hospital has been able to reduce the number of deliveries to less than 5% for the last 6 months (Gateway Medical Center, 2015). The hospital has also become a member of the Joint Commission (Gateway Medical Center, 2015). The Joint Commission accreditation will conduct surveys to evaluate the facility’s compliance with national standards (Gateway Medical Center, 2015). These improvements can only be achieved by having strong leadership within the hospital. The executive staff of Gateway Medical
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In comparing Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) to Carepoint Health – Bayonne Medical Center, it is evident that neither hospital has a satisfactory rating of at least 3.5 out of 5. Both hospitals have received an overall rating of 2 out of 5 further displaying that there is great room for improvement. Jersey City Medical Center and Carepoint Health - Bayonne Medical Center are acute care hospitals and offer patients access to emergency services. The ability to send and receive patient records
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Accreditation in Distance Education Katrina Dixon Spring 2012 Choosing the appropriate school for Higher Education is a major decision that all students must face. The world of accreditation is slowly changing, generally in the direction of dealing more with outcomes: how schools teach or train their students and how well the students perform (Bear, Nixon 2006, 37) Making sure that the school has the courses they desire, flexibility and if it is affordable to them are all
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"Hospitals should be motivated more than ever to commit resources and attention to patient safety...the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) eliminated or reduced payments...as preventable adverse events that should never occur in health care (CMS,2007)" (Thornlow,Merwin, 2009,p.263). Hospitals with the best outcomes, will be rewarded for their performance and hospitals with not-so-good outcomes will either receive no compensation or very little. Nurses play a vital role in the patients'
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From Medscape Nurses Medication Error Prevention for Healthcare Providers Faculty and Disclosures CE Information There are between 44,000 and 98,000 individuals who die every year in hospitals due to preventable medical errors.[1] It has also been reported that this is only part of the problem, as thousands of other patients are adversely affected by medical errors or barely avoid injuries that are nonfatal.[2] These medical errors not only cost the loss of lives, but carry a financial burden
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1. Introduction According to Webster’s dictionary (2011) a hospital is a health facility where patients receive treatment. Obviously, this definition does not state anything about the kind of treatment, the right or wrong treatment or who does the treatment a doctor, nurse etc. Questions one may not ask oneself till patients receive a wrong treatment. According to a landmark study in 1991 1.3 million injuries occur annually in U.S. hospitals of which 69% are partially due to errors in patient management
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CASE STUDY: UNAUTHORISED ACCESS TO PATIENT INFORMATION A hospital at Fairfax named QUEENS MARYS HOSPITAL. There are many employers that has been working there over years. It is a very old hospital and many patients patronizes them. At some point, the hospital was in a big loss and the management decided to lease the hospital. The new management hired some IT technicians to change the computers at the hospital when they realized that it is always difficult to pull out patient’s information, and
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Combating Alarm Fatigue: A Matter of Life and Death Alarm Fatigue Nurses, especially in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), use information from a multitude of medical devices, particularly cardiac monitors, to guide them in providing care for their patients. Unfortunately, due to the frequency of unnecessary and false alarms, the devices that are meant to help nurses actually can do the opposite. Alarm fatigue can develop when a nurse
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Evaluation. By implementing standards of care we are able to provide excellent care to out patients. Different entities that might be involved in developing a standard of practice are The American nurses Association and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JACHO) have established and recognized standards of care. Standards of care are found at the national and state level. State boards of nursing develop standards of care at the state level and enforce those standards
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Mock Accreditation Survey The first accrediting agency is the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP). The HFAP is a nationally recognized accreditation organization with deeming authority from Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS). Its mission is to advance high quality patient care and safety through objective application of recognized standards. The HFAP goal is to continue to help healthcare facilities deliver high quality patient care through the application of its consistent
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