Essays on Bedside

The products and services provided in hotels, as a rule, are standard, but sometimes depending on the appointment of a hotel (business, rest) they can have specific nature. For me, the hotel is not just the place for a lodging for the night. It is the temporary house. The house in which everything is brought to perfection. And the most pleasant is that this perfection is not created by me. It isn't necessary to clean, bring things to the order. You can relax, you can behave more freely, it is possible to count on an invisible hand which will ...

Challenges faced by MCOs regarding price variations and ways of overcoming these challenges

Challenges Utilization management acts as one of the most complex financial balancing act that managed care organizations (MCOs) try to utilize in an effort to manage health care costs and create value for future health care services (Bailit & Sennett, 1992). However, managing cost through utilization management concept creates price variations that pose major challenges to MCOs. One of the major challenges faced by MCOs regarding price variation is its diverse nature. The use of utilization management in MCOs has gained a lot of demand making it difficult to make a general conclusion on certain variations. Price variations linked to ...

This project educates personnel on preventing and mitigating cases of hospital-acquired infections in the facility. The issue drew the attention of the QI department after a patient succumbed to an untreatable CRE infection in a recent incident. Upon an investigation, the department determined that HAIs had become an issue worth addressing given obvious causes such as lack of communication, supervision, and improper hand hygiene policies (Barnett, 2015). The data and tools used to make decisions on project implementation include adequate surveillance systems aimed at monitoring and improving relations at field level. Some of the set QI milestones include educating ...

Nursing: Critiquing a Quantitative/Qualitative Study

A quantitative assessment of patient and nurse outcomes of bedside nursing report implementation

Introduction

This quantitative research critique encompasses an evaluation of the research problem and purpose. An evaluation of the hypothesis and research questions will be undertaken too along with an assessment of the literature review and theoretical framework. The entire methodology will be reviewed. Quantitative research studies unlike qualitative apply statistics in explaining a phenomenon. These features of the research design will be fully explored. Study # 1: Sand-Jecklyn, K., & Sherman, J. (2014). A quantitative assessment of patient and nurse outcomes of bedside nursing report implementation. Journal of Clinical

Nursing; 23(19 - 20); 2854–2863

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Overview of the Product or Service

Providing quality care is one of the primary goals of every clinical setting (Alvarado et al., 2006). Regardless of the clinical setting itself, patient care must remain the main focus for the organization: however, maintaining cost-effective procedures is also a key component of good clinical practice. Good patient care relies on the ability of the staff to communicate, as well as the ability of the organization to meet the specific needs of the patients (Alvarado et al., 2006). For clinical care centers that are open twenty-four hours a day, there can be problems with patient care when staff changes ( ...

Executive summary

Introduction It is apparent that the modern-day healthcare system is faced with a myriad of challenges that require constant and relentless application of evidence and best practices in order to remain true to the central mandate of healthcare, which is, provision of safe and quality care. This implies that as healthcare providers, there is the obligation to be agents of positive change that would ensure both organizational and healthcare objectives are met in an effective and comprehensive manner. In this regard, this paper represents an executive summary of quality improvement program “fall prevention”, intended to reduce the number of ...

Performance reports/dashboards are essential key metric tools in the health care system since they assist managers especially nurses to have access to up-to-date holistic data concerning the wellbeing of the patients, the state of the facility financially, work operations/schedules and the quality of care rendered to patients. Additionally, it saves time that a health practitioner would use to go through a pile of files manually and compile a comprehensive report for further analysis. A dashboard in my place work (St. James Hospital) where I work as nurse manager would be critical in improving health care services to our clients ...

Naso-duodenal tube feeding is recommended for hospitalized patients. This means that Sharyn does not need the assessment of the caretakers and the important home details. However, like any other patient, Sharyn needs to be psychologically prepared to the feeding method. Therefore, there will be need to establish an understanding between the hospital caregivers and Sharyn. This will include explaining to the patient everything concerning the procedure including the indication and contraindication. Hospitals will often provide the outlined procedure for the administration of the feeding method and this should be followed to the latter. According to the hospital procedure and ...

The Boston Harber Hotel is one of the most cherished and prestigious hospitality and accommodation destination for many travelers in Boston city. It has served the service industry with memorable moments of history, recognized as a leader-service provider in the industry. The hotel is located at the historic Rowes Wharf in the Bostan's city scape. It attracts a large number of travelers in the city with a promise of variety of services. Their services range from the normal restaurant services and accommodation services. They also provide human therapeutic services such as the Spa and fitness facilities in the industry. ...

I fought the law, and the law almost lost. I was born in Los Angeles flower garden on the wrong side of town. My earliest memories are scrabbling through refuse for food and clothing. One day I was casing a 7-11 when I saw another kid my age eying the candy rack. A thief knows a thief when he sees one, and this guy clearly didn’t know how to do the job right. I could see the Pakistani man who ran the place staring at him. His brow was furrowed, and I knew he was close to coming ...

Abstract

Every health organization has the goal of providing quality, safe, and cost-effective care to patients. Some safety issues reported in hospitals today question the role of the health sector in improving the health outcome of the community. Many hospitals record poor patient outcomes because of the inability of the management to plan duties and changes in shifts between nurses caring for patients in hospital wards. Poor inter-shift reports between registered nurses act as one of the most common problems threatening patients' safety and delivery of quality care in hospitals today. Technology plays a significant role in influencing communication between ...

In this world scientists are conducting life sciences research to accelerate better healthcare outcomes. For that, both clinical and basic science researches are done for the development of new treatments. The development of new treatments is necessary for various disorders. To understand the normal psychological or pathophysiological disease processes researchers are using animals for experiments but ethical violations are being noticed. Therefore, in this paper all those ethical violation issues will be discussed that are surrounding the clinical and basic science research. In addition, it will present the importance and need for animal studies over clinical trials that involve ...

Introduction and Statement of the Problem

Bedside shift reporting occurs as one of the most pertinent concepts in the context of health care. This can be attributed to the colossal role it plays in enhancing the process of care for patients. The core essence of bedside shift reporting entails the fact that it identifies all the care accorded to patients by nurses in the previous shift. As such, it offers a means through which patient care can be continued in a coherent manner. Despite the significant evidence that points to the fact that bedside shift reporting is important in patient care, it is yet to ...

For a long time now, nurses have been fighting against inadequate staffing and the outcomes that such issues have on them and the patients under their care. Additionally, the ever ballooning needs of the health care system have resulted in the number of patients requiring care going above the available healthcare personnel (Aiken, et al., 2014). As such, the available nurses presently working in the country, both at the state and the federal level are overwhelmed by the responsibilities bestowed on them. From the foregoing, therefore, it is evident that finding the optimal level of the nurse-to-patient ratio has ...

Part 1

Patient safety, ethical stand and patient centered care is more concerned with healthcare givers providing patients which they deem harmless and also takes into account their wellbeing both emotionally and physically. Effective communication is the key tool that can be used to address the problem of undesirable patient outcomes since it has been established that a reduction in stress and anxiety is usually brought about by patients complying with their medication and also being involved in a proactive form of effective communication. In addition to reduced stress levels, it is also crucial to note that effective communication boosts the ...