Hospitals

Mothership Hospital has been around for 125 years. It started in 1891 when they opened the original hospital. It has gradually grown into the healthcare technology leader it is today. Currently, the Mothership serves communities across four states with 45 acute care and specialty hospitals (heart, children's, orthopedic, and rehab) and more than 700 physician practices and outpatient facilities. The Mothership employs 40,000 employees and more than 2,000 physicians. In the early 1900’s, it was…

While most research has been conducted on the effects of excessive hospital noise on patients, the article by Ryherd, Waye and Ljungkyist (2008) examines the effect of these high noise levels on unit staff. Ninety one percent of nurses surveyed felt that noise negatively affected them in their daily work, and almost half admitted to adjusting alarm levels so that they would not hear them. The literature review conducted by Ryherd et al. revelaed that staff take no action for the majority of…

emergency department is still a persistent problem in the Emergency Departments across Canadian hospitals. This paper will explore wait times in the Emergency Department in Canadian hospitals. Within the scope of this paper, the factors contributing to the wait times in EDs will be examined as well as investigating the effects of wait times on the clients and medical professionals working in this unit of the hospitals. Lastly, measures that will help to address wait times in ED will be…

30, 2017 Mark Roberson Hospital Director Capital Regional Medical Center 2626 Capital Regional Medical Center Dear Mr. Roberson, Subject: The status of the annual reappointment of committees for October 30, 2017 – November 15, 2017. The annual reappointment of committees is going well as expected. Looking at the requirement of the hospital we need a total of nineteen committees to be staffed correctly. The plan is to utilize physicians from all parts of the hospital. Last year we were…

the counters of a cramped room in the basement of a hospital. We laugh and joke around, creating in one night, enough inside jokes to last a lifetime. Our best florists open the flower-filled storage and begin the task of forming two modest vases. These vases are not for us, nor are they for sale. Once finished, they will be brought upstairs and presented to a patient. The expertly prepared vase a gift, in the hopes of making a stay in the hospital a little less bleak. This is our way of…

Falls in the hospital setting is a large clinical problem that many healthcare facilities face when taking care of patients who are elderly and confused. Many of these facilities lose millions of dollars to falls every year due to extended length of stay, fatalities, and injuries due to the fall. There are three to eleven falls per 1000 patient days (Mion, 2012). The average cost for a hospital fall was over $13,000 (Mion, 2012). There are patients who fall during their hospital stay who…

MEMORANDUM TO: Dr. Cliff Curtis, Head of Administration FROM: Yvanne Vannessa Prezil RE: Shortage of Hospital Beds that may cause a crisis in the coming months DATE: April 18, 2016 It has been brought to my attention that there is an acute shortage of hospital beds for patients in our institution, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. The purpose of this memo is to bring this matter to your urgent attention so that you may take appropriate steps in this regard. With increase in population…

work internship i am interning at a hospital as a security guard. For my paper i wanna look at the relationship of hospital staff and patient with mental illness. I had gone into this with no experience at all with dealing with people besides what i have learned from normal day to day interactions. Security is a very interesting field. There are many different types of levels of security which have different levels of difficulty. From what i have seen hospital security could be one of the most…

ASSESMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF HOSPITAL SUPPORT STAFF ON INFECTION PREVENTION IN THIKA LEVEL 5 HOSPITAL 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 STUDY BACKGROUND Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) also referred to as Nosocomial infections are those infections occurring in a patient during the process of care in a hospital or any other health care facility that was not manifesting or incubating at the time of admission (Nejad, Allegranzi, Syed, Ellis & Pittet, 2011). Nosocomial Infections are not limited to…

would go to is a hospital. A hospital considers to be the perfect place to heal individuals because it is considered as “an institution where the sick, wounded, infirm or incapacitated are nursed and given medical treatment.” (“Hospital”, 2006, 1). In the publics eyes, a hospital can be seen as an easy structure where the staff manages everything correctly. However, the staff must follow the government in taking orders because the federal and provincial governments manages the hospital system. A…