analyzing the number of hospital beds per 1k population in Florida and trying to come up with some interesting findings which will help com-paring Florida with rest of the US and if possible will lead to a predictive model showing how different driving factors are related with the number of hospital beds per 1k population in Florida. Summary Statistics and Explanation • Number of hospital beds per 1k population has been calculated taking the ratio of Total number of hospital beds in a country to the
Premium Medicine Health care Patient
In the 1800s people with mental illness were thought to be insane. Patients were placed inside institutes similar to a prison they were beaten and abused as a way of trying to cure them. Some families would try and take care of their ill family member(s) to avoid treatment at an institution. Though workers of the institute had tried to keep the ways of treatment secretive; many people did not know of the treatment in Mental institutes and had been curious about what it was like for those inside of
Premium Mental disorder Psychiatry Psychology
Blake Memorial Hospital in Marksville recently hired Bruce Reid as their new CEO. The hospital and its clinics are not generating enough income. The hospital’s costs is rising‚ the quality of care is declining and is not generating enough revenue to cover the expenses. Bruce Reid was given a $70 million budget to improve the financial health of Blake Memorial and improve the quality of healthcare services. He was allowed only less than a week to finalize the budget and present it to the board members
Premium Health care Hospital Health care provider
A woman can either be a ball-cutter or a whore. The novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” written by Ken Kesey is set in a psychiatric hospital in Oregon around the 1960’s. The hospital is its own small world of regulations‚ routine‚ and discipline ruled over by Nurse Ratched‚ also known as Big Nurse. All the patients in the ward are believed to have mental illnesses of some sort‚ a few are “victims of matriarchy” according to Harding. Thus the female characters in the novel can be divided into
Premium One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Psychiatric hospital Gender
shock from the speed and lack of noise of American cars‚ to the short tempered cab driver that threatens him with a gun (Verghese‚ 2009‚ p.464). Marion was familiar with the Missing Hospital in Africa‚ and nearly oblivious to the fact that Our Lady of Perpetual Succour was understaffed and poor compared to other hospitals (Verghese‚ 2009‚ p. 467). However‚ Marion seemed to truly enjoy the long hours of caring for patient’s that Missing wouldn’t have been able to treat despite the vast amount of crime
Premium Health care provider Health care Medicine
New York Presbyterian Hospital‚ like many medical facilities‚ found it needed to have information flow freely. Information is gathered from the moment the patient is admitted in the hospital until discharge. This information needs to be accessible to all interested parties that come in contact with the patient. The survey pointed out that both the physician and the nursing staff needs to know certain patient specific information. Lab results and other test results are cited by both the physician
Premium Medicine Medical history Physician
the kid to nursery school‚ I’ve got an apartment. I’ve got furniture” (pg. 163). With this quote‚ the author establishes that not only did Lisa get out of McLean hospital‚ but she has a child of her own that she is taking care of very well. This demonstrates Lisa’s independence because it shows how she was able to get out of the hospital‚ and make a life of her own instead of depending on the attendants working at the facility. Also‚ Kaysen refers to a few incidents where Lisa is put in seclusion
Premium Psychiatry Borderline personality disorder Psychiatric hospital
The Boston Prison Discipline Society was founded by Dwight in 1825. Their goal was to improve the quality of life for prisoners. The society advocated publicly for better prison and jail conditions. The society also advocated for hospitals for mentally ill prisoners. The society collected facts and statistics on prisons. They would visit them personally to obtain this informational data. Some of the goals of the society was for the prisoners to have separated cells at nighttime‚ the
Premium Mental disorder Psychiatry Sociology
Attitudes Toward Mental Illness 18th and 19th Century England During the late 18th and early 19th centuries‚ attitudes toward the mentally ill and their treatment varied throughout England. Almost all private and public asylums at this time upheld a policy of inhumane behavior towards patients‚ and questionable medical practices. The general public‚ for the most part‚ tolerated these methods‚ and even engaged in humiliating the mentally ill for entertainment. New techniques for treatment of
Premium Mental disorder Psychiatry Psychiatric hospital
the first woman to gradute from the university of rome medical school and qualify as a doctor” (Flood & Hardy.2013) Montessori realised the importance of providing children with the right stimulation from her work wiith vunerable children in a psychiatric clinic in rome . Many of Montessori’s innovative ideas and materials for education came from the time she spent working with mentally disabled children in 1898 as co-director of an orthophrenic school. In 1904 she spent time at a day care centre
Premium Montessori method Maria Montessori Pedagogy