Emergency Department Bottleneck Proposal Joyan Thomas University of Phoenix Online OPS/HC 571 Patience McGee March 7‚ 2011 Emergency Department Bottleneck Proposal Introduction Most hospitals experience the affects of the unexpected‚ ambiguity and uncertainty‚ and as a result‚ face challenges with quality. Middletown Hospital is a 200-bed general not-for-profit hospital. The hospital has a 20-bed Emergency Department (ED). It averages 100 patients per day. The CEO of the hospital
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The Role of Gov’t Why does every country have a form of government? Is it the pack mentality found in many animals? Do humans instinctively look for some form of leadership? What is the purpose of having a government? Is it to regulate what people do‚ to protect its citizens‚ or to maintain a stable economy? Isn’t it the government’s responsibility to protect the citizens under its rule? Isn’t it the reason most governments are established? Many governments offer some form of program to protect
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Your Emergency Alert System As a business owner‚ you want to secure your investments – not just the business itself‚ but your properties and people as well. Knowing how important it is to have an emergency preparedness plan‚ you do your research and get the emergency alert system that you think will best serve your specific needs. However‚ getting the most updated notification tool is not all there is to emergency preparedness; you must also take action to get the best out of your emergency alert
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Emergency Care Nursing Emergency rooms are known for their long waits and lack of competent staff. Over the past years emergency care departments have revamped their systems in order to correct these flaws. A leading factor in this change is the presence of more nursing staff on the floor of the emergency room. Nurses have gone from having little power when it comes to patient diagnoses‚ to running their own non-life-threatening treatment facilities. Without these men and women emergency care
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months ago‚ a patient arrived in the emergency room on a stretcher with symptoms of face drooping‚ arm weakness‚ and speech difficulty. The emergency room physician‚ who also specialized in neurology‚ immediately suspected that the patient suffered from a stroke. Stroke occurs when the blood flow to a certain part of the brain is blocked‚ which causes the blood vessels to burst or leak within the brain. This leak of blood in the brain causes nerve cells to die (“What is Stroke?” 1). To confirm his doubts
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About: - Epinephrine has several uses‚ including increasing ventilation of lungs through relief of bronchodilation‚ increasing cardiac output‚ increasing systolic blood pressure‚ dilating blood vessels involved in crisis response - Clinically‚ epinephrine plays a lifesaving role in countering the effects of anaphylactic shock. It relaxes smooth muscle‚ though at different receptors. Physical Properties: - high boiling points and melting points compared to hydrocarbons of similar size -water
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TEAMWORK What is a Team? A group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task‚ job‚ or project. IMPORTANCE OF TEAMS Teams promote equality among individuals‚ encouraging a positive attitude and trust. The diversity inherent in teams often provides unique perspectives on work‚ spontaneous thought‚ and creativity. Teams develop a greater sense of responsibility for achieving goals and performing tasks. Teams can provide the capacity for rapid response. TYPES
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advice from my grandparents. They grew up in the 1960s and 1970s and come from a time of revolutionary ideas and social reform. Influenced by their time‚ they gave me the greatest piece of advice I will ever receive: “Be kind to everyone‚ you never know what is happening in their lives.” Due to those meaningful words my whole demeanor has changed and I treat people with even more kindness and respect. On a grander scale‚ her majesty Queen Elizabeth II grants her kin with timeless advice. Since she is ninety
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What are the strengths and challenges of teams at work? Team work has been the biggest development in management of human resources for organizations in the past few decades (Mohrman‚ Cohen and Mohrman‚ 1995). It has been implemented in a wide variety of spheres and the growth of the popularity is still ongoing. It is obvious that these changes have not happened without a reason‚ there is something to team work that is attracting every manager like kids to an ice-cream car. Before I continue
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The Finale It was on April 18th that I had my third‚ and final‚ interview. The doctor that I interviewed was Dr. Anita Kulkarni‚ of the Santa Clara Emergency Room. Dr. Kulkarni and I got along well‚ talking about the hardships of being an Emergency Doctor‚ especially a female doctor‚ the goodness in the career‚ and the relationships that goes into the career. The doctor and I‚ however‚ had been conversing for some time before the interview was actually held. The two of us could not find a time
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