Quality Improvement Report Kathleen Lepley HCS/588 January 14‚ 2013 Patricia Wolcott Quality Improvement Report Quality Improvement (QI) is an organizational approach leading to the quality of patient care and patient services through use of specific guidelines‚ principles‚ and methods to ensure quality of care for every patient and health care facility throughout the world. Quality outcomes focus on the principles of quality management. These measurements investigate the quality of care
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Communication and Crisis Paper Nasly B. Buitrago HCS 320 February 25‚2014 Patricia Jasper Communication and Crisis Paper A crisis is an occurrence that exceeds a person’s normal copying ability Du Pré (2005). When unexpected‚ sudden situations occur it affects a community. When things happen that we are not prepared for‚ it can create chaos and negative outcomes can occur. One of the most common unexpected situations is natural disaster‚ when nature decides to unexpectedly show us what it is capable
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Building sections of the Nondiscrimination and Health and Safety Handbook Takesha Williams‚ Naire Banks‚ Natalasha Rutledge‚ Sheliah Gordon‚ Shonneill Caleb HCS/430 January 6‚ 2014 Dr. Thomas Wilson Abstract Equal opportunity laws are in place to protect applicants from discrimination. Employers must follow the state and federal laws or they are subject to violations and even costly lawsuits. Different laws protect certain groups of people; the pregnancy law is addressed in detail. Much of the
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Alzheimer’s Disease Case Study Kathleen Voves HCS/245 February 1st‚ 2014 Sheela Alvarado Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia‚ a neurologic disease characterized by loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living‚ lasting at least six months (Deirdre‚ Blanchfield‚ & Longe‚ 2006). At first Alzheimer’s disease will destroy neurons in parts of the brain that control memory. As these neurons stop functioning‚ the short-term memory will
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Communication and Crisis Michelle Cato HCS/320 July 16‚ 2013 Diedra Sawyer Communication and Crisis Many of us know about the devastating hurricane Katrina that took place in New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ in 2005‚ but how many of us actually thought about the communication issues. From the writing of James L Garnett and Alexander Kouzmin‚” Hurricane Katrina was as much a communication disaster as it was a natural and bureaucratic disaster. Communication gaps‚ missed signals‚ information technology
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Effective Communication HCS 325 August 5‚ 2013 Effective Communication Every organization must rely on effective communication in order to function properly. It is the structure that is used within the organization that determines just how effective that communication can be. There are three basic organization models‚ each with positive and negative aspects. Choosing an effective model can aid an organization in building a stronger foundation for business. One of the most commonly seen
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Ethics your name HCS/405 /2012 Ethics There are four significant elements of financial management‚ “There are four basic financial statements. You can think of them as a set. They include the balance sheet‚ the statement of revenue and expense‚ the statement of fund balance or net worth‚ and the statement of cash flows.” (Baker & Baker‚ Chapter 4‚ 2011). Financial manager need to have a balance sheet to review or perform an audit so they can see the debt to income ratio for the
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Health Campaign Part I Angie Torres HCS/535 April 1‚ 2013 Dr. Michelle D. Rose‚ PhD‚ MHA‚ MPH Health Campaign Part I Beginning in 1980‚ the Untied States initiated a 10-year plan delineating marked national health goals considered achievable during each 10-year period. The dynamism of these initiatives includes the integration of the medical care with health promotion and education‚ disease prevention‚ integration of individual‚ and community health care needs‚ and provision of increased
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E-mail to Coworker Peggy Lee HCS/514 September 22‚ 2014 Kerubo (Happiness) Kinaro E-mail to Coworker To: cm_rn9520@gmail.com Cc: plee0602@gmail.com Subject: Difference between management and leadership Hello Carly‚ I enjoyed our discussion about the leadership program training offered here at the Community Memorial Home Health Agency for new nurses’. Your feedback was very helpful. Our shift ended before I could respond to your question: What is the difference between management
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Health Care Communication Amy Garza HCS/320 April 27‚ 2015 Patricia Bird Health Care Communication Effective communication is a key element for success in health care. There are all types of communication‚ but communicating effectively within a health care environment is crucial. The basic elements of communication differ from those of health care communication. There are also different components that may influence communication‚ such as cultural differences. None the less‚ there are ways that we
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