Hospital accreditation

Research Paper In 800 BC plastic surgery first started as a reconstruction correction surgery. The word plastic in plastic surgery came from the Greek word plastikos which define to mold or to shape. The person who invented these techniques was a Roman scholar, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, who had recorded surgical techniques, including plastic surgery, in the first century AD. The first plastic surgery ever done was in 1977. That time it wasn’t a well known thing because very little…

Cindy, I liked how you wrote out the workflow to show how the patient moves within the PATA department during their appointment. The California Healthcare Foundation (2011) recommends process mapping, a visual representation of all the steps in a workflow, as a tool to help with detecting where processes intersect and where inefficiencies occur. Additionally, the movement of the patient could also have been diagramed out on the floor plan provided by McCarty, Gallien, and Levi (2012) to…

Avi Weisfogel has started a GoFundMe campaign to benefit Operation Smile. This is an organization that performs free surgeries for children who suffer from facial deformities, such as cleft palate and cleft lip. The goal has been set at $2,000. Avi has stated that Operation Smile gives children hope. Operation Smile was started back in 1982. Ever since then, 220,000 free surgical procedures have been performed on children with facial deformities. The organization also helps local medical…

Basis department, and primary care teams. The interventions are 1) notifying primary care teams with 72 hours of Non-VA care notification regarding Veterans’ admission to ensure adequate post-hospitalization follow-up 2) scanning the Veterans’ Non-VA hospital discharge summaries & medical records into VA’s Computerized Patient Record System within 24 hours of receiving the record from Non-VA facilities. Data regarding the Veterans’ admission diagnoses, Non-VA facilities’ admission dates, dates…

however it was difficult to monitor infection and control practices. Since the number of people in the aging population greater than 65 is increasing more people are requiring the use of long-term nursing facilities as well as home health agonies. Hospital beds has on the decline, at the same time long term care setting continue to increase (Moro, Gagliotti, 2013). The challenge long –term care facilities continue to face are infections and antimicrobial resistance. Patients of LTCFs, are more…

Definition: Utilitarianism is the philisophical view that an action itself is not right or wrong, but the end result of those actions consummates whether the actions were good or bad. This view encompasses application of actions that provide the best outcomes for the majority of people. Application: An example of utilitarianism in nursing practice is triage during mass casualty disasters. These victims are categorized based on acuity and life expectancy rather than solely on acuity. These…

Because there are so many common symptoms associated with so many different illnesses. Some diseases even hide behind others and as you’re being treated for one thing the doctors may not even notice something else. Make sure when you go into the hospital or to your primary care doctor you need to let them know every single little detail about maybe something unusual that’s been going on with your body no matter how small or embarrassing because that could be the one thing that lets them know…

To minimize or try to reduce this bias an external examiner would have assessed the outcoming patients of the study during the follow-up, yet there is a change that the own patient will tell the examinator or the own examinator will noticed the CB ablation intervention from the scarf of the postoperative; Regarding to that, we have decided that the examinator will be the same professional as the one that have done the procedure. Statistical consultant won’t be aware about what therapy has been…

Is it not amazing and scary Kellie, to know that the number of deaths in the hospitals is as high as it is due to carelessness. I, myself am a perfect example of an hospital error due to carelessness. Last year I had back surgery. While recovering from surgery in the hospital I was placed on a bed pan, and forgotten about for over 7 hours. The next morning the bed pan had literally torn my skin apart. When the nursing staff noticed the issue the next morning their response was "what did you not…

When I received an academic scholarship to Sierra Nevada College, I was thrilled to be at a school that offered a broad-based liberal arts education that would also provide me opportunity to strengthen my swimming career. I enrolled at Sierra Nevada College, and because I wanted to explore my options, my major was Undeclared. My main objectives were to immerse myself in a natural environment and receive an education that nurtured my many interests. I took photography, film, English, math, and…