Hospital departments

On November 30th we had a guest speaker in our HIT class. His name was Jim Provines and the motive of his visit to our HIT class was to encourage on us and to give us a perspective about the new changes and transformation of healthcare into technology based and the job opportunities. Jim Provines is employed at Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare as Manager in IT Support Services. He holds an MBA in management and he has M.S in Health Informatics. Later, he took CPT and ICD-9 courses at the college of…

Case Analysis Introduction to the evaluation My experience in the sick room at my boarding school where I got saline infusion, the hospital near my boarding school where my condition was misdiagnosed as malaria, the tuberculosis department at the government hospital where the test results were negative, and finally the private hospital which cured my disease, made me observe and focus on many issues. I noticed many positive and negative issues which I would like to explain relating them to gap…

Vinci Surgery). Robotics is becoming more prevalent in the medical field, and the use of robotics is yet another way that our medical care is evolving in surgery. The introduction of surgical robots provides benefits for patients, doctors, and hospitals, and advances the current way of medical procedures. The da Vinci System The da Vinci system is one of the few robots used to assist a surgeon during an operation. The da Vinci has multiple arms hooked up to a HD video screen, it allows…

Introduction Critical care laboratory mostly handles the whole blood specimen, which includes the arterial and venous blood gas sample from emergency, trauma, and operational department. These departments order the stat sample, which should be resulted within 30 minutes to 1 hour from the time of collection. Monitoring the total time of processing blood gas samples is consider as turnaround time (TAT). Various factors delay the TAT and are control by the laboratory personnel including the…

The health care service industry spends more than $200 billion every year on medicinal and non-restorative items. Hospitals are situations for recuperating however a large number of the items and materials that come into a clinic may be destructive to patients, staff, and those in the group. This is because of the way that a few items utilized as a part of human services may contain or discharge cancer-causing agents, conceptive poisons or different unsafe materials. Huge numbers of the…

MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (MUMH) is a nonprofit community-based hospital and a nationally rank for their specialty performance in nephrology, orthopedics, heart bypass surgeries & knee replacement, general and medical surgery. The hospital is located in north central Baltimore city area and was founded in 1854 by the “Union Protestant Infirmary” to “provide shelter and medical care to the sick, poor, and disabled”. In 1923, the name was changed to recognize and honor the people who have…

wasn't until I got older and learned it's the nurses that are taking care of the patients and providing the personal attention. I work as a Patient Transporter at Barnes Jewish Hospital. My job is to take patients to and from testing areas and rooms, so I have a lot of interaction with nurses and patients. Working at the hospital I have been able to experience the nursing field more and l learned that I…

Abstract: Improving Post-Hospitalization follow-up for Veterans who are admitted into Non-VA facilities Objectives: VA policy mandates Non-VA facilities to notify the VA Transfer Center or Fee Basis department about Veterans’ admissions to initiate possible transfers and reviews for reimbursement. Since there is a lack of communication, primary care teams are not aware of the Veterans’ admissions. Consequently, Veterans who are admitted into Non-VA facilities do not receive appropriate and…

volunteer at Scott & White Hospital. Known in the area for their exceptional care, I was ecstatic to discover that I was chosen out of hundreds of applicants to participate in their Junior Volunteer program. The program enables high school students to shadow medical professionals, ranging from lab technicians to orthopedic surgeons, and learn about the medical field. The thought of learning about healthcare while helping people in need sounded fantastic to me. Volunteering in a hospital was a…

Studies have shown that cancellation of planned or scheduled surgical interventions is a long standing issues for hospitals (Bass and Gill 2014). They reflect inefficient, and ineffective management use of the operating theatre (Zafar 2007). Failure to follow the surgical lists contravenes patient safety initiatives. Theatre cancellation is a simple task to do but it can have serious consequences to patients or their families. It has a negative impact on patients. Caesar et al (2014) purported…