Convenient Care Clinic's as Your Doctor's Office: A Different Prescription Janet Meadows Northcentral University Convenient Care Clinic's as Your Doctor's Office: A Different Prescription Larry Merlo, pharmacist and CEO of CVS Health (formerly known as CVS Pharmacy) is on a mission to transform your local pharmacy into a “one stop shop” for your everyday healthcare needs (Hamilton, 2014). Merlo has visions of your local pharmacy (hopefully his pharmacy, namely CVS Health) as a replacement
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At St. Mary’s Hospital there is a need for dedicated admission staff. Several reasons why are: 1. Improve Patient flow 2. Improve Patient satisfaction 3. Increase safety 4. Monitor Flow of visitors Patients currently enter hospital and are either registered at the business office, or directed to another area of the hospital and registered, depending on their business. The current system does not create a controlled environment and causes unnecessary steps for an efficient admission process
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and equipment and colors sections and noise issues. Also the types of equipment needed examination of budget planning and cost estimates, and description of the role of stakeholders in facility planning and development. Regulatory Requirements Hospitals are among the most regulated of all building types. Like other buildings, they must follow the local and/or state general building codes. However, federal facilities on federal property generally need not comply with state and local codes, but follow
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in the care of the father, but the potential harm and psychological damage ensued categorizes these happenings as a sentinel event. Personnel/ Personnel Issues There were several people involved in this sentinel event at Nightingale Community Hospital. Here, they are listed along with their roles and any issues involving them in this event: Person | Role in the event | Barriers | Registrar, Katie Jessup | Responsible for initial intake information and consent to treat. | Followed process as
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pressure situations, and being able to respond quickly to emergencies. Having a real passion for nursing, with a strong desire to provide the highest level of care & service to patients. WORK EXPERIENCE • Flacq Hospital ( Year 2005-2009; General Nursing) • Moka Hospital ( Year 2009-upto now; Ophthalmic Nursing) |REGISTERED NURSE June 2008 – Present
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essential to position an organization so that it finds its niche in the area. Cypress Fairbanks (Cy-Fair) in located in a suburb of Northwest Houston along with its sister hospital Houston Northwest. Both facilities are owned and operated by the Tenet Corporation and follow under the Tenet umbrella. While the two are sister hospitals, they are independent of each other and therefor are competitive. Each facility has positioned itself to differentiate the individual facilities as unique and separate
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Authority, Structure, and Organization At St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver, Co the board of directors is responsible for making sure the employees are providing the patients with quality care. It is important for the board of directors to know the importance of monitoring quality improvement within the facility and ensure the employees are following the standards that have been set. The quality improvement standards set for the hospital are important and by leaders monitoring the quality improvement
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Cardiovascular Services. These targeted demands are mainly in part due to an aging community population (15% of the population will be over 65 within the next five years), and with that these particular services are in great demand and currently Trinity Hospital offers no formal services of this kind. A Strategic plan is in place to target these services and a recommendation to implement will be provided and we will first identify the risk factors for each of these services in the community and how the
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occurred. My hospital is a teaching hospital and some student doctors are not within the guidelines. I found one of the student doctor doing thoracocentesis. Upon knowing, when I talked about timeout, it look he don’t even understand timeout should be performed with all the team and a nurse too. After my supervisor came to know we all discussed and found that student doctors are not supposed to perform any invasive procedure even there attending’s allow to perform . On our hospital website (intranet)
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incision, or a minimally invasive one, where cameras would be inserted on the side of the chest area, leaving very little scars, and allowing for a much faster to recovery time. Patient A chose the second option. The patient was told to report to the hospital at 9AM, and the surgery was scheduled for 12pm. The patient was not allowed to eat before the surgery. Patient A’s surgery started at 9pm and ended around 2am. She was then admitted into ICU for two days, before she was moved to a shared room where
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