Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): Is it Beneficial or Detrimental to Human Capital Managers Touro College Graduate School of Business Critics would suggest that the prevention will only help to remedy problems that the healthcare systems are presently facing; in particular‚ the enormous costs and a population in poor health. Without a doubt “President Barack Obama and first Lady Michelle Obama have both expressed the belief that a focus on prevention will afford
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Preventing Patient Falls in Inpatient Hospital Settings Introduction For the most part‚ hospitals are places where one comes for healing and it is place where our clients should feel safe and away from harm. Nurses have an important role as a patient advocate and are to provide all clients with safe‚ compassionate‚ and quality care at all times. Nonetheless‚ the hospital can also be a dangerous place for inpatients. It is a foreign environment to clients and there may be alterations in their
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This critique is about an article on patient fall in an acute care hospital setting and why and what are the leading causes to these fall incident. The definition of a fall is described as any event in which the patients are found on the floor; it could be an observed or unobserved fall. There are various types of equipments and special devices to prevent falls; however‚ many falls still take place‚ and it is a serious problem in hospitals. Protection of Human participants: This research involves
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Case Study Analysis - Patients Falls Case Study Analysis - Patients Falls Quality management departments collect and analyze data to ensure quality care that is safe and effective for patients. Positive outcomes are crucial for success‚ and are measured objectively to monitor‚ and revise improvement programs implemented. Regulatory and accreditation agencies set the standards for patient safety defining quality indicators that health care organizations measure‚ and evaluate to
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Patient satisfaction surveys and studies is an important tool in assessing the quality care outcomes. If designed and administered properly‚ the patient satisfaction surveys become excellent tools for assessing the quality of care received. However‚ there has long been a debate whether there is a correlation between patient satisfaction and quality outcomes‚ especially when the physician and the hospital compensation has been tied to the patient satisfaction measures. Patient satisfaction is largely
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Patient Safety at Grand River Hospital & St. Mary’s General Hospital Most patients would like to think that safety is a major priority at the hospital they are visiting. They would like to believe that the hospital actively engages in practices that should nearly diminish any possibility for an accident or mistake to occur. However‚ the premise of patient safety is relatively new. Medical errors remain a sensitive topic with patients‚ physicians‚ and hospital administrators. Physicians and
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The criminal justice system ignores the mentally ill‚ and by not treating them differently‚ causes more crime and discomfort for the citizens of the United States. The term mentally ill is defined by “any of various psychiatric disorders or diseases‚ usually characterized by impairment of thought‚ mood‚ or behavior” (mental illness). Although there are many disorders and diseases that can fit into this definition‚ schizophrenia is the most significant. The focus then should be on people who have
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Patient is a young female‚ between 20-30 years of age‚ with history of schizoaffective disorder who has been hospitalized for about 3 months in an acute facility for acute mania with psychosis and disorganized/combative behavior. At first‚ patient refused to take medication‚ so a hearing was held and was deemed with an involuntary treatment commitment. Initial medications were found to be ineffective‚ which called for further treatment. Over the past few months‚ medication regimens were balanced
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perspective of the level of health care provided. Moreover‚ quality of life assessment has been criticized for being a biased view of healthcare providers‚ not the patients (1)‚ and cost-effectiveness analyses of quality of life only look at the clinical outcomes through an economic lens. During the past two decades‚ the United States healthcare industry has been progressively shifting toward a more “consumer-directed industry” ‚ focusing on translating patients experience into scoring systems through
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Improved Care for Patients with Quick Response Assessment for PICC Line Doing Better; Spending Less Candace Darling Sierra Vista Regional Heath Center September 3‚ 2009 Improved Care for Patients with Quick Response Assessment for PICC Line A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is a long‚ slender‚ small‚ flexible tube that is inserted into a peripheral vein‚ typically in the upper arm‚ and advanced until the catheter tip terminates in a large vein in the chest near the
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