the opportunity to be a staffing coordinator, at Wingate of Wilbraham, it seemed to be a much less stressful job than the one at MassMutual. I never received a degree but the combination of college courses that I took which included pre-med, pre-nursing, counseling psychology and then business management and all the jobs I had within those related fields subsequently gave me a variety and a mix of experience and knowledge for my current position.” This really showed me how valuable work experience
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Brenda Caldwell HCS/320 January 13, 2014 Terri DeWees As an administrator of a nursing home that is being purchased by a national group, I am responsible to make arrangements for individuals who reside in the facility that have difficulty communicating their approval to release their medical records. New policies being implemented
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on improving the quality and safety of care provided by health care organizations. Joint Commission accreditation can be earned by many healthcare facilities. These include hospitals, doctor’s offices, nursing homes, office based surgery centers, behavioral health treatment centers, and home care providers. The Joint Commission also awards Disease Specific Care Certification to health plans, disease management service companies, hospitals and other care delivery settings that provide disease management
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Philosophy of Nursing Why I Chose Nursing I chose nursing as my future profession because I believe nursing to be a rewarding and challenging career choice. I believe the desire to help people through nursing is a true calling, and I feel drawn toward helping those in need. I was first drawn to the area of professional nursing when my late sister became ill and was in the hospital for many months prior to her untimely death. This experience is what ultimately led me in the direction of pursuing
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Applying the Background and Methodology of the Research Process to Problems in Health Care University of Phoenix HCS/465 Shannon S. Smalls Loleater Casey-Evans The purpose of the paper is to show how to develop and understand methodology of the research process when pertaining to manage health care. The process consists of retrieving a peer-reviewed article and applying the research methodology to the article selected. The article selected for the research methodology was Managing
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likely be a nursing staff that consists almost entirely of female nurses. However, while waiting to see a physician, you more than likely expect a male doctor to walk into the room. Both health professions deal with nurturing and caring for patients, so why is it that male nurses get such a bad reputation? They make up for 6.6% of the nursing population, an increase from 5.7% from 2006. (Shah) The answer may be found by looking into gender roles, stereotyping, and the history of nursing as a profession
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at two hospitals, one HMO, and one nursing home. However, she had yet to hold a chief administrator position. One afternoon, she received a text message from Jake Wofford, a former classmate who was now in the executive recruiting business. “Maybe a great opportunity for you. Get back.” said the message. Osaka did get back to Wofford quickly. The opportunity to which he referred was a position as the director of Willow Pond, a medium-size assisted living home in the same city where Osaka now lived
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Title Heading: THE NURSING SHORTAGE AND TURNOVER EPEDIMIC FACING THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR Huriyyah Davie Final Course Project Keller Graduate School HS542 INTRODUCTION There has been many discussions regarding our current healthcare policies and the many Americans that are not able to utilize the system we have due to lack of medical coverage. Another element, not as popular but has an equal if not worst effect
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Re-use: "This task contains portions of material that were originally submitted during [1/6/2013 -2/12/2013] in [IT401-1301A] with [Kay N. Crook]." Re-use: "This task contains portions of material that were originally submitted during [8/19/2012 -9/26/2012] in [ENGL205-1203B-04] with [Carmen Kimble]." IT326-1401A-01: Network Infrastructure Administration D & S Residential Services Network Implementation Plan-2014 Titius Ivie February 3, 2014 Table of Contents Target Organization 5
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Rising health care costs and limited health care resources has produced a need of utilization of data. Moreover data management and monitoring is essential in order to ensure that implementations are being made to change and improve nursing practice and patient care and outcomes. One specific way that this was employed was when the health care system was transformed from a system that was based on the number of admissions to the quality of care (Sewell & Thede, 2013). This was made more
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