Running Head: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AUDIT 1 Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital is preparing for a Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations‚ or JCAHO‚ audit. In preparation of the coming audit‚ Nightingale has released JCAHO’s Priority Focus Areas for the hospital. The priority focus areas outlined are Information Management‚ Medication Management‚ Communication‚ and Infection Control. The area of focus for this assessment will be Information Management
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SMART Goal: Managing Patient-Centered Care SMART Goal: Managing Patient-Centered Care Historically‚ a career in Nursing has not always been one that was respected as a noble and honorable job. Once frowned upon by the elite classes‚ nursing was a job expected of the lower class. In 1853 however‚ a young woman belonging to an elite British family‚ named Florence Nightingale‚ would change that. From a young age‚ she believed that her divine purpose in life was to care for the ill and wounded. After
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Improving Patient Experience Outline Introduction: One of the most crucial responsibilities of the CEO in a hospital is to ensure that each patient is receiving the best medical care that the hospital can provide. In order to do that‚ hospitals need to incorporate business initiatives into their setting so they can gain loyal customers. Thesis‚ or main claim: Using the Net Promoter System or NPS in a hospital setting can drastically improve the overall patient experience because of the useful
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REVIEW ARTICLES ANESTHETIC CARE OF THE PATIENT WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA AMIR BALUCH*‚ SUNIL MAHBUBANI**‚ FAHAD AL-FADHLI***‚ ALAN KAYE**** AND ELIZABETH A.M. FROST***** Introduction Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an insidious‚ progressive disease1 that is significantly under diagnosed in the general population. It carries increased risk of difficult intubation preoperatively2 and increased risk of postoperative respiratory depression and airway collapse leading to hypoxia and possibly
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The existence of healing hospitals is not a new ideology. “Historically‚ hospitals were often founded and funded by religious orders” (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 2014). Hospitals of yesteryear were built on the premise of healing and fulfilled several of the requirements of institutions established for healing. As early as 4000 B. C. many religions identified and associated some of their deities with healing powers. However‚ the modern concept of hospitals dates from 331 C E‚ when Roman emperor
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(lymph node dissection) (Tschudin‚ 1996). However‚ Irene expresses concern at this time that her surgery will cause her arm to swell (lymphoedema) and this will affect her interaction with her baby. Therefore as the nurse responsible for Irene’s care‚ a care plan of actual and potential postoperative complications of this surgery has been devised‚ this will include possible nursing interventions that would be implemented for Irene. However this assignment will concentrate on two postoperative problems
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Synopsis “A Study Of Employee Retention Techniques At Care Hospital” [pic] TITLE OF THE PROJECT “A Study Of Employee Retention Techniques At Care Hospital” INTRODUCTION EMPLOYEE RETENTION: Definition: “Employee retention is a process in which the employees are encouraged to remain in the organization for the maximum period of time.” Employee Retention involves taking measures to encourage competent employee to remain in the organization for the maximum period
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timeline of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010 and to discuss its potential impact on healthcare access‚ costs and quality‚ and insurance companies. . II. Healthcare Reform Timeline The PPACA includes comprehensive reforms that will take place over the next four years. It is intended to hold insurance companies more accountable‚ protect consumers‚ lower health care costs‚ increase the quality of care and provide
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reviewed Community Care claim nos. 242 and 667. As discussed more fully below‚ we recommend that Los Robles Hospital not pursue Claim 242 and that OUMC not pursue claim 667 as against Community Care. A. Claim 242 1. Claim Facts The patient was admitted to Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center (“Hospital”) through the ER following a DUI accident that was her fault on November 5‚ 2013. She was discharged the following day. The Artiva notes record that the patient’s Community Care policy
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Abstract The team has planned to develop a Hospital Automation System for the well knownhospital called Pannipitiya Nursing Home. Currently the client company depends on an error – prone software system and a large amount of manual work. Development of a new systemwill help the client company to minimize the work load they handle manually and to eliminatethe faults and errors of the existing software system.This proposed system handles the entire hospital work load under seven major functions namely;
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