Origin of Conflict Internal reports have detailed hundreds of technical issues and outages. The Electronic Medical Records system of Kaiser Permente has been nothing short of an IT project gone awry. Questions began to rise when Cliff Dodd, the company’s CIO, resigned. Dodd stepped down January 14, 2010 after another Kaiser employee, Justin Deal, sent a memo to every company worker warning of technological and financial repercussions related to the rollout of the nearly $4 billion system from
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hospital stays. In 2011, it was estimated that out of 722,000 calculated HAI’s, 157,500 were caused by Pneumonia (CDC.gov, 2015). Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP), a sub-category of Pneumonia, is a worldwide, challenging complication in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) setting of many hospitals. VAP often leads to not only increased mortality rates, but also an increase in comorbidity, and healthcare costs in the affected population. It has been estimated that VAP As of 2013, Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
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Future of Nursing Report Nursing comprise the largest group of health care workforce in the United States (US), with more than 3 million members (Institute of Medicine (IOM), 2010). Nurses can play an important role in helping to fulfill the goals set by the Affordable Care Act in 2010 (IOM, 2010). However, many obstacles are blocking nurses to advance change in the health care settings. These obstacles need to be lifted for nurses to better position themselves to advance health and lead change
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Memo #1: Potential challenges on ACA Readmission Patient Safety Organization (PSO) was designated by the Affordable Care Act to assist Hospitals with relatively high readmission rates to reduce the number. Readmission is defined as an admission of a patient to the hospital within 30 days of the date of discharge. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), University Hospitals was on the list of high readmission rates, with an AMI of 21.8, HF of 26.6, and a total of 1328
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discussion of how the measles outbreak could affect the community will also be presented. Next, this paper will present the appropriate protocol that a community health nurse will follow to report a SARS outbreak in the community. The last subject this paper will discuss is how a community health nurse modifies their care of clients with respiratory diseases during a time when the air quality index is poor. A. Measles Rubeola or measles is a respiratory disease. Measles is a virus that normally grows
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(IOM) and began 2 years of research to develop a thorough report on the future of nursing. As we move closer to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, nurses will be asked to take on the task of transforming the nursing workforce and expanding the delivery of nursing care. (Montalvo, 2010) We, as nurses, are in an important and unique position in that we are the segment of the healthcare field who addresses patient care both in a holistic realm as well as a contextual realm
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This paper will explore the impact on nursing of the 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report titled: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”. In this paper I will focus on the impact of the IOM report in the areas of nursing education, nursing practice, and nursing leadership. I will also attempt to explain how I might change my current nursing practice to meet the goals of the report. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 and is the health arm of the National
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items with an infected person such as toothbrushes or razors; RISK FACTORS: -Transfusion of unscreened blood; -Sexual promiscuity; - Sharing of or re-using of syringes between injection drug users; -Tattooing; -Working or residing in a health-care facility; -Living in a correctional facility; -Renal dialysis -long-term household or intimate non-sexual contact with and HBs Ab-positive individual. HBV is not spread through food or water, sharing common objects such as kitchen utensils,
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computerization, recording, and maintenance of patient and medical practice information. Medical health records address the need to establish quality in patient care and viability in medical practice. It seeks to ensure the rendition of accurate, efficient, organized, and collaborative exercise of practice competencies for predictable and favorable patient outcomes. The future of healthcare centrally relates to how the industry can engender more effective care and successful outcomes in less time and money
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uestion #: 1 Which of the following does a Pharmacy &Therapeutics Committee do? (Select all that apply) A. Educates patients about medications on the formulary used at the hospital B. Dispenses medications that are on the formulary used at the hospital C. Makes decisions on whether a drug should be added to the formulary used at the hospital D. Manages the formulary to be used by physicians, nurses and pharmacists at the hospital Item ID: 1911 / 2 Item Description: Final Exam Pharmacy and Therapeutics
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