Patient Centered Outcomes Nursing 300: Foundations of Professional Nursing By: Jayme Shulman‚ RN 0ctober 28‚ 2012 America’s health care system has become very complex with a rise in health costs‚ patients with complex medical issues‚ and Medicare cuts. Nurses must find a way to juggle the health care industry while maintaining positive patient outcomes. Patients will either have good or bad outcomes during or after their care based on the decisions of the nurse and the interdisciplinary
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Case Study #3: Agnes Gibbons was admitted through the hospital ’s emergency department with congestive heart failure. During her admission she was asked to verbally acknowledge whether her demographic data were correct. Ms. Gibbons did so. Extensive diagnostic tests were done‚ including radiology studies. It was later discovered that all of Ms. Gibbon ’s information had been entered into another client ’s file. How would you correct this situation? What departments‚ or other agencies‚ would
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Shows How Patient Portals Impact Patient Care Patient portals‚ which are secure web based applications‚ provide patients the ease of access to their health care records at any time. Some portals include features such as‚ obtaining prescription refills and lab results‚ and communicating with their provider. With close to 80% of the population in North America using the internet to seek out health information‚ portals continue to gain popularity. The use of portals and personal health record systems
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SECURITY MEASURES AND AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS Anita Crawford-Cowan Submitted To: Professor Kevin Reynolds SEC571 Principles of Information Security and Privacy Keller Graduate School of Management Submitted: September 21‚ 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Company Overview Page 1 Security Vulnerabilities Page 2 Policy Vulnerabilities Page 2 Hardware Vulnerabilities Page 3 References Page 4
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UNIVERSITY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MASTERS IN HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (MHA) PATIENT SAFETY Individual Assignment 1 SUBMITTED BY: Regan Ramkissoon PS57095 April 12th 2013 Patient Safety Assignment Background SUMMARY OF INCIDENT On Friday 27th January 2012‚ a young mother was trying to get her ailing twenty one month old baby to the hospital. The child was an outpatient of the San Fernando General Hospital as he had three holes in his heart and an enlarged liver. Earlier that
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Unit 5: Principles of safeguarding and protectionin health and social care settings 1.1 & 1.2 Physical abuse is a deliberate use of physical force that results in bodily injury pain or impairments. Sgns of physical abuse can be burns and scalds‚ marks on the skin consistent with being slapped‚ scratched‚ bitten or pinched.Sexual abuse is direct or indirect involvementin sexual activity without valid consent. Signs of sexual abuse could be sexual transmitted disease‚unexplained crying and distress
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of Professional Nurses: Informed Consent Informed consent is used as a safeguard to ensure the patient’s understanding of the care or procedure needed to treat a medical issue. It also ensures the patient’s understanding of any adverse effects that can occur due to the care or procedure needed. Verbal consent is usually obtained at the bedside when discussing what minor procedures or tasks need to be done‚ drawing blood‚ for example. Signed informed consents are mainly used for nonemergent
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nduces death a. Defining Sickness: Defining Health i . Important to define health‚ because quality of care relates to healthiness. Go to get care for preventive reasons and also to get healthy ii. Definition of health 1) Class discussion a) Physically fit b) Disease free c) The norm in regards to blood pressure‚ cholesterol‚ weight‚ etc. i) Who defines normal i i) Does the norm change? d) Organs are healthy 2) World Health Org: defines health as "a state of complete physical‚ mental and
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One of many reasons why IP laws should be protected is to allow the creators of an IP to benefit from their work. Every owner of invention or any kind of IP should be entitled to the later profit and to market and promote their own product‚ weather it is a painting‚ or exhibit or a business system. Protecting IP is also seen as a method of promoting creativity. When no one is allowed to copy another person’s work without permission then creativity is encouraged for everybody. IP threats Any public
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Patient Bill of Rights All patients have the right to receive safe service that respects all of their core values. This paper will focus on the patient’s bill of rights. It will explain it meaning and how it is set in place to aid the patient. This paper will list two obligations found in the bill of rights. It will also explain which rights are currently provided in the sanction of law. The basic rights of human beings‚ such as concern for personal dignity‚ are always of great importance
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