Hospital departments

Introduction Stretchers may not be protagonist in a tertiary care hospital but it occupies an important place in emergency department as many patients are kept on stretchers for hours and days in hospital A & E department. This exercise is defined as boarding and may lead to increased morbidity and mortality with increased length of stay (1). However it is resorted due to overcrowding. Lack of beds predominantly in public sector hospital. Additionally during disasters & calamities there is…

that Flagler Hospital has worked so hard to attain. Flagler Hospital was recently visited by the Joint Commission for a Stroke Re-Certification Survey that is required to preserve standing as a primary stroke center. Regardless of the fact that Flagler Hospital earned full re-certification, there are areas in which the facility is lacking. For instance, the surveyor…

this chapter gives you an overview about the Violence in emergency Department against nurses, workplace violence is one of the most problematic and significant issue in the health care today, in the world and especially in Palestine. Violence can be an occupational health and safety issue that all nurses face in their day to day activity. In the last years many studies were done about violence against nurses in Emergency Departments due to the dramatically increase of the incidence of violence…

medical surgical floor in the local community hospital has been noticing that all patients who have been admitted from the Shady Rest Nursing Home had severe injuries that were not connected with their admitting diagnosis. Which led her to believe the nursing home was abusing the patient and led her to investigate and contacted the Department of Welfare Bureau of Inspection, which immediately found proof of abuse. But when Mrs. Lewis was confronted by her hospital administrator over this…

under the Hong Kong Accident and Emergency Triage Guidelines. Introduction The Accident and Emergency (A&E) department is one of the most busy department in most of the Hong Kong public hospital. In the A&E department, there are many patients attend to them daily so to be able to ensure that patient in a more serious problem can be able to get higher priority in the hospital, Hospital Authority (HA) utilizes the triage system to classify patients who is in A&E into different categories. The…

making sure quality care is delivered at lowest possible cost. “The effective management of nursing resources is essential” (Chitty & Black, 2007, p.363). There are budgets established by the companies, as a nurse manager you have to ensure the department has all…

Year Author Title Journal Purpose Design/Sample Results/Recommendations Limitations Level/ Grade 2015 Sion Jo, Taeoh Jeong, Young Ho Jin, Jae Baek Lee, Jaechol Yoon, & Boyoung Park. Emergency Department (ED) crowding is associated with inpatient mortality among critically ill patients admitted via the ed: Post hoc analysis from a retrospective study. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. “To evaluate the assassination between ED crowding and inpatient mortality among critical ill…

reports throughout the hospital; this would prevent issues from occurring on other units as well. Another suggestion for immediate correction would be to create a standardized procedure for the reporting of laboratory results for patients who are admitted through the emergency room. After standardizing the policies and procedures, all staff must be provided education on the new process. I would recommend having department meetings for all of the departments throughout the hospital. By having…

problem is that, pharmaceutical companies can learn from their previous product and make necessary adjustment to the life cycle of the product. These companies can invest technology that will shorten life cycle by creating new distribution channels. Hospitals can take an initiative by controlling the pricing of the products set forth by pharmaceutical companies. Other issues that rises up the lack of predictability for the demand for medicine. Some clinician’s preferences can create more…

has always been a debate when it comes to a hospital purchase. The Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) purchase, is one of these topics went through this debate. While some people consider the purchase of a CDSS, by a hospital, as a money waste that spent only for the hospital image or for getting some accreditations, others believe that these CDSS not only reduce medication errors and save patients’ lives, but also save the money spent by hospitals as a consequence of medication errors. I…