Healthcare quality

rates within the emergency department (ED) at Erlanger Hospital. This issue is one suggested by the Erlanger ED manager, as it is a persistent issue for this department, and is consequently in need of new evidence-based initiatives and education for healthcare personnel. Blood culture testing is a routinely utilized intervention used to diagnose infections in symptomatic patients who arrive at the ED (Denno & Gannon, 2013). Blood cultures are essential as they help identify accurate pathogens…

realize how blessed I am and I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. McAllen Medical Center’s mission is to provide healthcare services that: patients recommend to families and friends, physicians prefer for their patients, purchasers select for their clients, employees are proud of and investors seek for long term results.…

The Memorial Hermann Healthcare System (MHHS) is the largest healthcare organization in Texas, comprised of nearly 21,000 employees and 129 locations throughout the Houston area. As an integrated system, MHHS is recognized for world-class proficiency in clinical care, cutting-edge technology, and service to its uninsured patient population. This case study provides an analysis of the company’s strategic plan for corporate growth and sustainability. Their strategy includes developing a high…

the importance of improving the quality and health care outcomes, in 1999 the Institute of Medicine had submitted a report called To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Although more than ten years ago, this report stressed the need of a redesign in the process of the patient’s care, little progress in the improvement of quality and safety has been achieved (Clark, 2013). Even though there were some important initiatives in the implementation of quality and safety after the report,…

Importance of Nursing Informatics Healthcare is an ever-changing system that requires adaptability to the most up-to-date patient care advancements and improvements. Informatics specialized nurses are dedicated to the advancement and improvement of nursing, information, computer and cognitive sciences that are vital to the enhancement of patient health. Informatics specialized nurses collect, manage and disseminate essential nursing “data, information, knowledge and wisdom” to provide superior…

Chapter 1 1. Discuss current and emerging challenges face by healthcare leaders. Healthcare is evolving very quick as a leader you have to find ways to adapt to the changes we face. Change leaders face is a quality of care. Patients want to know that they are going have quality care from the facility/provider they choose to see. The facility is becoming more customer-driven. Leaders need to ensure that patients are receiving quality care. One important factor is patient safety. As a leader,…

Healthcare policy reform is a hot topic in the current healthcare world. Healthcare appears to be moving in two directions. In conventional medicine, we search technology and chemistry for all the answers for the symptom, condition, disease, or way to manage pain. Alternative medicine gears toward working with life and the human body. The goal is not to interfere or manipulate, but to embrace the miracle of life and the human body’s support functions. This is referred to as a vitalistic…

The American healthcare system is much more expensive yet its results cannot compare to the cheap and effective Japanese healthcare system. Both systems are struggling, however, to maintain themselves. The American healthcare system is heavily flawed as the lower class cannot afford health care and more than 45 million Americans are uninsured. (Rosenthal, Medical procedures and drugs cost the most in the United States as compared to any other country, with drugs such as Lipitor costing $122…

Healthcare professionals deliver care in a wide range of expertise and specialisms. Careers in healthcare requires many people in different occupations to work together effectively to deliver safe and reliable care. The overall goal of these activities is to promote teamwork in the healthcare to provide high quality of care to patients and to improve the motivation, communication, and morale of healthcare professional. There are three main types of team building activities: communication,…

1. Introduction The healthcare delivery quality and patient safety improvement are prominence issues in healthcare systems. Delivery of healthcare depends on implicated procedure and interaction between patient, providers, organization and technology[1] which all of them may be causes of medical error or faults in a system. This condition, most of the time accompanies with uncertainties making the healthcare a high-risk system and it is confirmed by some information such as the annual death…