Nurse-managed health center

Journal Assignment #2 As a new nurse, I started working in a local hospice agency located near my house. Among the duties I performed as hospice nurse include calling patients and their families to follow up on their conditions. One of the patients that I needed to check up on regularly was Mrs. L.J., an 82-year-old Lebanese woman residing in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). She had been admitted to the hospice from an oncology medical center and had been a hospice patient for less than a week.…

Utilizing Nursing Informatics in Sepsis Quality Improvement According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2016) from 1999-2014 over 2 million Americans have died with sepsis listed as a contributing cause, making sepsis the 11th leading cause of death in the United States. Jones et al. (2016) and Jones et al. (2015) report sepsis costing hospitals over 20 billion dollars in 2011, and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursed over 17 billion of those costs. Thus, the CMS initiated…

(Anandan). What is the impact on your job when robots are cheap? “Robots are never going to be cheap” Newton Medical Center Obstetrics doctor, Kent Bradley said in an interview (Bradley). If they do become cheaper, they will be more available to smaller hospitals (Bradley). Newton Medical Center was the fifth hospital to get the Da Vinci Surgical System due to being well managed (Bradley). How are robots changing your job? To answer that question, he used the scenario “The Da Vinci is a tool in…

Background to the problem After careful review it has been determined that the current cost associated with the utilization of the services provided at the Regional Hospital, is in need of immediate review. The Regional Hospital is located in the Charlotte Mecklenburg area of North Carolina. If the current costs are not contained and measures put in place to reduce cost, this could affect the hospital’s ability to continue providing service to this community. In light of these circumstances it…

and social reformers sought to improve women’s health. Despite racial discrimination and poverty struggles, the efforts made greatly improved women’s access to healthcare. Maternal and infant death rates began to improve along with doctors’ attitudes towards their female patients. During a time period plagued with an environment of extreme racial discrimination, African American women had to overcome many obstacles to gain access to quality health care. From 1900 to 1935, “infant and maternal…

Growing up, school has constantly been the top priority in my household. My parents have always wanted me to succeed and make something of myself. My mother had me when she was just fifteen years old, but she managed to graduate High School, to show me that anything is possible. With all the support I knew that when I walked across the stage to receive my diploma it would be the most memorable thing in my life. Just like the day I saw my mother walk across that stage to receive her diploma.…

strategy that involves recognizing nationwide health concerns and increasing public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress. This program involves local communities and makes connections with national organizations in order to sum up efforts in a bid to come up with prevention measures against chronic diseases. Cardiovascular health form part of the items of interest which the health communities lay a great deal of…

now, I'm currently aiming for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Health and a Masters in Healthcare Administration. By attending UW, it will help me prepare for my career by offering me the best education in order to be successful for my career path as a Healthcare Administrator. As of right now, I'm not prepared to my major due to prerequisites. There are courses at UW that I have to take, in order to get into the Public Health major. My plans for preparing are to take the four required…

According to Roberts and Philp (1996) patient satisfaction is one of the three most important measures when it comes to health care service. Information Technology (IT) can help monitor and improve patient satisfaction. Sabada, Singh and Munchus (2001) believe that information parameters can be imputed into the health information system being used by the HSO in order to enhance patient satisfaction. One example that Sabada, Singh and Munchus use in their research is the use of Telemedicine.…

Effect of Staff Nurse Education Intervention on Wound Infections in Adult Patients after Open Heart Surgery Mohsin Rasho and Jalal Dawood Valparaiso University I have neither given nor received, nor have I tolerated others' use of unauthorized aid. Mohsin Rasho & Jalal Dawood Effect of Staff Nurse Education Intervention on Wound Infections in Adult Patients after Open Heart Surgery Wound…