Improving Patient Throughput In the Emergency Department Introduction St. Vincent’s Medical Center‚ a 501 bed facility located in Jacksonville‚ Florida‚ provides general medical and surgical care to the North Florida Region. St. Vincent’s admits over 26‚000 patients annually. The average occupancy rate is approximately 84% with the Emergency Department (ED) peeking at 100% for approximately 4-12 hours daily. The hospital is struggling with availability of bed space. This shortage of available
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Providing Patients with a Quality Experience Mary Lavonne Hoppes Walden University NURS 4021 Section 05‚ The Role of the Leader in Evaluating Data to Improve Quality and Safety May 19‚ 2013 Providing Patients with a Quality Experience Patient safety and the quality of healthcare they receive can be improved by evaluating existing data from various sources such as the patient’s health record‚ laboratory findings‚ registration‚ administration and incident reports. One area that leaders
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------------------------------------------------- HIV/AIDS patients in Zambia; Are they cared for? A RESEARCH PROPOSAL By MUCHUU BRAVO (0977367952) STUDENT OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT LUSAKA‚ ZAMBIA August 2012 Table of Contents Executive summary 2 Background 3 Rationale 4 Problem 4 Objectives 4 Methodology 4 Anticipated Results 6 Dissemination 7 Timetable 7 Budget 7 Appendix A: Study Time Frame 8 Appendix B:
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APUSH 1 Ch 6 Terms Alexander Hamilton’s Political beliefs Was unhappy with the Articles of Confederation and the weak government and sought to overhaul the entire document. Led to a convention in Annapolis in which only five states sent delegates. But later influenced the convention in Philadelphia. Founding Fathers to the constitution Representatives from all states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia to discuss concentrated power. Madison’s Virginia Plan National legislature consisting
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In the 1800’s an effort to redefine nursing‚ by improving upon patient care‚ Florence Nightingale stands as the patron leader. She went onto grapple with the task of improving upon deplorable hospital conditions; while‚ measuring patient’s outcomes in a statistical method. Over a hundred years later‚ more recent compiled research related to a link between hospital staffing issues and adverse patient outcomes grabs the attention of internal and external healthcare populations. In the 90’s and early
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Chapter 22 Performance and Discharge Laura Westensee Edited by Nikki Meltabarger I. Conditions in Contracts Under Common Law‚ a contract is an agreement involving a promise or set of promises enforceable by law. The Uniform Commercial Code uses this same definition of contract‚ but in a more limited sense pertaining to the sale of goods. A person who makes an offer is the offeror‚ while the person to whom the offer is made is the offeree. The offeree is given the power to create a legally
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provide advocacy for patients and their family. The concerns can be attributed to the unprecedented changes in the healthcare systems. The uncertainty results in new regulations being implemented‚ financial burdens on the patient and the trend of population rise. These challenges present an opportunity for the nurses to adopt a more responsible role of patient advocacy (Benner et al.‚ 2010 & Institute of Medicine‚ 2011). Nurses and managers should be able to advocate for patients through the use of
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The patient intake process‚ simply said‚ is the process of taking information to establish new patients into your facility. This process is almost never the same between facilities‚ however no matter how it is done‚ it is very time consuming. The process can also involve updating already established patient’s information. You do this simply by reviewing their information with them to make sure that it is all the same. Once they are finished providing you with any new or updated information it
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A new patient is defined as a person who has not received any services from the healthcare provider within the last 36 months. An established patient is a patient who has been seen with the healthcare provider within the last 36 months. There are 3 parts to the development of a claim. 1.) The preclinical interview and check-in. 2.) The clinical assessment and teatment. 3.) The postclinical patient check-out. NEW PATIENT INTERVIEW AND CHECK-IN PROCEDURES Step 1 - Perform a New Patient Intake Interview
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Nurses play a vital role in achieving the safety and quality of patient care and reducing adverse outcomes. Patient safety is one the most important component of our health care system and is essential to quality health care. The QSEN defines safety for nurses as “minimize(ing) risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance”. Patients’ safety is a one of the most challenging matter for the reason that errors and mistakes can and do happen. In
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