Hospital departments

As a new nurse working in the Emergency Department (ER) at a large teaching hospital I often had the opportunity to work triaging patients. Over the course of a couple of months one patient in particular came to the ER for pain related reasons multiple times and always left against medical advice. Finally, one day when the ER was slow I had a chance to triage this patient again, but this time was different. We sat and talked about all of the times he had been seen and left and I asked him…

Health Information Management provides a series of developments that facilitates working with EHR’s for physicians and hospitals. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided eligible professionals with incentives to drive physicians and hospitals to adopt EHR. Professionals that are eligible can qualify for as much as $44,000 or even 63,750 through the Medicare Incentive Program. Axiomatically, even with the incentives most…

treatment to occur in patient’s homes, rather than visiting hospitals. The length of stay and cost has decreased and patient satisfaction was enhanced in light of this new program (Foubister, 2011). Key Issues: In hospital the key point issues faced were bed shortages and long waiting times. The elderly and plenty of others would then have the burden of a ridiculously large billing statement owing to the facility for acute care treatment. The Hospital at Home program was formed to help lower…

reference to a drug endangered newborn that was exposed to the mother’s drug usage during her pregnancy. The newborn is Andrew Pruett, born January 10, 2017. The mother is Acacia Pruett. The referral was first sent in to Muskogee County DHS because while hospital staff was speaking with Acacia she admitted to using methamphetamine at the beginning of her pregnancy. Drug tests were given to Acacia and Andrew. Both came initial drug screens came back negative. Follow up interviews were conducted…

Nightingale. She was asked by the British government to work with a small group of Military and nurses at Scutar hospital. They found that the cleaner the work environment was the lower the death rate was, and with the right nutritional foods they would heal faster. It wasn't till 1793 that men started to take a role in nursing, when the Yellow Fever epidemic started. In the 20th century hospitals started establishing personal training schools to…

Increasing Patients’ Perception of Care: An Action Plan Guided by its mission, vision, and values, the strategic planning committee assesses, and develops the overall goals of the healthcare organization’s strategic plan. General information is disseminated to all stakeholders. These are important steps, but without a well-developed action plan, a strategic plan will not come to fruition. At its simplest form, the components to an action plan include: a clearly identified objective; actions…

practitioners in good standing. Even if this database were enacted at the regional level the benefits would be considerable. The database would expedite the credentialing of health care workers who wish to volunteer their services to affected hospitals. Practitioners maintained in the database could be given privileges within their specialties for 72 hours, which would facilitate care and potentially save lives (Schultz & Stratton,…

systems, medication administration systems, laboratory information systems, radiology information systems and emergency department information systems were employed. 2. Health information management systems was used while DHS carried out the investigation and later when the family's lawyer requested for the patient's chart. HIM professionals or other staffs in the records department would have accessed the system. HR systems were employed to evaluate the performance of the staff members…

theory in your current practice- be specific provide detail and examples? When a patient comes to the IR department for a lung biopsy, the patient is fearful, afraid of the unknown, they fear what we will find, will it hurt, how long will it take to do the biopsy, how long will it take to get the results, will I be sleeping or awake, will it be difficult to breathe, do I have to stay in the hospital? Patients have so many questions when they arrive for their procedure. I apply Peplau’s theory in…

Informal Presentation on New Changes and Growth in the Nursing Practice I would to talk to everyone about the new changes I have seen that will make our nursing practice go in a different direction in this hospital. The practices that will make our hospital irresistible to come to by the people in the community and being number one. We will also be able to regain our Magnet status. It has been few years now that we lost it but I know if we follow these new practices, we will surely…