Broadmoor Hospital

Sort By:
Page 9 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Good Essays

    emergency room. Hospital stay was noted as 4 days for secondary diagnosis and 5 days for primary diabetes diagnosis. While complications such as stroke, hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state and diabetic ketoacidosis are some of the complications that result in emergency admission for diabetes (Ahmed, 2014), Aldaqal et al. (2012) noted that diabetes is a major cause of emergency admission in post-operative patients. The complications being cholelithiasis and patients having a prolonged hospital stay. Although

    • 1142 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    of emergency admissions. The Eastern region of Saudi Arabia is known to have a high prevalence of type II diabetes mellitus than the Southern region (Badran and Laher 2012). The aim of this study is to determine factors associated with emergency hospital admissions and their short term (three months) outcomes for emergency admitted diabetic patients in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Literature review There were more than 3.8 million diabetes cases in Saudi Arabia (Ajayi and

    • 1153 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    recorded in the disease management system and thus the old address is still active in the case management system. Confidential health reports are sent to the wrong address due to the incorrect information in the case management system, unknown to the hospital. This compromises the patient 's medical privacy and also inconveniences them as they are not receiving their own personal health reports by mail. Second scenario: A

    • 2552 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Patient care is a very big hospital private hospital in a large city. This hospital has 1200 beds and about 4000 employees are working in the hospital including 50 patient carers. The job of the cares is very straightforward. This job doesn 't require any kind of special training. The job of the carers is to move patient from one location to another location. Carers always take the patients who are being discharged from their hospital room to the front of the hospital. Hence the carers play last

    • 2135 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    Patient’s stay in the hospital can become a pleasant experience when nurses let them create their healing environment. Billadeau (2013) writes about her experience during her recovery at a skilled-care facility following a surgery to remove a malignant melanoma in her foot.

    • 1656 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Patient 's Background

    • 1366 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Grievance Sara recently wrote a letter to the hospital complaining about the administrative communication and the lack of attention from the endocrinologist (Dr. Harris). Sara 's individual concerns and issues with each department are as follows: Endocrinologist (Dr. Harris) • Dr. Harris addressed concerns

    • 1366 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Nurse Patient Ratio and Patient Outcomes Nurse staffing have an effect on a variety of areas within nursing. Quality of care is usually affected. Hospitals with low staffing tend to have higher incidence of poor patient outcomes. Martin, (2015) wrote an article on how insufficient nursing staff increases workload and job dissatisfaction, which in effect decreases total patient care over all. When nurse staffing is inadequate, the ability to practice ethically becomes questionable. Time worked, overtime

    • 1062 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The health care organizations focus on quality improvements and meeting the patient’s expectations. Defining quality improvement with the nurses, providers, patients, and regulatory agencies, and observing the concepts of Quality Improvement along with the viewpoints of the patients, shareholders, and the clinician. Finding helpful resources to set up plans and strategies that affect quality improvement. The primary purpose of quality management is to beat the competition. It does this by improving

    • 772 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    through the thick stratum of clouds that even blotted out the rings of Spes. An eerie silence shrouded Huron Square as Surina left for the Spatium Borough Hospital. Due to the indelible mark left by her previous encounter with a Medical Director on Earth, she regarded her forthcoming meeting with the Medical Director of the Spatium Borough Hospital circumspectly. She passed other Gnaritonians who emerged wraithlike in their trench coats from the thick fog as if out of nowhere. Despite the inclement

    • 1420 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    It was one of those typical clinical days. I went to the hospital ready and eager to meet my patient. While I was doing the necessary clinical prepwork, I learned my patient had gone to the emergency room for an acute episode of left-sided chest pain which radiated to her back, a productive cough, confusion, and chills she had had for more than five days. Her past medical history includes multiple psych diagnoses such as: bipolar disorder, depressive disorder, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and cannabis

    • 1002 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays