Nightingale Executive Summary Western Governor’s University Nightingale Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital is a 180 bed hospital that provides acute care and a range of services to their community. Nightingale has four core values that consist of safety, community, teamwork, and accountability. Communication is a key concept in achieving and defining those values. According to the National Patient Safety Goal Data in regards to communication for Nightingale Community Hospital
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Protected Health Information Rebecca Bratcher HCR/210 07/18/12 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996 or HIPAA, was put in place as an attempt to reform health care during the Clinton administration by making it possible for workers, of any profession, to change jobs regardless if the worker, or any member of their family, have a pre-existing medical condition, decreasing paperwork which is associated with the processing of health claims, and by reducing health care abuse
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Definition of Terms Paper Definition of Terms Paper In today’s health care environment patient safety has become one of the most important objectives in all health care institutions. One of the main issues when it comes to safety of patients is errors that can occur when abbreviations are not used properly when dealing with health information technology. It is important for health care employees to have knowledge and a clear understanding of what the abbreviations stand for, as well as the purpose
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As a new contract specialist in the federal government, one of the first concepts we learn is full and open competition. Full and open competition is one of the fundamental principles of federal contracting. Healthy competition is the lifeblood of commerce. It promotes innovation, quality and savings. Contracting officers (COs) are required by law to procure supplies and services on a competitive basis. In 1984, the Competition
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The Future Challenges Facing Health Care in the United States Gregrey McDaniel Professor: Manuel Johnican, PhD Strayer University HSA 500 11 June 2011 Identify and describe at least three of the most difficult issues facing health care in the United States today. One of the most difficult issues facing the United States health care system is combating diseases. Even with mortality rates continuing to decrease and with life expectancy rates continuing to increase, these trends
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theoretical nursing: 1. Stage of Practice, Apprenticeship and Services. This stage deals with the provision of health care for the promotion of healing and sense of well being and creation of healthy environment in order to minimize suffering and deterioration. 2. Stage of Education and Administration. In this stage the focus is on social goals to empower nurses to provide effective and quality care by developing programs that suits best for nurses to develop their craft. 3. Stage of Research. This stage
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augment my knowledge and provide a level of credentialing that will facilitate this clinician's endeavor to improve care practices via the introduction of ideological frameworks that permit exploration and introduction of innovative strategy. Following graduation from the DNP program, this clinician will pursue a leadership role via my current employ, (SC Department of Mental Health) with aspiration to impact policy and practices that affect all stakeholders e.g., the patient, the caregiver/staff
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Limiting interactive conflict Effective treatment Cause of condition Presence of pain From Medical professionals Seek advice Collaborative care Monitor reaction Quality medicine principles Path physiological processes Seeking counsel Monitor patient Quality care right Physical condition threat Threat to body Threat to life Patients’ privacy Coping with patients needs Care planning Ethical responsibility Chronic illness/ disability Nursing a Person with Chronic Disease or
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business and it is only the management which can provide solutions to the problems of the business. His principles were: 1. Develop a science for each element of an individual’s work to replace the old rule-of-thumb method. 2. Scientifically select and then,teach and develop the worker. 3. Heartily co-operate with the workers so as to ensure that all work is done in accordance with the principles of the science that has been developed. 4. Divide work and responsibility almost equally between management
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registered person must protect services against the risk associated with the unsafe use and management of medicines, by means of the making of appropriate arrangements for the obtaining, recording, handling, using, safe keeping, dispensing, safe administration and disposal of medicines used for the purposes of regulated activity. People who use the services, will have their medicines at the time they need them, and in a safe way. When ever possible, will have information about the medicine being prescribed
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