Y-M-C-A! A Business Overview of a Non-Profit Organization Crystal Hunter American Intercontinental University Abstract A semi-detailed business overview of the non-profit organization known as the YMCA or Young Men’s Christian Association is discussed. A brief history of the origins of the company is detailed along with the definition or explanation of the company’s mission statement. The organization’s basic legal‚ social‚ and economic environment is described. Likewise the YMCA’s management
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main component of nursing performance and has a distinguished role in patient safety. Medication errors are a healthcare professional’s worst nightmare and has become one of the biggest issues devoted encountered in today’s healthcare setting. According to the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (2016)‚ “a medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of
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Administration Of Medication Procedure 1. Procedure Number Version Nos: WCDHB-PN-0037 7 Purpose This Procedure is performed as a means of ensuring the safe administration of therapeutic medication to patients in accordance with all legislative and regulatory requirements. 2. Application This Procedure is to be followed by all nursing staff throughout the West Coast District Health Board (WCDHB). 3. Definitions For the purposes of this Procedure: Prescribing medications is the responsibility
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Medication errors occur often in the nursing field. “A medication error is defined as a failure in the treatment process that leads to‚ or has the potential to lead to‚ harm to the patient.” [(Aronson‚ Medication Errors.)] Nurses make unfortunate mistakes everyday . “According to a April 7 report in Health Affairs‚ medical errors now cost our over-burdened health care system over $17.1 billion dollars a year; the cost of avoidable hospital readmissions adds another $13 to $18 billion dollars a
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Reducing Medication Administration Errors: A Teaching Plan Rosemary Lantigua Sacred Heart University Reducing Medication Administration Errors: A Teaching Plan This paper provides an overview of a teaching plan of a single class during fundamentals of nursing course of a traditional BSN program. The subject of the class is on reducing the amount of medication administration errors in health care. The goals and objectives of the class will be provided as well as methods‚ resources
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Development in Public Administration Guy B. Adams‚ University of Missouri-Columbia What impact has the "culture of modernity" had on the field of public administration? Guy B. Adams contends that the American cultural preoccupation with modernity has shaped the study of puhlic administration into an ahistorical and atemporal field that stresses technical rationality and has limited capacity to address critical questions facing society. This approach to public administration puts its emphasis on professionalism
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Human Resource Management Overview University of Phoenix HRM/300 November 14‚ 2012 Human Resource Management Overview Organizations require people to run everyday operations‚ which mean every organization needs human resource management. Today’s paper will discuss what human resource management is‚ and its primary function within an organization. Every organization has a strategic plan‚ and human resource management play a critical role in the implementation and production of that plan. Last
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The Enterprise of Public Administration The Business of Public Administration By Alan Estacio Dwight Waldo wrote "The Enterprise of Public Administration" in 1979 looking back on a long academic career‚ but also as a reflection about the future for public administration. Can a 30-year-old book be relevant? • Several of Waldo’s comments are accurate about today’s issues • debt crisis‚ e-government and trust in government. • The modern U.S. is established on a foundation of economic growth
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they were scientists‚ following a process similar to John Dewey’s model of learning: 1) Become aware of the problem. 2) Define the problem. 3) Propose hypotheses to solve it. 4) Evaluate the consequences of the hypotheses from one’s past experience. 5) Test the likeliest solution.[4] Social Reconstructivism Perennialism Perennialists believe that one should teach the things that one deems to be of everlasting importance to all people everywhere. They believe that the most important topics develop
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Journal Article Review Krystle Gonzales College of Nursing NR 305 Health Assessment Professor Sherer Summer II 2014 .. Journal Article Review Introduction “A guide to taking a patient’s history” is an article published in Nursing Standard in the December‚ 2007 issue‚ written by Hilary Lloyd and Stephen Craig. In this article‚ Lloyd and Craig outline the process of taking a complete health history from a patient. The reasoning for gathering a comprehensive history is also described. There
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