University of Phoenix NUR 443 Evidence-Based Nursing Research and Practice June 18‚ 2012 Jacquelyn Zirbes University of Phoenix Material Literature Search Worksheet * Select a literature search topic relevant to your practice. The topic must be sufficiently delineated in scope without being trivial. You will revisit this article in the Week Five presentation. Possible topics include but are not limited to: * * Non-pharmacological pain relief with childbirth * Effects of
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Operations Improvement Plan XXXXXXX MBA6022 Strategic Operations Management Address: XXXXXXXXXXXXx E-mail: xxxxx Instructor: Dr. Zhimin Huang Abstract This operation improvement plan is to help improve the internal communication process at Toyota between their employees and management. There has been a loss of ideas and knowledge‚ which is a complete violation of their founding principles defined in the Toyota Way. With the suggested recommendations
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Part A The quality Improvement Plan is initiated once a problem has been identified. All the facts must be gathered about the situation‚ and a decision must be made about which clinical areas will be monitored. Also‚ care outcomes and customer feedback should be taken into consideration. Quality improvement uses data and the process that must be chosen should be one that can be measured to monitor the quality improvement. For a good performance equation‚ there must be a good statement chosen for
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how CQI has been introduce in your organization. If it has yet to be introduced‚ describe how you would introduce it referencing these three methods. Answer According to the Study Guide there are three ways to introduce Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): 1. The quiet or whisper launch. It is suggested that “this is an effective way to begin if the staff or an organization are very cynical and do not trust new management programs.[1] The senior team launches their CQI program
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below. Please make yourself aware of questions for interview and for analysis before conducting the interview. This interview is designed for students who are learning about diversity. Preparation Find someone who meets all three criteria: at least 7 years older or younger than you are; doing work that you may not imagine yourself doing; and culturally distinctly different from you. Conducting the Interview Your goal is to get the person talking. Listen for what is said‚ what is implied‚ and what
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NUR 353: Information Management in Healthcare Please use this document to supplement the information in the course syllabus: 1. There are two multiple choice examinations‚ each worth 100 points. Each exam consists of 35 questions and each question is worth 2 points and you have 90 minutes to complete the open book exam. Please note this course and the test questions are based on the 5th edition of the Hebda & Czar textbook(2013). Exam review will be for three days and will begin
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NURSING CARE PLAN Nurs 326 SFSU Student Name: Alena Makarava Instructor/Clinical Site Gerardo Caritan‚ RN‚ MSN Date: 2/26/2015 Ms. X is a 34 year old female. The patient is a G3 P2‚ with both children delivered by C-section‚ with the only complication in both being low birth weights. Ms. X has a longstanding history of hypertension‚ anxiety and depression. Additional health history includes a vitamin D deficiency‚ back surgery in 05/06 due to a herniated disc‚ and two previous cesarean
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References: Ambroggio‚ L.‚ White‚ C. M.‚ Thomson‚ J.‚ Murtagh Kurowski‚ E.‚ Courter‚ J.‚ Statile‚ A.‚ & Shah‚ S. S. (2013). Quality improvement methods increase appropriate antibiotic prescribing for childhood pneumonia. Pediatrics‚ 131(5)‚ e1623. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2013). Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/antibiotic-use/antibiotic-resistance-faqs
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Continuous improvement in a management context means a never-ending effort to expose and eliminate root causes of problems. Usually‚ it involves many incremental or small-step improvements rather than one overwhelming innovation. From a Japanese perspective continuous improvement is the basis for their business culture. Continuous improvement is a philosophy‚ permeating the Japanese culture‚ which seeks to improve all factors related to the transformation process (converting inputs into outputs)
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ABSTRACT The objective of this thesis was to gain a better understanding of the physical process of ground improvement by vibro-replacement and of how the induced changes in ground conditions affect the interpretation of seismic cone penetration testing used to assess its effectiveness. This was achieved by a combination of field testing and monitoring supported by numerical modelling of both the vibro-replacement process and of in situ testing. Field measurements were made of the input motions created
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