Hospital departments

Some of the increase in numbers is a direct result of the baby boomer generation getting older. As people age, they develop more health problems, thus resulting in a greater number of ED visitations. Another factor is that majority of hospital admissions must go through the ED instead of a direct admit from a primary care office. Finally, the ACA provided millions of Americans with coverage; now that people have coverage it makes health care more affordable, including ED visits. According…

of their schooling is completed, they get their dream job of working in a hospital or clinic. While working in the hospital, patients are putting their lives in the hands of the nurses that are present. This displays the importance of nurses. They go through many years of schooling in order to help a person, which means they should be receiving a substantially higher pay than they do now. The payment system that a hospital uses makes no rhyme or reason. If an emergency room nurse is seen as…

Baylor Scott and White Hillcrest Medical Center, formally known as Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, is a 144-bed acute care hospital with a 96-bed women and children’s facility. Hillcrest is located at the intersection of Highway 6 and Interstate 35 in Waco. Hillcrest serves the medical needs of Central Texas and is the only Level II Trauma Center located in McLennan County. In the early 1900s, Hillcrest first opened as the Central Texas Baptist Sanitarium and School of Nursing. After…

The study includes 137 patients with skating injury evaluated in emergency departments. Among the 137 patients 63(46%) were inline skaters, 36(26%) were roller skaters, and 38(28%) were skateboarders. The most common serious injury was fracture of the distal arm, which occurred in each of the three skater groups (43%, n=59) of these…

mothers. I was captivated by research since then. After graduation, my eager to learn more about research motivated me to accepted a position as a study research coordinator in Cardiology and Heart Transplant at University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital. I was exposed to clinical research, clinical trials, presentation, abstracts and attended to national meetings. During that year, I discovered sleep medicine as new field and got fascinated with…

Intraoperative blood mistransfusion is not a term many anesthesia professionals think of when administering blood products in the operating room, but it becomes an acute reality to you, your anesthesia department, and the operating room staff when it happens to your patient. Over the years, hospitals and governing agencies have set forth checks, guidelines, and protocols that have made mistransfusion sound like something from historical literature due to such improvement in patient safety, but…

Improving the Proper Initiation and Use of Physical Restraints in 4 East A Microsystem Plan Essay Background The St. Joseph Medical Center 4 East Department consists of 30 beds, specializing in patients with respiratory issues. The patients are adults, mostly geriatric with comorbid conditions such as Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), sleep apnea, Diabetes Mellitus (DM), and many more. The patients come from home, Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), assisted living, board and care, and a locked down…

K: Knowledge: While lacking in knowledge regarding the Just Culture Model, I am very familiar with the aspect of patient safety. As a registered nurse in a hospital setting for the past 18 years, patient safety has always been a concern and responsibility of mine. Although hospital protocols and policies are put in place to ensure patient safety, accidents can and do happen. Human error, mechanical failure, and patient falls are examples of medical errors which can lead to patient harm.…

changed entirely after being exposed to some exposures – but before I get ahead of myself, I’ll start at the beginning. I, like any other student interested in biological science, began volunteering at a hospital. When I started working there, I had a preconceived notion that volunteering at a hospital meant I would be a part of a medical team and do something related to science. It is this supposedly naive viewpoint which actually ended up turning an average high school volunteering experience…

specialist retrieval team supplied by the receiving hospital and a non-specialist team provided by the referring hospital. The study showed that the patients transferred by the non-specialist teams were more susceptible to AEs that had a negative impact on their care. The data collected from this study demonstrated that non-specialist teams who undertook IHTs had a 4.5% increase of deaths observed within the first 6 hours of admission to the receiving hospital as opposed to specialist teams…