Discharge Criteria in Day Surgery The continuing increase in day surgery procedures has led to a number of issues‚ as nurses are challenged to provide the best possible care within a short time frame as well as to minimize the length of hospital stay. Utilizing the evidence from the literature‚ I am focusing especially on factors that lead to a delay in discharge and the introduction of guidelines to overcome the issue. I presently work the day surgery unit of a new hospital and
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Improving Individual Health Practices and Patient Understanding through Comprehensive Discharge Education Improving Individual Health Practices and Patient Understanding through Comprehensive Discharge Education. As healthcare enters a new frontier with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ millions of previously uninsured Americans will flood the healthcare market. As members of this complex and vast healthcare system‚ individuals
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changed by the circumstances? 1. Can the Ms. Granbury claim illegal discharge from her employment through a citation of breach of an implied contract? 2. Can Ms. Granbury claim unfair (discriminatory) treatment of her discharge case by the company’s personnel committee? Brief Answers The relationship between Ms. Granbury and her employer changed following the interpretation of handbook. 1. Ms. Granbury can claim illegal discharge through citing breach of an implied contract. The handbook lists a number
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be free from injury | |Predicted Behavioral Outcome Objective: Patient will verbalize appropriate interventions to take minimize the risk for falls by discharge. | | | |Nursing Interventions
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Planning of Discharge Needs in Geriatrics Elderly patients have unique discharge planning needs. As such‚ the hospital nurse and case management team may find themselves challenged to not only identify the needs of each patient‚ but to also address those needs when planning the patient’s discharge. In the case of Mr. Trosack‚ a 72-year-old widower being discharged following a total hip replacement (THR)‚ careful assessment of his home situation needs to be completed prior to discharge to ensure
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objective information C. an assessment D. a diagnosis 2. In a hospital setting‚ the care provider takes the patient ’s history‚ details the reason the patient is being admitted and performs a physical exam. The report of this information is known as the: A. initial progress note B. discharge summary C. history and physical D. SOAP note 3. The SOAP documentation format is most commonly used in which healthcare setting? A. hospital inpatient B. physician ’s office C. hospital emergency department
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In the case of Safety and Glove Discharge‚ With Just Cause the union claim that the company violated the collective bargaining agreement in the dismissal of Mr. McNamara without just cause. However the company is of the opposite view and claim the the employee dismissal was of just cause. The union took on several position in showing that the dismissal was not a just cause dismissal. the union argues that the dismissal was of insufficient cause and that the plant rule violation as a cause does
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To: CEO‚ Toy Company From: Date: 23 November 2013 Subject: JDT2 Task 1 Human Resources Former Employee’s Constructive Discharge Claim As requested‚ I have investigated the claim relating to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I researched case law pertinent to this case and prepared the following synopsis and recommendation. Constructive Discharge In the beginning of the year‚ the company implemented a new scheduling policy that would require all employees to work 12 hour
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Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set Veronica Burgos Kaplan University The year was 1969‚ when a conference was held by the National Center for Health Services Research and Development and Johns Hopkins to address hospital discharge abstract systems. A hospital discharge abstract system is an “abstraction of minimum data set from hospital charts for the purpose of producing summary statistics about hospitalized patients” (Porta‚ 2014). During that conference participants discussed the possibility
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| Introduction Using the seven key principles of the hospital discharge process devised by the Department of Health (DH‚ 2003)‚ this case study will critically analyse the process of an elderly patient who was discharged from a local acute trust. It begins by providing a definition of discharge planning‚ before providing a brief biography of the patient‚ including a rationale of why this patient was selected‚ details of her past medical history‚ reason for current admission‚ any issues raised
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