Madison Grand Canyon University Introduction to Nursing Research NRS 433v Diana Nassar August 12, 2012 Hourly Rounding Decrease Falls, Call Light Usage and Increase Patient Satisfaction Hourly rounding is a continuing challenge for hospitals across the United States. What’s effective about this method is that it has brought some positive changes to some Health care facilities. There are three factors that have been constantly tested to improve patient care. These factors are: 1) fall
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older (Tzeng, H., & Yin, C. (2008). A hospital can be a dangerous and erratic place for inpatients because of its unfamiliar physical environment (different from their home settings) and because of changes in patients’ medical conditions as related to their physical and psychological health and sensory systems (Tzeng, H., & Yin, C. (2008). The following research articles focus on the nurses’ role in preventing and managing patient falls in the hospitals. As part of the assignment abstract from
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Texas. Clinical time split between telemetry floor and women’s services. | | |Obstetric Rotation – Labor & Delivery, newborn nursery, and postpartum rotation performed at Wilson N. | | |Jones Hospital, Sherman Texas. | | |Rotated one day each in ICU and in the ER at Medical Center of Plano. | |Spring 2010
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Concerns over Private Health Insurance HCA: 305; The US Healthcare System Concerns over Private Health Insurance 1) A single payer system, private insurance company or US government, why is there so much resistance to this concept which is used in advanced countries? The resistance is because of economic power
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Uses of Computers in Hospitals The increasing population levels in our country and around the world means that doctors and hospitals have more patients than ever before. The advances in technology, such as the use of computers, fortunately allow the hospital staff to handle larger workloads and accommodate the increased need for their services. Computer and its peripherals are used extensively nowadays in hospitals for many purposes, as given below. 1. Medical Record Keeping : Electronic databases
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medical field is very important to us all, and when you become the patient in a hospital your mindset changes all together. This paper will be about patient satisfaction while in the hospital. There are major concerns when patients or their family are admitted into the hospital. Hospitals are very concerned with patient satisfaction and the scores that come with it. Patient satisfaction is very important in hospital settings. The patients are the heartbeat to the large body of doctors, nurses
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critical issue that can be found that will impact both the “profit and not for profit” organizations will be the “Hospital Anti-Trust Law”. (content.healthaffairs.org/content/22/6/88.ful,Peter J.Hammer and William M. Sage) When it comes to a hospital, doctors, and hospital payers, this seems to be a “common” thing and a critical one. This is an issue with the relationships between the hospitals and the doctors. There are too many questions as to how “government regulation and public purchasing” is making
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case law search is about a hospital in New York will have to pay $2.3 million dollars for overbilling the Medicaid program. Two Westchester County Hospital had overbilled the Medicaid program of $70 million dollars by improperly approving home care for Medicaid patients. The Attorney Generals Medicaid Fraud control Unit found out that the two hospitals were billing Medicaid beyond the cost of the drugs and made more than over a million dollars in profit. Both or the hospitals never admitted or denied
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Founded in 1989, Arnold Palmer Hospital is one of the largest hospitals for women and children in the U.S., with 431 beds in two facilities totaling 676,000 square feet. Located in downtown Orlando, Florida, and named after its famed golf benefactor, the hospital, with more than 2,000 employees serves an 18- county area in central Florida and is the only Level 1 trauma center for children in that region. Arnold Palmer Hospital provides a broad range of medical services including neonatal and pediatric
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------------------------------------------------- TASK 1A. RISK REGISTER OF TARRANT COUNTY HOSPITAL OF NORTH TEXAS Risk | Description | Owner | Source | Likelihood of Occurrence* | Severity of Impact* | Controllability* | Typhoon*global risk | Typhoon strikes Japanese supplier of latex gloves. The hospital gets ¾ of its latex gloves from this Japanese company because of cost efficiency. The typhoon floods Japanese supplier thus halting production of gloves which can cause hospital to run low on latex gloves | Japanese supplier’s CEO
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