Hospitals

1. Define Sentinel Event and give an example. An event that has adverse consequences to patients e.g. wrong site surgery or adverse reaction to a medication. A root cause analysis has to be done and reported to whoever is running the hospital. 2. When should medication reconciliation occur? Who is the primary person responsible for medication reconciliation at your site? On arrival at the ER. When there is a transition in the care on the floor Into and out of surgery Pharmacy technician in…

An Immigrant Women’s Experience in a County Hospital Shikha Ahuja Drexel University S.D. is a 38 year old immigrant female who was admitted to a community memorial hospital when she was nine months pregnant. S.D. went to the hospital clinic for a prenatal checkup on October 7, 2014. The nurse took her vital signs and all her vitals were normal except for the blood pressure. She had an abnormally high blood pressure reading. The physician admitted her as a precautionary measure. She…

and is very concerned about losing his job. He has been leaving home earlier to prevent being late, but this morning encountered an accident on his way to work which caused a delay in his arrival. Initial Consequence of Decision When entering the hospital, Mike notices a spill on the floor on the way to his department. He is faced with a decision: He can stop and ensure that the spill is cleaned up or ignore it (Allied Health Community website, n.d.). It occurs to him that if he…

Anne Raver proposes her stance of the effects of nature on hospital patients. Raver’s purpose for this article is to show the importance of gardens in or around hospitals, and to provoke action for more hospitals to provide patients with this kind of scenery. While the gardens do not necessarily heal the patients, she claims it has positive effects on many people suffering from an illness. The targeted audience in this article would be hospital patients or anyone interested in the works of…

when I read the article “Bitter Pill” by Steven Brill. This article talks about why bills are so high when it comes to health. It show the reality of how these hospitals work. Something that is not talked about, and it should. Another article I read was called Setting the Record Straight on TIMES’s Article “Bitter Pill” by American Hospital Association (AHA). This article was responding against the article “Bitter Pill”. They don’t like that the article…

is plentiful scope for devoted travel agents and tour operators. 2. Travel Desk in Hospitals: Hospitals that want to sell medical tourism services should have a dedicated travel desk in the hospitals. Such a travel desk should act as a comprehensive marketing arm of the hospital with regard to medical tourism. 3. Staff Mentors: Medical tourists anticipate high class hospitality from one and all at the hospital. It will be beneficial to have client affiliation exercise as well as cultural…

Referrals are one of the biggest things we do. We are constantly making referrals. We make a lot of referrals because most people come to the hospital when they are very sick, have an addiction, or a mental illness. Once they are treated and no longer need medical attention, they are referred out of the hospital and into the community. For example, most elderly patients who are 65 and older, often get referred to sub-acute rehab, skilled nursing facilities, home care, Adult Protective Services,…

inpatient stays (Levinson, 2014). This is by encouraging hospitals to improve the quality of care at discharge to prevent patients from being readmitted before a 30-day period for the same illness. The hospitals also need to treat and discharge in a timely manner to make a profit under DRG’s, which in most cases benefit both Medicare and the beneficiary. The introduction of the inpatient prospective payment system (PPS), was intended to motivate hospitals to change the way they deliver services…

Lucy Webb Hayes (1984) was a class action lawsuit in which M. Stern and the patients of Sibley Memorial Hospital sued the Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries, five financial institutions, and five members of Sibley Memorial Hospital’s Board of Trustees. Plaintiffs alleged the defendants conspired to monetarily benefit from the financial management of the hospital through use of the financial institutions to which they were affiliated. Plaintiffs also…

Current research findings will most likely become the basis for increase activities against hospitals and other health care organizations. The doctrines of corporate liability hold hospitals accountable for failures to ensure a safe and conducive environment for patient care. Serious injuries to patient represent a sequence of errors and may involve missteps by members of different disciplines. Expect to hear more concerns from physicians and other health care providers about how nurse staffing…