Healthcare Management
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The retention of nursing staff in sections and departments of hospitals and health institutions has become a major issue in healthcare management. In fact many studies indicate that the shortage of nursing staff has…

Any medical organization planning to go for an IS must choose an efficient Electronic Patient Record--EPR which is the starting point of any computerized system. Effectiveness of the following points must drive the process of selection and acquisition of an IS. These are (i) Patient care which is the documented record of every patient undergoing process at the medical care unit. (ii) Communication: Patient records constitute and important means through which doctors, nurses and other are able to communicate with one another regarding patient requirements. (iii) Legal documentation: Legal documentation is important as these keep track document care as well as treatment, can become legal records. (iv) Billing and reimbursement: Patient record delivers the documentation which is used by patients to verify billed services. (v) Research and quality management: Patient records are used in a lot of facilities for research purposes as also for assessing the quality of care which is being provided. Hence the importance of maintaining exhaustive and precise patient records is indispensable. The other guiding factors for the selection process are outcome measures and balanced scorecard.

The healthcare sector is one of the more important ones within the American society, but it has recently proven unable to cope with all pressures. The economic crisis and the dramatic aging of the population pose…

This paper is an interview with a nurse who has a graduate nursing degree. The nurse, known as Jenny J. in the paper, works for NASA at the Johnson Space Center. The interview focuses on her undergraduate education, her graduate education, her career history, and her present work position. It focuses on Jenny's choice of unique career opportunities outside of traditional healthcare.

Providence Portland Medical Center's marketing and planning strategies have concentrated on attracting exceptionally talented physicians, staff and administrators while at the same time having to balance a mission of…

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The Arnold Palmer Hospital (AHC) located in Orlando, Florida is considered one of the most efficient and patient-centric healthcare providers in the U.S. due to the customer satisfaction scores the facility receives and amount of patients the hospital sees on an annual basis. The AHC has been ranked fifth in patient satisfaction out of 5,000 hospitals and sees on average 1.5 million children and women annually. It is the fourth-busiest labor and delivery hospital in the U.S. and the largest neonatal intensive care unit in the entire Southeastern U.S. AHC has also put into place one of the most thorough and well-respected continuous improvement processes in the U.S. healthcare system. With the goal of 100% patient satisfaction, AHC has created an entire quality management and improvement organization which is now a critical part of its culture. Of the myriad of processes that AHC relies on to operate daily, one of the more problematic is the Labor & Delivery Check-In. This process is made more challenging by the continually changing status of the patient and her imminent delivery of a baby. Healthcare processes need to be contextually relevant and have comparable time and value durations as patients in order to contribute to patient satisfaction (Ahsan, Shah, Kingston, 2010). The AHC labor and delivery check-in process is one that is very complex with ample room for patient dissatisfaction given the highly intricate nature of eight different decision points. With so much complexity there is the potential for confusion in the Labor and Delivery check-in process and frustration on the part of patients. Clearly this process needs significant improvement as the initial analysis of the workflow is shown in the first part of this analysis. Following the initial analysis of the Labor and Delivery check-in workflow, the complication of dealing with a Caesarean-section birth is discussed. Third, if mothers were electronically checked in versus the manual process today, the workflows would change significantly. A second flowchart has been created to show the streamlined workflow as a result of the AHC choosing this alternative. For process re-engineering to be successful there needs to be a prioritization of customer-based goals first, followed by the selective use of technologies (Bertolini, Bevilacqua, Ciarapica, Giacchetta, 2011). The use of more automated means to check maternity patients in follows this best practices of business process reengineering (Bertolini, Bevilacqua, Ciarapica, Giacchetta, 2011).

This descriptive research study explored the succession planning in small business entrepreneur of a multi-faceted entity. The purpose was to ensure the continued success and sustainability of small business entities despite their complexity and diversity. Review of the literature discussed indicated that small business enterprises are lagging behind other businesses and organizations in their succession planning endeavors. In assessing the efforts in these entities, Questionnaires, interviews played a larger role in collecting data about succession planning and management programs within Nadia La Russa organization, the roles played by the administrative and HR personnel in embracing opportunities and dealing with future challenges during critical incidents in the process of succession planning.

Bedsores are also known as pressure ulcers. They are lesions that are primarily caused when soft tissues are pressed against bone for a long period of time, restricting blood flow to the area. These often occur when a patient is immobile or reclining in a recovery bed for a long period of time. They are common on the hips, elbows, knees, ankles and even the back of the head. Current research shows that they are exacerbated by other conditions like diabetes, perspiration, incontinence, infection, or medications that impair the circulatory system. Pressure ulcers are particularly serious in older patients – particularly those in a wheel chair or in cases in which the patient does not move or exercise. Bedsores are often fatal, even when treated aggressively and are one of the leading causes of death from complications in many developed countries – second only to adverse drug reactions

The Emergency Department of typical hospitals is often overcrowded because of strained ED staff, shortage of resources and the sheer lack of manpower against the massive number of patient surging into ED. There are lean hours and days and busy days and high-volume hours. These conditions often increase morbidity and mortality and require reform from the lowest to the highest levels.