Hospitals

Several years ago I decided to quit my job as a charge nurse at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and travel the United States as a travel nurse. The thought of being paid to visit the beaches of Hawaii and California or participate in the culture of New York City had become just too appealing. Looking back, there are several things I wish I had known prior to signing up with my first travel nurse agency. The following includes a checklist of some of the things I wish I had known from the beginning:…

urgent care centers were staffed by physicians who were not optimally trained to provide the type of care required; quality issues became well known (McNeeley, 2012). Additionally, such centers faced opposition from local hospitals. As urgent care centers grew in popularity, hospitals began…

information in order and make it easier for staff to keep things up to date. The system is also used to keep things visual for staff when it comes to making sure their professional documents, following lawful discrepancies that takes place at the hospital. This also makes it a lot easier to have proof of reports on a monthly basis for the different departments. In this paper there…

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…

OPPORTUNITIES • Government and private hospitals collaboration for providing quality healthcare system. • Mergers and acquisitions are a strategy to expand a hospitals' marketplace • Efficiency is innovation—the development of new treatments that are more effective, have a greater positive impact on patient outcomes, and are ultimately less expensive than…

Human Resources Benefits can be defined as an indirect financial payment given to employees that may include health and life insurance, vacation, pension, educational plans, 401K etc. (Dessler, 2012). As an affiliate of HCA Holdings Inc., Palms West Hospital follows a basic template that is provided throughout the organization. Although minor details may be changed, the majority of the ways Palms West operate is through the guidelines that HCA Holdings Inc. provides. Employees who meet the…

As a bioethicist in a hospital, it would my job to evaluate this controversial issue and suggest an action to take if such a situation presents itself to hospital administrators. When considering the case of cognitive enhancements being used by emergency room (ER) physicians, I would reflect on the arguments for and against cognitive enhancements in general. I would then reflect on how these arguments impact the specific case at hand. The profession of a physician, more specifically and ER…

“The HAC Reduction Program is designed to encourage hospitals to improve patient safety by reducing the incidence of hospital-acquired conditions and adverse patient safety events” (Medicare.gov, 2010, p.1).This has really put pressure on the hospitals, so improving patients` quality of life by being active will help reduce their mortality rate and improve the outcome as the hospitals will be paid. So physical activities is very important in acute care settings. If more…

Hospitals all over the world are having patient discontent due to their nurses being too occupied to aid them. When ill people go to a hospital, they are expecting to get sufficient care and heal relatively quickly. Although nurses intend to give their patients the best care they can, it is not always possible. They have numerous patients that require full attention, and they are running on a short amount of rest. Taking care of eight patients a day while working a twelve-hour shift can be a…

The film titled "Good Death: Case Studies in the End of Life-Care" illustrates stories of four patients with a terminal illness who decide to embrace the finality of their lives by spending their last days at the Sacred Heart Palliative Care Hospital in Sydney Australia. Norma Andrews, Sandy Riches, Darryl Calver, and John Peart are all patients battling terminal cancer who, instead of enduring futile and hopeless treatments, choose to spend the last weeks and months of their lives engaging in…