...Another study identified several other factors that take a financial burden on the health care system, including property damage, increased security, litigation, and workers’ compensation (Gates, Gillespie, & Succop, 2011). The workplace environment itself has been shown to affect feelings of safety among nursing staff in EDs . Howerton Child & Sussman (2017) incorporated a criminological theory into their study. In summary, the Broken Windows Theory states that when lower levels of crime or violence are accepted in society, it inadvertently creates a societal tolerance of higher levels of violence. As stated in the Joint Position Statement by the CNA and CFNU, “every workplace should have a culture that promotes and cultivates a respectful...
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...Professional Roles and Values Project Melony Nowatka Western Governors University C304 A. Functional Differences The Illinois Board of Nursing is a regulatory agency that has 13 appointed members, which are appointed by the Governor’s office (Board of Nursing, n.d.). The roles of the Illinois Board of Nursing are “making recommendations on the adoption of revisions to the rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act, conducting hearings and disciplinary conferences upon charges calling for discipline of a licensee, and recommending approval or denial of nursing education programs” (Board of Nursing, n.d.). The American Nurses Association Illinois (ANA-Illinois) is an organization that advocates for all nurses. The board is elected not appointed by a state agency. The purpose of ANA-Illinois is “to protect the practice of nursing by ensuring that nursing’s priorities are incorporated into legal and regulatory decisions” (ANA-Illinois, 2015). B. Nursing Code Examples The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics influences my nursing practice daily. The respect for human dignity is a code that I follow with every patient and family member. It helps guide me in situations where I may be frustrated with the choices a patient makes regarding his or her health, or the lifestyle the patient chooses to live. A nurse is not a judge. We are there to advocate and care for our patients. We, as nurses, are to “practice with compassion...
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...Advanced Information Management Western Governors University February 21, 2016 Regulation placed upon the healthcare system only seek to improve safety and security of the patients we care for. The enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and the enactment of Meaningful Use Act the United States government has set strict regulations on the security of health information and has allotted for stricter penalties for non-compliance. The advancement of electronic health record (EHR) systems has brought greater fluidity and compliance with healthcare but has also brought greater security risk of protected information. In order to ensure compliance with government standards organizations must adapt technologies such as CPOE and EHR. The use of such technologies also require organizations to develop policies and safeguards to protect both themselves but the community they serve. Team Members and Responsibilities To ensure success in the merger of the health care system, a team of highly trained and competent members will be needed. An implementation manager would be the leader of the team, responsible for keeping the project on schedule, keeping a list of practice issues that need to be resolved, scheduling go live dates, and also be responsible to delegate task to other members of the implementation team. A physician lead is another valuable member of the implementation team. Acting as a liaison between physicians and the implementation...
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... This was also the time of great playwrights such as Aristophanes, Sophocles and Aeschylus. How did the Greeks maintain familial ties in a culture with more sexual freedom and seemingly non-existent sexual stigma than today? Grecian Patriarchal Society: Although the Grecian people valued family life, Greek society was stalwartly patriarchal in its social-political structure. The men of Greece coveted the aesthetic of the male form and enjoyed nude wrestling in the arena. Grecian men often shared what we today would call “Homoerotic” or “Homosexual” experiences, Indecorous witticisms illustrated in the compositions of Aristophanes and many other playwrights. Sexual fluidity among men was an intrinsic characteristic of Grecian society. In the Iliad Homer tells the story of Achilles, his unrelenting Rage, and his love for Patroclus. It has long been questioned whether or not The two men were romantically involved but characterization of their relationship fits will in the ancient Grecian social affectation, Paiderasteia (Not to be confused with the modern Daniel Smithson HIS-321 (Ancient World of Greece & Rome) Analysis...
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...Helyear and Lee (2012), suggest redesigning the approach to safety so it includes everyone. Combine the patient safety committee that looks at environmental safety and employee issues into one committee that evaluates and makes recommendations to promote culture of safety. Enact a safe patient-handling program that shows nurses you care about them and their ability to work without the risk of injury as well as protecting patients from improper handling and injury. Make the safety program visible and universal, including all shifts and arenas Managerial changes/ Leadership Strategies Preparing nurse managers for the challenging role of leading the future workforce is going to assume a new look. According to Wieck et al. (2010), the young workforce wants to be led, not managed. Nurse managers need to be mentored to develop and transform management skills into leadership behaviors. They will need support and motivation to effectively communicate their interest in developing staff potential, encouraging staff participation in decision-making, expressing respect for the individual effort and achievement, which were indicated to be desirable for all age groups. Nurse managers must begin to see positive reinforcement on a daily basis as a skill essential to effectively retaining younger staff. Attention to leading the multigenerational workforce must be part of the ongoing development off current nurse managers as well as an essential building block of the orientation of future nurse...
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...North Mississippi Health Services is a diversified regional health care organization, which serves 24 counties in north Mississippi and northwest Alabama from headquarters in Tupelo, Miss. The NMHS organization covers a broad range of acute diagnostic and therapeutic services, offered through North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo; a community hospital system with locations in Eupora, Iuka, Pontotoc, and West Point, Miss., and Hamilton Ala.; North Mississippi Medical Clinics, a regional network of more than 30 primary and specialty clinics; and nursing homes. NMHS offers a comprehensive portfolio of managed care plans. Educational programs and early intervention are important aspects of our services, but our main focus is to provide convenient access to quality health care. NMHS works to achieve its corporate mission to improve the health of the people of this region by providing conveniently accessible, cost-effective health care of the highest quality. NMHS is a 2012 recipient of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. We are a distinctive IT leader. Buildings and services are linked through a role model MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS) (F.4.2-2). NMHS began building its comprehensive MIS in 1975 and the system includes 7,000 desktop PCs, 2,000 laptops/notebooks, 2,000 printers, 300 medication barcode scanners, a WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN), auto paging and faxing services, remote dial-up access, wireless notebook computers and systemwide email. We...
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...Week Eight Assignment Tracey Petersen MAOL 545 June 2015 Mentoring is the “in” thing (Colley, 2000). It has become highly popular in professional settings in the last decade. According to The Center for Creative Leadership, “77 % of U.S. companies have implemented formal mentoring programs (Karasik, 2010). In the current global professional climate, it seems that our employees and team members are our greatest assets (www.mentoringtalent.com). Mentoring programs can enable team members to reach their fullest potential. Traditionally, the concept of mentoring has been informal; formalizing it in an organizational setting has its challenges, but also rewards. There have been many attempts at defining the concept of mentoring, but for Nathalie Gehrke, author of “Towards a Definition of Mentoring”, none seem to fully embrace the essence of the concept. Gehrke started out with this initial definition: “A mentor acts as a coach, much like in athletics, advising and teaching the political nuts and bolts, giving feedback and rehearsing strategies” (Gehrke, 1990, p.190) .The best way to define a mentor is to experience the mentor/protégé relationship The relationship with the mentor inspires employees to seek new questions, not answers. Loading...The greatest gift a mentor can do for a protégé is offer a “new and whole way of seeing things” (Gehrke, 1990, p.192). Mentoring is a fluid and ever changing concept. There are no rules to define it. The insights, knowledge and services...
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...Investigation Research In British Pantomime how might the actors playing the roles of Hansel and Gretel in the traditional tale, create the unique actor audience relationship that this theatrical genre relies on? What’s the relationship between actors and audience? In every theatrical performance the manner in which each individual actor treats the audience establishes, sustains or varies a particular kind of actor-audience relationship between them. In some plays all of the actors may adopt the same attitude towards the audience (for example, the entire cast of a production of a Chekhovian drama will usually ignore the audience until the curtain call); in other plays the performers create a range of different relationships towards the audience (for example, most Shakespearean dramas have certain characters who frequently adopt a downstage ‘platea’ playing position that is in direct contact with the audience, while other characters behave as if unaware of the audience’s presence). Audience is an essential part of the theatrical event. With the actor it comprises one of the two indispensable elements of theatre. There seems to be no dispute over this fact. Yet the audience is the most elusive element of the theatre to deal with, source material is scarce and complex; it does not submit to simple analysis or definition. Primary sources tend to mention curiosities connected with the extravagant behavior of spectators, or to ignore the audience altogether. But in...
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...for breast development and other secondary sex characteristics. The early onset of puberty does not have a single cause. It can be caused by a variety of factors, or even a combination of multiple factors. One of the factors that may be involved is a genetic mutation in a Lutropin Hormone receptor gene. The mutation in the LH receptor gene results in continuous production of testosterone, which causes early onset of the secondary sex characteristics to begin in young males (Heger, Partsch, and Sippell, 1999). There are many environmental factors that may lead to early maturation, such as the contact and prevalence of toxins and chemicals. Phthalates are used in many plastics and synthetic lubrications to increase their flexibility and fluidity. One study found that high phthalate levels in urine samples were related to early puberty in females. These chemicals...
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...defining feature and core of occupational therapy practice is the use of occupation to improve health status” (Joosten, 2015) (Kielhofner, 2009). All of these aspects result in an incredibly unique and diverse field that offers rehabilitation that is more focused on helping, or re- teaching, patients or clients how to do the meaningful activities of the patient’s or client’s daily life with an approach that is personalized to each patient or client so that the exercises and therapy routines are important and have true significance to them. In this way, the field of occupational therapy is more occupation centered and goal oriented as opposed to range-of-motion oriented like a Physical therapy or overall physical health and well-being like Nursing. In other words, “occupational therapy practitioners ask, "What matters to you?" not, "What's the matter with you?" (What is Occupational Therapy?, 2015). “Depending on what the problem is, the occupational therapist can help [the patient] solve [improve functional abilities] by: helping [the patient] overcome [the] disability, adapting the material or equipment [the patient uses], or recommending changes to the environments where [the patient does his or her] occupations (How Does Occupational Therapy Help?, 2015). For example, “[c]ommon occupational therapy interventions include helping children with disabilities to participate fully in school and social situations, helping people recovering from injury to regain skills, and providing...
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...Case Study - Sometimes a Simple Change Isn’t So Simple Regina Pierson Berkeley College School of Graduate Studies November 22nd 2015 Introduction Central Hospital in Tempe, Arizona decided to implement a computerized Medication Administration Record (MAR) into one of their small locations before rolling it out to the entire organization. Art Baxter, the Chief Information Officer in charge of Medical Information Systems (MIS) at Central Hospital assigned Kate Cohen, a programmer and analyst, as the Project Manager. Kate formed a project team but failed to include representatives from departments that were going to use the system. Unfortunately, the key stake holder/users did not have a seat at the table. Even though the project team members Kate selected were all on board and had goal interdependence they lacked the ability and skill sets necessary to execute the task at hand. Early in the project the team expressed concerns with the target rollout date. Their concerns were raised to Art but were ignored. The project team continued to work towards creating MARs and did so within a year. MARs failed the first day it became available to Central Hospital staff. It failed for a couple of reasons. First and most importantly, Art Baxter (the CIO) was incompetent, inexperienced and refused to take the advice of his project manager. This case highlights how critical creating the right team with the right people, planning, and vision are to the success of a project...
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...Pathophysiology The brain is made up neurons that are interconnected to form a vase network. These connections known as synapses enable the transmission of information from one neuron to another. In Alzheimer’s disease, ten to fifteen years before the appearance of the symptoms, two main lesions form in the brain, which are senile plaque’s that are composed of Beta-Amyloid protein, and neurofibrillary tangle’s that are composed of Tau protein. On the surface of a neuron is a large protein called APP. Normally, APP is sectioned by enzymes on the surface of the neuron and it frees a protein called Amyloid-Beta. The amyloid-beta protein is then cleared in the body. In the case of Alzheimer’s disease there is an imbalance as the amyloid-beta protein is no longer regulated and is found in two greater quantities. The protein is assembled to form insoluble fibrils and create Senile Plaques. When a neuron communicates with another a signal goes from the body known as soma to the synapse to transfer the information. The signal passes through the skeleton of the neuron composed of microtubules. These microtubules are stabilized by normal towel protein. In Alzheimer’s disease, Tau protein becomes defective and detaches from the microtubules. Thus, the skeleton of the neuron dissociates, as it is no longer maintained. Defective tau protein is then assembled to form filaments in the neuron. Without the skeleton the neurons degenerate and connections between the neurons are lost. The abnormal...
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...healthy work force, able to deliver only poor and medium results. This is the reason for which we should do our best to manage as good as possible for higher quality and continuous improvement. This paper presents Romanian payment and compensation system in comparison with some other countries’ systems and ways to improving quality of health services. Quality of Romanian and other countries health systems Medical care in Romania is generally not up to Western standards, and basic medical supplies are limited, especially outside major cities. Some medical providers that meet Western quality standards are available in Bucharest and other cities but can be difficult to locate. Sanitary conditions in hospitals are variable. Nursing care and assistance from orderlies is often lacking in hospitals. In Romania, the patient is paying medical services by the monthly contribution to the health insurance fund (from which the state pays the public physicians), paying other self-willing contributions but also by suffering of some possible in-hospital complications caused by the poor quality of the medical process itself. Into this...
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...Introduction The United States of America’s national anthem the “Star Spangled Banner” and the “Pledge of Allegiance” state that the United States is “land of the free” with “liberty and justice for all.” Yet, the United States houses 25 percent of the world’s inmates even though it only houses five percent of the world’s population (Martensen, 2012). Additionally the fundamental concept of the United States Criminal Justice System is that an individual is “innocent” until proven guilty. This makes one question whether, people in the United States are really held to this standard, or are certain people more prone to crime in the land of opportunity and freedom? Our society is built around the societal norms of the dominant white group and racial and ethnic inequalities are intertwined in every aspect of our society causing minority groups to struggle against a society built around white privilege. Prevalence Minorities in comparison to their population in the United States are incriminated at a higher rate than Whites. Spohn (2000) stated that “a majority of the studies reviewed…found that African Americans and Hispanics were more likely than Whites to be sentenced to prison, even after taking crime seriousness and prior criminal records into account” (as cited in Hartney & Vuong, 2009, p.10). In 2010, racially the United States population identified as being comprised of 196.8 million Whites who identified as White alone (69.1%), 38.9 million Blacks or African Americans...
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...os St. Catherine Specialty Hospital Designing the Future of IP-based Healthcare Data Networks _________________ Project Charter Document with Scope Table of Contents A. General Project Information Page 3. B. Project Objectives -Project Mission Statement -Business Case -Problem Statement -Goal Statement -Definition of Terms Target Project Goals Page 4. Acceptance to Terms of Deliverables Key Project Directives Page 5. C. Project Assumptions Page 6. Telecommunication Location Specification Page 8. Telecommunication Room Specifications Telecommunication Power Requirements Additional Network Requirements Page 9. Project Deliverables Page 12. D. Project Scope Page 14. ScopeAgenda Fulfilling IP Convergence Requirements Network Verification Requirements Page 16. Work Area Designations Infectious Control Requirements Page 17. Cable Run Specifications Page 18. Scope Exclusions Page 20. E. Project Milestones Page 21. F. Impact Statement Page 22. G. Roles & Responsibilities Page 23. H. Resources Page 24. I. Project Risks Page 25. J. Success Measurements Page 26. K. Project Participant Signatures Page 27. A. - General Information Project Title: | St. Catherine Specialty Hospital - Network and Data Infrastructure | Brief Project Description: | New hospital...
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