Hospitals

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. For the last 24 months, nursing has become the primary focus of my life. My hope, is that I will continue dedicating my life to this profession through a career at Georgetown. Prior to graduating from Northeastern University’s ABSN program, I completed over 600 hours of clinical education at various hospitals in the Boston area. This education included a 150-hour preceptorship on an intermediate cardiac stepdown unit at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center…

examples of this are investing in for-profit hospitals and making referrals on the basis of friendship. One example of a practice that exists “at the margin of moral responsibility” includes investing in for-profit hospitals. For-profit hospitals work with an objective of providing more money to their shareholders and can ultimately end up charging higher rates to patients for their services than non-profit hospitals. Investing in a for-profit hospital pits altruism against self-interest…

Internal Interest in lean methodology by the CEO of Lakeview Regional Hospital, Charlotte Ekins The staff at Lakeview are not familiar with concepts of lean methodology Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to organize meetings to discuss the topic of improving flow and wait time in Emergency Services. Lakeview staff are worn down by multiple performance improvement initiatives Long wait times are becoming common; on average the wait time is approximately 10 hours The Emergency Department is…

for informal applications within hospitals (Laureate Education, 2010). For example; hospital pharmacies, medical billing and clinical staff required an application to accomplish patient care in an ever growing field of information technology. Standards in healthcare were created to make processes work more efficiently (Hammond, Cimino, 2006) and comprise a set of rules and definitions that specify exactly what something is. In healthcare, specifically a hospital environment, a formal standard…

There are about 82 primary health centers spread around Kuwait. Kuwait is divided into five administrative regions, for each region having general public hospitals, which provide full outpatient services and 24-hour emergency services. However, Kuwait faces serious problems with medical care that stem from the shortage in professional trained medical doctors and the unavailability of special treatment, which leads many Kuwaitis to look for quality treatment abroad in countries such as UK, US and…

Nurses are one of the first to feel reductions in staffing. Elliott (2010) reports, "We 're watching hospitals continue to try to cut back, and it 's always nursing. And if you don 't have enough nurses at the bedside, patients suffer”. Many of us do not consider the ramification of this situation unless faced with a crisis medical situation. If we enter an emergency room we expect to have a nurse, certified nurse assistant, respiratory therapist, x-ray technologist and physician to care for…

decades in medical and clinical fields. Looking back decades or centuries ago, hospitals had very less use of technology since not too many technologies were invented. It consumed a lot of time for doctors to see their patients. Patients were not able to schedule their appointments easily. All the patient’s data were written as documents on a paper, which were at high risk of being lost. Over the years, not only hospitals, but also clinical researches had introduced a lot of technology to their…

TCH has appropriately identified and planned for meeting many of the community’s needs with their five year strategic plan. However, some areas of risk that were identified during the assessment were not completely addressed in their 5 year plan. The main three main risks are: • Physician Recruitment and Retention • Hiring or training of Patient Care Coordinators • Additional Surgical Suites Physician recruitment and retention is the most difficult and time consuming of these three to remedy. As…

problem is that, pharmaceutical companies can learn from their previous product and make necessary adjustment to the life cycle of the product. These companies can invest technology that will shorten life cycle by creating new distribution channels. Hospitals can take an initiative by controlling the pricing of the products set forth by pharmaceutical companies. Other issues that rises up the lack of predictability for the demand for medicine. Some clinician’s preferences can create more…

Which antibiotic type and does are most effective? Background: The impending crisis with antibiotic resistance must be addressed with the most effective use antimicrobial agents. This can be achieved with utilizing effective doses and reducing hospital errors (Burke, 2001). Medical errors are the greatest contributor to the development of resistance in bacteria (Burke, 2001). Study objective: Evaluate a new antibiotic treatment to combat the emergence of anti-biotic resistant infection to…