safety. At my workplace nurses go the extra mile to keep patients safe while under our care. Although policy of our hospital is to round on patients every hour, we have a designated staff member who rounds in between each hour throughout the day. We use three patient identifiers, which include name, birth date, and the last four of their account number. As with many to all hospitals there are plenty of protocols and policies to keep the patient and employees safe. We utilize the aforementioned…
patient-centered care environment, clinical decisions are guided by the patient’s preferences, needs and values (Wolfe, 2001). In our hospital, some patients and family members have asked about the possibility of bringing family pets in to visit. Nurses will sometimes secretly allow these visits during less crowded visitation times such as evenings and weekends. However, as our hospital becomes more patient centered, and the requests quite possibly become more frequent, the need for an official…
Such frustrations usually occurs to a visitor to the hospital who experiences a maze of routes to various departments in the hospital. In addition, if one does not speak the native language of the location of the hospital, he or she may experience problems navigating through the hospital. In this regards, one should be able to develop the required signs that will help to guide people through the hospital regardless of the ethnic origin of the person. Pictographs were used as…
Doctors within Borders: the Politics of Health County: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago 's Public Hospital, written by David A. Ansell, follows the life of the doctor throughout his residency at Cook County Hospital and his personal encounters with health inequalities. Reading the first fourteen chapters, I got a glimpse into my career path as an aspiring urban doctor (urban as in both: a person of color and a focus on highly populated, under-represented areas). The path of concentrating on…
the president (govtrack.us). This bill primarily seeks to empower registered nurses to propel staffing decisions in hospitals, protect patients and improve the quality of care received (ANA). According to ANA, the monumental reductions in the nursing budgets coupled with the increasing challenges posed by the shortage…
This position may acquire all related insurance tasks for the Hospital Coordinator. What I propose is to revisit Yanet’s role and decide if we want to keep her as the Hospital Coordinator minus the insurance related tasks. This may be a plausible solution to the Hospital Coordinator position. Now that we have taken away the other responsibilities, she may be able to juggle both since it’s synonymous to what she will be doing. Hospital is only one day and it will only require her to set up the…
fatigue and sleep deprivation causes memory problems, slower reaction time, longer information processing time, and many other issues that leads to unsafe outcomes for patients and nurses themselves. On top of high patient to nurse ratios, most hospitals in the US are still allowing nurses to work 12 hours shifts because that means they don’t have to hire as many…
the health care delivery system. Historically having surgical procedures in a hospital setting have many disadvantages for the patients, including long wait for an available appointment, days spent in the hospital during recovery, in addition to the…
LEVEL OF SATISFACTION TOWARDS HEALTH CARE SERVICES OF PRIVATE MULTI-SPECIALITY HOSPITALS – PERCENTAGE ANALYSIS 1. A majority (73.7%) of the patients are highly satisfied towards the location of the hospitals whereas (6.8%) of the patients are highly dissatisfied towards the additional facilities such as dining room, dressing room, ventilation, electric points, water supply, power supply, wash space and rest house etc. 2. A majority (52.3%) of the patients are highly satisfied towards fixing an…
nursing shortage is inputting more stress into the nurses who are still holding their job: “The shortage of hospital nurses may be linked to unrealistic nurse workload. Forty percent of hospital nurses have burnout levels that exceed the norms for health care workers” (1). Having an excessive amount of stress or workload can lead to bad health or intention in leaving the job. About half of hospital nurses are experiencing large amounts of stress and are helping the nursing shortage to continue.…