Essays on Medical Center

Geisinger Health System is a non-profit organization that focused on the delivery of high-quality, innovative health care products to 2.6 million people living in Pennsylvania. The initial goal of the project is to increase performance by improving the quality of the products and services as well as the satisfaction of the patients by redesigning the delivery of care. The main idea was redesigning care processes in a package-priced portfolio of services called ProvenCare. As a result of studies and innovative practices, which included changes in coordination, administration and management, Geisinger Health System reached significant success. The system invested huge ...

Management of Power

Introduction 3

Organizational Structure Influences 4-5 Conclusion 5-6

References 7

Management of Power As the nurse executive at St Louis Medical Center, it will be important to identify and utilize the leadership theories relevant to management of power in this professional capacity. Management of power is critical in creating work environments that are conducive for nurses to provide quality patient care. In a fast evolving healthcare sector, there is a growing need for nurse leaders to ensure their leadership provides the motivation and inspiration needed to continuously improve services. Based on this observation, the current paper seeks to identify and articulate ...

Role of Human Resource in implementing Vision/Mission Statement

Human Resource (HR) is an important aspect of management. It refers to the human capital that is at the disposal of the organization. It encompasses all the activities that concern employees in a firm. It is crucial to the organization because it is known by its employees. A vision statement of a company shows the road taken by it to achieve the organizational objectives. On the other hand, a mission statement is a summary of the value of an organization. Both these statements are forward looking in that they describe a future event in the present. The Mission Statement ...

Introduction

Healthcare is one of the pillars of the society. In fact, in a community where the people receive quality and affordable care, the population is productive and healthy. Notably, health care facilities are located all over the country, and there are different kinds of healthcare centers, depending on the needs of the community around and the specifications of the kind of services that need to be offered at the facility. Some hospitals deal with specific cases. For instance, one may find a hospital that only specializes in children's issues or heart complications. As a matter of fact, such hospitals ...

Public Health Workforce

Public Health Workforce The workforce in healthcare includes not only the medical staff as it is also viewed as an industry that provides a wide variety of jobs. On the other hand, many health care workers find jobs using different employment sites. The Internet offers various opportunities for health care workers to win a job, in which their qualifications fit in. One of the sites that frequently offers health care-related jobs is the Public Health Online site, which not only attract public health professionals, but also other potential individuals that qualify in various public health careers (Public Health Online, ...

Introduction to the Community:

Community health is a critical aspect of modern day care and the need to focus on a community as the client is one of the roles of the nurses. It provides for an assessment of the overall health needs of a community based on the identification that communities or societies share behaviors and values across food choices, behaviors and preferences all that have a direct influence on the health depicted by the community in question (Nies & McEwen, 2015). The focus of this paper is on the assessment of the Brooklyn New York 11234 community as our target community which ...

American nurses are guided by a code of ethics that has nine provisions. The first provision emphasizes on compassion by the nurse in carrying out their duty. The second is a nurse's commitment to serving the patient. Third in this code of ethics is the requirement that a nurse not only advocates for the patient’s health but goes further to protect it. The same provision points out the nurse’s duty to safeguard the patient’s rights. The fourth provision gives nurses authority and accountability for their practice, which makes them responsible for making the right decision in ...

Executive Summary

The document is a recompilation of information about the current status of a medical facility located in Bayonne, New Jersey owned by a multinational company located in the United Kingdom. Two analysts of the organization study the current status of the medical facility that is the current operations of the company, its economic performance and the trends of the business in the future. The medical facility has technology needs that are necessary for its normal operations. The considered medical facility executed its last technological overhauling in 2004, but the majority of the hospital equipment is from 1999 with a ...

Pattern of Problems with the U.S. Department of Veterans Administration Health Care System

Abstract The United States Department of Veteran Affairs has established 151 hospitals, 820 community-based outpatient clinics, and 56 regional offices. In addition, it established about 300 well-established veteran care centers in the United States in 2013. It was started to cater to the medical needs of veterans and their families that is wives and children after the World War 1. The federal government established the first residential medical center in 1811 but started no national efforts that were aimed at helping the veterans. The committee is ...

The world is rapidly changing and advancing in terms of science and technology. It has become extremely difficult to escape the presence of technology, either at the individual or organizational level. Some of the key technological changes include the internet, smart phones, and the use of computers. Many people and organization are now finding themselves in a situation where they cannot exist without technology, and the health organizations are not left behind, as they are rapidly adopting health care informatics into their systems. The essay, therefore, focuses on a case where a larger medical center is rapidly introducing computer ...

Capstone Project of a Community Surveillance System in Kentucky: Evaluation of the Community Surveillance System and the HealthSIS system (Emergint technology Inc.) used in the Northern Kentucky Health Department and St. Elizabeth Hospital

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Surveillance Systems Overview 5 Disease Surveillance: Responsibilities and Procedures . 6 Project Goals .. 8 Emergint, Inc. (HealthSIS) .. 9 Monthly Log .. 11 Emergent: Health Department and St. Elizabeth Interface .. 12

Performance Issues at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital 13

Questions Regarding Performance Issues at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital . 14

Performance Issues at the Kentucky Department of Health 15

Possible Solutions for Performance Issues .. 16

Using DCTS Computer Software 18

Conclusion and Recommendations .. 19

Works Cited 21

Appendix A .. 22 Abstract The surveillance systems for hospitals are crucial ...

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The United States Department of Veteran Affairs is grouped among the largest executive departments in the country. The committee is charged with the responsibilities of providing medical care to veterans and their families and offering financial support. Veteran’s health issues include; substance use disorder, mental health disorders, stress, and brain injury among others. Veteran health problem is much higher compared to the private health concerns. However, as the steady affair department advances, different issues have evolved, which have caused adverse effects on the veterans. The primary problems affecting veteran affairs include; increased wait times for patients, ...

Introduction

Change is a perpetual in today’s fast paced world. What is modern today becomes obsolete tomorrow. New technologies mean a change in the way on thinks, learns and gets his information or uses it. Any organization may feel the challenges brought about by those new technologies and why they need to implement them within their culture. Any change within or outside an institution is sure to incite mixed reception and perception among its members and clients. The essay applies a change theory to an organizational-based on Kotter’s change model and plans a change process. The change process ...

Thesis

Improved Detection and Characterization of Obscured Central Gland Tumors of the Prostate:

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Associate Professor of Radiology and

Director of Bioimaging Science Second Reader Kevin Thomas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Bioimaging and Health Emergency

DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this work to my patient spouse Landry, my wonderful children Charlie and Phoenix, and my dog Armani. (Delete this page if you don't need it. Be sure to delete all the text on the page, and the page break after it, not the section break before it. To see the section and page breaks, ...

This paper reviews the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) position as shown on Life Long Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, and Mayo Clinic healthcare organizations. The paper’s main aim is to compare employee benefits and compensation plans from all three sites. In doing so, the paper will look into the similarities and differences existing in the three benefits and compensation packages. Life Long Medical Center is a California-based organization that offers healthcare and social services to its target population. Part of Life Long’s benefit plan for its employees include the following elements. First, Life Long treats CNSs as full-time ...

1. Compare Kendall Regional Medical Center data and rankings with Lower keys medical center and the state or national averages in the category of patient experiences, and timely and effective care. While comparing the patient survey summary star rating of Kendall Regional Medical Center with that of Lower Keys Medical Center, it seems that both the hospital have achieved two-star rating out of five. When 73% patients of Kendall reported that their nurses had ‘always’ communicated well, the same thing was reported by 71% of Lower Keys’ patients (Kendall, Hospital compare). Compared to the state average (76%) and national ...

The institutional affiliation

MEMORANDUM INTRODUCTION Medical marketing has grown an increasingly complicated cause of the fast developing business of healthcare organizations. The old model of focusing on just patients and physicians stopped working. So, it has become incredibly important for doctors to market their medical practices in order to build their own brand, gain new patients and improve business from the current ones. Nowadays, marketing teams need to broaden their consideration horizons and focus on the following criteria: Patients, Physicians, Professional Healthcare Administrators, Payers and Policy Makers (Mycek, 2015). The Texas Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic and New York-Presbyterian Hospital will be analyzed ...

Therapeutic play for in center Dialysis Patients

The healthcare industry is dynamic, and it calls for continuous improvement in order to provide relevant care services to the general population. Quality improvement is essential in healthcare setting, as it ensures that the patient not only receive relevant care services, but also high quality services. My place of work has a significantly high number of inpatients receiving dialysis services. The patients are at a risk of becoming depressed as a result of the intensive treatment. Therefore, a therapeutic play program for the patients is recommended to help the patients and their families cope with the treatment.

The Purpose of the Program

The purpose ...

The five supplements that will be discussed include garcinia cambogia, l-carnitine, coenzyme q10, Slimquick, and Hydroxycut. Study results on each supplement will be briefly examined. In addition, an analysis of why consumers are using each supplement will be detailed. Garcinia Cambogia: This supplement is marketed towards individuals interested in weight loss. Studies claim that its main ingredient, hydoxycitric acid, works by increasing a person’s metabolic rate and reducing a person’s appetite (WebMD). The results of scientific experiments are mixed. Weight loss with the supplement versus weight loss without it was not significant. However, the supplement did lower ...

Introduction

Developing a vision statement is probably one of the most important things an organization can do, right after identifying a philosophy that is true for all the organization's members. This statement of philosophy is reached by consensus, and is derived from individual ideas about nursing philosophy in general and how the individual perceives the organization and what is possible. A vision statement differs from a mission statement, a values statement, and statements in philosophy in several critical ways. A mission statement refers to the external (not individual) work that an organization does and relates that work to the larger ...

National Safety Goals and National Quality Improvement Goals where Union Medical Center in Union, South Carolina and Mary Black Hospital in Spartanburg, South Carolina health facilities need to be improved as follows. Firstly, the facilities need to improve on implementing an evidence-based application to avert health care-associated infectivity that arises from multi-drug-resistant organisms (Gaboury, M. Lapierre, Boon, & Moher, 2010). Secondly, the facilities need to make perfect and certain that alarms on medical equipment are heard and answered to on time. The improvement will ensure that patients do not have to wait for too long before their caregivers respond to ...

Introduction

Marketing communication is the integral part of the brand strategy of an organization and can enable the firm to acquire competitive positions. This case describes how to competitive hospitals Brianwood and Crestview operating in the same locality compete against each other. Crestview has made a smart marketing communication move by acquiring two billboards near Brianwood. The pros and cons from the perspective of Crestview Hospital of the placement of its new billboard directly adjacent to Brianwood Medical Center Crestview Hospital will gain a lot of publicity by placing its new billboard directly adjacent to Brianwood Medical Center as it ...

Importance of NSQI Measures

I would advise that NSQI measures should be compulsorily included in a Quality Improvement program to achieve enhanced outcomes. Nursing-sensitive indicators assist healthcare facilities to form a great understanding of the relationship between patient outcomes and the quality of nursing care they provide. In other words, nursing-sensitive indicators are really helpful for a facility to identify the areas of improvement, which is inevitable for designing and implementing a Quality Improvement program effectively. In addition, nursing-sensitive indicators are beneficial to justify the need for increased nursing staff, which is also an integral part of a Quality Improvement program. These indicators ...

‘Culture of safety’ at Kendall Regional Medical Center

While analyzing the efficiency of Kendall Regional Medical Center based on how well it has accomplished a ‘culture of safety’ that focuses on addressing systemic/process rather than individual errors, it seems that the organization deserves B grade. It is identified that recently the organization has taken a number of initiatives to improve its process efficiency. The major ongoing initiatives include preventing blood clots in patient’s legs following a surgery, achieving time-oriented emergency care, enhancing care competencies through staff training programs. These initiatives would assist Kendall Regional Medical Center to establish a culture of safety in the organization and ...

BBA

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Health Science Department; Master of Science in Health Administration and Leadership    

Winter 2016

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Acknowledgements

This project paper demonstrates the integration of the knowledge I acquired from the courses in Master of Health Administration and Leadership Program and the collaborative application with this project’s community partner, MidMichigan Health to improve the community health in Gratiot County, Michigan. I am thankful for getting this valuable opportunity to work with a large healthcare organization. First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents who worked really hard to financially and emotionally support me in pursuing further education overseas. They comfort me every ...

Patients’ Understanding

Patients today are well conversant with the complexities of healthcare delivery. Hence, they are able to comment on ‘quality’ in a meaningful way. Modern people are increasingly health-conscious and they take constant efforts to improve their understanding/knowledge in healthcare delivery. In addition, the growing popularity of the internet and smartphone technologies makes healthcare information readily accessible to patients, who spend a fair amount of time browsing health-knowledge providing websites. In addition, today many of the healthcare journals are openly available to people, and it assists patients to be informed of the complexities developing in the landscape of healthcare delivery.

Kendal Regional Medical Center’s Quality Improvement Program

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On behalf of the administration and nursing staff at [Name-Medical Center], we are pleased to welcome you as a member of our progressive and innovative healthcare team. We are dedicated to providing the best possible care to those seeking treatment at [Name-Medical Center]. The well-being and health of our clients is of the utmost importance. It is for this reason that the following policies have been included in this Welcome Manual, and can be found in the Policies and Procedures Manual, as well. Preventing the risk of harm or detriment to the patient is paramount. Avoiding errors when administering ...

The Maimonides Medical Center has been in operation for 70 years now since 1947. It is still right to say that the hospital has been operational for over 70 years before it finally changed names to Maimonides Medical Center. The institution was first established in 1911 as a dispensary known as the New Utrecht. In 1919, several other dispensaries combined with Utrecht forming the Israel Hospital of Brooklyn. The United Israel Zion Hospital was later on formed in 1920 when the Israel Hospital of Brooklyn merged with the Zion Hospital. In 1947, the hospital merged with Beth Moses Hospital ...

Market Research and Segmentation

Overall health status of seniors Getting older brings health challenges to seniors in the community. The implication of such challenges is that health practitioners need to take actions that make them aware of the chronic conditions while going ahead to look for ways to enhance the well-being of the seniors in the community. The health status of the seniors is relatively weak because of their old age such that they have to be managed through being physically active and eating healthy foods that have low fat and no sugar.

Unique illnesses suffered by seniors

Some of the unique illnesses that face the seniors include ...

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the bruising of the brain due to an impact received on the head. The brain injury can be termed as primary if its caused directly by the impact blow or secondary if its caused by reaction processes such as swelling due to inflammation. Common types TBI include hematomas, contusions, diffuse axonal injury (DAI), concussion, and coup/contrecoup lesions. The type of injuries are characterized by symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, amnesia, loss of consciousness, going into a vegetative state or a coma or death in extreme cases. There is no clearly defined body of knowledge ...

Dear Journal,

Today, I am meeting with my supervisor to go over my memorandum form and expectations from him and myself. Initially, I was trying to intern at either the Schofield Barracks Health Clinic or Tripler Army Medical Center. The positions that we were discussing was assisting Group Practice Managers, Health System Specialist, or anyone whom were considered Health Care Administrators. The process to communicate with them and to have my orientation and required documents completed and turned into the Red Cross, took approximately 3 weeks. When I was thinking I was going to start immediately after my requirements were taken ...

Malpractice is defined as a wrongdoing by an expert of a particular profession, for example, a doctor, lawyer, an accountant or a dentist. Malpractice and negligence lawsuits in the United States are quite common. Medical malpractice is described as any act or omission by a medical professional such as a doctor, nurse, physician or technician that causes harm, injury or death to the patient at the course of treatment. Simply put, a medical malpractice occurs when a medical professional for example a nurse or a doctor performs or fails to perform an action that in itself causes injury to ...

Introduction

Recently, worldwide obesity prevalence has been raised rapidly and nearly doubled between 1980 and 2014, however in 2014 more than a half a billion of adult (18 years and older) were obese (11% men and 15% women) (WHO, 2014). Obesity and overweight are defined as excess body fat accumulation that leads to health risks and comorbidities. Adult weight can be classified based on the Body Mass Index. Hence, an individual having a BMI equal to or more than 25 is regarded as being overweight, while a person with a BMI equal to or more than 30 is considered obese ( ...

Nursing Class Name

Introduction The importance of a successful research summary lies in attaining a balanced study appraisal. Summaries allow readers to explore the strengths and weaknesses of techniques applied as well as the paper’s applicability to clinical settings. This paper is a summary of Jill Cox’s (2011) study on the predictors of Pressure Ulcers (PU) in adult patients under critical care. It proves that the author provides content that fits the logic and objectivity of scientific inquiry in PU research.

Background

Ingham-Broomfield (2009) states that a good study contains a precise background information that is precise in addressing its basic ...

The passing of the new law, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has provided new opportunities and direction for the troubled healthcare industry. In this instance, the healthcare industry has been plagued by the continuous increase in healthcare costs while at the same time, affected the quality of healthcare offered to individuals (Emanuel, 2015). The most vulnerable groups in the society comprised of the elderly and the poor, are the most affected by these adversities. Therefore, the PPACA has been seen as the right step in the right direction in the industry. In this instance, the provisions as ...

Microbe-Host Analysis

Microbe-Host Analysis

Introduction

It is unknown how long Staphylococcus Aureus (S. Aureus or staph) has been on this planet. We have been too busy trying to conquer all of successful attempts that it has made to evade our weapons against to establish an intricate epidemiologic profile of it. We do know when it was discovered to be a harmful bacteria, though. One of the primary toxins of staph, PVL, was first discovered by an assistant in Belgium by the name of H. van de Velde in 1894. He was taking care of some rabbits in a laboratory and noticed a ...

Public Relations has undergone a sea change following the rapid advance in internet technologies and the advent of social media applications. It has now become the art of not just providing information but truly creating interactive relationships with the public. A PR professional today must embrace the Web in order to reach the people they want to reach. In a way social media has put the public back into Public Relations . Twitter, the microblogging tool, is fast becoming the choice of most companies to provide real time engagement with their customers. Possibly the best example is Starbucks (https://twitter.com/Starbucks) which ...

Introduction

Healthcare organizations in the United States strive to achieve quality in every area of operations to meet the National Quality Improvement Goals. An analysis of different hospitals demonstrates how each tries to maintain quality by developing different strategies and creating new departments to help serve the community effectively. The report shows a comparison between two hospitals located in Texas State, Las Colinas Medical Center and Amarillo VA Health Care System. The comparison analyzes the performance of each hospital regarding fulfilling National Quality Improvement Goals.

Quality awards received by each hospital

Las Colinas Medical Center The hospital received the Top Performer on Key Quality Measures Award ...

Rehabilitation for patients with hip replacements starts prior to surgery. Care team trains the patient to evade hip dislocation, explains the basics of relearning how to safely and effectively walk once again, and shows exercises that are necessary to perform after surgery. Rehabilitation team members devise a personalized plan for the patient. They take into consideration any health problems which might negatively impact the individual’s recovery. As a rule, the patient stays in the hospital up to three or four days, although discharge depends on how fast the patient progresses. Generally, by the third day after surgery, patients ...

Medical service of the United States is the only one of the leading industrial powers, which has not accepted compulsory health insurance system. About 108 million of Americans cannot afford the visit the dentist. At 45 million Americans have no medical insurance, among them 10 million are children (The Telegraph, 2010). A disease is a direct path to devastation for many Americans. Stunning cost of treatment is partly explained by the fact that it incorporated the cost of potential litigation. If, for example, a defective baby is born, the obstetrician faces the possibility of the court, which resulted in ...

A Case Study of Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Introduction and Background The American workforce has gone through a series of changes since the 21st century as the cultural composition changes over and over. Through research was done, it has been revealed that the women labor force in the Army medical center has continuously increased as since 1990 according to the case study. Likewise, the composition of the Asians, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders and Alaskan Americans have taken the same trend of increasing in this field thus contributing to an increasing cultural diversified workforce in the medical center. As such, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) is ...

Process of Care

Introduction Process care measures are the evidence-based practices which represents the health care system’s effort to systemize the improvement of giving process care to the patients (Burton, n.d.). These practices are often guided by using evidence-based clinical guidelines and these may also vary in strength. Performance involved in much process care may fail to have a measurement of 100 percent and this may not be entirely because of the failure to act in accordance to the guidelines. Some patients may experience contradictions to the treatment and not all of these contradictions are reflected as exclusions in the process ...

Introduction

Nurses involvement in smoking cessation programs helps increase the success rate for these programs Smoking in Veterans is a major health issue with up to 28.2%of veterans being active smokers a figure that is significantly higher than the smoking rates within the general population

For Veterans, the smoking cessation programs need be tailored to the age, health history and mental status

The Health People 2020 regards tobacco use as a leading health indicator and with prolonged use it is regarded as a maker for lung cancer or other chronic illnesses

Smoking rates have been constant even at tike when smoking cessation techniques and programs have significantly advanced

Discussion The training and education of nurses on smoking cessation programs and interventions can help reduce the rates of smoking or improve the success rate ...

Resume of

Resume Summary Statement (Abstract) Highly certified, trained, and eligible Registered Nurse with over half a dozen years of healthcare experience. Versatile, bilingual professional with nursing managerial and administrative experience ranging in size from private proprietorship to high profile medical center employment. Excellent transformative ability to manage, supervise, and lead co-professionals and other staff while ensuring utmost healthcare provision to meet patients’ personalized human care needs.

Objective

My goal is to contribute to scientific advances that maximize human being body’s potential to live a full and productive life through equity in the delivery of health care services, touch of care, ...

extracted from their body?

Introduction

One of the toughest and not resolved legal and ethical issues in the field of patent law is thought to be the establishment of ‘the optimal means of distribution among biomedical researchers and their research participants of any rights in commercial products and revenues derived from human tissue’ (Gitter p.261). In consists in the fact whether a patient is granted a property right to a cell-line, particularly tissue, extracted from his body. Tissue itself is defined as ‘a collection of cells of similar structure organized to carry out one or more particular functions’ (Gitter p. ...

Virginia Mason Medical Center: Kaplan’s Role and Learnings from Toyota

Virginia Mason Medical Center: Kaplan’s Role and Learnings from Toyota

Introduction

Virginia Mason was founded on 1920, when two physicians decided on a new medical practice approach, sharing one vision, “A single place where patients could receive comprehensive care for virtually any medical problem”.

Over the course of successive decades, practice grew potentially as it evolved to a world class-medical facility. On the tip of twentieth century, the Virginia Mason, being a nonprofit organization (reorganized from partnership), with a 336-bed care hospital and 400 physicians and multiple clinics located throughout the region, was a facing an alarming problem for ...

Section I Analysis of Statement of Operations

What is happening with the revenue? There is not enough historical data to assess whether the revenue’s performance is good or bad. But if looking at how it affects income, the YTD shows that revenue is enough to cover allowances for doubtful accounts and operating expenses while the current month reported a net loss. As pointed out in the difficulties experienced by the hospital, it may be the increasing competition and excessive staff overtime, reflected in dwindling revenue (as % shows approximately 7% decline) and almost 5% addition in contractual allowances and salaries and wages.

What are allowances? Should these ever be a positive number? Why?

According to Fingers (2010), ...

Literature Review

A pressure ulcer or a hospital acquired ulcer is one of the rising concern in healthcare. It is a condition characterized by damage in the skin or the underlying tissue due to unwanted pressure, friction, or moisture applied on the skin. More commonly, patients get this health condition when they are unable to move, when they have delicate and brittle skin while hospitalized, or when certain equipment is used on them making them more susceptible to pressure ulcer . A hospital acquired pressure ulcer is sometimes referred as bedsore in layman’s term. Pressure ulcer became a major concern in ...

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 ...

The intent of this paper is to use community assessment tactics to identify community health matters and to associate these matters with community health nursing problems as well as attempt to provide ways that these problems can be dealt with and eventually eliminated or reduced significantly. In particular, it will address the prevalence obesity among Hispanics in the Bronx compared to the other states in New York and nationwide (Nelson & Doyle, 2013). It will also evaluate the preventive measures that can be taken to address this problem from a community health nursing perspective. The Norwood is a community that ...

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

BODY SYSTEMS AND DISEASES GRID

INSTITUTUIONAL AFFILIATION The purpose of this paper is to identify the major systems of the human body which, include the Nervous System, the Cardiovascular System, the Endocrine System, the Respiratory System, the Musculoskeletal System, and the Lymphatic System. The organs for each specific system will be identified, a brief explanation of each bodily function will be provided, and major diseases afflicting the system will be discussed.

Taylor (n.d.) clarifies that the sensory system comprises of the cerebrum, spinal line, tangible organs, and the majority of the nerves that associate these organs with whatever remains of the body. Together, these ...

COVER LETTER

E-MAIL HR MANAGER, Westfield memorial hospital 189 E Main Street,

Westfield, NY 14787

(716) 326-4921

RE: APPLICATION FOR NURSE MANAGER POSITION

Being a registered nurse specialized in medical surgery and patient care; and having worked at Maimonides Medical center, Brooklyn NY under different capacities for more than ten years, I am well prepared to join your institution and make positive changes in the leadership and managerial spheres. I am comfortable working both independently and in teams in making sure that quality care is provided to patients, physicians and family members. My specific qualifications for this position are; Experienced in working as a team player in an inter-culturally diverse ...

Introduction

When calamity strikes, people usually rely on hospitals and other health facilities to serve as a place of refuge. However, in some cases, like what happened in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans killing hundreds of people and total damages amounting to billions of dollars. Almost 80% of the New Orleans were covered with flood, making it the largest residential disaster in the history of the United States.

Reflections from the Book “Five Days at Memorial”

Prologue After reading the prologue of the book, several questions race through my mind. Among those questions include the decision that prompted doctors to evacuate the very sick patients last ...

Information systems security survey

The University of Nebraska, Medical Center is a public university in the state of Nebraska that offers training and research on health care programs. This is the only public academic institution that deals with health sciences in Nebraska. The motivation of the institution is to offer training for healthcare staff so that they are able to handle the challenges posed by today’s healthcare staff. The hospital also has the mission to provide solutions for diseases that are devastating to the public. They strive to offer services to the state and to the general public through outreach programs that are ...

1. Context: hospital/clinic name, details The article entitled “Kansas Hospital’s Failed EMR Project Shows Peril of Vendor Relations Gone Bad” written by Joel Schectman and published online in the CIO Journal presented issues relative to EMR implementation in Girard Medical Center, reportedly a hospital in Kansas. According to Schectman, the hospital planned to implement the EMR in 2010 and contracted the Cerner Corporation in September that year. It was acknowledged to supposedly be one of the biggest vendors of electronic medical records . However, the article revealed that the hospital was apparently alleging that the failure in successfully implementing ...

Continuous Improvement Projects in Hospitals: A Systematic Literature Review

The continuous improvement projects i.e., CIP, are the short term systematic mechanisms based on team work in order to reduce the variations and eliminate the waste from the systems and processes without any investment of capital in the organization. CIPs play a significant role in the hospitals, by addressing major issues in the hospital such as the efficiency of the internal process, quality of the healthcare delivery, service cost, coordination, and communication. The hospitals that are implementing CIPs are obtaining remarkable results, but as a matter of fact they lack the ability of sustaining the CIPs. Reference analysis and the content ...

Issue Summary:

The population issue that I presented was the Heart disease. This refers to the class of diseases which entail the blood vessels, the heart or a combination of such. This is any of the disorder or disease relating to the cardiovascular system, mainly cardiac disease as well as the vascular disease of kidney and brain. This also involves the disease which affects the peripheral arteries. The heart disease is mainly caused by hypertension and atherosclerosis or a combination of both. Aging is also associated with morphological and physiological changes which alters the functioning of the cardiovascular system. This will therefore lead ...

Definition and Importance of Magnet status

Magnet status refers to hospitals, which have well qualified nurse executives in a decentralized environment, with organizational structures that put emphasis on open and participatory management (Marquis and Huston, 2009). According to Barker (2005), a hospital with a magnet status normally has a high quality and satisfied nursing workforce in competitive markets. Magnet status is important as it enhances patient care and ensures the deliverance of high quality service, which is attributed to the strong leadership practices and qualified nursing team. Additionally, a magnet status is important as it attracts the best the professions in the medical field and ensures the maintenance of highest standards ...

The orientation systems at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines are the same for all nurses. The subjects usually attend a four to five-week formal class from where they are expected to learn the skills and competencies required for the job. The new nurses are joined by a preceptor whose main objective is to give practical insights to the discussion. Their readiness for the job will be evaluated through a series of assessment activities. A clinical resource nurse may also be requested to gauge the suitability of new recruits to the positions they will fill in. After the probationary period, the orientation ...