Emergency department

Running head: BOARDING PATIENTS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT 1 Boarding Patients in the Emergency Department Lauren Wiese University of Scranton BOARDING PATIENTS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT 2 Abstract A patient who is boarded is one who remains in the emergency department even after they have been admitted to the hospital. Boarding patients in the emergency department has become a problem for many hospitals in America today. It has affected the health and safety of

An Analysis of the Los Angeles County Hospital Emergency Room Learning Team Operations Management Plan The problem of emergency department overcrowding has become an important issue for many emergency departments throughout the city and county of Los Angeles. Patients frequently have to wait hours just to get into the emergency department to be seen by a physician or other healthcare professionals. The problem does not seem to be getting better as times goes on, but indeed studies seem to indicate

of Harris County. The Harris County emergency department provides emergency health care to patients with or without medical insurance. The Harris health system is currently comprised of 23 primary care facilities, six same day clinics, four specialty locations, and three hospitals. Of the three hospitals only two have emergency departments. These two hospitals see over 182,099 emergency department patients a year. While caring for such a large number of emergency patients both hospitals combined only

Experience of Care." Emergency Medicine International. Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 14 Apr. 2014. Web. 31 Mar. 2017. . This article is about wait times, and how this urban hospital was able to reduce wait times, and increase quality of care and the hospitals scores. By implementing a rapid assessment (RA) and keeping registration after the nurse, and physician assessments were completed it helped improve door to physician time, and kept the flow going in the emergency department. This article was

is working to improve the quality of services especially the customer service, and wait times in the emergency department. Many patients complain about wasting time for many hours before taken to their room. Therefore, these areas influence the score of the hospital and patient satisfaction. So the leaders and managers are setting up plans for the improvements to the customer service in the emergency room. Baylor customer services need to improve performance by using the patient satisfaction surveys

technology, compassion, skill and care (Nash & Goldfarb, 2006, p. 74). The staff as a whole must recognize that patient satisfaction is not only a measurable outcome of care but also a component of care. A 26-year-old woman went to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath over the previous three days that had increased in intensity (Nash & Goldfarb, 2006). The patient was at the hospital for over three hours before she was able to see a physician. The physician did a complete

and provide solutions for them. Health management is a complex social goal, and a major initiative in Canada, which is heavily relied on the public sector. One of the major issues the health care system is currently facing the over crowded emergency departments and extremely long waiting times. . In this paper I will discuss the issue of overcrowded hospitals as a results of the rising population of the elderly. Many of our hospitals are over crowned, there are long waiting time, and the elderly

reference that the Saskatoon Health Region confirmed that “601 people left emergency departs in December without being seen”

Electronic Charting in the Emergency Room According to Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Emergency Department head COL Timothy Barron, M.D., the FBCH emergency department sees 52,000 patients per year. This makes it the busiest emergency room in the Defense Health Agency and the 5th busiest in the Department of Defense (T. Barron, personal communication, May 12, 2016). Despite this high flow of patients, the emergency department continues to use paper charting. This increases the risk of error in documenting

for the proper collection of blood cultures include many recommendations that exhibit quality and excellence. This paper’s purpose is to identify an evidence-based project (EBP) proposal for proper blood culture collection, especially in the emergency department setting by identifying the problems associated with blood culture draws, addressing the need for change in practice. Assessing the need for change in practice consists of identifying stakeholders, in the change process, collecting and analyzing