Demographic Factors Research Char Dauo MMPBL/560 January 09, 2012 Introduction In any aspiring organization, enhancing organizational core competency and strengthening comparative advantage tends to be tremendously contingent on establishing staffing policy and recruitment procedures that create the right balance between the different demographic factors that make up the organization and those that it serves. More so, planning and implementing organizational objectives and strategic goals
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The Impact of the 2010 IOM Report on The Future of Nursing Robert Loperfido Felician Health Policy and Politics NURS 385 Helena Correia RNC, MSN August 18, 2014 The Impact of the 2010 IOM Report on The Future of Nursing The United States is at a significant junction. Health care reforms are being carried out and the system is beginning to change. The largest component of the health care workforce is nurses and the needs to strengthen this group will only improve the delivery of care and
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Engaging the Health Care Workforce The restructuring of the health care industry and ongoing efforts to improve quality are changing how the work of health care is organized. Many health care workers are taking on new roles and responsibilities. Some are excited by these changes and the new opportunities they create. Others are unsure about whether their training has adequately prepared them for the dramatic changes that are taking place. While understanding the need for change, many of these workers
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Terms Comparison Paper HCS 552 May 25, 2015 Terms Comparison Paper According to the American Economic Association (2011) economics studies how people make choices when they want to utilize resources. This fundamental process links economics and health care together because health care professionals use economic principles in their everyday professional behaviors. Health care organizations do their best to use the same concept of economics when they decided how to allocate resources and plan
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Forbes website states, Cigna, in 2015 has two thousand nurses, this has increased from year 2005 when it only had three hundred nurses ("Forbes Welcome", 2017). Cigna is committed to hiring more nurses in the near future to keep up with the needs of the public, globally. Healthcare organization needs to meet the demands of its consumers by employing more nurses to accommodate and coordinate care to the increasing age population, more comorbidities and emphasis on
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The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12956.html Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine PREPUBLICATION COPY: UNCORRECTED PROOFS Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12956.html THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20001
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realms of the health care industry. The government has proposed a new form of repayment in a system called Pay-for-performance which was brought to the forefront of policy agendas by the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report in 2000 titled To Err is Human (Mayes, 2006). In the report, the IOM estimated “as many as 98,000 patients die annually in U.S. hospitals due to preventable medical errors” (Mayes, 2006, p.17). Pay-for-performance is “a reimbursement method under which some physicians and hospitals
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incorrect medication or dosage amount to the wrong patient can be of great concern, which can result in long term injuries based on the depth of which the error resulted from. According to the American Association for Justice, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) preventable medical errors study estimated that at least 98,000 people die yearly totaling 29 billion dollars, which could have been prevented (www.Justice.org). In the past, errors were revealed primarily through a morbidity and mortality committee
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needs, chronic health conditions, and technological innovations. Educating nurses within the 21st century requires a creative integration of knowledge, skill set, and caring within an increasingly complex healthcare system (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2010). Nursing education is heavily laden with continuous content increases to be covered within the curriculum (Devereaux-Melillo, Dowling, Abdallah, Findeisen, & Knight, 2013). The need to examine curricular transformation is imperative in order
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Changing the System Abstract The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in March of 2010 by President Obama, these set of new laws and regulations is designed to provide ethical changes to a fragmented health care system. Cultural bias and social stigmatism have hampered the acceptance of such sweeping changes to the American health care system. Culturally some Americans feel they are handing over their health care choices to government control, socially some Americans believe that the government
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