keller graduate School of Management | You Decide | Middlefield Hospital | | Melissa Dixon | 9/16/2012 | | Background: Middlefield Hospital is a 450 bed tertiary care facility in a major urban area in the Northeast. The hospital is an integrated health system that provides the fill array of inpatient and outpatient services. The Hospital has a reputation for quality care in the area. Problem: The Hospital’s turnover rate exceeds 20% and there are over 100 nursing vacancies
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DISSERTATION ON M EDICAL TOURISM IN INDIA: STRATEGY FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT CRISIL Y OUNG THOUGHT LEADER SERIES ‚ 2004 Submitted By Gowri Shankar Nagarajan‚ G-216‚ IIM-B Hostels‚ Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore‚ Bannerghatta Road‚ Bangalore – 560076 Email: gowris03@iimb.ernet.in Phone: 91-80-31 Word Count: 2508 (Excluding References‚ Appendix‚ Footnotes & Table 1) INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE CRISIL Young Thought Leader Series‚ 2004 Gowri Shankar Nagarajan
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Mandatory Nurse Patient Ratios Continues Mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios have been a hot topic of discussion for over 15 years. As of today‚ California is the only state with actual state mandated nurse- patient ratios in place. I support mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios because research has shown that patients have better outcomes when cared for by nurses who practice under state mandated nurse-patient ratios. According to the article Mandatory Nurse-Patient Ratios “support for mandatory-patient
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of Lang‚ Thomas’s “Nurse-Patient Ratios: A Systematic Review on the Effects of Nurse Staffing on Patient‚ Nurse Employee‚ and Hospital Outcomes” stems from the problem that the nursing workloads and patient “acuity” (the measurement of the intensity of nursing care required by a patient) is too high to provide a concise level of patient care (Lang 326). Continued reasoning for decreased nurse to patient ratios is that within the past 25 years an effort by hospitals to cut cost has led to the decline
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INTRODUCTION Absence is the failure of a worker to report for work when he is scheduled to work. A worker is to be considered as scheduled to work when the employer has work available for him and the worker is aware of it. A worker is to be treated as absent for purpose of this absenteeism. Statistics even when he does not turn up for work after obtaining prior permission any worker who reports for duty even for a part of the day or shift should not be‚ counted among absentees. The statistics
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Children’s Behavioral Problems and Parental Divorce One of the most difficult challenges that parents face is the child behavioral problems. All children may misbehave sometimes‚ it is part of their mental and emotional development to break the role and explore new things. However‚ the most important thing is to keep an eye on them and know if they need to seek a professional help. The causes of the children’s behavioral problems may vary and once the parents know the
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February 27‚ 2013 Infected Hospitals If someone were very sick or injured in some way‚ a good place to take him or her would be the hospital. Hospitals help people and save lives. Everyone knows that hospitals save lives and want to help people. They’ve been around forever. Some of the earliest documented institutions that were aiming to provide cures and help date back to the Egyptian temples. Hospitals are supposed to be clean and safe‚ but inspections of hospitals don’t even measure cleanliness
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CASE ANALYSIS: SHOULDICE HOSPITAL LIMITED Executive Summary: The Shouldice Hospital‚ Ontario‚ Canada is a pioneer in the field of treating patients suffering from external abdominal hernia. The speedy ambulation coupled with its reasonable price rates leads to satisfied patients publicizing the hospital by word of mouth. The issues that confront the hospital management are: ·Deciding on ways to meet the backlog of operations‚ by expanding the hospital’s capacity‚ while still maintaining control
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of nurses in America ’s hospitals is putting patient lives in danger and requires immediate attention. "The current nursing shortage threatens to heavily impact our citizens ’ health and our nations ’ security preparedness". (Person‚ 2003) The nursing shortage that is sweeping across the United States has been upgraded from a health crisis to a national security concern. A recent study in Pennsylvania found that surgical patients in hospitals with high patient-to-nurse ratios experience higher rates
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Meghan Weir Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V Kristan Farley May 16‚ 2013 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm As the health care atmosphere changes‚ there has been a growing interest to closely examine how spirituality‚ values‚ and morals contribute to patient outcomes; specifically what it means to truly heal a patient. In the past‚ medical care was mostly geared towards curing our patients and their illnesses physically.
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