result in the death of the patient. When such an incident occurs, the hospital will be most affected because of its reputation. Since the healthcare practitioners do not want such an occurrence to happen, they always dedicate themselves to working extra hours despite the fatigue (Joyce et al., 2010). Furthermore, sometimes the hospitals give healthcare practitioners increased expectations to deliver. This is in most cases when a hospital is operating on a low budget and would like to maximize its profits
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The evaluation of quality in healthcare has a long history. The beginnings of monitoring healthcare quality can be traced back to a surgeon, E. A. Codman from Massachusetts General Hospital in the early twentieth century who advocated for systemic performance assessments of the care he provided to his own patients (Kongstvedt, 2013). The Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and the application of computers in healthcare in the 1970 led to the large scale ability to analyze data (Kongstvedt, 2013)
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A pressure ulcer is a wound or sore caused when an area of skin and the tissues below are damaged due to an occlusion of the blood supply (Neilson, 2014). If the lack of blood supply is prolonged the tissue will continue to degrade. This progression is categorized into the four stages of pressure ulcers. I will begin by giving an overview of each stage, and then comparing and contrasting the stages. I will finish with two unconventional options of wound treatment derived from folk medicine. Stage
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Surgical Services encompasses a broad spectrum of departments; PATT, Pre-op, Intra-Op, PACU, Phase II, Anesthesia and Endoscopy. As you can imagine there is a varying degree of importance to all of the above mentioned departments regarding education. As the Clinical Educator for Surgical Services, it is my sole responsibly to ensure the correct educational plans and competency based education is assigned and completed in an efficient manner. Previously in Surgical Services, new staff onboarding
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Hinsdale Hospital intercom. Though you can tell the nurse or doctor on the other end has a calm voice, the slight heavy breathing and panting from the pressure of keeping someone alive can also be felt. I greet people in their darkest and most desperate times volunteering in the Surgical Waiting Room at Hinsdale Hospital. In fact, it is the stressful environment of the hospital where I had one of my proudest moments. On a hot June day, I followed my typical routine driving to the hospital ready for
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Quality Improvement: How healthcare technology and evidence based practice can increase the safety of patients in the hospital setting The interest in this topic is because safety issues remain a big concern in our society today. There are many sentinel events that could be either reduced or avoided by improving technology. For example, 47 wrong-patients, wrong site, wrong procedure were reported in 2016 (The Joint Commission, 2016). Many national efforts have been worked out to improve patients’
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significant issue in healthcare. Around 700,000 to 100,000 people in the U.S. suffer from falls in a hospital setting (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013). Obviously, this is problematic because falls can exacerbate the patient’s condition. It can cause unwanted outcomes like pain, fractures, head injuries, or in a worst-case scenario, even death. Preferred Practice Falls in a hospital setting are preventable. Successful implementation of universal precautions is a big part of preventing
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Hospice looks after people who have been determined to have a terminal sickness and who have been given a therapeutic visualization of a half year or less to live if the illness runs its normal course. Currently, the considerable greater part of hospice confirmations (80%) is for people beyond 65 years old, despite the fact that hospice care can be appropriate for individuals of any age. Over the previous decade, enlistment in hospice has developed substantially (Wright - 2015). Hospice Care In
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Many people say that they've known their dream career from an early age. For me, a career in the emergency services has dawned slowly, and as time has gone on, developed from an idea into a calling. My first experience with the emergency services was in 2009, when my grandmother went into anaphylactic shock after taking penicillin. My mother explained to me at that time that my grandmother was dangerously ill, but that the paramedics who arrived on scene saved her life. I thought that was cool,
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life-threatening to the patient. The physician must use their discretion in these instances and sadly, hope that they are making the right medical decision and that no real harm will be done (Gartee, 2011). In a study conducted at medical science and teaching hospitals in Kathmandu, Nepal, the consensus was that toxicology laboratory test would generally need to be performed to identify and properly treat the patients. This causes more time and funds to be utilized as the patient cannot communicate to the staff
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