Essays on General Hospital

1. Quality, safety, and people are important aspects in as far as strategic goals and objectives of health care organizations. At XXX General Hospital, the first strategic goal is to enhance quality culture and processes to deliver outstanding person-centered care with compassion and kindness to all. The second strategic goal is to create a safety-focused culture with a focus on medication safety and prevention of infection and developing a safety framework in the organization. The third goal is to recognize and support the organization’s valuable staff and to develop an engaged workforce. Within the healthcare domain, concerns related ...

As the nursing executive of a general hospital with more than 1,000 beds, I need to address the nursing shortage in the emergency department. Currently, there are 19 full-time nurses working in the emergency department. That number proved to be sufficient to effectively address approximately 80% of all admissions, but it will be necessary to increase the number of full-time nurses and staff retention rates need to increase in order to further improve care delivery in the department and reduce job burnout rates. According to Buchan and Aiken (2008), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) identified ...

30 Sec Announcement

Letter to the Chamber of Commerce 1436 Colorado Drive

Pensacola, Washington DC 98765

Executive Vice President Local Chamber of Commerce U.S. Chamber of Commerce 1615 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20062-2000 RE: Letter from the Owner of Baria General Hospital to the Executive Vice President of the Local Chamber of Commerce, introducing Baria General Hospital Organization I am writing this cordial letter to formally introduce the newly established medical facility, Baria General Hospital. The healthcare organization seeks to carry out the noble mission of providing affordable and quality medical services to all citizens. Baria General Hospital is founded on the ...

The case is focused on Pre-Admission Testing Area (PATA) of Massachusetts General Hospital to investigate the actual capacity of PATA and provides some recommendations to improve its ability. It will identify the PATA operations and challenges in the hospital that need attention. PATA is an outpatient clinic in the hospital that conducts pre-operative assessments of surgical patients before their procedures. Massachusetts General Hospital is one of oldest and largest hospital in the U.S that is located in Boston. The hospital is providing healthcare services in the country and serving the nation. It has 23,000 employees who have delivered ...

Introduction

The hospitals that make to the Top 100 Hospitals have some things in common. In particular, these hospitals are acknowledged for providing the patients with excellent care in the most effective manner, having a robust innovation history, holding a unique spot in the communities, eliciting the top patient perception of care, sustaining high financial stability, among other things. In particular, the performance measures that Truven Health Analytics focuses on in determining the top 100 hospitals in the country are financial health, extended patient outcome, clinical outcomes, efficiency, clinical process, and consumer evaluation of care (Truven Health Analytics, 2016). One ...

Emma Williams’s Case

Arbitration is a formal process for determining a grievance between parties in a conflict. A labor arbitration process involves an employment-related dispute between an employer and employee. The authority of an arbitral award comes from the binding arbitral clause in a contract of employment or the authority given by the parties through the appointment (Walras, 2013). An arbitrator has quasi-judicial powers to investigate, listen to the grievances of the parties and provide a decision, which is binding on all parties involved in dispute. However, arbitration must be launched on time to have a force of law. The dispute in ...

Abstract

Team based approach is considered to be one of the main concepts that may lead to positive developments in an organization such as increased productivity, high levels of efficiency in operations and reduction in the cost of operations. The San Francisco General Hospital is contemplating to use the team based approach in order to attain these objectives. Therefore, the organization has to embrace specific training programs such as on the job training technique, the instruction training technique and the job rotation techniques. Despite these techniques being associated with different training issues, effective measures can be put in place to ...

It is safe to say that in the recent decades, the topic of health has become a subject for heated discussions around the world. As the ecological situation on our planet gets worse, people start looking for different sources of health. One of such sources is proper nutrition also known as a healthy diet. There are different approaches to defining what kind of diet is actually healthy, and different experts provide their own ideas on ideal food pyramids. As a result, people get confused about what types of food are safe to it and what types of products should ...

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Quite often, people experience anxiety when faced with a difficult situation, and the anxiety ends once the situation is resolved. Occasional anxiety is a common phenomenon that people face especially before undertaking tasks for which they have little confidence in accomplishing. Besides, whenever confronted with the need to make important decisions, people tend to experience anxiety over the possible consequences of such decisions. In general, anxiety occurs when one is facing a difficult situation, has to make a difficult decision, or is about to carry out a task that one has no confidence in accomplishing successfully. In all these ...

The viewing experience of any one classic film made by director Akira Kurosawa, the influential Japanese filmmaker, can elevate the viewer’s taste for cinema to a whole new level. He had been able to make not merely a couple, but dozens of classic films of high artistic and creative caliber. In an October 06, 1985 interview with Julia Cameron, Akira Kurosawa said that films are something that carry across to many different countries and are seen by many different kinds of people. In this sense, they have a tremendous power of communication (3). His films rarely fall short ...

Kempsville District was established in 1781 and remained the capital of the then Princess Anne County from 1778 to 1823. The county seat was then moved to Princess Anne, Virginia. Kempsville lies on the eastern branch of river Elizabeth. Due to this strategic location, Kempsville served as a port for transporting goods to and from the central and western parts of Princess Anne County (City of Virginia Beach, n.d., Historic Kempsville, para. 1). Transportation in the area was mainly via rivers. The area had vast, dispersed farms making agriculture the main pattern of development. Kempsville became under colonial rule ...

Introduction

John and Jeff Bulllock are 2nd and 3rd generation medical device executives, respectively. Together, they have been in and out of hundreds of hospitals and thousands of clinics. Over the 40 plus years they have been in the industry, they have been observant of and listened to the medical staff expressing their needs. Out of these necessities, many patents, creations, and the development of new medical devices have come. Most recently, they have witnessed and been told about a growing problem with hospital bed sheets. As they see it, there are three major problems that hospitals face in regards ...

A study was conducted by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital which found that those who benefited from traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy showed fundamental brain changes, as opposed to those who did not benefit from psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a type of "talk therapy" where a patient relates past experiences, memories, emotional and/or physical traumas, and current thoughts and behaviors to a trained clinician in order to improve -- and eventually alleviate -- symptoms of depression. For example, one type of psychodynamic psychotherapy is known as cognitive behavioral therapy. Also called CBT, this type of therapy stresses using reason to overcome irrational impulses ...

A Comparison between UK and India

Abstract

Stress has been part of human life ever since the beginning of mankind. Initially, people stressed themselves out hunting for food, finding places to rest, and inexplicability of natural phenomena. With the globalisation of industries and the presence of multinational companies all over the world, organizations may need to consider adopting certain policies to match up to other similar organizations. Stress in organisations has become a major issue in the UK and most organisations now have policies and procedures to help employees avoid this and interventions are often in place to support them. It is not known whether ...

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 ...

Health Information Systems is a discipline that connects computing and information technology and health care practices and research. Computer hardware, software and communication equipment, forming a complex network. It entails the resources, equipment and means of obtaining, storing, retrieving and analyzing information in the health sector. This involves use of programmed systems to manage health information and securely exchange it between patients, health institutions, insurers and even government agencies. This interaction will improve value, safety and effectiveness of health delivery. These health information systems will find application in multiple healthcare disciplines including nursing, public health, pharmacy, pathology and dentistry.

Increased and ...

Trenholm (2008) explains that television can be an important tool for spreading messages from the dominant group in a culture to other groups (305). Now this can be done to households all over the world Messages can be sent about how people should keep their house, what their kitchens should like, and what the receiver (the audience) should wear. All this is being done while the audience thinks the only thing that is happening is entertainment. The messages aren’t sent like a lesson plan that (a) you should wear stilettos to work or (b) all the men in your life should be ...

Introduction

This work is a brief overview of the evolution of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and its seminal contributions in the field of medicine. It discusses the relevance of its work in relation to the social upheavals of its time. It discusses the institutional framework for adhering to high standards of quality of care and patient safety alongside its utilization of technology to promote equity of access and optimize enterprise wide care processes.

Background

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston is one of the oldest hospital in the United States. Founded in 1811, the prestigious institution boasts of 900-bed hospital and is ...

Introduction

Quality assurance is of utmost importance in the health care sector. The main reason is that this sector deals directly with saving human life. As such, there is adamant pressure that the services that are offered are quality to the extent that they can safeguard human life. As such, hospitals are among the primary facilities that are vital in this sector. Therefore, the report shall evaluate quality assurance as applied by Valley General Hospital, Monroe, Washington. Quality department is tasked with the responsibility to ensure that the hospital conforms to the best quality expectation. As such, the firm ...

In this study, the aim was to validate a novel ML score HRV for risk stratification in comparison with the MEWS. This clinical process involves screening of the patients undergoing treatment. Risk stratification and other cardiac outcomes play an essential role in treating patients experiencing chest pains. Risk stratification involves the use of MEWS (modified early warning score), which is based on physiological parameters such as systolic blood pressure, pulse rate, respiratory rate, and temperature. Other commonly used methods include HRV (heart rate variation) and ML (machine learning), where HRV is the change of time intervals between heartbeats while ML ...

- Methodology This study will employ Randomized Control Trial (RCT) design in determining the effectiveness of post discharge calls intervention in reducing readmission of patients with heart failure. It will be used on patients attending Singapore General Hospital. This study is a clinical study. Randomized Control Trial design is considered the gold standard of epidemiological and clinical studies (Evans, 1998). Therefore, this study design is the most suitable for the study. Besides, the design has several advantages: studies done using this design are easier to blind than observational studies; the design eliminates population bias; and it makes it possible ...

- Introduction - Pharmacy and technology The use of up to date communication technology in relation to software and hardware components is gradually becoming a vital role in the evolution of the community pharmacy from a business perspective. This is because of its efficiency in pharmacy, profitability and professional reasons1. The recurring manual dispensing process is quite labour intensive. Pharmacy dispensing roles in the United Kingdom comprise of inventory management, counting of tablets, record filling of patients’ details in registers, manual dispensation of prescriptions and drug interaction detection2. Most of the medications being developed by manufacturers comprise of ...

As the current medical world continues to progress, it has become an integral point for hospitals to have ongoing quality improvements. This is done in a way to match the needs and desires of the patients who seek quality healthcare. Hospitals also seek to undertake quality improvement as a way of reducing infections amongst their esteemed clients. Quality improvement is a process that takes great use of the management and leadership of nursing. Thus it is highly expected that the leadership takes the first position in steering issues that regard quality improvement in nursing. It is believed that the hospital’s organizational ...

Dollar value on Palmetto General's equity (fund):

The easiest way to come up with estimated % growth values is to use historical data from 2002 to 2006. The historical data from Palmetto General Hospital’s income statements can be used to determine the growth in gross revenues (2007-2011). Average growth rate was determined by taking the average growth rate of different items of Palmetto General Hospital’s income statement.

In addition, the interest on required loans was determined from average historical interest expenses, long term growth has been estimated at 10% and the discount rate has been evaluate to be 12.6%. The market value to discharge ratio ...

Hamad General Hospital

Emergency Department Observation on our Emergency Department Points of possible improvement INTRODUCTION I am presenting this document in a preliminary format of possible a larger one which could contain an extensive observation I have worked as a physician in the last 2 years in the department of emergency at Hamad General Hospital. I have noticed that the hospital administration has emphasized a great deal of weight on improvement of the working standards and condition. The hospital has in the recent trying to fall in the right path in order to acquire the JCI accreditation. I am forwarding these ...

Nursing fellowships have increased over the last couple of years. In the nursing profession, situations and various medical conditions are changing while new ones develop. Nurses are constantly facing new and complex challenges while attending to their duties. Introduction of nursing fellowship programs is oriented to address these situations by equipping the nurses with current and evidenced-based technology. Organizations such as the ACS (American College of Surgeons) and various groups in the medical field are providing more information regarding the best trauma practices. Additionally, they are ensuring that there is improved trauma care all over the world. Nursing ...

Law

The Injury Case of Bobby

Next is the school itself, the accident happened in school and at any given time the school should exercise safety and when students enters the school premises, the school is automatically responsible for the student’s safety no matter if it’s during recess of during the class. Although, many debates surrounding the applied principles of playground liability when no apparent school personnel are present during the accident, the school still plays a part on the case. There are several things to consider in order establishing involvement of the school in the incident. Since the case file already mentioned ...

Causes of Nurse Shortage

It takes only one hour for a member of the recruiting staff at Lakeshore General Hospital to get back to an applicant upon submitting an application seeking a nursing post in this North American Hospital (Gyulai, 2011). Empirically, the insatiable nurse shortage facing America, and the world at large that has apparently proved difficult to counter. Nurses, just like doctors, are of much importance in a hospital, therefore, their numbers in count with regards to healthcare. This profound deficit of nurses is attributed to increase demand for nurses while there is a reduction in the supply of nurses (Feldman, 2003). This paper aims ...