• Heads the OR Team in the Upgrade of OR Boom Project. Maintains the full efficiency of 6ORs even during the construction time. Ensuring different services are able to complete tasks safely and according to schedule. • Leads the OR Team in improving the Surgical Metrics. Increased operating room efficiency from 36% (2014) to 74.6% (2015); decreasing unnecessary staff overtime and patient and staff satisfaction. Surgical Cancellation rates improved from the 17.3% (2014) to 4.8% (2015).…
Introduction It is disheartening to know that over the past 25 years, Americans are still fighting for equality. Disheartening are many measures of the opportunities and difficulties faced by African Americans and, to a lesser extent, White Americans (cite). Social inequality continues to be characterized by unequal opportunities within different social groups. Being a white person in America you are automatically distinguished as “normal,” privileged, and the dominant group. For example, as…
occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s life with opportunities for progression. A career and a job have two separate meanings; a job is a temporary occupation that you attend in order to make a living. When I envision a job in comparison to a career, I think of a job as being a stepping stone to gaining a career and the career as being the holy grail of accomplishment. For myself personally I have known what career I want to have since I was 8 years old. I remember watch…
compared in order to create the best teaching strategy for a particular subject, environment and student population. One such way to compare different strategies is by the utilization of a PICOT question. PICOT stands for population, intervention, comparison, outcome and time. Clinicians interested in research pursuits, related to patient care, should consider the use of a literature search and the PICOT format when engaging clinical researchers. This approach will provide clinicians and…
Orphan drugs under normal market circumstances would not be produced by the pharmaceutical companies due to the expense incurred and potentiality of financial loss due to low levels of sales. Orphan drugs are created to treat, prevent, and diagnose rare diseases with a prevalence of less than 5 in 10,000 per community. An Orphan medicinal product must show an enhanced therapeutic benefit over existing treatments against rare life threatening or debilitating diseases. An orphan drug is not a rare…
A significant number of offenders have been convicted of drug related offenses, many of which have entered the United States’ court system, jails, and prisons. Of these offenders many are suffering from drug related addictions (Journal of Experimental Criminology). Drug use and crime have continuously been of increasing concern. Drug abuse is becoming much more prevalent, as drugs are becoming more readily accessible. Research shows that incarceration of offenders charged with drug-related…
the bedrock of the EPCOR HMS. I set out a plan to spend 30 minutes each day to study the EPCOR OHSMS and to see how this system applied to the integrated management sytem. By studying the various components of the EPCOR integrated management sytem, I was able to understand hoiw the HSE corporate services provides structure to operational groups including the HSE management system. I was also able to understand how the check part of the OHSMS was necessary to serve as a performance measurement…
strategies that join the best practices of community policing with law enforcement intelligence. This expands on the use of data and information to solve issues involving crime, homeland security, and quality of life. CompStat (short for computer comparison statistics) is an organizational management tool for departments to analyze crime (Godown, 2009). It isn’t a speedy answer to remedy crime. It assists targeted and timely analysis of crime and disorder data, which is applied to recognize…
of Justice and Redemption is a book written by Bryan Stevenson, which mainly focuses on his work and that of his clients. Bryan Stevenson points out problems and corruption all over the justice system, ranging from false convictions to racial profiling. He shows what injustice the criminal justice system does to people wrongfully committed and shows how law enforcement is corrupt and how this leads to the killing of innocents. While it’s hard to know how many total innocent people were killed,…
uneven surfaces; it has been known to cause a large number of serious injuries to players. Turf cannot even be played on in high temperatures for how hot it becomes. The women’s team has tried to stop this. Player Abby Wambach led a group of women to file a discrimination lawsuit against FIFA, their main argument being that the men have never had to play a Cup on artificial turf. Unfortunately, it was not successful. This is an example of how the women are once again being disrespected during…