Abstract Verbal and nonverbal communications are essential components of nursing care. It is critical for patient care providers to ensure an accurate portrayal of the patient. The situation background assessment recommendation (SBAR) protocol is a technique that provides a structure for communication between patient care providers. SBAR was a tool designed to promote efficient care that ensures patient safety. SBAR: Improving Communication Between Healthcare Providers Missed or ineffective
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in life. Spirituality may mean different things to different people. The Joint Commission, the governing body that provides accreditation to hospitals, requires a spiritual assessment to be performed as part of the overall assessment of patients. The goal is determine if a more comprehensive assessment is needed, and whether the patient’s spiritual view has the potential to affect health outcomes (The Joint Commission, 2005). It is well established that spirituality can have a positive effect
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a chemical manufacturing joint venture in China that involves a German parent firm and its Chinese partner. The German firm has conflicts on different aspects with China in terms of industrial safety, business ethics, and the environment. The Chinese however was upset that they cannot use gift, commissions, and other bribes to favorite their customers to gain more potential customers from China. Disagreement has arisen over whether the joint venture should pay a commission to a potential customers
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Children’s Health Insurance Program Tracy D Cotthoff Western Governors University Table of Contents Abstract 3 History of Children’s Health Insurance Program 4 The Impact of Licensure, Certification and/or Accreditation on CHIP 7 CHIP Reimbursement 8 Clinical Quality 9 Patient Access to CHIP 10 CHIP Impact on the Workforce 11 References 13 Abstract Americans have always had an insurance gap, but the hardest hit seem to be the children. There was a program created to try
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This paper will define how statistics are used in my place of work. I will provide example of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics that are used in my workplace. I will provide examples of how the four levels of measurements are used in my workplace. I will then explain the advantages of accurate interpretation of information to improve decision making in my workplace. Statistics is important in health care at many different levels such as quality measures, patient satisfaction
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1. Topic introduction 2. About cartelization 3. Overview of EU antitrust legislation 4. Analysis of the “bathroom manufacturers” cartel case 5. Conclusion References 1. Introduction According to the European Commission Press Release Database, 2010, Article IP/10/790, seventeen bathroom equipment manufacturers were fined a total amount of €622 million for engaging in cartelization the same year. This case certainly provides an interesting topic for research and
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Minyie Abadi Origin of the European Union common foreign policy Informally established by the Member States in 1970, the European Political Cooperation (EPC) was institutionalised under the Single European Act of 1987, and essentially provided mechanisms for consultation among Member States on matters of general foreign policy. In the light of the geo-political changes under way in Europe the early 1990s (German reunification, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Warsaw Pact), and
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SCIENCES UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR MARG NEW DELHI- 110 002. Website: www.ugc.ac.in UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN SCIENCE, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES INTRODUCTION The Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) scheme of the University Grants Commission (UGC) is open to candidates who qualify in the National Eligibility Testing (NET) of the UGC and the UGC-Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) joint test. However, please note that
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responding to the physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional needs of the patient (Bruce, 2007). According to the joint commission anyone who is trained on the value of spiritual assessment and tools such as physicians, therapists, nurses, and clinical pastoral staff can assess the patient’s spirituality (Evaluating your Spiritual Assessment Process, 2005). The Joint Commission has also provided some guidelines to create a spiritual assessment that would meet the spiritual demands of the patient
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Agent Policy Paper Risk Management is defined as policies and procedures put in place to enhance infection control, patient safety, and quality of service. In healthcare there is always the risk of something getting out of hand and hurting a patient or even the staff of the facility. My facility is a Nursing Home/ Long-Term Care Facility about 2/3 of the residents are just elderly people suffering from ailing health, dementia, or Alzheimer’s. The other 1/3 is post-op recovery patients that need
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