nurses in America ’s hospitals is putting patient lives in danger and requires immediate attention. "The current nursing shortage threatens to heavily impact our citizens ’ health and our nations ’ security preparedness". (Person‚ 2003) The nursing shortage that is sweeping across the United States has been upgraded from a health crisis to a national security concern. A recent study in Pennsylvania found that surgical patients in hospitals with high patient-to-nurse ratios experience higher rates of
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Improving Patient Care and Quality Utilizing the Electronic Health Record Melissa Fuller HCA 417 John Saindon April 29‚ 2013 Improving Patient Care and Quality Utilizing the Electronic Health Record Improving patient care is a process that always has room for improvements. It is important to make sure patients receive the best quality care available. "Studies suggest that high quality patient care relies on careful documentation of each patient ’s medical history‚ health
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RAFT Task 3 Tracer Patient summary: A 67year old female patient was scheduled for a laparoscopic hysterectomy. However 5 weeks prior to hospitalization she was hospitalized and the case was converted to an open procedure due to excessive bleeding. After being discharged she developed fever and drainage and was readmitted again for possible postoperative infection seven days ago. On day two of admission she underwent surgery for post operative abscess and insertion for a central line for long-term
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The Impact of Web 3.0 on Marketing Lai Ee Na Lim Li Fen Adelyn Mohammad Mahdhir Bin Mustaffa Kavitha Ramu Siew Hui Fen Nanyang Technological University A6301 Communication‚ Technology & Society November 8‚ 2011 What is Web 3.0? The future of the Internet is in Web 3.0‚ known as the Semantic Web. Feigenbaum‚ Herman‚ Hongsermeier‚ Neumann and Stephens (2007) summarised the concept as “a highly interconnected network of data that could be easily accessed and understood by
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Prioritizing Patient Safety Patient Safety – Start up: “Patient safety” the new mantra is now revealing out its structure as a major component to be concentrated by the health care providers. Patient Safety that emphasizes the reporting‚ analysis‚ and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. Lack of patient safety – the silent killer having its impact more than any other disease or traffic accidents and it is holding a record of leading position
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Mandatory Hospital Nurse-To Patient Ratio in the Healthcare Field (Professor/Instructor) November 07‚ 2011 Mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are a controversial topic in healthcare. In this practice‚ state laws are established that require a certain level of staffing within a particular unit. Organizations such as hospitals must balance income with expenditures‚ and nurses and patients may be affected by these decisions. Mandating ratios is one attempt at ensuring nurses’ workloads do not exceed
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. Pharmaceutical manufacturers a multi billion industry who are solely depend on research and development of drugs which is a very risky as one out of ten thousand becomes actually approved for sale. Parallel research is done in various pharmaceutical companies once a clinical path is being discovered and this requires intensive competitor monitoring procedure. Therefore drug companies are combating each other to develop multibillion dollar drugs each year to survive. To monitor competitors‚ we
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Fungi Web quest Amanitas Amanita (various species) Family: Amanitaceae (amanitas) in the phylum Basidiomycota (club fungi) Description: There are about 600 species in the genus Amanita worldwide. Each amanita starts as an egg-shaped button that can resemble a small puffball. These breaks open as the mushroom grows. Fully developed amanitas are gilled mushrooms with parasol-shaped
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Working of Web Search Engines It is no longer difficult to find and extract information from different sources. Internet‚ i.e. world wide web is one such place wherein you can get numerous information and you can find everything you want. Computer experts have made it easier for you to gather and find information. You don’t need to know the web address for everything you need to find but rather you can make use of search engines‚ like Google. Search engines are nothing but special software codes
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We need to know a lot about patients with visual impairment so we can give them the best dental care that they deserve. “More than 20 million Americans report having loss of vision including trouble seeing‚ even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Two percent of people with severe visual impairments are under 18 years of age. The majority of those who are blind lose vision after age 20.”(Mahoney‚2008) Limitations of sight cover a large spectrum from people with slight vision problems to people
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