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litigious society where health care workers and institutions are open and easy targets, this dearth of lawsuits reported in The Ne...

100 percent and also to create a neighborhood health and daycare facility. Another proposal is the creation of a preventative diag...

a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...

its founding in the late 18th century, the United States has opened its borders to people from a variety of countries and cultures...

instruments not trustworthy? This is just another meaningless slogan, a cousin of zero defects" (Deming, 1986; p. 66). The...

data needing a broad bandwidth, but also the need for security as patient files are confidential and security measures are not onl...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

Types of medical data and information records relevant to this project. The importance of uniform terminology, coding and...

HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...

The process of successful change was observed by Lewin as occurring in three stages; unfreezing, change and refreezing (Lewin, 195...

of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...

these issues(LaBar, 1997). While OSHA as an organization is necessary, it perhaps oversteps its bounds and makes arbitrary rules, ...

jobs. The evidence appears to indicate that the survivors will also suffer. There is a range of literature that outlines responses...

to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...

wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up. These horrific cases t...

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

employers are increasing employees portion of premium payments or ceasing to contribute anything at all. Many employers have ceas...

of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

processed, but also in terms of the culture where employees feel appreciated. They are paid more than the average wage, on top of ...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

based on a team approach and includes a wide range of professionals and support personnel. The successful operation of the OR is ...

the dietary restrictions of Jewish and Moslem patients should be honored and other tenets of these faiths should influence nursing...