Joint Chiefs of Staff

Dashboards in Healthcare Abstract Doctor Rich Boehler the president and chief executive officer of St. Joseph Healthcare from Nausha New Hampshire presented a webinar where he discussed his experience as a chief medical officer of St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson Maryland and how he used medical staff performance dashboards to dramatically improve the outcomes of patient care while decreasing the length of stay and finally lowering costs to both the hospital and patients.…

the commander in chief of the armed faces. He or she must serve in a number of different capacities to fulfill each of their duties, some which are specified in the constitution and others which have evolved over time. Perhaps the most important of these duties is being the commander in chief and directing the air force, army, marines and navy forces. With this power, only he or she has the authority to send troops into…

The plan was codenamed Operation (OP) Pluto when Kennedy was updated on it on January 28th, just 8 days after his inauguration. (Simkin, Bay of Pigs) OP Pluto was the result of a CIA paper by the name of JMARC written in March of 1960 by the CIA’s Chief of Operations, Richard Bissell. It drew heavily on the covert tactics of a previous CIA policy paper called ‘PBSUCCESS’, the plan that led to the resignation of Guatemala’s democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz. JMARC called for ‘ the…

IMPLICATIONS OF FUTURE BATTLEFIELD ON LEADERSHIP 1. Numerous trends will shape military leadership over the next thirty years. First, traditional hands-on leadership will remain essential. Second, the current trend toward joint operations will evolve into thoroughly integrated forces. Third, peace operations and other non combat roles will continue to grow becoming a major share of our overall military mission. Fourth, new technology will go on driving rapid change. And finally, fiscal…

All this time everyone thought that 9/11 was caused by terrorist attacks that might not be the case. There is more to that story then what is told. The government has planned acts of annihilation , which were described as terrorist attacks , one such was to make the Cuban government look like the culprit , these incidents of annihilation was part of a plan called Operation Northwood’s , there was one occurrence that was not just some terrorist attack , it was September 11 ,2001 also known as…

General Dunford is also the only Marine to have served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, Commandant of the Marine Corps, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As a Marine he has lead others in both combat in Iraq and in policy in the with the President. Through demonstration he shows what can be accomplished in the military by serving in almost all of the highest ranked military positions in his…

The political climate in the United States during the post-World War II era, was based off of rhetoric and propaganda purposely spread by the Truman administration. The goal of influencing Congress and the American people of how real the threat of communism was became apparent with the introduction of the Truman Doctrine. In presenting the doctrine, the President emphatically asked Americans to commit to a world-wide anti-communist movement that continues to guide foreign policy to this day. The…

RN and a Joint Commission nurse surveyor, Mollie Christiansen, RN and a clinical nurse officer, and Laura Feider, RN and a Dean, School of Nursing Science and Chief, Department of Nursing Service (Godlock, Christiansen, and Feider, 2016). Fall prevention for patients is medical facilities is a constant concern and continuous studies on prevention. Even through falls are accidental the outcome can range from no injuries to the death of the patient (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2016). The Joint…

metrics that you would utilize as a healthcare leader to determine the effectives of your operation. Patient Wait Time First impression last, they said. The time between checking in and seeing a provider indicate many things: proportionality of staff and patient’s ratio, efficiency of care flow, competency of healthcare workers, scheduling, the level of readiness to respond to mass casualty and so on. The CDC reported that between 2003 and 2009, mean wait time to see a provider increased 25%,…

Tensions increased on 27 October when Cuban air defenses shot down a U-2 piloted by Major Rudolf Anderson. The Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended an immediate air strike against Cuba, but President Kennedy decided to wait. The increasing tempo in the military, however, continued unabated. While United States military preparations continued, the United States agreed not to…