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A Hospital Experience, 2005.
This paper analyzes an interview of a woman's hospital experience.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 90.95
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This paper explains that a woman in the hospital, who has breast cancer, received no sympathy from her doctor, who offers little information for her coping. The author points out that the nurses helped her through their therapeutic relationship and attentive listening. The paper analyzes the interview by focusing on the woman's problems and on communication."
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"Anna (name changed) is a breast cancer survivor. Among the issues and problems related to breast cancer are body image and psychological distress. Body image refers to the conscious and unconscious attitudes held towards the body, as well as to all the emotional responses of women to breast cancer and its treatment (Cohen, Kahn & Steeves, 1998). Stress for the woman with breast cancer is interrelated with body image and preconceptions at several stages, beginning with diagnosis and extending well into the post-surgical period (Schover, 1991). The patient's quality of life is changed completely."
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A Helping Experience, 2006.
An analysis of an interview with a university student concerning her hospitalization experience and the assistance she received during that stay.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 90.95
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This paper presents, discusses and analyzes an interview that was conducted with a university student. In the interview the student states that she is now older and much more mature than when she was hospitalized as a teenager for complications related to diabetes, a chronic disease in which the body does not make or properly use insulin. The paper focuses on the help the student received while she was in the hospital and how that has helped her deal with her chronic health problem of diabetes.
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"The following interview was conducted with a university student. Jenny states that she is now older and much more mature than when she was hospitalized as a teenager for complications related to diabetes. "Diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body does not make or properly use insulin, a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches, and other food into energy" (National Diabetes Education Program, 2005, p. 1). This former patient received a great deal of help as a result of her hospitalization. That help consisted of new learning and insights about her chronic condition. Jenny's needs at..."
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Information Management for UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 2002.
This paper develops a knowledge management strategy for the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital to be implemented by the hospital IMS department.
1,785 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 14 sources, APA, AU$ 83.95
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This paper states that knowledge management involves the management of data in a way that transforms data into useful knowledge. This paper declares that almost all of the information developed by a hospital organization will relate in some way to specific patients. The author provides tables which illustrate the recommended logical and designs for the information system to support the knowledge management strategy for the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Developing a Knowledge Management Strategy
Designing the Knowledge Management Strategy
Information Requirements
Designing the Information Technology Support System
Implementing the Knowledge Management Strategy
Evaluating the Proposed Knowledge Management Strategy
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"The soft systems analysis framework will provide the basis for the implementation of the knowledge management strategy for the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital. This framework has nine stages. The stages of the implementation will be as follows: (1) systems analysis, (2) systems design, (3) equipment selection and acquisition, (4) programming, (5) testing and conversion, (6) installation, (7) operation, (8) maintenance and enhancement, and (9) follow up evaluation. The basis for soft systems analysis framework is a standard approach to problem solving."
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Faith Community Hospital Case Study, 2002.
A discussion of the Faith Community Hospital Case Study, focusing on the problematic issues in the hospital, and illustrating the importance of a good mission statement and goal accomplishment.
1,672 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 79.95
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This paper analyzes the Faith Community Hospital case study aka Let It Pour. The paper ties in course concepts of ambiguity, perception, individual personal values versus society legal and ethical norms, and communication processes. Included is stakeholder and brand (hospital image) concepts. The writer outlines the recommendations of the case study for the benefit of the hospital.
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"?A good mission statement should accurately explain why the organization exists and what it hopes to achieve in the future. It articulates the organization's essential nature, its values, and its work? (Radtke, 1998, Para 2). A good mission statement is not the recipe for success in business; it is the grand global picture. To accomplish the goals identified in the organizational mission statement, identification of all stakeholders, support of key stakeholders, written policies, detailed written procedures, and effective communication are critical success factors. These critical success factors are the missing ingredients at Faith Community Hospital, the subject of this case study."
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Peach Tree Hospital, 2002.
An examination of the difficulties facing a new hospital - focusing on a case-study of Peach Tree Hospital.
719 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 37.95
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This paper discusses the challenges start-up hospital Peach Tree Hospital has been encountering. By evaluating the methods they?ve employed to date, as well as survey results from their employees and continued communication, this paper helps Peach Tree?s administrator and human resource director to clarify exactly where the problems exist. From this information they can then begin to take steps to make the changes necessary to overcome their challenges.
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"Although the staff of Peachtree Hospital ?had spent the better part of its time recruiting and training employees? (Hellriegel et al., 2002, p. 289) the administrator of the hospital felt the organizational efforts had not been as successful as they should have been. The human resource director, although acknowledging that there were still organizational issues that needed to be addressed, wrote these off to start-up conditions, as the hospital had only been open for less than one year and would be resolved in a very short period of time. To quantify the organizational problems, a survey was administered to most of the 1,200 employees of the hospital and revealed some startling results."
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Faith Community Hospital, 2004.
This paper is a case study about Faith Community Hospital, a not-for-profit health care services organization, which is facing major challenges.
1,855 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 86.95
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The paper explains that some of the critical issues facing Faith Community Hospital, which the hospital needs to address, are basic financial problems; the conflict between the organization?s spiritual heritage and values and the ethics of the medical profession; non-compliance with government, managed care, insurance regulations, and non-adherence to hospital operational policies. The author points out that Faith Community Hospital has an organizational management problem, which needs to be thoroughly analyzed rather than tyring to solve the various problems piecemeal. The paper states that, although the mission statement of Faith Community Hospital implies a broad goal of promoting the health and well-being of the people it serves within a framework of spiritual values, it can be inferred that the organization suffers from an absence of clear-cut policies and goals that are specific, measurable, targeted, and time-specific.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Identifying the Key Issues
Organizational Mission, Culture and Processes
Organizational Goals
Defining the Problem
The Mission Statement
The Absence of Clearly Defined Organizational Goals
Alternative Strategies
Alternative 1
Alternative 2
Recommendation
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Affinity Diagram
Appendix 2: Fishbone Diagram
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"The mission statement plays a critical role in setting direction and laying the foundation for the culture and goals of any organization. Indeed, this is clearly expressed in Hyrum Smith?s model of instructive goal setting, which is commonly referred to as Smith?s ?Success Triangle.? This model places an organization?s governing values at the base of the goal setting process and recommends that goals must be linked to specific governing values in order to be meaningful and to help the organization achieve its mission (Parker, 2003). The mission statement of Faith Community Hospital appears to adhere to the strategic principles inherent in Smith?s ?Success Triangle? to the extent that it clearly emphasizes the organization?s commitment to promoting the health and well-being of the people in the communities it serves, using its spiritual heritage and values as the foundation. However, since spiritual values can vary vastly across religions and individual beliefs, Faith?s mission statement has led to broad individual interpretations that have, in turn, led to an organizational culture, which allows too much leeway for individual decision-making. This is evident in the anecdotal cases cited by the CEO of doctors independently deciding to either treat patients pro bono or insisting on insurance coverage prior to commencement of treatment; the pharmacist filling prescriptions for uninsured patients; and the inconsistency in adhering to hospital policy in areas such as ?Do Not Resuscitate? (DNR) decisions."
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Bellevue Hospital and the World Trade Tower Collapse, 2002.
An examination of the way in which local hospitals should respond and provide support when a disaster strikes in their town, using the Bellevue Hospital and the World Trade Tower Collapse as examples.
2,030 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper examines the elements of an Emergency Response Plan of a hospital in the event of a disaster striking. This paper specifically discusses the elements of the emergency plan for Bellevue Hospital in lower Manhattan, both before and after the attacks on the World Trade Tower. The way in which a local hospital should be concerned with protecting people, information systems, and communications is examined in this paper.
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?The primary concern for a hospital is the protection of people. These people not only include the victims, but also management, employees, and families of the victims. It is necessary to be able to quickly assess the number and skill levels of the staffing available. In the early moments of a disaster, this may be difficult, as was the case in the World Trade Tower attacks. Bellevue Hospital in lower Manhattan received word that the trade towers were on fire. They quickly and efficiently invoked their Emergency Response Plan. They waited and prepared for a flood of victims. In this case, instead of being understaffed to handle the load, they found themselves with many willing and capable volunteers and unfortunately, no victims. This created another situation, in which, when a victim did come in they were stormed by people willing to help.?
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Analysis of Helping, 2006.
An analysis of an interview of a college student which looks at that student's hospital experience.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 90.95
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This paper presents an interview that is intended as an exploration of a university student's hospital experience based on the help that he received. The student received a lasting understanding of stress because of the therapeutic and helping relationship between himself and his nurse.
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"Stress is actually the most serious problem experienced by college students. Patterson (2003, p. K2831) states that research has found that "depression, suicidal thoughts and other worrisome conditions appear to have increased dramatically among college students". Andrew's level of stress was high enough that he needed to be hospitalized. Once his immediate physical symptoms were under..."
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Community Hospital Case Study, 2006.
A case study assessing the financial viability of a community hospital.
2,839 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 123.95
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This paper presents a financial analysis of a small community hospital that is facing a financial crunch in the near future. The paper describes the hospital's financial problems, the causes of those problems and what measures need to be taken in order to get the hospital back on track. In assessing these measures, the paper also outlines what the short-term and long-term goals of the hospital need to be and describes a strategy for implementing those goals.
Table of Contents
The Facts
The Pointers
Getting the Hospital on Track
Short-term Goals
Long-term Goals
Detailed Implementation Strategy
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"The Community Hospital in the present case study saw its beginnings during the mid-1800s and has come a long way since then serving a population of nearly 13,000 inhabitants. Its location from the nearest large city is 15 miles which itself has four major hospitals and 40 miles from the state capital with more medical conveniences. Apart from that, the Hospital also caters to the medical needs of five very small and nearby rural towns with a net total population which is estimated to be 35,000 inhabitants. It continues to be a general hospital since inception because of the presence of many large hospitals in its vicinity. Although the hospital has good doctors in attendance, majority of them have grown old in their profession and as such the Hospital will be facing a severe shortage of doctors 10-15 years down the line. The Hospital is facing a crunch on the financial front as the minimum occupancy rates have fallen well below the break-even point needed for the Hospital to stay afloat."
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The Hospital System, 1991.
This paper discusses the hospital system: Evolution of hospital care, operations, finances, quality of care, supply and demand and problems.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 69.95
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"Health care is one of the fastest-rising expenses faced by American families. Every year, health-care expenses rise faster than either consumers' incomes or the general rate of inflation. It would seem, then, that health-care providers--of which hospitals are the most conspicuous institutional component would be a highly lucrative enterprise. In fact, however, hospitals have found the late 1980s to be a difficult period, with conditions improving only slightly at the beginning of the 1990s.
To understand the economic problems and choices facing hospitals, it is useful to regard them as firms, and apply to them the general principles of microeconomics which shape the environments of all firms. However, hospitals are firms of a specialized type--not simply in terms of the services they provide, but in terms of how and by whom those services are ... "
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Experience of War, 2003.
A comparative analysis of the presentation of experience of war in the novels "Regeneration" by Pat Barker and "In Country" by Bobby Ann Mason.
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 110.95
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This paper examines how one of the most important ideas that both authors, Barker of "Regeneration"and Mason of "In Country", seem to be portraying is that experience of war is not restricted to the soldiers, the combatants, those on the front line. It looks at how they are trying to get the message out that war effects everyone, as a collective and as an individual and how it it affects women and children and the men that were not fighting. It examines how "Regeneration" follows the stories of several men in a World War 1 hospital in Scotland for those suffering from shell shock whereas "In Country" is set eighteen years after the Vietnam War and uses opinionated narration from the view point of an eighteen year old girl who just missed the war.
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"One of the most powerful ways that Pat Barker and B.A .Mason show that experience is not restricted to the front line is in the fact that neither author use front line action in their novels. The novels are very similar in this respect. The lack of action from the war is startling, but the portrayal of it in both novels is very real. The authors it seems, from the very beginning, set out their ideal that it is not contact and combat that are the experience, but the effect of the war upon the person. Women cannot engage in combat in either of the novels, but in both the authors show women to have experience of the war. The authors set out this idea by the consistent opinion of the male characters that ?women weren?t over there? so they can?t really understand?, while continually challenging this with the female characters."
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Victoria Hospital - Mission, Vision, Strategies, 2008.
A case study of the future plans and success of the Victoria Hospital.
774 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 40.95
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This paper explains that Victoria Hospital is currently undergoing the process of organizational change and that they must highlight their future plans and courses of action. The paper then proceeds to describe how the hospital's vision and mission statement should be developed as well as some of the strategies of operation it should adopt.
Outline:
Victoria Hospital Vision Statement
Mission Statement
Victoria Hospital Strategies
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"The mission statement takes on step further and communicates the audience the core competencies and the features on which the organization will base its actions in order to retrieve success. Furthermore, it also points out the main focuses of the organization in reaching their goals. For instance, a basic mission statement for a for-profit organization would be to offer their clients the best products and services and integrate the employees into the corporate culture, while in the same time registering profits. The mission statement is an important tool for communicating corporate objectives and commitment and it is addressed to all stakeholders, such as employees, clients, or patients in the case of Victoria Hospital, business partners or the general audience. The mission statement has to be developed by keeping in mind the corporate values and goals. For the Victoria Hospital, these are: dedicated personnel, the usage of advanced technologies and commitment to preserving and improving patient's health. However due to financial cuts, the management at Victoria Hospital desires to increase their profits, this will not be stated in the mission."
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Case Study on Faith Community Hospital, 2004.
Uses a case study to identify several problems at Faith Community Hospital.
2,146 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 98.95
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This paper is based on a case study of Faith Community Hospital and is an attempt to identify several problems at the hospital and the issues arising from those problems. The paper delineates the steps in the identification process and presents an analysis of the problems the hospital is facing. Following the analysis and identification, recommendations for solutions and a plan for implementing the solutions are presented.
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"As we are told, medical errors are a major concern for the hospital. This problem is made more relevant for Faith Community Hospital because we see that the varied views of both the patients and the staff inflict upon their ability to provide adequate patient care. As we are told "we have particular patients who refuse to take certain medical services." We are told of a current case where Child Protective Services are threatening to take action because of the way the hospital did not provide services, even though this non action was in agreement with the parent's wishes."
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Case Study: Hospital in Crisis, 2004.
An examination of a not-for-profit hospital in financial crisis.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 0 sources, APA, AU$ 57.95
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This paper examines the challenges facing a not-for-profit hospital in financial crisis. The paper explains that the hospital is facing a 15 percent shortfall, which may necessitate cutting services and staff. The paper discusses the pros and cons of various budget cutting measures. The paper also reviews how the hospital should deal with its staff over these issues.
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"As a community based, non-profit hospital, our goal is to fulfill a wide range of community needs, from providing quality health care to educating the public to promoting wellness in our community. The good news is that non-profit hospitals are..."
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A Hospital Kitchen, 2006.
A paper describing the design of a hospital kitchen that serves approximately 6000 customers per day.
2,866 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 124.95
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This paper briefly outlines the design of the storage area, dish washing area, shelving area, baking area and ventilation system of a hospital kitchen. The paper then describes the kitchen's packaging and hazard control operations and explains that the critical control points of the hospital include receiving, storage, preparation and serving the food . Next, the paper describes, in greater detail, how these operations are to be performed and then takes a look at a survey that was conducted to determine whether hospital patients were satisfied with the food they were being served. Finally, the paper describes the type of equipment the kitchen will be using, the food delivery process and the clean-up process.
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"The design is for a hospital kitchen. The kitchen opens at 6 am in the morning. The number of customers serve comprise around 6000 per day. Of these patients more or less 30% enjoy sandwiches and coffee for breakfast. The rest prefer Tea or soup. For lunch, fish and chips is the preferred dish of approximately 60-70% of the patients. Small numbers of the remaining patients enjoy chicken pies, lasagna and pasta bake. Preferred desserts are ice cream, apple pie and chocolate roulade."
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Miami Valley Hospital, 2007.
This paper analyzes the operation at Miami Valley Hospital.
1,450 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 70.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the Miami Valley Hospital (MVH) was founded in Dayton in 1890 as a 37-bed hospital in a private home and has since expanded to an 827-bed referral and specialty center with a reputation for personalized patient care and service. The writer points out that it offers a broad range of high-quality health services by a staff of sensitive and experienced doctors, nurses and employees. Further, the writer discusses that it has set the standard for the practice through its commitment to diversity in the workplace. The writer concludes that MVH is committed to the service and welfare of the diverse communities it serves and that the hospital takes into consideration Weber's view on social relationships wherein the organization's action is determined by the reaction or impact that action can have on its client and others in the community.
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"The Hospital consistently pursues excellence. In 2002, it received the seventh consecutive Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation and the fifth consecutive Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The accreditation placed the hospital within the top 10% of all surveyed hospitals, an unmatched distinction among hospitals for receiving consecutive commendation awards. It merged with Good Samaritan Hospital to form Premier Health Partners. The partnership aims at delivering high-quality health care at the best value for the Greater Dayton."
"Miami Valley Hospital or MVH mandates each of its employees to create an inclusive environment, which respects all individuals and provides them this opportunity through many Diversity initiatives."
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