Triage

misspelling words, mixing patient’s records, or just making transcription errors. Self-checker applications such as iTriage and Symptify from the Mayo Clinic were found to provide the correct diagnosis listed first 34% of the time and suggesting proper triage in 57% of the cases for consumers on average (Semigran, Linder, Gidengil, & Mehrota, 2015). Unfortunately, although human error exists in a non-technological health system, incorporating technology in healthcare insitutions does not…

62,000. The Belvoir Primary Care Clinic should therefore use care to fill positions as the need for these services grows. Also, by providing education and training the clinic can expand existing roles and offset some these staffing costs (Gray & Aronvich, 2016). Modifying clinic layout and or adding additional office space can be costly. These types of costs should be thoroughly considered as they are fixed costs. In the initial stages the clinic can contain costs by finding innovative ways to…

Homeland Security and Our Critical Infrastructure As with most things involved with Homeland Security, the events of September 11, 2001, changed the way America deals with its National Security. After all, our way of life was changed forever, and not for the best. Following the events of September 11, 2001, President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security. The purpose of the Department of Homeland Security is to protect and defend the citizens and the national critical infrastructure…

Based upon OSHA’s Best Practices for Hospital-Based First Receivers(OSHA 3249-08N 2006) and ATSDR’s Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents(HSEES 2001), PPE recommended for hospital first receivers is Level C+ (Level C with additional respiratory protection), and consists of; 1) A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) with chemical cartridges, 2) A chemically resistant suit, 3) Double gloves, and, 4) Chemically resistant boots.…

For this assignment, I chose to shadow a health care employee. The organization I visited was Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser has a very interesting history that has guided the HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) to where they are today. They started in the early 1930’s, providing health care for construction workers on the Colorado River Aqueduct Project. Dr. Sidney Garfield provided care for injured and sick workers and while the employees were being taken care of, Dr. Garfield was losing money.…

and sends them to that department to speak with someone who can assist further. In Tiffany’s department when they get a call form someone they screen them for what services they are looking for, what their current goals or needs are and prepare a triage form to see how soon an appointment is needed. If someone is facing foreclosure in the coming week or so they make an immediate appointment to try and stop the foreclosure while they work with their loan officer. According to Tiffany payment of…

tasks, many of which are not sufficiently recognized because of their non-medical nature. These contributions include assessing the social service needs of patients and families, counseling, and finding suitable referrals. Their mandates are to help triage patients based on social service needs as well as to help reduce hospital costs by reducing unnecessary admissions (Auerbach & Mason, 2010).” In other words, having a social worker in the ER could potentially reduce spending for the hospital.…

The aim of this assignment is to explore the Scopes of Practice involved in nursing and the importance each has on effective practice. For the purpose of this paper, the nurse that was shadowed will be referred to as Angelina Jolie and all other nurses will have name changes to ensure confidentiality. This experience took place in the South Health Campus of Calgary in the Labour and Delivery unit, where an opportunity was given to learn about the roles of several nurses and discover what domains…

The four legal do’s and don’ts when treating children and adolescences with suicidal tendencies. All states mandate professional counselors have a duty to warn if a client has express intent to harm another; duty to report when a child, elder, or disable person is being abused or neglected, and report if the client is a danger to themselves. Transition into adolescence is a daunting growing pain alone; however, when many adolescence stressors begin to pile up with no light at the tunnel. Many of…

Delwarca Software Remote Support Unit – an Overview This firm provides supply chain management Software to large corporate clients around the world. Its clients are the firms that prefer to assemble corporate solutions by leveraging a combination of software programs from various suppliers and do not implement a single enterprise resource planning system. Delwarca has to provide telephone support services for some complicated software –hardware performance problems as well as interaction…