Children requiring emergency care have unique and special needs. This is especially so for those with serious and life-threatening emergencies. There are a variety of components of the emergency care system that provide emergency care to children that are not limited to children. With regard to hospitals, most children are brought to community hospital emergency departments (EDs) by virtue of t...

Length of stay (LOS) in acute psychiatric hospitals has long been a focus of attention and this has been heightened in recent years with the current economic climate and a growing realization that health care costs need to be contained. Length of stay (LOS) has a strong positive relationship with the cost of hospitalization; thus, LOS has become an important marker for hospital administrators, ...

Surgical caregivers and hospital administrators have expressed both surprise and dismay that despite the introduction of new analgesics and novel analgesic delivery systems, postoperative pain remains suboptimally controlled.1,2 Many ask why are we not doing a better job? A number of factors appear to be responsible for inadequate pain management, including: • Lack of sufficient physician train...

THE 4 R’S OF MEDICATION SAFETY The goal of hospital administrators is to adhere to the 4 R’s of medication safety: be sure the right dose of the right medication is being given to the right patient at the right time. For years, industry literature has stated that these objectives are often hindered by incompetencies in hospitals, such as order misinterpretations, incomplete or improper transcri...

It is clear that Australia has been innovative and led the world recently in casemix development and application. That is why other countries are using the Australian system. Involvement by federal and state governments, administrators and clinicians has led to a system broadly accepted as a lexicon for acute hospital admission classification and a means of payment. This has been a major achiev...

Understanding the meaning of being the primary preceptor for newly graduated nurses during their transition into clinical practice has implications for hospital administrators, nurse leaders, and staff development nurses. This qualitative study explores the meaning of this experience through interviews with six preceptors. Findings suggest that nursing leaders need to clarify other roles that p...

Outsourcing their voluntary products to thirdparty administrators (TPAs) to support key administrative business functions seems to be the most obvious choice for insurers to overcome the impediments for a quick entry into the voluntary market. However, what’s also needed is a strategy for optimizing TPA usage and bringing voluntary products back in house once the anticipated performance thresho...

Affiliation is a sectoral merger or partnership model in the health sector. It means integration among institutions. was introduced 2011 and implemented 2013 by public hospitals Türkiye. This study had two objectives: (1) addressing economic organizational changes performance affiliated (2) identifying its positive negative aspects practice. The adopted mixedmethod research design. Quantitative...

introduction: old methods of administrating cannot cover the rapid changes today. these changes redounded new organizations like learning organizations to be formed. the purpose of this research is to study of relationship between the learning organization and organizational commitment among hospital managers. methods: this is a descriptive analytic survey. the population of study was 210 nursi...

i n troduction: performance measurement is receiving increasing verification all over the world. nowadays in a lot of organizations, irrespective of their type or size, performance evaluation is the main concern and a key issue for top administrators. the purpose of this study is to organize suitable key performance indicators (kpis) for hospitals’ performance evaluation based on the balanced s...