A1. Tracer Evaluation: The patient is a 67year old female that was re-admitted for a surgical infection following an abdominal hysterectomy. She was admitted to the facility seven days ago followed by a surgical procedure which was completed five days prior to this report. Patient is scheduled to be discharged with home health and IV antibiotics. This patient was selected for audit. Review of the chart shows that the patient’s H&P was completed on day 3 of the admission. Joint Commission hospital
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Pitfalls 1. Miss-specification: Rich-Con did not hire external consultant to help with their implementation process instead they completely relied on the vendors. The vendor did not have a standard implementation methodology and did not ask question to learn about Rich-Con’s as-is process. There was no CIO to overlook the implementation process. Marty Sawyer continued to operate as CIO and president often relying on new hires to guide vendors. 2. Lack of adoption: Rich-Con did not implement any
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Getting Rich Slowly Everybody wants to get rich quick(ly)! We can avoid hard work‚ discipline and sacrifice and spend the rest of our lives in the lap of luxury and having fun. One problem – it is very‚ very difficult to get rich quickly. It is almost always the case that when people try to get rich quickly‚ the wind up getting poor even more quickly. Let’s see why. How to acquire wealth: 1) Steal it. 2) Provide a service 3) Add value 4) Exploit Market inefficiencies 5) Gamble
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"Oh my God look at this rich countries just sitting there and watching the poor countries suffer."Don’t you think that this rich countries should wake up and start doing something to help these poor countries such as Haiti due to the Earthquake it went through and also many other countries. One reason rich countries should help these poor countries is because if you take Haiti for example after the earthquake they had in 2010 there were many damages done to people and land because Many buildings
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There has been much discussion about plastic surgeries. Some people get plastic surgery to look good‚ to be more confident‚ and to be young and beautiful. On the other side some people think that getting plastic surgery is an ugly trend. Some people may claim that there should not be more control on plastic surgery. Some may claim that plastic surgery makes people feel more confident. However‚ it is argued that because some plastic surgery ends with bad results and they may show many side effects
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pressure of looking the best you can in today’s society‚ people are striving to have that perfect picture face and eye-catching body that would make anybody jealous. Plastic surgery has always been seen as the "quick fix" for someone trying to look a certain way and in the past years‚ the amount of people who have gotten plastic surgery procedures has increased significantly. Individuals may say that plastic surgery is not an issue‚ but it is. These procedures cannot only harm the patients‚ but negatively
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appropriately deny patient information to an unknown caller? Too often‚ unauthorized people succeed in extracting protected information from health care providers. Invasion of privacy also affects noncelebrities‚ when anyone seeks health information the patient has not chosen to share. More often‚ though‚ scam artists seek patients’ billing information for financial gain. The patient’s insurance identifier is then used by an uninsured person to obtain medical services or by a fraudulent health care provider
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Having empathy with the patient can increase the comfort and trust in the provider-patient relationship and can also psychologically be better for the patients. Participants in this study were students from different universities. They watched a DVD simulation-based empathy workshop and then self reported their sympathy through a survey. The background section of this article goes over the differences between “emphatetic medical care” and just general care. In emphatetic medical care‚ the caregiver
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Informatics The use of informatics has become an essential component of providing quality healthcare. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has elected the use of informatics as its fifth and final core competency for healthcare providers. The utilization of informatics has become the main stream approach for nursing care today. This fifth core competency is directly intertwined with the four previous competencies that have been outlined by the IOM. Patient centered care is the first of the core competencies
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Plastic surgery is a very necessary form of surgery. It is needed by millions of Americans every year‚ not only to improve life‚ but in some cases‚ to save it. There are two types of plastic surgery: cosmetic and reconstructive. Cosmetic surgery consists of certain procedures used to “improve” a person’s natural features‚ or give a more youthful appearance‚ while reconstructive surgery is used to restore a person’s natural form after an appearance-altering event‚ such as disease‚ infection‚ cancer
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