Hospital departments

ensure that the information technology plan is going to align with the plans of Newcastle’s Hospital. The formulation will involve the ED affirming that their goals are to provide a higher quality of care. Corresponding the strategic organizational objective of “Getting better every day,” involves the overall improvement and patient safety provided at the hospital. The information system can enable the hospital to manage better patient care, allow for test results, and radiology report to be…

Resolution I think that the hospital could benefit from this research study based on my observational analysis with few recommendation as follow:  Perform a staff assessment to evaluate their knowledge  Discuss with the patient/family members, make them aware about the hospital policy/ procedure and assist with instructions on how to fill a form.  Nurses are to read and document every patient belongings from the time they get admitted through ED department, during their stay period,…

Responsiveness The entire case had concerns related to responsiveness. The staff were never willing to listen to the patient, most members of the staff did not spend enough time with the patient to listen and answer her queries. Moreover, the employees of the hospital were not willing to help the patient while moving from one room to another for primary scans. Even on the day of operation, when the patient’s mother asked for help, the response of the nurse was not satisfactory. The wait times to…

Waiting management at 
 the emergency department - a grounded theory study. BMC Health Services 
 Research, 13(1), 1-10. The purpose of this study was to investigate waiting times in emergency rooms. Before the study was conducted, nearly 38% of patients were waiting over four hours to be seen. A grounded theory study was used to look into this issue. This type of study uses both qualitative and quantitative data, which was collected at three different hospitals: ED 1 was qualitative, ED 2 and…

group of three hospital heads of department that…

daily basis, department managers track census data on the number of patients admitted, transferred, and discharged (known as throughput). The importance of this data allows the department administrator (Fields, R.) “to determine when you experience the biggest patient load and when that load drops off”. Also, “by tracking your patient census and reviewing it on a daily basis, you can determine which departments are overburdened, which times of year are the busiest and which departments are…

Throughput is the rate at which the system achieves its purpose. The purpose of the hospital is to deliver quality care of the patients efficiently. The fragmentation of the activities also leads to waste thus compromises the throughput. The assertion is that hospital won’t be able to manage its throughput until it becomes an interconnected activities of a system. Hospital functions as collections of various departments or other units. The competition for scarce resources among the components as…

methodology by the CEO of Lakeview Regional Hospital, Charlotte Ekins The staff at Lakeview are not familiar with concepts of lean methodology Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to organize meetings to discuss the topic of improving flow and wait time in Emergency Services. Lakeview staff are worn down by multiple performance improvement initiatives Long wait times are becoming common; on average the wait time is approximately 10 hours The Emergency Department is experiencing shortages for…

While working in the emergency department at Aga Khan Hospital for six years I became familiar with many different forms of technology used in the health care environment. We used the electronic medical record (EMR), picture archiving and communication system (PACS) – a health care technology used for short and long term storage, management and distribution of medical images, lab tests, MRI tests, and CT scans. On my unit we also used portable x-ray and ultrasound machines, arterial blood gas…

keep things up to date. The system is also used to keep things visual for staff when it comes to making sure their professional documents, following lawful discrepancies that takes place at the hospital. This also makes it a lot easier to have proof of reports on a monthly basis for the different departments. In this paper there…