Abstract This case study illustrates the crisis faced by the president of Lincoln Hospital‚ a for-profit hospital that had several hundred beds to fill. A number of issues are occurring at the hospital impacting the ability of the hospital to successfully perform the planned surgeries without incurring significant issues. These issues include high turnover‚ scheduling issues‚ service delays‚ and a divided staff. Worst of all‚ however‚ the doctors and nurses are at war. Specifically‚ Don‚ the new
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CASE: Community Hospital Evening Operating Room Solution 1) The average customer arrival rate and service rate per hour Patient arrival time in a day (11 pm to 7 am) = 8 hr/day Patient arrival time in a year (Total study time) = 8 (hr/day) * 365 = 2920 hrs For average customer arrival rate‚ we know that 62 patients are required during that time period. So average customer arrival rate (λ) = 62/2920 = 0.0212 patients /hr Service rate (μ) = 60/80.79 = 0.7426 /hr
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decisions on their patients care. Intuition is a basic piece of nursing science that becomes possibly the most important factor when healthcare providers get to oblivious learning without restraint or speculation. One can also assume that intuition is also based on their overall experiences and knowledge acquired during their nursing practices. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the article based upon the concept analysis on nursing intuition towards the description of method used‚ and the application
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The Shortage of Teachers in America All of the schools in this country are facing a serious problem. Every day more and more teachers are leaving the profession. Why are these teachers leaving? Well the primary reasons are the poor working conditions and low salaries. "Twenty percent of teachers say that unsatisfactory working conditions keep them from wanting to stay in the profession. In addition‚ thirty-seven percent who do not plan to teach until retirement blame low pay for their decision
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Water Shortage or Water Misuse The United States of America is known for her extreme overuse of everything. Americans see something they want and they simply take it. It was true when the young country pushed westward. The Native Americans were already there‚ but that mattered not; it was wanted‚ so it was taken. It is still true today. Americans as a people see what they want and they take it with very little regard to who had it first or where more might come from. Water is one of those
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Legislative Issue Faced by Nursing http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/shortageresource.htm The web site I found that discusses this critical issue is by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (AACN). This is an outstanding website that discusses the current and projected issues regarding the nursing shortage. The article identifies sobering figures of projected shortages up to the year 2020. By 2010‚ the nursing shortage is projected to be 12%‚ by 2015 to be 20% and by 2020 a frightening
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1. Should hospitals run lotteries to create revenue for their budgets? Why OR why not? Provide reasons. In my opinion‚ hospitals should run lotteries to create revenue for their budgets‚ Many hospitals today are lacking the required space for patients and staff. There are outdated machines still being used and the shortage of staff prevents the medical industry from delivering adequite health care. It would be beneficial for the hospitals to run lotteries. I will support this point of view by
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timber shortages in the 1770s‚ 1803‚ and 1808 by importing wood products from other sources and searching for new sources. As the chief causes of these three timber shortages were completely different‚ the regions where the navy focused on as the source of woods were different in each case. In the 1770s‚ the cause of the shortage was the loss of the preliminary source of wood products in North America. In 1803‚ the failure to manage the dockyards and the outbreak of war caused the timber shortage. Then
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Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program and Critical Access Hospitals BACKGROUND Significant health disparities between rural and urban populations have been a major concern in the United States. One prominent factor contributing to the disparities is lack of access to quality care in rural areas which is closely associated with challenges faced by rural health care providers (National Rural Health Association‚ 2007). Rural hospitals are the key health care provider in rural areas‚ offering
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The shortage of organs in the United States is leading to dilemmas and moral issues for physicians. They are taking a closer look at the feasible recipients and their potential for future success. The key to a successful transplant is carefully selecting those patients who are good matches and who need it urgently. For example‚ patients who have matching blood types should receive organs before those whose bodies may reject the implant. One problem that physicians are dealing with is providing
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