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Essays 511 - 540
One of the first things that struck this writer in this work was the following: "Too often, however, the inertia of service system...
are also incredibly personal stories that come from the view and experiences of a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the infor...
writer recalls reading once that Hemingway said it really was nothing more than a book about an old man and the sea, nothing more....
is not the case with hospital employees. Not only does their continual use of the cafeteria provide a more realistic view of the ...
that not only were nurses retained but that everyone on staff is motivated to be actively engaged and involved in the work environ...
intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...
graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...
a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...
to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...
The NYSNA representative agrees, suggesting that closing hospitals is not a good way to deal with the health care crisis ("Prevent...
eliminate the risk of non compliance and simply use new equipment each time. With mass production techniques it was possible to pr...
by 2010 (About Healthy People, n.d.). It has survived four presidents and several changes in congressional leadership based on pa...
interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...
some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...
where employees are important stakeholders as seen with the "Live for Life" employee health program initiated in 1976, which was ...
This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
of health care is in and remains in flux as we seek systems that not only work in the present but also are sustainable over time. ...
and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...
Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...
of dissatisfied customers (patients and their parents) ad they were making losses which were increasing. The drive for change ofte...
caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...
you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...
with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...
quality of the customer service. The measures here will be against the expected levels from past visitors as well as the levels co...
and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its...
as such this will also lead to patient satisfaction. The cost per patient or per visit may be measured in financial terms; this ...
of that knowledge and create cost savings with the way it is implemented, such as new procedures, or new ways of managing old proc...
numbers and then as a percentage on yearly basis. The measure in the first year for reference only, in the second year the numbe...
degree (Barnes, et al, 1999). At a time when many healthcare facilities were moving away from clinical ladders, Miami Valley Hos...