Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Meghan Weir Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V Kristan Farley May 16‚ 2013 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm As the health care atmosphere changes‚ there has been a growing interest to closely examine how spirituality‚ values‚ and morals contribute to patient outcomes; specifically what it means to truly heal a patient. In the past‚ medical care was mostly geared towards curing our patients and their illnesses physically.
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CASE ANALYSIS: SHOULDICE HOSPITAL LIMITED Executive Summary: The Shouldice Hospital‚ Ontario‚ Canada is a pioneer in the field of treating patients suffering from external abdominal hernia. The speedy ambulation coupled with its reasonable price rates leads to satisfied patients publicizing the hospital by word of mouth. The issues that confront the hospital management are: ·Deciding on ways to meet the backlog of operations‚ by expanding the hospital’s capacity‚ while still maintaining control
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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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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction At a conference in 2012‚ Health Affairs Editor-in Chief Susan Dentzer affirmed‚ “It is well established now that one can in fact improve the quality of health care and reduce the costs at the same time” (Rickert‚ 2012). This is the principal concept of “patient centered care”. Health-care providers practicing patient centered care enhance not only patients’ medical outcomes‚ but increase patient satisfaction rates and improve the quality of the
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In hospitals like all businesses there are several levels or tiers to its structure and each level has its own sublevels that as a whole make up the facility. Hospitals are not just filled with Doctors and nurses there are many other aspects that go into the day to day operations. Beginning with the Administration aspect of a hospital‚ those in charge of the business portion of the facility‚ including human resources and billing/collections. These people include a board of directors‚ HR employees
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Chapter 41: Nursing Management: Obesity Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which statement by the nurse is most likely to help a morbidly obese 22-year-old man in losing weight on a 1000-calorie diet? a. “It will be necessary to change lifestyle habits permanently to maintain weight loss.” b. “You will decrease your risk for future health problems such as diabetes by losing weight now.” c. “You are likely to notice changes in how you feel with just a few weeks of diet and exercise.” d. “Most of the weight
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Nursing professionals are to be advocates for patients and always looking out for the patient’s best interest. Likewise‚ nurses should use the same example in their daily profession and strive to be the best professionally as he or she can be (ANA1). In doing so‚ nurses act as a leader without holding a leadership title. Leadership is defined as the use of individual traits and abilities to adapt to the environment or a particular situation and the ability to creatively solve problems identified
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Chapter 58: Nursing Management: Stroke Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. After a patient experienced a brief episode of tinnitus‚ diplopia‚ and dysarthria with no residual effects‚ the nurse anticipates teaching the patient about a. cerebral aneurysm clipping. b. heparin intravenous infusion. c. oral low-dose aspirin therapy. d. tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). ANS: C The patient’s symptoms are consistent with transient ischemic attack (TIA)‚ and drugs that inhibit platelet aggregation are prescribed
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Running head: HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PROGRAM Healing Hospital: A Daring Program Mary Manning Grand Canyon University Foundations of Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Patricia Mullen August 28‚ 2011 Healing Hospital: A Daring Program In today’s hospital environment‚ our main focus is placed on technology‚ medications and treating a diagnosis. Often patients are wheeled from one examination to another with little personal interaction received from their healthcare provider
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Nursing Management Assessment: Initial comprehensive assessment is completed on patient to establish the baseline and after that the assessment of the patient is continuous and systematic throughout patient care. Assessment is essential because it forms the information on patient database and helps the care team to provide evidenced based nursing care. Upon assessment of the heart transplant patient the subjective and objective data are collected and they include: Health history‚ physical examination
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