Hospital Course Works Samples For Students

The interviewee was as System Administrator at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. As a system administrator, the person had been charged with the responsibilities of setting up and maintaining user accounts, maintaining and monitoring system performance, developing security and privacy policies for users and creating data backup and recovery policies. Other responsibilities included managing password and identities, installing and upgrading software, scheduling hardware repairs and auditing the system. He joined the hospitals in February 2010 as Assistant Network Administrator before getting a promotion to his current position in July 2013. He had worked Broadway Supermarket as a database administrator for a period ...

This paper responds to the article titled “Job and Career Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions of Newly Graduated Nurses.” The article was authored by Laschinger Heather who is affiliated to the University Of Ontario School Of Nursing. It was published on 4thth issue of the Journal of Journal of Nursing Management in 2012. Spencer. The article contains the details of a research conducted to find out work life experiences of new graduate nurses and to determine predictors of job satisfaction and turnover intentions. Shortage of nurses in hospital is a global problem. Many explanations have been given as to why most healthcare ...

- Accident Report (Third Person Account)

On Tuesday, 21 May 2013, at 9:35 a.m., a collision occurred between two vehicles at the intersection of Bath Road and Division Street. One vehicle was a light blue 2003 Toyota Corolla; the other was a green 2006 Chevrolet Uplander. Two pedestrian eyewitnesses reported that the Chevrolet was traveling south on Bath Road through the traffic lights, which were green in the north-south direction. The Toyota approached the intersection from Division Street traveling west at a high rate of speed with the driver sounding the horn. It slowed down slightly before colliding with the Chevrolet in ...

Labor Relations Review Questions

2. Using the hospital as a setting, give two examples of what would violate the NLRA.
One of the provisions of the NLRA is the right to self-organization. Section 157 of 21 US Code, also known as the National Labor Relations Act, provides, among others, that employees have the right to organize themselves, either by forming, joining or assisting unions and bargain with their employers as a group through the union. This provision would be violated under healthcare setting, when a hospital management, for example, would deal directly with its employees for the setting of terms of their contracts. This happened ...

Implementing decisions is one of the basic routines by a manager. The challenge of Bailey battling with the problem, Hunt should implement the decision ethically by following the organization codes and enforce the rules. Doctor Bailey problem of Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was not only bringing problems to herself but also to the people and patient in the hospital. According to Tenbrunsel (2008), major sign of OCD such as repetitive washing hands, preoccupation with religious thoughts and obsession can lead to delays, time consuming and unethical business conduct.

The implementation of Bailey problem ethically is to assist her overcome the ...

A considerable number of General Practitioners, surgeons and other practicing medical specialists occasionally misdiagnose medical conditions causing devastating effect on patients’ lives. Many times that ends fatally with death. The question we have to answer is could that bring murder charges against physicians whose patients die. The answer is positive because practically this is a murder and murder is a crime. The most significant element of an act to be qualified as a crime is the guilt. In the Criminal law guilt is the psychical attitude of the intruder towards the crime. We distinguish two types of guilt: direct – when the perpetrator ...

Cover Letter,

Mercy Medical Center has enlisted Howard Electronics as a potential bidder for the supply of one computer server. Howard company was considered for the supply after careful review and analysis of the company’ background information captured in the website and other business reports. To this end, the hospital is seeking information regarding the company’s services and product. The required information is captured in the Request for Proposal document attached to this letter.

The hospital is currently using four servers located in the departments of pharmacy, clinician, laboratory, and admission. These servers host patients’ health records handled by the departments. ...

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What does it mean to submit a clean claim?

Generally, a clean claim has no flaw, impropriety or special condition that includes incomplete documentations and forms that causes delay on the timely payment. A health insurance provider submits a clean claim by giving the necessary data elements on the standard claim application forms, including with the attachments and required supporting documents or additional or revisions to the data elements. Specifically, a clean claim identifies the health facility, health professional, home health care provider, lists the date and place of service and any identifying numbers. More importantly, it indicates the specific service provided using ...

Patient centeredness entails exhibiting the qualities of compassion, empathy and responding to the needs and values of an individual patient. It also involves interpreting to the patient all the information on the medical service they are receiving. Physicians are also required to give patients information about other alternative medical procedures or other facilities that can offer more specialized care (AHRQ 169).

In order to improve transparency in health care, a lot of work and dedication is necessary from all the medical staff. The first stage in improving is planning where the goal identification occurs, and a strategy is formed to achieve ...

Introduction

The present assessment involves the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, which is located in Dallas. The facility is an 898-bed acute-care infirmary that treats complicated medical cases in North Texas. The assessment focuses on the quality of health care offered at the facility, as well as other facilities in the country, and explores ways of improving the services.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) observes that the U.S. health care system does not offer consistent and high-quality medical care to every citizen. Consequently, the health care system routinely fails to provide its potential benefits to all people. IOM notes that between ...

Question one

Benchmarking is a systematic process where leaders of an organization conduct a market performance analysis by comparing its practices with those of a similar organization as a strategy to re-assess its own competitive ability in the market. The approach is applicable in health care organizations in order to assist the institution to understand the prevailing best practices in health services delivery to the clients. The process requires internal understanding of its current strategy, comparing with other similar organizations and then implements the comprehensive strategic plan derived from the benchmarking process.

OFI (Opportunity for Improvement) is a standardized form utilized by health organizations to evaluate ...

Portion 1

Patients with Heart Failure: Quality Improvement Strategies that Helps Prevent Readmissions
The objective and goal of this paper will be to evaluate a quality improvement plan, and strategies implemented in LMC to reduce readmissions of patients with heart failure. In the United States heart failure is the main reason patients 65 years of age or older are hospitalized (Joynt, & Jha, 2011).

Medicare spent over seventeen billion on these patients due to being hospitalized (Setoguchi, & Stevenson, 2009). Medical treatment of patients has improved since CMS began publishing heart failure readmissions through the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) in ...

Question 1

Apparently, the structure of the hospital services industry is assorted subsequent to the fact that there exist different hospital institutions offering identical services but of different quality. Considering that different hospitals particularly in the United States seek to attract as many customers as possible, competition is eminent. Currently, the nature of competition in the hospital services industry in the United States is stiff, because the number and size distribution of the existing hospitals is quite intense (Santerre & Neun, 2010). The degree of product differentiation in the market is currently high. The customers, on the other hand, have adequate ...

- Answer:
In the case concerned, UMDNJ unlawfully put pressure on 12 nurses to participate in abortions or threatening them with dire consequences of termination of employment if the nurses object to take part in the abortion procedures, and when they filed a lawsuit and got a restraining order on the hospital against such forceful participation, the hospital called them to a meeting for discussing possible changes or transfers. However, the New Jersey Court has rejected the request of the nurses to put a restraining order on the hospital in this regard, thereby allowing the hospital to call the nurses to a meeting ...

In light of a CBRN attack, casualties must be taken to an appropriate medical center or hospital. Kingston General Hospital is the main hospital that specializes in chemical response and decontamination. The hospital has a chemical response and decontamination facility where toxic chemicals are eliminated through various decontamination methods.

The hospital has thirty six beds where in-patients or admitted casualties are accommodated as they undergo treatment. However, the in-patient facilities are not available to all based on the small number of beds available. In an attempt to overcome this problem, the Kingston Hospital has devised a simple triage capacity in which it ...

Working in the medical field today can be exhilarating, but it can also be a challenge. The technology and medical procedures involved are often evolving and changing, forcing medical staff to evolve with it. In some cases, the staff grows comfortable with the technology available to them; they even begin to prefer it. Being a nurse is difficult enough at times without constantly having to relearn procedures and systems. One of the greatest thorns in a nurse’s side is the implementation of an electronic health records system, or EHR. Though the change can be difficult, thanks to Everett Rogers’ work on ...

Health disparity is one of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare system. WHO stipulates that healthcare should be affordable available and accessible to all individuals disregarding their social status, age, sex, ethnicity, race, disability or sexual orientation. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention concurs with WHO but states that, despite the efforts to make health for all a reality, many socially disadvantaged population groups cannot still access healthcare services, or if they can, they receive a lesser healthcare service compared to the general population. I have experienced many situations of health disparities, but one that caught my most attention involved an ...

Abstract

The aim of this study is to look at ethical dilemmas of staff nurses that often arise across a variety of work settings and how nurses resolve ethical dilemmas. Every nurse differs in educational preparation and experience. The impact of the dilemma can vary and influence decision-making, and the complexities caused by legalities often impact the nursing roles during the dilemmas. The role of self, support to patients and families, patient educator and communicator are necessary during the ethical dilemmas.

Nurses face ethical challenges daily when providing quality care and can remain highly dissatisfied in their struggle when faced with ...

Executive Summary

Recently, many hospitals worldwide have experienced some setbacks in reference to health care delivery system. This setback was primarily caused by the growing shortage in the number of experienced and competent healthcare workers, particularly nurses in the health profession. One of these hospitals is Renfrey Memorial Hospital, who is facing not major problems related to an aging nursing staff, overworked personnel and migration of able and experienced nurses to other health institutions because of the more promising professional life.

This report would identify the best practices and benchmark techniques used by differently medical facilities that have experienced similar problems. ...

The overall goal of the management of any organization lies in achieving the set strategic goals and objectives. The management of Sisters of Charity Providence Hospital has made a training function that focuses on performance gaps and, offering quality service a top priority. Its intention to achieve such targets goes hand in hand with the introduction of the hospital’s first program, the Leading Edge, meant to offer training on financial and performance management, talent recruitment and, change management.

Any program an organization employs to streamline its operations must achieve the desired outcomes. The outcomes should be measurable to determine the ...

The main objective of health care is to give patients added value in the form of improved health (Government.se, 2014). This necessitates smooth and efficient running of health care businesses to the advantage of the patients. Unlike other businesses where maximization of profits is the main agenda, businesses providing health care services put the well-being of their patients before any other objective.

In our case, I believe there is a problem as our hospital needs to serve the needs of its patients by providing them with the new stents whereas the offer presented by Pharma Inc to purchase the stents ...

The summary of the data acquired has been done by the use of a scatter graph and a bar graph.

Bar graph
Scatter diagram
Series represent the various variables 1 to11
The numbers on the x axis represent the 12 months of the year
The value on the z axis represent the total number of beds available in the said month

1 represents occupied bed %
2 represents the total % of vacant beds
3 represents the constant % of vacant beds
The scale on the Y axis on the above histogram has been adjusted to show ...

The exchange of health information is a critical component of healthcare service provision. All modern healthcare institutions have an integrated patients’ information management system. These systems store patient’s records in electronic format for retrieval by the care providers in various departments. The electronic exchange of patients’ information has many advantages. It enables the care providers to get patients’ medical records in a timely manner. Thus, it helps improve the quality of medical services provided by the institution. It also minimizes costs by reducing incidences of repeat tests. Moreover, it facilitates the transfer of patients’ records to insurance companies. The quick ...

Non-hospital organizations mainly differ from hospital organizations in the sense that most of the former are non-profit making organizations and their services cover larger population than hospital organizations do. In addition, non-hospital organizations mainly offer the following services: education, research, and advocacy. Owing to these attributes, means of improving productivity for non-hospital organizations differ slightly from those applied in hospital settings.

The first step in improving productivity in non-hospital organization is to establish a small span of control (Kudyba, 2010). This implies that supervisors at different positions in the organization’s hierarchy should be able to effectively be in charge of ...

Health care is becoming an expensive commodity in America every single day. Countless Americans are dealing with the burden of increasing health care cost, which is making access to essential health care a dream. This paper seeks to discuss the factors responsible for inflation in health care cost, in America.

Estimates show that the cost of health care in the US will be approximately $4.8 trillion by 2021. The cost of health care was $2.6 trillion in the year 2010 and $75 billion dollars in the year 1970. It is surprising that the cost of healthcare will be equivalent to ...

According to Hospital Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, there has been a prediction by the federal government claiming that there is to be an expected increase in the number of hospital nursing vacancies by nearly 29% which is approximately 800,000 by the year 2020, this will not be filled by slow increase in the number of nurses as their rate of increase will only be a mere 6%.

As it had been noted that higher level of nursing staff will increase both nurse satisfaction and higher quality health care, this cannot be achieved ...

Fall prevention is important in both hospital settings and at home because they can result in fractures, head trauma, soft tissue trauma, prolonged rehabilitation, emotional trauma, loss of confidence, and high patient readmission rates (Oliver, Daly, Martin, & McMurdo, 2004). For the healthcare providers, fall prevention is an essential practice because poor prevention measures can result in increased anxiety or guilt among the staff and litigation from the injured patient’s family if the fall occurs within the hospital.

The elderly population is at a significant risk for adverse events when they fall in contrast to other age groups. According ...

Authority is the power or right given to an executive or a managing officer to perform or manage designated actions which will influence directly the actions of other individuals through which organizational goals and objectives are realized. Authority is formally given and includes the right to, commit resources, command situations and give directions that should be followed. It is accompanied also by transparency and accountability.
An organization refers to a group of people who have a responsibility of managing and structuring in a way that makes them meet their targeted objectives. For a company to meet its goals, it must have a credible structure ...

Introduction

The two hospitals that this paper is going to compare are the UMass Memorial Medical Center and the Saint Vincent Hospital. Both of these health institutions are located in Worcester, Massachusetts. UMass Memorial Medical Center is owned partly by the state government and partly by private investors. On the other hand, Saint Vincent Hospital is owned by the Catholic Church. This paper will describe the similarities and differences of these organizations in terms of the institutions’ missions, goals, objectives, management structure, staffing, policies, and procedures.

•Mission

The missions of both Saint Vincent Hospital and the UMass Memorial Medical Center are ...

Introduction

Hospitals are homes to different patients who require different attention. This means that there must be people who are qualified for different roles in the medical field. In this connection, hospitals are not required as a block where all patients are handled in the same room. Instead, departments should be formed where each of them operates in support of the other to ensure patients are handled and treated accordingly. This has resulted to existence of various experts for specific duties in the hospital. Among the most common departments in hospitals are Dermatology, Oncology, Gastroenterology, Pulmonary, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, ...

Introduction

Medical identity theft and data security breaches have become quite commonplace these days with thousands of reports registered every year. As healthcare management grows increasingly reliant on computerized patient record, more of such issues concerning privacy, security and confidentiality breaches are coming to the fore. The total automation of patient record makes the confidentiality of information vulnerable to unauthorized access and therefore nurses and physicians who have authorized access to the information should be more responsible for keeping the data secure from all kinds of insidious infiltration. Unauthorized access is not the only security challenge facing the healthcare management. ...

Medication errors are estimated to cause approximately 7000 deaths annually and cost approximately $2 billion in added health care spending. Improving the safety outcomes of medication-use processes in hospitals has been cited as a means of addressing this issue. Careful and planned use of information technology is a proven approach to solve a majority of medication errors made with paper-based systems (Paoletti et al., 2007). These systems have been found to provide much better compliance with the “five rights” of medication administration: right patient, right dose, right route, right time, and right medication (Hook, 2008). Accordingly, the present paper describes a test ...

Nurses face various challenges and these problems are getting worse due to lack of proper legislations to address them adequately. One of these problems is hospital staffing crisis where hospitals are understaffed and nurses are overwhelmed with patient care.

There are several reasons to justify why poor hospital staffing is problematic to nursing. Instead of hospital administrations investing in adequate staff levels, most of them are investing heavily in advanced medical technologies. To an extent, corporate greed seems to take priority over safe care of patients. According to Roux and Judith nurses represent the largest professional group in any ...

Introduction

The mission, vision, values, and stated goals of memorial Hermann hospital

Mission

The Memorial Herrmann Healthcare System is a non-profit organization owned by the community. It upholds the spiritual values that are aimed at provision of a high quality health services so that it can improve on the health of individuals living at Southern Texas.

Vision

The Memorial Herrmann Healthcare System will be distinguished and outstanding in the United States by progressing individual’s health through trusted co-operation and partnerships with all the involved parties so that it can deliver the unsurpassed possible health panacea while at the same time offering qualities and ...

Abstract

This article makes a broad discussion of leadership and management while using the case of a director of nursing in a hospital illustratively. The article will provide some biographical information of the director of nursing of the St. Joseph Transitional and Rehabilitation Facility, their present position as well as the organization setting in which they work. The article will also highlight the experience of the director of nursing as well as reasons why they were identified for the interview. Furthermore, the article will make a comparison of available literature on leadership and management with the leadership and management style of the director of ...

Question 1:

The board and the executive leadership team of Northwestern memorial hospital should respond to the finding of the Illinois court case as discussed hereunder:

Provena Covenant Medical Center “relies on private physicians to fill its medical staff.” This is through utilizing numerous third party providers in order to deliver other services at the hospital. These include but are not limited to lab, laundry, pharmacy, MRI/CT services. Despite this being a non-profit motivated institution, some of the services were provided for a fee/profit under disguise. Therefore the executive leadership and the board of Northwestern memorial hospital should bind itself with its ...

Introduction

It is essential that nurses understand the issues related to health care, which are local and state financing, national healthcare policies, and initiatives that affect healthcare delivery. As a patient advocate, the professional nurse is in a position to work with patients and families to access available resources to meet health care needs. Nurses also have an ethical responsibility to be fiscally prudent in all practice settings to eliminate inefficiencies, and to promote best practices. 

Task: Scenario 1: Note: For parts A and B, the suggested length is a combined total of 1–2 pages. 

Mrs. Zwick, a 77-year-old widow and permanent resident of the United States, was admitted as an inpatient and hospitalized for five days following a mild stroke. She was ...

Introduction

The healthcare sector is one of the most vital institutions today. People require access to healthcare services in order to maintain a good health. An effective change design is needed in order to offer quality services to people. Change is essential in any institution because it enables people to have quality access to services in a more convenient way (Fawcett & Garity, 2009). The following paper focuses on change in the health sector through the introduction of compulsory two months palliative care course to all nurses. Implementation of the following program will be achieved using the Rosswurm and Larrabee six step ...

Within practical contexts, ethical conduct of employees is as important in nursing as it is within any other professional field. Nurses are required by occupational guidelines to provide care towards patients in the most ethical manner possible. The basic precepts of nursing ethics emphasize that nurses should not employ actions that will inflict either physical or emotional injury to their patients. This means that employees within a healthcare facility, which include the nursing fraternity, are obliged to uphold high level of standards in creating sustainable relationships with patients. According to Perron and Pronsati (2012), those high standards should be guided ...

Question 1

Are there possible criminal aspects of HIV/AIDS? Consider the case law presented in your textbook and elsewhere, and explain. Please provide specific examples.

The intentional spread of HIV is considered a criminal act. Pozgar (2012, p. 362) describes the case of an inmate who knew that he was infected with both HIV and the hepatitis virus. He was also informed of the ways that he can transmit the infection to others. He bit two correctional officers knowing that he can possibly infect them in this way. He was consequently charged with assault and battery. In State of Louisiana v. Schmidt, ...

Part 1 –Week one

Description of some administrative/ organizations’ challenges managers must consider when looking to solve ethical problems.
Three major ethical dilemmas health care administrative/ organizations managers’ face include conflicts of interest; the professional obligation to provide appropriate medical care in relation to management costs and patient autonomy. Conflicts of interest emerge within the boundaries of financial obligations to co-providers such as pharmacies; medical equipment companies and academic research programs. Real conflicts arise when physicians order equipment/ drugs or encourage patients to engage in certain research practices and hospital administration in the capacity of health care institution manager may have to ...

Medicare part (A) covers skilled nursing facility, hospice, home health facilities homecare, nursing home care and inpatient hospital care (Hess, 2012, p.560). Medicare part A will normally recompense for the charges during the first sixty days after one pays the deductibles.

Medicare part A willfully cover Mrs. Zwick’s impatient hospital care for the five days stay. It will cover fully the cost of the first 20days, and partially the cost of the 21st day. It fully covers the homecare services as well. This premium will cater for Mrs. Zwick’s medical expenses while at the skilled nursing facility ...

Question 1: Is Randy’s Reaction Uncommon? Explain

Randy’s reaction towards Kaye is not uncommon. Randy was hostile towards the expansion of the hospital, which he agrees is a good idea, just to be hostile towards Kaye. When most people do not like others they tend to go against the other person in all aspects. They go against their actions, requests and even ideas, not because they are bad but because they do not like or see eye to eye with the other person. This occurs because they cannot in modern society go to arms and fight; therefore they go against each other’s ideas with the ...

Introduction

My place of employment is a large general hospital with various branches of specialization. It currently employs around 1000 staff and I work as a house officer in the Emergency Ward. As a hospital it is headed by a Medical Superintendent with various other consultants and administrators taking care of the relevant wards and other administration work.

The Department

The Casualty Department functions quite well as it has some well trained doctors and nurses who are very responsive to the problems and issues which arise on a daily basis. The Head of Department administers power relatively benignly and allows a certain amount of leeway to housemen and ...

Patients receiving acute care typically go through different levels of care encountering numerous health care providers in the process. For example, a stroke patient who undergoes cranial surgery will be admitted into the PACU. Once stable, he is admitted into the medical-surgical unit and then discharged into long-term rehabilitation. Prior to being sent home, he is advised to see his primary care physician for follow-ups. Throughout the many transitions in each health care experience, handoffs occur between health care professionals working in each unit during changes in shift. Handoffs also take place between providers of one unit or level of ...

Community Location

According the population census conducted in 2000, the total population of District 13 is 106, 120. However it has been observed that the population of the region has been on the rise. The people in the district live in different locations. These locations include; the Coney Island the Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Bath Beach, Homecrest and the Sea Gate.

The Coney Island is an urban residential neighborhood located in the Southwestern side of Brooklyn in New York City. The Coney Island is around 4 miles long and half a mile wide. The Coney Island creek that ...

My professional goal

My professional goal is to work as health services manager in a governmental healthcare institution. I have basic experience in this field. I have worked as QA supervisor for Angie’s List, and wish to build on this my line of career. Managers of healthcare services, take charge of the administrative and managerial functions of running a clinic or a hospital. According to AGCAS (2011), the role of healthcare managers “is to take responsibility for providing and to the task to commission local healthcare via management of hospitals, general practitioner and/or community health services”. It is expected that strategic planning and ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an infectious disease caused by SARS corona virus (SARS-CoV). It is a dangerous, not well understood, and easy to transmit disease. Its most dangerous features are that SARS outbreaks occur within the hospital setting, it can be deadly, and has no definitive set of symptoms. There is a distinct probability of another global outbreak of SARS.

On February 28, 2003, Carlo Urbani, a medical doctor working for the World Health Organization in Vietnam, examined an American patient in a French hospital in Hanoi. The patient presented with atypical pneumonia, a respiratory disease with an unusual panel of symptoms. ...

NEW STAR HOSPITAL

INTRODUCTION
Hospitals require enhancing the standards by meeting the needs of the time. This includes innovation, technological change, and modernization in health care. Along with this, researching the industry and offering the best level of services to the communities in which the system is operating. In this report the mission, vision, values and strategic positioning of the hospital will be discussed so that the new employees who are joining can understand the goals which the strategic managers aim to acquire. This is an essential component using which the businesses can manage a diverse workforce and align them appropriately for ...

Introduction

Reliable and sound information is the key source of decision-making across all healthcare centers worldwide. Effective information systems are essential for the development of health system policies and their implementation. In addition, it ensures good governance and regulation, promotes health research, improve human resources development and high service delivery. Advances in technology, especially the internet, creates a better opportunity to improve healthcare institutions through making communications more efficient and increasing the effectiveness of practitioners. Healthcare centers that have implemented information systems have realized great changes in their operations in terms of speed, safety, efficient communications between parties and cost cutting. ...

Q 1 The vital duties offered by the board improve the effectiveness of health management. The responsibilities involve; the board articulates, envisions and focus on implementation of the institution’s objectives, operations and vision. The board ensures high levels of performance in the executive organization. It focuses on the performance of the hospital employees. The board also ensures good care of the patients and statures financial committee equally (Biggs, 2004). The board must ensure vital financial duties for the organization’s fiscal health. Problematic issues arise when the board tries to achieve the break-even instead of making a profit. Profit ...

Financial Data Analysis. Patton Fuller Hospital.

Total expenses, on the other hand, increased only by 5.9% to $463.3 million in 2012, compared to $437.4 million in 2011. Overall, the increase in expenses was primary driven by increase in Depreciation & Amortization expense (44% increase) and increase in provision for doubtful accounts (10.6% increase). Other expenses increased by %3.1 on average. Significant increase in D&A expenses happened due to serious investments in fixed assets, as vendors started offering discounts. Provision for doubtful accounts increased together with accounts receivable, as more patients started buying services on credit.

The combination of the abovementioned factors allowed company to ...

Abstract

The quality management process in a process by which the quality of the products that are delivered to the clients is managed to make sure that it is the best. This process is very important considering that clients will always opt to go for products that are of the best quality; thus increasing the profit margins that the company will experience. Some of the quality management processes commonly used in companies today are TQM, ISO 9000, and Six-Sigma (Shankar, 2009).

Introduction

The company is this scenario has decided to use six-sigma as its quality management process so as to eliminating any ...

SARS Disease Outbreak

The SARS disease outbreak occurred in 2003 when the World Health Organization issued a global alert on the disease that was similar to pneumonia (Wei et al., 2009). Similar cases were experienced in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand. Other countries affected included Germany, United States, and Canada. The disease spread from Beijing leading to an outbreak in Tianjin city. According to Wei et al., (2009), 175 probable cases of SARS were reported. This included 21 deaths. The transfer of patients from one hospital to another stimulated the spread of the disease. A patient that was suspected of ...

In recent years, the health sector has become a very competitive field. Health institutions have been forced to develop effective strategies to counter the competition. The only solution has been to improve the quality of health care and create a good rapport with the customers. Gaining ground on the market is not an easy affair in health care as it is a delicate balance between ethical issues and business strategies (Ward, W. J., 2004). Krona Community Hospital is on a mission to remain competitive in the health care sector within this region through ensuring effective delivery of quality care. A comprehensive business strategy ...

Introduction:

The Chlamydia has been reported to be the most common sexual transmitted disease in the United States of America. It is most common among the sexually active people who include the young adults and the adolescent. State reports and surveys have revealed that from two to twenty percent of this age group have contracted this disease. The female adolescents have been noted to be having the highest rate of infection of this disease. In general, the young adults and adolescents who are infected with this disease result to a total of 4%. The black Americans are also noted to be ...

5A. Niche Clientele is a portion of the market that an organization identifies as having some special features and determines that it is worth marketing to that portion of the market. The organizations tend to use niche clientele most often are those in the private sector-such organizations are owned and run by individuals. Considering a micro-finance: the questions usually asked in this case is: who will be their clientele with specific features and how will knowing their clientele help the organization? Such small finance corporation will often target people with low income or middle income level people. Understanding the specific income ...

Introduction

The health care sector is changing rapidly and to remain relevant, health care facilities must develop and implement strategic plans. A strategic plan incorporates historical values and current trends to determine a desired future position for an organization. In the health care sector, patient centered care is the latest trend in quality assurance.

Therefore, health care organizations need to align their strategic plans with the needs of their consumers. One of the situational management tool that managers use to align their organizations operations with the needs of their consumers is a SWOT analysis. SWOT is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities ...

1. Introduction

Central venous access devices are small catheters that are placed either directly or indirectly into the superior venacava or right atrium for the following purposes: drug administration, nutrition, dialysis of the kidneys, antibiotic therapy or transplantation of the bone marrows among other reasons. They are often used when the smaller veins are inaccessible or medications or nutrients cannot be administered via the smaller veins. The use of CVAD is often marred by two major problems: occlusion by thrombosis and infection. The patency of the catheter must be maintained. Nurses use normal saline or heparin in order to maintain the ...

The choices involved with organ transplants are never easy. There are more patients in need of new organs than the number of available organs, which means that doctors and transplant committees have to make decisions that are not palatable to many of us. They have to evaluate the possible quality of life of patients after they receive the transplants, and factors like longevity are a concern, but so are less quantitative ones, like their ability to contribute to society. Also, factors that are less specific to the patient can come into play, such as the ability of family members or ...