspector before coming to the site visit normally reviews the facility records and files. On visiting the site, the inspector asks for the firm’s environmental coordinator or person ...

Factors contributing to Nurse Shortage and Nursing Turnover

The insufficient number of faculties, classroom spaces, sites for clinical practice, budget constraints, and clinical preceptors are the main contributing factors that have a put a bottleneck on the number of baccalaureate applicants to nursing schools (American Association of Colleges and Nursing 2014). Data retrieved from a survey by the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses conducted by the federal Division of Nursing indicated that that the current average RN population stands at 47 years of age (American Association of Colleges and Nursing 2014). This comprehension is a direct contributor to the increasing nursing shortage. The fact that the ...

Part one

Charlotte Hotel has a mission of improving the value of its shareholders by adjusting the net income. Similarly, the hotel also focuses on the revenue increase in different departments such as rooms, food and beverage among others. Concerning marketing and advertisement, Charlotte is portraying good performance. Therefore, the management has decided to maintain their advertising methods for the next coming years. However, the management has maintained the current facilities to manage the operations and maintenance of the hotel. Charlotte hotel also has a mission of exceeding the expectation of its guests by inspiring and rewarding its associates, and this ...

Money and Payment System

The cashless society means that the normal course of the transaction of the cash is done with the help of electronic methods such as credit cards, PayPal and other electronic wallets available today. The improvements in the technology are increasing the use of electronic cash as compared to the use of actual cash or bank check. The main advantage of using the electronic way of transferring the cash is that it is normally used by the customers who are making transaction for smaller transactions such as buying grocery, paying the online fee and utility bills. These consumers can avail ...

Police corruption is a huge issue that has been happening around the world. Police have contaminated and planted evidence in the past to ensure a conviction of an innocent person. This is not how police are supposed to conduct themselves, and allegations of corruption in the force are taken seriously. Over the years many offenders who were incarcerated for a crime that they had not committed have been set free, but there are many more who are still waiting for evidence to prove innocent. Once case that has been in the national spotlight is a police corruption case that ...

Letter to a Healthcare Organization

I am writing in regard to a family that has devoted their life to the healthcare industry and is now in need of assistance. The mother, Dianna, is a nurse at a long time care facility. As you know, this is a helping profession and, while her devotion to the job is top notch, the pay is not. On top of this, she has roughly $47,000 in outstanding student loan debt. At the same time, Dianna and her husband have been working hard to provide their five children with educational opportunities that they were not afforded early in ...

Application of Legal and Best Practice Procedures for Greater Health and Safety in Sports Facility Operation: A Case Study of the Nottingham University Sports Centre Application of Legal and Best Practice Procedures for Greater Health and Safety in Sports Facility Operation: A Case Study of the Nottingham University Sports Centre

Introduction

A sports facility is a work place with highest potential risk of accidents and disastrous incidences. This is owing to the vast number of physical transactions that take place which though regulated by rules of the games or sport being played are still at risk of human errors of ...

Major sports facility disasters such as the Hillsborough Stadium, the Heysel Stadium and terror activities and threats such as the one witnessed during the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 involving the Black September have created the need to ensure heightened safety and security in major sports and recreation facilities globally and England in particular. Sports facilities operations management has therefore become an important area of study and interest among scholars. According to Schwarz, Hall and Shibli (2010), facility management is refers to the care and maintenance of non-profit and commercial buildings such as sports facilities and this involves heating, ...

Acknowledgement

I would like to give my heartfelt appreciation to the lecturer of the course for the time and commitment that he provided towards making us all round in the hospitality sector. They assisted me throughout my course. In addition, I would like to thank Ms Susan, the assistant manager of Healthy Life Spa in Koh Wood for allowing me to carry out the research at their facility. She helped me with the correct information as well as the motivation to carry out the research. Moreover, I would thank my family for supporting me throughout my research. Their commitment cannot ...

Management of a sports facility is often meant to help in precautious handling and preparedness for disasters that can arise during the football games. The World over, many notable disasters have hit football stadia that acted as an eye opener to the football governing body to enact appropriate legislation that will prevent any element of risk to the fans (Percio 2015, p.223–235). In the UK, there are infamous disasters that hit the game of football leading to loss of lives and numerous injuries to the victims. One of such incidences was the Hillsborough disaster that struck on 15th ...

I interviewed Hannah, a Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), to help attain the objectives of this assignment. Hannah (not her real name) is an APN with both BSN and MSN qualifications. As a CNO, Hannah’s position involves the cooperate linkage of her hospital’s CEO to a range of issues including servicing, policy making, administration, and budgeting. Her ten years of experience also sees her offer the leadership and strategic direction needed for all nursing care at the facility. The following is a further summary of our interview. First, Hannah reported that the primary difference between a nursing leader ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

According to cross-sectional studies reported in the article, “Nursing Staff and Inpatient Mortality Rates,” there is a direct correlation between low staff levels concerning registered nurses and increased patient mortality . The article does an in-depth analysis of this study, assessing criticism of the results, while using a sufficient method to secure findings to support the asserted correlation. The method was to observe the affect staff had on inpatient care, specifically mortality rate. Target staffing was considered eight hours. Anything more was considered low, because it meant there were not enough nurses to meet demands. The staff would be considered ...