Executive Summary When people think of Hospice, they think of someone who is dying within the next couple of days, but it isn’t what it seems. Hospice is not a place; it’s a philosophy of care that enhances life as it nears its end for the patients and their families and friends. (Odyssey Health Care, 2013). Some people may feel that it’s scary to have to see someone going through something that they cannot fix, but what people have to realize is that you are making a difference in their lives.
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TULSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Break-Even Analysis 1. Using the historical data as a guide, construct a pro forma (forecasted) profit and loss statement for the clinic's average month for all of 2014 assuming the status quo. With no change in volume (utilization), is the clinic projected to make a profit? -No, the clinic is projected to experience a loss. Pro Forma Average Month: | | | | | | | | Number of visits | | 1,350 | | | | | Net revenue | | $54,888 |
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The Impact of Healthcare reforms on Hospital Costing Systems The costing systems implemented in hospitals has been the same for a while now. It’s worked and has been easily allocated based off of averages from previous years. Now as times change so will the costing systems for hospitals in order to get the most beneficial cost-reductions to them as well as improve on efficiency. This article looks into how accountants for hospitals can redesign, reposition, and re-implement costing ideas to
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Training and Development in Healthcare Training and development in healthcare are extremely important. The many varied workplaces that healthcare workers are found make training and development just as varied. Large and small medical practices, hospitals, therapy centers and testing facilities all require employees skilled in specific tasks as well as administrative functions. Interpersonal skills among the staff are also necessary for the organization to be effective and serve the patients.
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Psychology Interview Assignment Interviewee: Michelle Simpson, RN Job Title: Hospice Nurse, Bayada Nursing (Oncology) Primary Questions I. What appears to be the greatest challenge facing individuals who work with grieving people? II. How do these individuals maintain their own mental health as they often are surrounded by issues revolving around death? III. How do you separate your professional duties from the personal aspects in your life? IV. As a Hospice Nurse,
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Cook County Hospital in Chicago was receiving patients that were “dumped” there that were unemployed, minorities, and lacked health insurance (Singer, 2014). This problem also occurred in 1983 in Dallas where over 200 patients were transferred between hospitals that were not stable (Singer, 2014). EMTALA is under the direction of the Department of Health and Human Services and was developed to address the needs of Americans that were denied emergency care or discharged from hospitals when they were
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of care for the surgical patients, states that” following the endorsement by the National Quality Forum SCIP measures were incorporated into Medicare's reporting of Hospital Quality data for annual hospital payment. (Corrigan, 2009, p. 79) It was also identified as the National Patient Safety goal under the Joint Commission Hospital accreditation program. As January 1, 2010 the Joint Commission considers shaving with razors an inappropriate hair removal method. There are many different types of surgeries
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diagnosis years ago and being sent home on hospice. The medical care received trigger concern even today and creating a way to bridge the gap between nursing caring for a patient that the diagnosis results in walking out of the hospital and one that when leaving the hospital would not be able to know the difference between smelling fresh air or the air in a body bag. The sixth stage of the dying patient (Hamilton, C. A. 2010) is postmortem. Nurses did not show experience of how to care for a family
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QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HOSPITALS/HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS The Joint Commission accreditation standards are the basis of an objective evaluation process that can help health care organizations measure, assess and improve performance. The standards concentrate on important patient, individual, or resident care and organization functions that are essential to providing safe, high quality care. The standards set expectations for organization performance that are reasonable, achievable and
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INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP AND COLLABORATIVE WORKING According to the reviews, professionalism is growing in every field of works, as new changes and development are emerging in the health and social care. A nurse basic professional responsibility is to provide care and support to people who need helps to improve their health issues. Its professional responsibility is to provide nursing care and support to the people who have been suffering from deterioration
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