Judith Shamian looks at what she calls “the new face of healthcare CEOs -Clinician Executives, a New Breed of Leader.” (Shamian article page 22) Shamian argues that the changes in the cost of healthcare, along with the aging of the population and increased focus on quality and outcomes has given rise to this new leader. Most often the Clinician Executive is a physician or a nurse, who has developed advanced leadership skills to complement their exiting clinical
birthday cake were lighted. She had thrown away the necklace down with fury. Soon after the turmoil J has created before the specially invited guests, friends and relatives we have decided to take her to a pediatrician. The pediatrician had a brief interview with us and advised us to take J to a developmental pediatrician in a nearby medical school. I talked with the developmental specialist on phone and fixed an appointment for the next week. Meanwhile, J’s condition has further gone worse. She has
quality improvement issues, payor expectations, higher patient expectations, hospital closures and mergers, and changes related to health care reform, healthcare workers and organizations are having to find ways to deal with ethical dilemmas. This paper will show that doctors, nurses, and other professionals whom are competent at their task, complete ethical training, able to show empathy toward others, and incorporate empowerment and ethics into the their decisions have the ability to affect a patient’s
Satisfaction of care is becoming an integral part of the hospital setting, a component which can be measured in a variety of methods. Patients that are of the highest acuity and require the greatest level of care are admitted to the Intensive Care Units (ICU) within the hospital. While being cared for in the ICU, patients may experience a myriad of procedures, assessments, consistent care provider traffic, and among all else, a plethora of emotions. Many of these patients are accompanied by spouses
This paper highlights the important contributions of Marsha Linehan, an American psychologist, researcher, and author. Specifically, this paper discusses Linehan’s personal and professional backgrounds and provides information about dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), her most notable contribution to the field of psychology. Information in this paper underscores Linehan’s relevance to the history of psychology. Marsha Linehan: Creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Marsha Linehan is an American
failing to use preprogrammed libraries, and failing to perform the five rights of medication administration. Precautions that can be taken to prevent errors include ensuring infusion pump is programmed correctly, confirming pump settings with a second clinician when infusing high risk medications, using drug libraries according to facility policy, labeling infusion pump channels when multiple lines are infusing at one time, monitoring patient and infusion (do not rely on pump to do the monitoring), paying
Clinicians are given guidance from the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) to encourage a healthy and active lifestyle which includes playing outdoors often. Playing outdoors is beneficial for mental health, vitamin D from sunlight, motor development, cognition
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION The history of this institute goes back to 1795 A.D. when the Asylum was established in Munghyr. After, it was moved to Patna in November 1821 at Patna Collegiate School. Finally, the Lunatic Asylum was shifted to the location it is now, at Kanke, Ranchi in April 1925. Terminology of the Asylum was then altered to Indian Mental Hospital (IMH). Captain J.E. Dhanjibhay was the first Superintendent of IMH. The male wing was set up on 4th September 1925 with 110 patients. The female