Health care delivery related to the “boarding” of emergency department (ED) patients is a critical area of quality of care improvement for emergency medicine. Boarding is the process of holding patients in the ED for extended periods of time after an inpatient bed request is made (Asplin‚ et al.‚ 2003). Boarding is widespread and interrelated to ED crowding. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2006 reported that‚ ‘”boarding not only compromises the patient’s hospital experience‚ but adds to an already
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Amber Johnson Josette Arvizu Writing 101 Narrative Essay 12 September 2009 First Days At Boarding School This was the fist time I flew in a plane and I was so sure I was going to die. I imagined the planes engines suddenly breaking down and then slowly we plummeted down to certain death. “Excuse me miss‚ would you like something to drink?” the flight attendant asked me. I must have looked worse then I thought because she said it in a calm soothing way sort of like she was trying to talk someone
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1.0 Abstract Nowadays‚ house security system becomes the best solution to overcome house intrusion problem when user is not in house. As we know‚ there are many types of house security system which is too expensive and difficult to use. For that reason‚ an effective house security system at low cost is built where user can also program the security system by their own. This project is focusing on developing a house security system with an active infrared motion detector which is controlled by
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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
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CAT BOARDING FAQ At our All About Cats Veterinary Hospital‚ we cater to felines exclusively. Keeping cats safe and healthy is our only priority. Our mission is to help our companions by meeting their nutritional‚ physical and emotional needs throughout the life span. We understand owners are sometimes nervous about boarding their feline companions. Here are some of the most common questions we hear from first-time cat boarding clients. Q. What type of training does your boarding staff have
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that many of you are considering joining our school and I would like to share my personal experience of studying at a boarding school. I spent six years studying at a non-residential school and the last three years at the boarding school. I have gained much from my days at a boarding school and I would like to share with you the advantages of studying at such a school. Boarding schools help students to learn to be independent. They learn to understand that they themselves are responsible for many
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As detailed in the literature‚ there is significance given to the historical experiences of Indian children victimized by the boarding schools. At the same time‚ there is agreement by all scholars that the BIA built the boarding schools on the clear policy agenda of assimilation into the dominant white culture. Deutsch (2006) calls this cultural imperialism‚ which happens when a dominant group foists its “values‚ norms‚ and customs” (p. 45) upon ‘inferior’ groups. Accordingly‚ there is no doubt
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temperatures start to rise‚ all I can think about is skim-boarding. I’ve been enjoying skimboarding as a sport and hobby for the past five years and there’s nothing I enjoy more. Skim-boarding not only provides me with an excellent workout that I can enjoy with friends‚ it also is a great way to learn life lessons that I can apply to my everyday goals. As a determined skim-boarder‚ I keep trying to succeed even after painful fails. Skim-boarding is so unique to me because I see the way the waves are
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Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich’s poem Indian Boarding School puts the emotions of a person or group of people in a setting around a railroad track. The feelings experienced are compared to things from the setting‚ which takes on human characteristics. The boarding school may have been a real place she went to‚ or where mistreatment of her people was not uncommon‚ or it could simply be a tool she used to express racism towards them in general. With that
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Patriarchal Ideology in “The Boarding House”: The Characterization of Mrs. Mooney James Joyce’s “The Boarding House” is one of the short stories in his collection of The Dubliners. In this story‚ Mrs. Mooney‚ after separating from her abusive and alcoholic husband‚ runs a boarding house for working men. Her daughter Polly entertains the boarders by singing and flirts with them. Mrs. Mooney learns that Polly is dating Mr. Doran‚ a man in his mid-thirties who has worked in a Catholic wine-merchant’s
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