to the Overuse of Emergency Department Service Introduction The different departments of a hospital incorporate various services that aim to improve the health of those who seek care. Preventative care, primary care, rehabilitation services, psychiatric services, surgical services, and so on that do their part to ensure patients are living a health and making health lifestyle choices. The emergency department is no different. The primary purpose of the emergency department is to treat patients
The indicators’ gross list was generated based on a literature review from the European countries. The key sources included a systematic review of the emergency department quality indicators and that of evidence for the emergency department quality indicators. Other sources include the consensus studies and the quality measures identified by healthcare research agencies. Some of the indicators such as ambulance diversion and patient satisfaction
I am an Assistant Medical Officer (AMO) working in Emergency Department at a district hospital located in rural East of Malaysia. I’ve been working for 8 years. In emergency department, we work in a team that comprise of various disciplines such as Emergency Physicians, Nurses, Assistant Medical Officers and others. In this essay I will define and analyze about leadership in my practice area. A leader profile from my practice area will be described using transformational theory. Leadership is a
Giving medication in the Emergency Department in theory should be just like any other department. The difference in medication administration in the Emergency Department from others is the environment. Medication errors can be caused from a number of things, omission, time delay, wrong dose, wrong route, etc. The problem in the Emergency Department with medication errors is nurse distractions during the medication process. According to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, (2012) nurses are
This article focused on emergency department boarding expresses the idea that department crowding is not an emergency department–based problem. Rather, it is a symptom of dysfunction in interrelated parts of the broader health care system. The article identified that particular patients are more susceptible to boarding in the emergency department for longer periods. Blacks, females, the elderly, psychiatric patients, and patients suffering from pneumonia and congestive heart failure have longer boarding
Introduction Hospital wait times have long been an issue amongst patients in emergency rooms as it’s unrealistic for every patient to receive assistance as soon as they arrive in the emergency department. Those with life-threatening injuries have priority while those without are still suffering and have no alternative but to wait for medical attention. In an age where technology has solved numerous everyday problems and businesses are continually evolving with new innovations, is it possible for
Leadership in Pediatric Emergency Department Nurses are considered the crucial and single largest healthcare discipline that reflects the overall effectiveness of the healthcare setting (Chagani, 2015). In the daily life of a nurse, operating a successful shift requires managing difficult and challenging situations which largely depend on leadership skills. Over the past twenty years, leadership has been defined differently; however, definitions shared common phrases including influencing, communicating
individual departments also have a chain of command in place to allow for smaller issues and more focused goals to be addressed at lower levels. So the structure is like a set of Russian nesting dolls, a smaller doll inside of a larger doll, inside of the largest doll; each layer builds on the other to create one whole functioning unit. "The design of the organization is intended to foster the organization's survival and success." (Sullivan, 2013, p. 12) The innermost
Qualitative researches provide appropriate understanding of people’s experiences, perspectives and histories in the context of their personal circumstances or settings, And answering ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions(1). The popularity of Qualitative methodologies have increased over the past decades(2, 3), specially it is now widespread within health services research (HSR) programs(4). A lot of examples of qualitative research can be identified within the health research field (4-6). The importance
In the United States of America, football is perhaps the most revered sport of all time. It is essentially a right of passage for every child to play a sport at some point and many children choose to play football as it is one of the United States favorite past times. When people conjure up the image of the typical American football player, the image of a kid wearing a letterman jacket with the school logo and a bit of a hotheaded attitude immediately come to mind along with the notion that they
PUBLIC vs PRIVATE HEALTH CARE SHOBHNA HADM 310 ASHLEY TRIPPLE 9TH NOVEMBER 2015 PUBLIC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: Public health care system is one, where all the health care services are governed and controlled by
I was highly impressed by the overall teamwork in the emergency department. It has a sense of organized chaos that would have taken me some time to adjust to. My nurse and I ended up going through a large group of patient during the time I was there. The nurse has this uniformity to how she would get her tasks done. The thing that through me off was the amount of stuff got done with our patients by other people. The CNA was always there to get vitals and take care of anything additional the patients
My Favorite Trip to Lagoon... This memory was the first time I have ever been in Lagoon. This was around when I was about in 5th grade.The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and the flowers were blooming; ‘Chirp, Chirp, Scream!’. During Summer School, in the middle of the day, my best friend Antonella didn’t come to school because she decided to take a break, and go to Lagoon. I was on the computers playing some games along with some of my other friends. All of a sudden, I was called down
Jennifer McClellan, RN, BSN is presently my Associate Service Manager, for the Urgent Care Emergency Department. She has been in that position since May, 2013. Her main responsibilities are to manage the flow in the unit, since our unit is a fast paced, and we have a high volume of patients. Also, if there is a problem, she has to go above and beyond to fix the problem. She also has to handle patient’s complaints which are something not uncommon in our unit. Another of her responsibilities is to
Dental dentures are artificial replacements used for your natural teeth and gums. If an accident, poor dental health, or disease has caused you to have only a few healthy natural teeth or none at all, a dentist or prothodontist will recommend dentures to replace the missing teeth. Dentures are most ideal if you have significant erosion of the gum and jaw line which makes other dental procedures such as crowns and implants less desirable. They also may be used to replace an entire row of teeth rather
(Banh et al., 2019). The Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act of 2021 aims to increase mental health treatment, reduce the stigmatization of mental health patients in the healthcare setting, and allocate more resources and funding for the provision of quality follow-up care. While the proposed bill offers a solution to increasing and benefiting mental health services in established emergency departments, there is a clause that would disproportionately affect underfunded
rescue department that was established in 1955, there are now four fire stations in Miramar (Miramar Fire Rescue Department, n.d.). The fire department has an annual toy drive, safe place for kids, which provides a youth outreach and prevention program for young people in need of immediate help and safety (Miramar Fire Rescue Department, n.d.). They also have a safe haven for newborns, where they reach pregnant girls and women before they reach a stage of crisis (Miramar Fire Rescue Department, n.d
In “The Way We Lie”, author Stephanie Ericsson gives her readers a list of ten lie we sometime use it for a purpose and sometime we did not realize we did it. She starts out her story with four lie she used in the same morning as she is starting out her day. She explains these lie are intentionally use to minimize the complications and make the day goes much smoother. However, she questions whether these lie can actually make an impact on the person who carry out and the person who receive the lie
External influences are all around us, and whether we realize it or not they affect how we think and act on a daily basis. This is the concept of the priming effect. The priming effect is when something happens to us, and influence our behavior after the experience. This usually happens subconsciously without the person knowing. There is also a phenomenon with the priming effect called ideomotor effect. This is the influencing of an action by the idea. What this all means is that if you were walking
able to acquire first position in swimming competition held by my college. This is where I decided to pursue this as my profession. In 2013, I was approached by Stonyhurst Sports club as more than just being a swim instructor, i was given proper department to work and encourage students to take part in swimming. Initially I tried to build strong relation with both child and adults who were willingly interested in getting training. I tried hard to encourage and build a relation of self-assurance for