Essays on Hospital

Introduction The legal definition of medical malpractice isn’t just constrained to the behaviour of medical doctors, it also applies to attendants, nurses, anesthesiologists, facilities providing healthcare, companies selling medicine, and others that give medical services. The central purpose of a medical negligence suit is to…

The corporate governance is one kind of set rules, practices and process which are included for directing, controlling, managing any organization and maintains its quality of the development and care of the institution for the optimization of customer satisfaction. In the case of any occurrence…

Being the nurse manager of a 36-bed orthopedic unit, it has come to my attention that there has been a significant increase in postoperative nosocomial urinary tract infections. This orthopedic unit holds a high percentage of postoperative total hip replacement patients that have sustained these…

Sexual abuse. Shock therapy. Behavioural modification programmes. What do these three things have in common? All were a terrifying and overlooked part of the day-to-day running of the maximum security psychiatric hospital; Broadmoor. Most people think of Broadmoor as a prison, but in reality it’s…

Hospitals have a lot of money coming in, however, they also have a lot of money going out. Hospitals are always trying to figure out ways they, and their workers can save money. In the clinical setting, I do see that supplies is being used…

As a critical part of good health services hospital pharmacy as unit of integral health system is concerned to deliver safe, effective, quality personal and non-personal health intervention. Qualification workforce, practice guide, well function health information, good health financing and governance are the elements for…

The main basic idea and the primary purpose of an ambulance are to transport the sick, unwell, or injured person from the emergency condition to the hospital. The well-equipped and well prepared ambulances have the most impact and play an important role in saving lives…

Overcrowding in the Emergency Department (ED) is a dire problem. It is widely regarded by health professionals and policy makers alike as the most serious and yet “most avoidable cause of harm” (Richardson & Mountain 2009) present in todayʼs hospital system. EDs may be considered…

In trying to go against the general consensus that pay for performance is the gold standard, I’m going to try and point out some issues that can arise from this economic model. Pay for performance is defined as “A type of incentive to improve clinical…

The health worker tended to a critically ill patient which was on bedrest. This patient was riddled with pressure ulcers due to nurses not rotating bedridden patients. This incident was just the trigger needed to evaluate other concerns like patient safety. The identified problem was…