of Care: Article One Sally A Lilly Lake Sumter Community College ARTICLE ONE 2 Title of Article: Promoting the Integration of Therapeutic Touch in Nursing Practice on an Inpatient Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit Source of Article: International Journal for Human Caring Date of Article: November 30‚ 2008 Has the article been subjected to Peer Review?: Blind Peer Reviewed; Double Blind Peer Reviewed; Editorial Board
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Preventing Patient Falls in Inpatient Hospital Settings Introduction For the most part‚ hospitals are places where one comes for healing and it is place where our clients should feel safe and away from harm. Nurses have an important role as a patient advocate and are to provide all clients with safe‚ compassionate‚ and quality care at all times. Nonetheless‚ the hospital can also be a dangerous place for inpatients. It is a foreign environment to clients and there may be alterations in their
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for patients‚ sometimes leading to them worsening. Although care has greatly improved‚ there are still some institutions where patients are insufficiently treated. The mental health system has come quite a way but an increased budget and improved inpatient conditions could lead to a better recovery rate while also subsiding the stigma. Dating back to the early 19th century‚ mental institutions have neglected giving the proper care to patients
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was not calculated for this group. Secondary outcome measures The acute care utilization measures were calculated from health plan claims data‚ and included the proportion of members with acute care hospital admissions‚ the rate of acute hospital inpatient days per 1000 members‚ proportion of members with an intensive care unit (ICU) stay during an acute hospitalization‚ proportion of members with emergency visits‚ the rate of emergency department visits per 1000 members‚ and rate of primary care and
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care services . Yet under the surface ‚ there is a growing crisis brewing in the emergency departments . Emergency departments are frequently overloaded ‚ with patients sometimes lining the hallways and waiting hours and even days to be admitted to inpatient beds . Ambulance diversions in which the overcrowded emergency departments often close their doors to incoming patients has also become a common problem . Method : analysis of the time studies conducted on value added and non value added time of
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© 2004 Milliman All Rights Reserved M I L L I M A N Research Report Obesity: A Big Problem Getting Bigger Kate Fitch‚ RN‚ MEd‚ CCM Bruce Pyenson‚ FSA‚ MAAA Steven Abbs Margaret Liang Peer Review by Tom Ruehle‚ FSA‚ MAAA; Kathy Zaharias‚ RN‚ MBA MILLIMAN RESEARCH REPORT March 2004 Obesity: A Big Problem Getting Bigger PAGE I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. DEFINITION OF OBESITY . . . . . . . . . . . .
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also was discharged from and including St. Joseph’s emergency room he is complaining of his right leg was collapsing on walk he represented to St. Joe’s ED on the 10th and at that time because of a history it was determined that he required acute inpatient admission. His medical history is significant for diabetes mellitus‚ hypertension‚ and dyslipidemia. He seen by the cardiologist
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1. Introduction 1.1. This Briefing Paper provides an analysis of the results of the survey of patients admitted to adult acute and PICU inpatient services. This is to understand their views following the implementation of a smoking ban in hospital environments through the Smoke Free policy in response to government legislation (Health Act 2006). The Care Quality Commission requires that all Trusts will promote good health for their service users‚ staff and visitors by providing a smoke free environment
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since the early 1980s‚ evolving over the years as a patient classification system. However‚ since October 1st‚ 2007‚ Medicare relies on the Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Group (MS-DRG) system to facilitate payments of services rendered for Medicare inpatients. The Beginning of MS-DRGs In the late 1960s‚ Yale University’s School of Management worked with Public Health to begin design and development of the DRG system. Initially‚ the goal of the DRG was to create an effective framework for monitoring
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with staff turnover‚ new employees and new equipment on order. Your CEO has requested a forecast of the human resource needs for North West Regional Hospital for the coming years. North West Regional Hospital (NWRH) is a purpose built‚ 180-bed inpatient facility and the largest regional hospital in the state. NWRH also has 15 outreach sites located throughout tropical‚ northern Australia‚ each of which employs approximately 17 individuals. In total‚ NWRH currently employs 700 people. Over the
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