Risk and Quality Management Assessment Summary The organization for this summary is a Skilled Nursing Facility. The facility, Park Regency Care Center is located in La Habra, California. The skilled nursing facility provides nursing care in services for speech therapy, wound care, IV therapy, nutritional support, and medication and disease management. As well as rehabilitation in services for occupational therapy. The primary customers they serve are men and women around 55 years and older in age
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medical director to get his input and support so that she could make him understand her strategy for enhancing patient safety since she believed that leadership of the medical director would be very instrumental in creating support for the doctors and nurses in the children’s hospital. She then set out to accomplish major tasks which include making presentations to hospital staff about research on medical errors, conducted focus groups to learn more on patient safety and then developed a detailed strategic
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Telehealth in Nursing Education One application that I have chosen for telehealth medicine is nursing education. The need for new approaches in how nurses become prepared are related by many factors, including those related to students, faculty, clinical placement sites, and the overall health care environment. Telehealth can be defined the removal of time and distance barriers for the delivery of healthcare
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and Interprofessional Team Development Natacha Joseph RN Western Governors University I am currently employed as a community health nurse by a Managed Long Term Health company, Elderserve Health in New York City. Elderserve Health is a subsidiary of The Hebrew Home at Riverdale. Elderserve Health offers a variety of services including Care Coordination, Nurse services in connection with home health care, Therapies, including physical, occupational and speech at your home and in other settings
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to improve the quality of patient care and save lives on a daily basis. Health care reform is gaining momentum, revolutionizing the industry and requiring many administrative changes, such as the creation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Rules and standards evolved from this act provide a way to ensure your protected health information remains confidential. In this digital age, it is particularly relevant. The digital evolution impacts many areas. Digital
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such as confidentiality, privacy and security pertaining to patient information. Not only is it against the law to link information of a patient outside the workplace, but there is a slang term called “HIPPA” (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). HIPPA was put into play in 1996 for healthcare fields and facilities. This act allows patients personal healthcare information to be protected from being used or shared with anyone unless the patient writes a hand consent saying otherwise
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University of Phoenix Material Week 1 Health Care Terms Worksheet Understanding health care terms is a prerequisite for both academic and professional success. This assignment is intended to ensure you understand some of the basic terms used in this course. Complete the worksheet according to the following guidelines: In the space provided, write each term’s definition. You must define the term in your own words. In the space provided after each term’s definition, use the term in a sentence
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meet and share information along with discussing common interests. The issue arises from a health care professional violating patient privacy and other HIPAA laws within the social networking sites. Leaking patient information through these sites can be damaging to the patient and the physician at the same time. Social media sites tend to be relaxed and not always handled in a professional manor. This can lead to personal health information leaking through the sites. Although the leaks may not
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HR agenda ………………………………………………………………………………4 3.2 How HR contributes to organisational effectiveness ……………………………………………………4 3.3 HR’s roles and functions in management structures ……………………………………………………5 3.4 HR’s contribution to business ethics and accountability ………………………………………………5 LO4: How organizational and HR strategies and practices are shaped and developed 4.1 The role of HR in strategy formulation and implementation ………………………………………..6 4.2 Techniques and tools used to analyse organisational and
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hospital, the pre-op nurse informed Tina’s mother that the actual surgery would take approximately 45 minutes, and then Tina would need to stay in recovery for at least an additional hour. Tina’s mother informed the pre-op nurse that once Tina had gone to the operating room, she would be leaving the facility to run an older sibling on an errand, but she would be back to pick up Tina after she was released from recovery. The mother gave her cell phone number to the pre-op nurse, who wrote the phone
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