Hospital departments

There is one major hospital located within a 5-mile radius of The Children’s Clinic, which is St. Mary’s hospital. There is also a small neighborhood hospital called Centinela Medical Center located on Cherry Avenue. St Mary’s Medical Center Pediatric Clinic is found on Tenth Street and Atlantic Avenue. There are small clinics and dental offices that are available and scattered throughout the area, mostly on Private Practices such as doctor’s offices and dental offices are present and dispersed…

recession, governments implemented austerity measures to reduce budget deficits. In Canada, the impact of these measures are particularly evident at the hospital level. Hospitals have seen their operating budgets reduced from previous years. The most common public funding method used in Canada is the “global budget” method. Under this model, hospitals are provided a fixed budget to cover operating costs during a fixed period. The budgets are based on historical figures, impact of inflation and…

The study will be conducted in Felege Hiwot Specialized Hospital which is found in Bahir Dar city, Ethiopia. Felege Hiwot Specialized Hospital (FHSH), with around 400 beds and 9 operating tables serving over 7 million people from the surrounding area. There are over 743 members of staffs, from this 287 (38.7%) are nurses. The hospital provides obstetrics, pediatrics, internal medicine, ophthalmology, general surgery, gynecology, ENT and orthopedic surgery services. Wide ranges of procedures are…

Introduction Bronson Hospital is a general medical, surgical and teaching hospital in southwest, Michigan, with more than 7,800 employees. As of 2015, it was ranked #9 in hospitals in the state of Michigan and #1 in southwest Michigan. Bronson provides 415, single rooms, beds and offer multiple specialties, which are: heart and vascular, sports medicine and rehabilitation, children 's and women 's health, and having a level trauma center. The hospital had 21,519 admissions in the year of 2015…

to be the largest within the labor market and employs 15% of Carolinians, with hospitals being the significant employer (Broome, 2010, p. 2) “Since 1999, gains in health care jobs have exceeded losses in manufacturing jobs in North Carolina” and have steadily have continued to replace lost manufacturing jobs (Broome, 2010, p. 3) Within the county there are two public hospitals: Betsy Johnson and Central Harnett Hospital, which alone staff over 700 workers and six medical facilities Angier, Dunn,…

grandmother fell extremely ill and required intensive medical care. Upon hearing the news, my family flew to Vietnam and spent two weeks away from our jobs and schooling in order to care for her. The hospital that my grandmother was being treated in was located in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City. Like many of the hospitals in Vietnam, this one was overcrowded, under-equipped, and severely understaffed. Only the wealthy could afford the adequate treatment they required, and those less fortunate…

Project, as well as discuss how my selected organization supports the project. I will also discuss areas for further research regarding the project topic any my proposed solution regarding the issue. This project hopes to improve the emergency department triage process for obtaining a 12-lead electrocardiogram on patients with symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome. I choose the Quality and Safety for Nurses Institute (2014) competency, quality improvement to guide this project. The…

of physician relationship management at Aegis Health Group of Brentwood, Tenn.,) • Align financial incentives and liability exposure for hospitals and physicians to improve physician accountability for appropriate use of hospital resources. This will ensure that physicians are competent and uphold the goal-based incentives set forth by the hospital. For hospitals and physicians to collaborate well, there must be “trust”. Having physicians at the table making data-driven decisions is the key to…

sensitivity to diverse beliefs and behaviors. I believe I have grown in accepting diverse values and advocating more for patient values as I advanced through nursing school. During one of my shifts at York Hospital, I had a patient who did not speak any English. She was transferred from the emergency department with only her daughter as an interpreter. The patient’s daughter was speaking broken English and was unable to understand medical terminology. It was very difficult to communicate.…

the skin breaking down. Skin is the first line of defense, when that is compromised the human body is susceptible to infections and other diseases. The way skin breakdown is handled reflects how well the care is in the hospital. Ensuring the client does not end up back in the hospital with further complications starts with their support system and the environment they live in. Issue That Impacts the Medical-Surgical Client One of the issues many medical-surgical clients have to deal with is skin…