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    HCA is one of the leading providers in healthcare in the United States. Founded in 1968 as a single entity it now encompasses 165 hospitals and 113 freestanding surgery centers located in 20 states and the United Kingdom (Hospital Corporation of America [HCA], n.d.). With over 27 million patient encounters each year they continue to make strides in clinical research and development of protocols utilizing evidence-based practices. In 2014 The Joint Commission released its list of Top Performers…

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    and Advanced practice registered nurses. The board of nursing also regulate nursing assistive personal such as certified nursing assistant and home health aides. The DC board of nursing perform its regulations by ensuring and verifying that each healthcare provider have adequate education and training needed prior assuming an entitle role. The DC board of nursing also provides newsletters to its members to inform them about ongoing nursing and health issues in the district. The board…

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    Self-Assessment and Goal Progress Reflection Effective leaders conduct leadership self-assessments in order to progress towards goals (Grossman & Valiga, 2012). Whereas, in Unit 3, a self-assessment of knowledge and skills was completed with goals for improving competencies, Unit 10 requires one to look behind while also looking to what lies ahead for one’s own nursing career. This discussion will be a reflection of the degree the goals were achieved, the resource that helped achieve the goals…

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    inexpensive, quality healthcare has been an unobtainable dream for many Americans. When compared to other industrialized counties, The United States’ healthcare is more expensive, less efficient and more difficult to obtain (Mahon & Fox, 2014). Americans pay nearly twice as much for their healthcare, however the quality of care they obtain is only average. It is these troubling statistics that has lead for a push to monitor health care quality and make changes to the American healthcare system…

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    The Joint Commission and Patient Safety For more than twenty-five years, The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO), which is renamed as The Joint Commission (TJC), has published every year The Patient Safety Goals to be implemented by all healthcare institutions nationwide. In 2009, TJC established the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Health Care. As the quality-improvement arm of TJC, the center embarked in addressing patient safety problems in…

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    caregivers of potential adverse patient conditions. There have been many shortcomings that have been discussed across the country by performing numerous studies and analyses. According to (Cvach, Dang, Foster, & Irechukwu, n.d.), “ In 2002, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations reviewed 23 reports of death or injury that were related to mechanical ventilation. Nineteen of those events resulted in death, and 4 resulted in coma; 65% were related to alarms.” Also, alarm…

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    As the united states population is growing and health care is expanding, the role of advanced practice nurses (APN) has become essential in the provision of affordable healthcare to the patient population. The Nurse Practitioner(NP) program offered at South university is build on the foundations of nursing practice with its primary criteria focused on achieving a graduate education, certification and practice focused on patients and families APN is often considered an idea dating back more…

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    The Veteran Administration Healthcare Directional strategies provide a framework that focuses on the business efforts of health care organizations. Quality of care is an important part of that business when it comes to any healthcare organization, the Veteran Administration Healthcare has been plagued with scandals that puts this theory to the test. This is a support in guiding the various business decisions and the activities of the health care organization, can adversely affect the public…

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    the target, in violation of workplace norms for mutual respect. Uncivil behaviors are characteristically rude and discourteous, displaying a lack of regard for others (Pearson, 1999). Usually the WPI research is focused on other businesses and non-healthcare organizations for quality improvement. The research is fairly new in the field of nursing. The two researchers, Hutton and Gates, have investigated, how the WPI among the staff causes low productivity and the economic loss of the…

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    the U.S. and other high-income countries, healthcare has become an imperative topic of concern. This is due to the National health risks, for instance, AIDS, flu, and bioterrorism. These risks affect international health, politics and commerce (03). Therefore, in every medical facility there is need for management in order to achieve the best results for both staff and patients. One of the ways of management is through healthcare administration. Healthcare administration involves managing and…

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