respond after the recovery, even though the recovery nurse called out to the waiting area and paged for the mother. The patient was then transferred to the discharge nurse. The child was agitated waiting for her mother to return. Coincidentally, the father was at the desk and the nurse invited him to see his child. The nurse was relieved as the child changed her affect to one of excitement and called him daddy. After waiting thirty minutes the father offered to take his daughter home. The nurse agreed
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ID#110204 PUBLISHED ON MAY 20, 2014 Emergency Department Congestion at Saintemarie University Hospital BY LAURENT HUBLET * , OMAR BESBES † , AND CARRI CHAN ‡ Introduction In late 2009, Marc Dupont, CEO of Saintemarie University Hospital, had just ended an extremely tense phone conversation with the state secretary of health. The secretary was very concerned about the wait time in the hospital’s emergency department (ED). The recent coverage of these problems in the local press, which
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many people. Johnsy lay on her bed, hardly moving. She looked through the small window. She could see the side of the brick house next to her building. One morning, a doctor examined Johnsy and took her temperature. Then he spoke with Sue in another room. "She has one chance in -- let us say ten," he said. "And that chance is for her to want to live. Your friend has made up her mind that she is not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?" "She -- she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples in
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English 101 25 September 2014 Just an Observation As I walk into the court room, everyone stares. This makes me feel anxious and my pulse is racing. I am here to observe an attempted murder trial and hoping to see the gavel slamming down with the judge saying, “order in the court” while the attorneys are shouting, “objection” to questions they want stricken from the record. The bailiff instructs me to sit in the front row as the jury will fill all other seats. I just walked in on day five, still
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He immediately calls Taylor to let him know what was going on and that they were headed to Highline Medical Center, which was the one closest hospital to SeaTac. Luke listens to the paramedic’s one-sided conversation with the emergency room physician who was giving him orders over the phone and watches them start two IV lines on Ana. The paramedic is telling the ER physician that Ana’s blood pressure is alarmingly high as is her heart rate. They wrap her in a cooling blanket and as they
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Einstein said it best “It is important to foster Individuality for only the individual can produce the new ideas,”this is true if we try to be ourselves we can do many things. It seems that anyone who is different, anyone who stands out from the crowd has a BIG target on their back. Why does it seem like conformity holds so much more value in our society over individuality? The definition of conformity is compliance with society, standards, rules, or laws. I don’t want to flow with society, do you
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| CASE: KEEP PATIENTS WAITING? NOT IN MY OFFICE | BUSN 6110/ME – OPERATIONS & PROJECT MANAGEMENT | | | CASE KEEP PATIENTS WAITING? NOT IN MY OFFICE 1. What features of the appointment scheduling system were crucial in capturing “many grateful patients”? By seeing patients at their “exact” appointment times, the patients were very grateful. It is rare that the doctor did not see the patients during their allotted time. The key to ensuring appointments remained on
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The importance of making this business a success is increasing profitability, reducing the waiting time in the restaurant, and having a process implemented that will maintain a balance between the demand for service and the capacity of the system to provide the service to customers. Customers are dissatisfied with the wait time and it necessary to evaluate the customer population, customer que wait times, the servicing system, and develop a priority rule for determining who is served next. The
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Sara Farall SPC1017 10/25/15 Human Trafficking and Mass Media I. Introduction A. Attention Getter i. We use Internet to entertain us, but there are people that get entertained in a different illegal and wicked way. What ways do you use you Internet? 1. “There is much documented evidence of human trafficking as a modern day pandemic. Human trafficking affects between 4 and 27 million (U.S Department of State 2007) victims per year.”(Murray, Dingman, Porter, Otte. 272) ii. Ethos/Credibility Statement
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During my brief stint at Bing Nursery School, I have been in numerous situations where children become overly excited and completely lose their self-control. Overexcitement typically occurs within a group of children, but it can also occur when dealing with one child. A teacher will usually witness children being overly aggressive, both physically and verbally, and hyperactive. A few weeks ago, I happened to be working and observing in the block area. There were probably six children within three
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