Patient Safety Project Week Six Dawn Frizell NURS/588 Linda Horton University of Phoenix Patient Safety Project Week Six Executive Summary One out of five falls results in major injuries such as fractures and head trauma. Medical cost for such falls are $34 billion yearly, and hospital cost account for two-thirds of the total of falls (CDC, 2013)
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The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provides an exhaustive list of guidelines to ensure that healthcare agencies act in the most effective ways, to avoid violation of privacy as it relates to patient’s health information. Naturally, home health agencies are held to this standard as well. Therefore, it is the job of management to develop methods and policies to protect their patients. While privacy has proven to be a challenge for a number of health care entities, the
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legalities and overall functionality. Compared to its predecessor ERMA is was still in its infancy and had a long way to go before it would be meet the minimum requirements necessary not only for correctional care, but also to maintain all the professional accreditations that come with being able to properly document and care for patients being detained in correctional facilities. There have been many challenges and setbacks to introducing, implementing and managing the ERMA program. From its
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company created during the Great Depression when the founder saw an opportunity to market wooden hospital furniture to local hospitals in Indiana. The company rapidly expanded from there, creating innovative new products in response to the needs of the nurses and patients company representatives came into contact with every day (Hill-Rom, n.d.). The company’s large array of products are centered on a single company mission, to “make a positive difference in the lives of patients and those who care for
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Natural disasters happen periodically throughout different regions of the world. Electronic disaster recovery plans preserve the accuracy, integrity, and validity of patient medical records when emergencies destroy original doctor notes, and hand-written patient charts. Many businesses lost important records during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, however; “Until the overwhelming destruction of Hurricane Katrina occurred, most businesspeople never even thought about their records management needs” (Cadence
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HEALTH SCIENCE JOURNAL ® VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4 (2011) The Value and Significance of Knowing the Patient for Professional Practice, according to the Carper’s Patterns of Knowing Marianna Mantzorou 1, Dimos Mastrogiannis 2 1. RN, MSc, Lecturer, Department of Nursing Β΄, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, Greece 2. RN, MSc, Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Lamia, Greece Abstract Background: Τhe scientific value of man relies upon an extension
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Ethics in Nursing Practice, Values and Decision Making Name Name of College Abstract Nurses work with a wide range of patients, and each patient presents their own economic, social and cultural differences. While nurses work to provide care for the sick, injured and dying, they are always working within the boundaries of their professional codes of ethics. The nursing code of ethics is more than laws and common etiquette, and upholding the code of ethics is understood and agreed upon by people
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potential dilemma that the APN can encounter. Informing people that they have a life-threatening illness is a trying experience for any practitioner. Other areas where the APN might experience ethical dilemmas are through poor communication, from inter-professional staff and multidisciplinary teams, societal issues, and legal issues (Hamric et al.) The APN and staff at DMEC will try to utilize an ethical preventive approach to identify, deliberate over, and resolve ethical dilemmas before they arise (Hamric
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Series Alma-Ata: Rebirth and Revision 7 Integrating health interventions for women, newborn babies, and children: a framework for action Björn Ekman, Indra Pathmanathan, Jerker Liljestrand Lancet 2008; 372: 990–1000 See Editorial page 863 This is the seventh in a Series of eight papers about Alma-Ata: rebirth and revision Lund University, Lund Sweden (B Ekman PhD); Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (I Pathmanathan PhD); Ystad, Sweden (J Liljestrand PhD) Correspondence to: Dr Jerker Liljestrand, Götgången
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Critical Review of Cizek, Gregory J. (2005). High-Stakes Testing: Contexts, Characteristics, Critiques, and Consequences In Richard Phelps (Ed.), Defending Standardized Testing (pp. 23-54). New York, New York: Psychological Press. By Cheryl LeBlanc-Weldon When I decided to delve into the issue of high-stakes testing, I purposefully set out to find its defenders. Critical thinking is important to me and part of the process of thinking critically is to view a variety of perspectives on an
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