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This column concerns itself with the issue of research and the doctor of nursing practice. The reports of the Institute of Medicine about patient safety, quality in healthcare, and the restructuring of education of healthcare providers are reviewed. The reasons for the creation of the doctor of nursing practice are illuminated along with the essentials of educating nurses for the role and the p...

Healthcare is burdensome to many nations. Safety and Sustainability are key issues. Medical practice has much to learn from aviation in terms of safety. Some 40 years after aviation became safe, medicine was deemed unsafe as reported by the Institute of Medicine in 1999. Some countries spend up to 16% of their GDP on healthcare. Some companies spend up to 30 cents in every dollar of costs on em...

A. D. Davis, G. D. Wells, B. Falk, and M. D. Noseworthy Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Physiology and Experimental Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, ...

Enterprise architecture (EA) plays significant role in public, private as well as other organizational systems, such as health care organizations , educational institute, cloud computing and e-government. EA can be use in any organization where IT and organization functionality (business functions) alignments are required. This paper investigates the role of EA in healthcare organizations. Fina...

M ost healthcare institutions have now presented at least one year's audited inancial information using the format and definitions required by the new audit and accounting guide, Audits of Providers of Health Care Services (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA], NewYork City, 1990). The guide requires facilities to report charity care and allows them to report community ser...

Healthcare organisations around the world are adopting new strategies to improve the quality of patient care in response to reports of negative patient outcomes and cuts to public service expenditure. However, many nurses lack the knowledge, skills and attitude to improve the systems within which they work, calling for a radical redesign of nursing education to integrate quality improvement sci...

As patient numbers continue to rise Emergency Department's (ED's) are struggling to not only control patient wait times but also to maintain the quality of patient care. Improving patient flow through the ED has been a priority for many years with techniques such as Lean Six-Sigma being implemented specifically to help alleviate the problem. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement recently sta...