Essays on Hospital

              “One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest” was a story originally published in 1962 by Ken Kesey.  The story was based on his unique experiences working with wounded soldiers in California.  Many of story’s characters were the coupling of real life people he met at the Veterans Hospital and LSD…

Michelle’ Daniels Kaplan University Scenario 1 Jim Philips is the attorney for Karen Monstrous. Karen is filing suit against Howard Doe in a domestic dispute. Jim Philips sends Memorial Hospital an original authorization that is signed and dated by Karen Monstrous. The authorization, addressed to your hospital, includes the dates of the records requested. The…

Such a workflow perspective that is based on the continuity of care model provides a framework required to Identify and support an Interconnected trajectory of care events affecting handcuff communication. To this end, we propose a new methodology, referred to as the clinician-centered approach that allows us to investigate and represent the entire clinician workflow…

Phlebotomists are individuals educated to obtain blood samples on live patients. Employment in this occupation is on the rise as phlebotomists are sought after for drawing blood for testing. Vital signs are also an important function of the phlebotomist. As healthcare professionals, they work in medical facilities such as hospitals, physicians’ offices, research institutions, home…

Holography can be known as a relatively new system of Organizational governance where authority and the decision-making powers are equally vested and distributed to diligent and skilled members of the workforce. Unlike the age-old Hierarchy System of management where all powers were virtually centralized and vested with the company executives and higher level of management,…

The Accounts Receivables has been in the 70-80 days range for several months now and has even reached above 100 days this month. Marysville General reaches its optimum cash flow when Accounts Receivables is at 55 days. As discussed at the meeting, there are several things that can be done by the medical staff, business…

Right-to-die” advocates claim that the elderly and those with disabilities fear becoming a financial burden on their loved ones and would rather chose death. They state that next to pain and suffering this is the second most important reason people want to die by euthanasia. A survey in Oregon, U. S. A. , one of…

“At the bottom of the Oakland experiment was a willingness to rethink baseball: how it is managed, how it is played, who is best suited to play it, and why. ” “First came radical advancements in computer technology: this dramatically reduced the cost of compiling and analyzing vast amounts of baseball data. Then came the…

In Almeda County, a private hospital turned away a woman in labor because thehospital’s computer showed that she didn’t have insurance. Hours later, her babywas born dead in a county hospital. In San Bernardino, a hospital surgeon sent apatient who had been stabbed in the heart to a county medical center afterexamining him and declaring…

Therac-25 Just like any other technology, Therac-25 too had its socio-technical aspects. It was an extremely costly machine with high maintenance needs. This resulted in everyone from the manufacturers, to FDA, to hospitals and operators assuming that it was a fail-safe machine, especially since its earlier versions had been working successfully for years. However, the…