UNIVERSITY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MASTERS IN HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (MHA) PATIENT SAFETY Individual Assignment 1 SUBMITTED BY: Regan Ramkissoon PS57095 April 12th 2013 Patient Safety Assignment Background SUMMARY OF INCIDENT On Friday 27th January 2012‚ a young mother was trying to get her ailing twenty one month old baby to the hospital. The child was an outpatient of the San Fernando General Hospital as he had three holes in his heart and an enlarged liver. Earlier that
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Employee Recognition Programs THE SECRET TO A MOTIVATED WORK FORCE Rewards and Recognition Programs‚ The Secret to Maintaining High Morale and a Motivated Work Force By John Jurgle Pompano Beach Fire Department Pompano Beach‚ Florida 1 Employee Recognition Programs CERTIFICATION STATEMENT I hereby certify that this paper constitutes my own product‚ that where the language of others is set forth‚ quotation marks so indicate‚ and that appropriate credit is given where I have
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For patient abandonment to occur‚ the nurse must: a) Have first accepted the patient assignment‚ thus establishing a nurse-patient relationship‚ and then b) Severed that nurse-patient relationship without giving reasonable notice to the appropriate person (e.g.‚ supervisor‚ patient) so that arrangements can be made for continuation of nursing care by others. A nurse-patient relationship begins when the responsibility for nursing care of a patient is accepted by the nurse or certified nursing
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Patient Care September 17‚ 2013 Citation: www.webmed.com Medical Terminology Text book The Medical profession isn’t all about treating illness it’s also about enhancing patient care in any way possible. Patient care has a variety of benefits and all can improve the quality of life for both practical and vocational nurses and the people they care for. Patient care involves the sharing of information with patients that is tailored to their particular
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paper‚ we examine the “generation-recognition” hypothesis (Tulving & Thomson‚ 1973)‚ which argues that the retrieval of information previously encoded is best met through recognition‚ which operates on overlapping stages of processing. The first is the generation of alternative items‚ and the second is recognition of the most closely related item within that group of items. The typical purpose for such experiments has been to compare the effectiveness of recognition to recall in accurate information
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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 designated questionnaires (2). Patient satisfaction surveys are increasingly incorporated into clinical
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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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AI in optical character recognition Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. There are different fields under optical character recognition. Intelligent character recognition Handwriting recognition Automatic number plate recognition In computer science‚ intelligent
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Many people dream to have enough money to support a family‚ have a house‚ a car‚ and true friends that will bring you eternal happiness. Tom and Daisy are two characters in The Great Gatsby that represent the deterioration of the American Dream. Rather than being devoted to a healthy lifestyle‚ Daisy and Tom sought out to become rich beyond their wildest dreams with a social status fit to suit their standards. To them‚ the main goal in life is to reach the absolute top of the social pyramid‚ slowly
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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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