The New York City Hospital Setting

Introduction Dr. Karen Buhr, PhD is the newly appointed Chief Operating Officer of Bellevue Hospital; a large, a not-for-profit hospital located in New York City. After two weeks of working in the public sector, she misses the benefits of a seemingly endless cash flow available when working in a world renowned, private academic hospital. Bellevue Hospital has been in deficit for the past two years and patient satisfaction regarding care is at an all-time low. Her first task is

years, and it gets the family into a lot of trouble throughout the book. The main characters are Jean Walls, Rex Walls, and Rose Mary Walls. Jean Walls is the narrator of the story. There are multiple settings in this book, but a few notable ones are Welch, West Virginia, Phoenix, Arizona, and New York City. Some common themes throughout the book are coming of age, and perseverance. This book is successful because it shows trhe adventurous, unpredictable, and entertaining life of the Walls family. Jeans

healthcare setting that will enable me to utilize my educational background and critical thinking skills. EDUCATION Hunter-Bellevue, City University of New York, New York, NY GPA: 3.76 Bachelors of Science, Nursing, anticipated 7/16 Awards & Honors: Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing Spring 2016 – Present; Golden Key International Honor Society Fall 2015 – Present; Dean’s Honors List Fall 2015 – Present. Queensborough Community College GPA: 3.77 The City University of New York, Bayside

of different cultures, ages, races, religions, sexual orientations, abilities, and ethnicities, and embrace on the way that will allow a person to feel Katsanos 2 respected and valued. The article "Diversity & Cultural Competency in Health Care Settings" discusses diversity in health care environment, "A health care professional who has learned cultural competence engages in assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling acts that are tailor-made to fit with individual, group, or institutional

appropriately to people of different cultures, ages, races, religions, sexual orientations, abilities, and ethnicities, and embrace on the way that will allow a person to feel respected and valued. The article "Diversity & Cultural Competency in Health Care Settings" discusses diversity in health care environment, "A health care professional who has learned cultural competence engages in assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling acts that are tailor-made to fit with individual, group, or institutional

2. The author of Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut. 3. The genre of Slaughterhouse-Five is science fiction. 4. Slaughterhouse-Five takes place in Germany during the 1940s and in the fictional town, “Ilium,” New York. One recurring setting that comes up throughout the novel is the hospital. 5. 6. -Billy Pilgrim, an optometry student and is drafted into the army in 1944. He fights in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II where he gets stuck over the enemy lines and he begins to start jumping

was not an idea they could get behind. At the age of twenty, Sylvia Plath was one of these women: she had achieved straight A’s throughout her life, was an honors student on the verge of graduation, and had won a once-in-a-lifetime internship in New York. Yet, the only concern her mother and her friends had for her was that she got married as soon as possible. Sylvia soon felt increasingly trapped in a society that expected her to “flatten underneath [her husband’s] feet

1800s major poor citizens of New York City outer the South bears a resemblance to poor of Europe. These people were majorly widows, orphans, seasonal workers out from season, or persons too sick or too old to do work. Local governments provide them “Outdoor relief” comprising of firewood, food, or slightest amount of cash named as alms, initially from an intellect of communal responsibility or paternalism. State poor Laws innate from customs of English, necessitates cities to care for their poor citizens

of Labor and Statistics that Mental Health Counselors in New York salary is about $41,700 on average yearly. Next you have Clinical Social Worker. A clinical Social Worker have the same job description and qualifications as an mental health counselor however they do more advocating and case management, most offten found in a hospital setting. In fact it is said by bureau labor and statistics that social workers that work in a hospital setting salary is about

The Stand Alone ER "The Rapid Evolution of Health Care" By Steve Okhravi, MD, MBA, CPE July 16, 2012 Emergency care in the US is at a breaking point. Per data from The Institute of Medicine, over 1000 hospitals closed in the past few years because of the enormous cost associated with operation. There has been an increase in the number of visits to emergency rooms (ERs) to more than 120 million mostly due to those who are uninsured who, as a result, have a lack of access to primary care. As the