more pleasant. In 1994 the American Nurses Association (ANA) started the Patient Safety and Quality Initiative. It was a pilot program designed to evaluate the links between nurse staffing and quality care (Montalvo, 2007). The program outcome was a set of nursing-sensitive indicators used to evaluate quality care for patients in the acute setting and the start of the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI). The NDNQI is a database which collects the information from the survey collected
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A TERM PAPER PRESENTED BY EUGENIA NWOKEFORO ON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS THE EFFECT OF IOM REPORT 2010 ON THE FUTURE OF NURSING PRACTICE Nursing is a profession which plays vital role in improving the health care system by promoting, protecting and optimizing health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviating suffering
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of Medicines 2010 Report on Nursing Courtney Peterson Grand Canyon University: NRS 430V-0104 September 20, 2015 Impact of the Institute of Medicines 2010 Report on Nursing Due to the passing of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the health care system was going to have an increase in the number of people able to receive health care. Due to this increase, the health care system was going to need to find a way to transform itself into a more affordable, higher quality, more accessible, and a safer
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STATEMENT HEALTH RELATED SERVICES, INC. is dedicated to provide high quality, safe professional home care services. We practice the provision of comprehensive patient-centered, cost effective care focused on each patient’s unique needs. Restoration of our patient’s health well-being is our highest priority. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES II. GOALS 1. To provide a high quality of comprehensive health care services through a coordinated plan of treatment to
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Amerigroup’s PCMH Strategy • Our strategy is focused on transforming our delivery system and working more directly with providers of health care services to improve the quality and efficiency of the care delivered to Amerigroup members. • The core of this strategy is focused upon devoting resources to our primary care providers to assist them in becoming highly functioning patient-centered medical homes within an integrated delivery system • The foundation of this strategy starts with primary
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recommendations for a multifaceted approach to the improvement of nursing to coincide with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These recommendations include topics such as accessibility of care, disease prevention, education initiatives, collaborative care, and many others. The ultimate goal of the IOM report is to make specific policy recommendations at all levels from the institutional to the national level to improve nursing while moving into a new era of healthcare. (Committee
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with the task of ensuring that their love ones are placed in nursing homes. According to the Center of Disease Control (CDC) (2012), about 1.5 million Americans live in nursing homes and about 22% of 5.3 million people 85 years of age or older had a nursing home stay in 2006. They go on to say, there are approximately 16,000 nursing homes and about 1.7 million nursing home beds in the United States. While only twelve percent of nursing home residents are between the ages of 64-74, 45% are over 85
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daily with the staff and customers of the department. As the primary leader of the NICU, she constitutes the main and direct leadership for department. Her primarily focus is on the day to day productivity looking at efficiency and effeteness and quality of the department. Rose, herself has a set full-time Monday thru Friday schedule created by the Department Director, but has control of the department employees staffing and scheduling, including approving vacations and days off. Other responsibilities
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Analysis of Measurement to Improve Quality Care NUR 716 September 12, 2015 Analysis of Measurement to Improve Quality Care In today’s dynamic health care environment, it is essential to recruit nurses to organizations that provide them with adequate resources and support, in order to retain them in the organization (vanWyngeeren & Stuart, n.d.). A hospital-wide problem at the facility in which I am employed is the ability to retain nurses. According to our human resources department, our
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Professionalism in a Clinical Nursing Setting Professionalism in a Clinical Nursing Setting Customer Inserts His/her Name University Name Introduction: Professionalism holds within its ambit several factors that combine to give it a collective meaning. It is marked by achieving an alignment between one’s attitude and the expectations of his profession. Professionalism is the part and parcel of all major professions of the world and clinical nursing is no exception in this regard. Moreover, professional
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