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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prescribed prescription of medication these children were receiving. Although many parents, doctors and teacher would say yes to medicating their children, I believe there are far too many risks for children with ADHD, ADD or BIPOLAR to be medicated and to medicate is merely a matter of a doctor option. Parent’s first option was medication and as one parent stated “not one of the doctors suggested an alternative to the medications.” (Frontline, 2001) ADHD, ADD or BIPOLAR medication have damaging mental
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amphetamine aspartate monohydrate, amphetamine sulfate capsules, CII Initial U.S. Approval: 2001 WARNING: POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE See full prescribing information for complete boxed warning • Amphetamines have a high potential for abuse; prolonged administration may lead to dependence. (9) • Misuse of amphetamines may cause sudden death and serious cardiovascular adverse reactions. -----RECENT MAJOR CHANGES----Warnings and Precautions (5.5) 6/2013 -----INDICATIONS AND USAGE----ADDERALL XR, a CNS
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Surgeon General (2000), as many as 1 in 10 American children and adolescents a year have “significant functional impairment” as a result of a mental health disorder. The trends in administering psychotropic medication to young children are on a rise in the U.S. Since psychotropic medications are substances that affect brain chemicals related to mood and behavior (NIMH, 2009). These trends have caused a great deal of debate. All parties without an economic agenda agree that there should be more research
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drug events in older adults. Most events were associated with unintentional overdoses at home. Medication errors can occur in clinical settings or at home because humans are not perfect and therefore, they make errors too and so do the man-made machines. The patients are more likely to experience medication errors at home than a hospital because a health professional is not present to double check medications, no standard process to follow like the hospital does, no set schedule take them, and no alerts
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RTT1 Task 2 Never events are serious medical errors that are often preventable. When such events transpire, it is necessary to fully assess the situation so that these errors can be prevented in the future. Root cause analysis (RCA) is a tool employed by healthcare facilities to analyze adverse events and the systems that lead to them. A. Root Cause Analysis “A central tenet of RCA is to identify underlying problems that increase the likelihood of errors while avoiding the trap of focusing
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Types of Medical Errors ………………………………………………………………… 9 Sentinel Events ……………………………………………………………………….. 9 Diagnosis or evaluation ………………………………………………………………. 9 Medical decision-making …………………………………………………………… 10 Treatment and medication …………………………………….…………………..… 10 Dispensing ……………………………………………………………………………11 Procedural complications …………………………………………………..………. 12 Faulty communication ……………………………………………………………... 13 Inadequate supervision …...…………………………………………………………
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Dare’s Health Record). In the second column, list what each of the individual letters in the abbreviation represents. In the third column define the context or meaning of the term that the abbreviation represents. Use simple terms. Finally, in the far right column, identify the source document. For example, face sheet, discharge summary, progress notes, or x-ray report. Abbreviation | Letters Represent | Context Definition or Application within the Patient’s Chart | Source Document | 1. ICD
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You Decide Week 6 Little Falls Hospital Risk Management HSM 542 Health Rights and Responsibilities Purpose A risk management plan is created so as to support Little Falls Hospitals mission and vision statements as it pertains to the clinical risk of the hospital, patients, visitors, volunteers, and employee safety, and any possible operational, business, and property risks. Culture Principles The Patient Safety and Risk Management program will support Little Falls Hospitals philosophy;
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sections which are part of the standards, and are necessary to help from these guidelines. These are choices of home, Health and personal Care, Daily Life and Social Activities, Complaints and Protection, Environment, Staffing, Management and Administration. The choice of Home standards act provides information for the individual this can be by moving to a care home or another home choice option. The individual patient with Dementia might need extra support on ideas on the new surroundings they
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