General Hospital Essays

  • General Hospital Case Study

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    Company profile Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) is a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Howard County General Hospital established in 1973, mission is to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service excellence, diversity and a commitment to patient safety is carried through in all that we do (Howard County General Hospital). 59 bed short stay facility, an independent, not-for-profit hospital 1998, entered into a strategic

  • Rotherham General Hospital Case Study

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    condition When Sir Gerry Robinson first came to Rotherham General Hospital which had already got into troubles of intolerable long waiting list, low working willingness and substantial financial shortages, he found that the situation in the hospital was even worse than his imaginations. These facts, such as stressed relationships among staff and meaningless managements of the top manager, further resulted in the self-interest protections of hospital staff. Furthermore, the wastes everywhere, for example

  • On The Construction, Organization And General Arrangements Of Hospitals For The Insane (1854)

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    went to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School originally intending to become a surgeon. However, in 1840 after his training and internship at Friends‘ Asylum, he was offered to become the superintendent of the newly established Pennsylvania Hospital of the Insane. "His ambition, intellect, and strong sense of purpose enabled him to use that position to become one of the most prominent authorities on mental health care in the latter half of the nineteenth century." He soon became the founding

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

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    Massachusetts General Hospital The internal control breach that involved Massachusetts General Hospital missing records did turn up the regulatory and enforcement heat in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The requirements of HIPPA provide clear guidelines that require all health care providers, in the United States, to give insightful protection of the private patient information. This protection should be done through physical, administrative and technical internal

  • General Hospital Spoilers Summary

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    General Hospital spoilers are promising a week of chaos leading up to the Nurses Ball. There is so much happening in Port Charles right now. From the explosive “CarSon” (Carly and Sonny) divorce to the preparations for the extravagant Nurses Ball, each day is going to be packed with events you won't want to miss. Friday's General Hospital alluded to the secret of Anna's (Finola Hughes) being in town and fans watched as Nelle (Chloe Lanier) was knocked unconscious. Nelle has made a decision to leave

  • The Discovery and Controversy over the First Use of Surgical Anesthesi

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    survived the surgery (chances are, they didn’t) swore they would have preferred death instead of the excruciating pain they had to endure.2 Even Dr. John Collins Warren, a senior surgeon before the discovery of anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, agreed that patients would rather die than have surgery. After Dr. Warren finished an amputation in 1844, before the discovery of anesthetics, he told himself, “The knife that heals must first give pain.”3 To have fully conscious

  • Springfield General Hospital Case Study

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    Change Management Plan for Springfield General Hospital Springfield General Hospital (SGH) is committed to high quality healthcare for patients, and providing tools to support physicians, nurses and pharmacists. SGH leadership approved the computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system as a solution to reduce prescription errors, and the results of the CPOE project are disappointing. The data show increased prescribing errors after implementing the CPOE; resulting in increased costs for adverse

  • Drama Queens Present

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    Drama Queens Present In the past fifty years, the television-viewing world has experienced drama, romance, and attraction through the eyes of soap opera writers, creators, producers, and actors. Soap operas, also known as daytime dramas have been around and the talk of the town for more than half a decade. It all started in radio in the earlier part of the 1900s, then the excitement moved to television. The first television soap opera was “Guiding Light” and it began airing on radio stations

  • Antiseptic Discoveries of the Nineteenth Century

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    Master of Midwifery. Once he received his Master’s degree, he applied for and was given the position of Assistant in the Lying in Division of the Vienna General Hospital (Wilson). The Lying-in Division was where poor or unwed women often came to have their babies. Childbirth was not a safe thing in those days. The Vienna General Hospital, along wit... ... middle of paper ... .... Lister had the work of Pasteur and Crooks from which to form his own hypothesis. Ignaz Semmelweis drew his assumption

  • What Good is Care Without Compassion?

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    AIDS hospice reeked from disease and neglect. On my first day there, after an hour of "training," I met Paul, a tall, emaciated, forty-year-old AIDS victim who was recovering from a stroke that had severely affected his speech. I took him to General Hospital for a long-overdue appointment. It had been weeks since he had been outside. After waiting for two and a half hours, he was called in and then needed to wait another two hours for his prescription. Hungry, I suggested we go and get some lunch

  • Steven King

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    and science fiction novels. He had many influences on how has written his books. King has also faced many hardships within his life. King was born in Portland, Maine on September 21, 1947 to Nellie Ruth King and Donald Edwin King at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen was the only natural born child in the family, as his brother David was adopted at birth in 1945. The Kings were your average family until one night when his father Donald said he was going out for a pack of cigarettes, and never returned

  • Sexual Healthcare on Campus

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    better and as they say ‘better safe than sorry.’” After the trek to the closest Planned Parenthood facility for the emergency contraception pill, Lisa, an undergrad at Northeastern University, then made her way cross town to Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for the walk-in hours of the Sexually Transmitted Disease Unit. This is the free infectious diseases clinic MGH offers to the public. There, she was able to get tested for all STDs plus HIV for free. Had she chosen to get tested at Planned

  • Autism: A Disorder of Conflicting Causes and Treatments

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    inability to "rapidly and accurately" change attention from one focus to another, particularly in the areas of visual and auditory stimuli. Dr. Margaret Bauman, (Dept. of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and a child neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston), and Dr. Thomas Kemper (Depts. of Neurology, Anatomy, and Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine) have a different hypothesis (3) which nonetheless correlates with Courchesne's theory. They believe that a dysfunctional ne

  • Marilyn Monroe

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    disrupted loveless childhood may been the main reason to her early death. Norma Jeane Baker’s father, Edward Mortenson, had deserted her mother, Gladys Baker neè Monroe, before she was born on June, 1 1926, in the charity ward of Los Angeles General Hospital. Due to Gladys’ instability and the fact that she was unmarried at the time, Norma Jeane was placed in a foster home. At the age of 7, Norma Jeane lived briefly with her mother. Gladys began to show signs of mental depression, and a year later

  • The Young And The Restless Analysis

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    Rachel Vasone TV Culture April 26, 2014 Series Project: 1970s Drama The Young and the Restless debuted in March 1973 as a American soap opera focused primarily on the personal and professional lives of two families in Genoa City, Wisconsin: the wealthy Brooks and the poor Fosters. The show first revolved around the drama between the Brooks and the Fosters and then shifted to the forever long rivalry between Liz Foster’s daughter Jill and Katherine Kay Chancellor. It started when Jill began work

  • One of Canada's Greatest Authors, Margaret Laurence

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    The Early Years: The Beginnings of a Writer Sunday, July 18th 1926, at 7:30pm at the Neepawa General Hospital, one of Canada's greatest authors, Margaret Laurence, was born to proud parents Robert and Verna Wemyss. Verna's father, John Simpson, was a self-made man. Born in 1853 in Middletown Ontario, John attended school, training to be a cabinetmaker. In the 1870's John, with only his change in his pocket, made his way towards Portage la Prairie Manitoba, in an attempt to unite with a cousin

  • Marilyn Monroe

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    Probably the most celebrated of all actresses, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital. Prior to her birth, Marilyn's father bought a motorcycle and headed north to San Francisco, abandoning the family in Los Angeles. Marilyn grew up not knowing for sure who her father really was. Her mother, Gladys, had entered into several relationships, further confusing her daughter as to who it was who fathered her. Afterward, Gladys gave Norma Jean (Marilyn)

  • Stephen Kings Influence On American Literature

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    “Horror King”, for his books, turned movies, have scared millions world- wide. Stephen King has helped bring America to prominence through his many books, essays and short stories. Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 at the Maine General Hospital in Portland, Maine. His parents were Donald Edwin King and Ruth Pillsbury King. Stephen being the only natural born child in the family and his older brother David having been adopted at birth two years earlier. “The Kings were the typical, “nuclear”

  • Crystal Balint Character Analysis

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    While Hallmark wouldn't necessarily show preferential treatment to any actors, there is no denying the fact that certain indtusry profressionals grace the screens of their original programming more often than others. Since Hallmark is such a massive part of my viewing list, I noticed Crystal Balint in a wide variety of my favorites. Recently, Crystal took some time out of her insanely busy schedule to answer some questions I had for her concerning how she started in this business, her notable and

  • San Fernando General Hospital Descriptive Design

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    Design This research was conducted at San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) from June 2017 to April 2018. This design was mostly based on male and female nurses on three (3) wards which are Medical Ward, Surgical Ward and Accident and Emergency. All nurses working in the three wards, in the hospital that had direct contact with patients and or equipments used on patient which would have put them into a high risk of needle stick injuries. The research design used for this study is a quantitative