Policy changes Like many other hospitals‚ Memorial waited for help to come from the National Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). FEMA is expected to provide guidance in natural and man-made disasters‚ furthermore‚ they are not meant to take over situations (Shoup‚ 2005). In advance of the disaster the then Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco wrote to President Bush requesting a disaster declaration to allow federal assistance. The emergency responses were delayed by
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Working on the ICU: Nurse Staffing The process of going to college‚ studying to become a nurse‚ and ultimately finding a position in our ever growing‚ competitive work field is quite the challenge. Now that the beginning stages of our career have been completed and we have secured our positions as an ICU nurse‚ we face a different dilemma daily within the workplace; understaffing. We have lost three nurses and currently‚ those positions will not be re-filled‚ leaving the workload to fall onto our
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system‚ nurse staffing is a big concern in the U.S. The inadequate nurse staffing has been linked to poor patient outcomes and quality of care‚ job dissatisfaction among nurses‚ and so forth. Therefore‚ the implementation of adequate nurse staffing may be a solution to improve these outcomes. However‚ there is lack of evidence that the safe and effect nurse staffing. • Define your question using PICO: Narrative form: In hospitals and nursing homes‚ will the implementation of optimal nurse staffing
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Nurse Staffing Ratios In the United States‚ nurses constitute the largest percentage among the total workforce of the healthcare system. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2013) reported that there were almost 3.3 million registered nurses and licensed practice nurses employed in nursing between 2008 and 2010. Nurses are very important part of healthcare delivery system and ensure operation of healthcare facilities. They have the greatest contact and direct involvement with the patient
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Nurses are turning increasingly to staffing agencies to find employment. Many hospitals and other healthcare facilities go through cycles of hiring personnel and then laying them off when budget cuts come down at the end of the fiscal year. This leaves many nurses unemployed while there is an increasing need for their talent. One of the challenges for staffing agencies that handle nursing positions is having the capacity to add personnel when demand increases. If cash flows are tight‚ adding additional
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Executive Summary Change in an organization is not only inevitable but necessary and it is no different for Huntington Memorial Hospital. To continue offering quality of care that is evidence based and that delivers on the unique value proposition in line with its mission‚ Huntington Memorial Hospital is switching to an automated and electronic prescription system. This system will inject effectiveness in the organization‚ reduce human errors greatly and will also enable the organization to deliver
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1. Discuss TWO of the following staffing/scheduling practices and how they can support patient care: With the best healthcare organizations‚ we have today‚ staffing and scheduling are very challenging issues that these organizations still face. Researchers from the last 10 years or so shows the importance of adequate registered nurse staffing in accomplishing good patient outcomes‚ safety‚ and satisfaction. Better RN staffing and not too overworked‚ have been shown to reduce patient mortality‚ enhance
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Memorial Hospital Bus644: Operations Management Vanessa Washington Khrista Richards June 8‚ 2015 In this assignment I will be discussing the case study in our text on “Memorial Hospital”. I will be looking at the ways the hospital might measure quality. I will also explain the potential costs and failures of quality for Memorial Hospital and discuss how each can be measured. I will be looking at the ideas or techniques from TQM that Janice could use to help Memorial focus on providing
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According to (O’Rourke‚ chp.10‚ pg.8)‚ Culture is composed of material objects‚ ideas‚ values‚ and attitudes: and expected patterns of behavior. It is through our culture‚ that communication beings‚ the older you become that does not change‚ but gets more difficult. In the article Cross-Cultural Communication in the Workplace: can we stay home without it‚ (Kudirka‚ Joi Constance‚1989 pg1). points out there must be training in cultural diversity in the workplace. It is a integrate tool
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Staffing Plan Paper Giselle Walton MGT431 October 12‚ 2010 Lori Gardner Staffing Plan Paper Appropriate staffing can be the key to success for many organizations therefore‚ the human resources (HR) department must develop a staffing plan. In this paper I will develop a staffing plan for a new division at T-Mobile called Loyalty. Loyalty will consist of marketing‚ customer service‚ distribution‚ and accounting. Specific strategies to recruit the appropriate applicants including the legal compliance
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