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West Florida Regional Medical Center (WFRMC) located on the north side of Pensacola, Florida competed strongly with sacred heart and Baptist hospitals for patients. WFRMC’s CEO John Kausch was an active member of the Total Quality Council of the Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce (PATQC) (McLaughlin, C.P., Johnson, J.K., & Sollecito, 2012).. PATQC’s vision was…

Abbreviations and Acronyms in the Healthcare Industry Introduction The use of abbreviations and acronyms in healthcare has become an international patient safety issue. Common problems include ambiguous, unfamiliar, and look-alike abbreviations and acronyms leading to misinterpretation and medical errors. The patient’s safety is a common goal in every healthcare institution. One of the major issues…

Cigarette? Why not? How about I’ll tell you why? Smoking can be considered one of the most dangerous habits that any one individual can have. Smoking kills an average of 450,000 people each year. More deaths are caused each year by cigarettes and tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus, illegal drug…

Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits in Adult Women With Eating Disorders: A Critical Analysis Student Name University Name Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits in Adult Women With Eating Disorders: A Research Analysis As most people know, Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa are two eating disorders in which a person deprives themselves of the nutrients in food by…

PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Vocal cord lesion. POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Tumor of left vocal cord OPERATION PERFORMED: Laryngoscopy. A 25-year-old opera student went to the office for a laryngoscopy and a lesion was found on her left vocal cord. Today, she is at the ambulatory suite to evaluate the lesion further using an operating microscope. Local anesthesia is…

Just by living in the world, human beings are susceptible to disease. Many diseases — for example, influenza and tuberculosis — are spread when bacteria or viruses pass from one person to another. Other diseases are acquired genetically from one’s parents, such as cystic fibrosis. Some diseases, such as heart disease and osteoporosis, develop as…

A group of clinical syndromes characterized by hyperglycemia arising as a result of absolute or relative insulin deficiency is known as diabetes mellitus. There are mainly 2 types of diabetes mellitus, namely, type-1 and type-2. Type-1 diabetes mellitus occurs commonly in younger people with no hereditary factors and is due to absolute insulin deficiency resulting…

Pearson (2013) explains that clinical decision making is crucial in all aspects of patient care (p. 214). It involves the ability to gather information and make decisions that will be applied in a specific situation. Evidence-based decision making requires selecting from various possibilities and combining knowledge through research and scientific evaluation. The purpose of this…

Ether. Who would have thought that a small carbon based organic compound such as ether would spawn a new field of medical specializations, changing the history of medicine for ever. Ether was discovered in 1275 by a Spanish chemist named Raymundus Lullius,(Evans,1995,p 1). It was his discovery that allowed William E. Clark to use ether…

Child AbuseMaltreatment of children is not a new phenomenon. It dates back farinto history, as far as the colonial times and even back to biblical times. During the recent years child maltreatment has had an increase in the publicseye. There are many factors to child maltreatment. There are four generalcategories of child maltreatment now recognized….