Hospital information system

manager to the ER. This gave me an opportunity to experience the emergency room. I shadowed the case manager. In this situation the case manager had to inform the patient that she had to return to her nursing home and could no longer remain in the hospital. The patient was medically ready to be discharged. The patient kept…

The passage that stood out to me is the passage about managed care in the health care system. Manage care faces an ethical issue when it comes to “conflicts between patient autonomy, the overall benefit for managed care members, and profit margins” (Morrison, 2015). The example Morrison provides in the text book talks about how patient who needs services are being denied for coverage. By denying coverage, this can lead to premature deaths for patients. However, if uncovered services are provided…

There are a variety of different factors promoting or inhibiting post-operative wound healing. Rund et al (1) covers many factors linked to wound healing such as smoking, oxygen availability, nutrition, hyperglycemia, alcohol intake, and patient adherence. First of all, smoking exerts a pervert effect on peripheral vasculature. For instance, a single cigarette causes a decrease in O2 because of ligation of carbon monoxide (CO) to hemoglobin and nicotine has an added effect of peripheral…

I begin by showing respect to the patient and by letting the patient feel comfortable to assist them with sharing information. This principle is the first step towards a trustworthy patient-clinician relationship. After gaining mutual respect, harmonized goals is applied by completing my assessment using Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR).…

Friday and closed on Saturday/Sunday. Currently, the general practice uses a system to keep records of their patients and a schedule for the GPS of who they…

into two groups, planned and unplanned admissions. A planned admission may be a patient undergoing an intricate elective surgery who requires one to one monitoring peri-operatively. Unplanned admissions can be further divided into patients entering hospital in a critical condition (an example would be severe trauma) and those whose condition deteriorates into a critical state after admission (an example would be developing severe sepsis after an operation).…

This review is based on the video “To Clot or Not to Clot; That is the Question” recorded by the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital. The video describes the performance improvement techniques applied during the Surgical Care Improvement Project. This paper provides a list of relevant actions taken by the health professionals to significantly improve the quality of patient care. Moreover, this paper focuses on two relevant actions of the care team: bringing stakeholders such as clinicians and…

innate definition of cybersecurity as a system of management that offers maximum security within the confines of the internet. The author of the article has used a practical example of the varied developments that have taken the country to greater heights of GDP and economic growth of the individual people. He cites cybersecurity as a force that has brought such changes. The author of the article concludes by stating that cybersecurity is a relevant information system that offers security to…

and strive to make our everyday lives better. Therefore, it only makes sense that the benefits of modern technology would spill over into health care, again to meet the public’s expectation of the best treatment available. At Sanford, we have an information technology department specifically dedicated to improving healthcare through technology. This ever changing process for treating patients in today’s modern environment will continue to place more demands on healthcare teams than ever before…

provided in Emergency Department. Triage term originated during the Napoleonic War ,Baron Dominique –Jean Larrey (1766-1842) who is a Napoleon’s surgeon who give immediate treatment according classification system follow setting of priorities to the nearest hospital. In early military, triage system…