Evidence-Based Practice & Applied Nursing Research Western Governors University BSN Program Karolina O’Loughlin Student ID: 256940 Type of Sources / Appropriateness of Sources / Classification of Sources American Academy of Pediatrics and American Academy of Family Physicians article regarding acute otitis media is a filtered resource. It is an appropriate source for nursing practice because; it establishes clinical guidelines to diagnose and manage AOM. It also establishes guidelines
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ROOT CAUSE: In this case‚ we believe that there are three main root causes from the management of this company‚ especially in packaging department. The first main one is cohesiveness limited the productivity in packaging department. Cohesiveness for packing department was existent and had become somewhat negative. Employees were mimicking the bad behavior of one another and were failing to get anywhere production wise. Packing department seemed to be small knit group and they were able to complete
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Accreditation Audit AFT2: RAFT – Task 2 The purpose of this second task is to provide a logical description of a sentinel event which occurred at Nightingale Community Hospital and analyze all aspects of the event. This analysis includes a review of the personnel present‚ barriers to the personnel being able to adequately complete their job‚ and how future staff interactions may be improved. In addition‚ the analysis will review the selected quality improvement approach to be used during
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Competition Bikes Inc. Storyline Operational Analysis 03/10/2014 WGU JET2 Financial Analysis Task 2 Introduction In this task‚ the budget schedule and proformas as well as the flexible budget were reviewed. Below you will find my analysis and recommended corrective actions as well as how management by exception applies. Budget Planning Concerns Competition Bikes has a good starting point for a budget but is overall weak and has several budgetary concerns. A few of those items are
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Characteristics Sentinel Event of Monitoring System There are several methods for monitoring adverse events in the healthcare system‚ characterized by strengths and weaknesses. The correct choice should be appropriate to achieve their goals. Compared to other methods‚ such as population studies based on review of medical records or the analysis of administrative data‚ the communication system does not provide data on prevalence and incidence of adverse events because many factors can influence
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Accreditation Audit AFT Task 3 Lisa R. Green A1. Evaluation Nightingale Community Hospital (NCH) is committed to upholding the core values of safety‚ accountability‚ teamwork‚ and community. In preparation for the upcoming readiness audit‚ NCH will be launching a corrective action plan in direct response to the recent findings in the tracer patient. Background information on the tracer patient is as follows: 67 year old female postoperative patient recovering from a planned laparoscopic
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Western Governors University Joint Commission Compliance Audit Task 2 AFT2 Accreditation Audit By Cricket Besse 055895 Nightingale Community Hospital Sentinel Event Registrar‚ registered child (3 year old patient)‚ obtained insurance card and entered demographics. She was then taken to pre-op where the nurse told mother that once in the OR the surgery would take about 45 minutes and then she would go to recovery. The mother informed the pre-op nurse that once her daughter went
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Hospital is compliant with most standards as set forth by the Joint Commission. However‚ upon inspection and in an effort to stay focused on compliance‚ our standards committee has located a few discrepancies that must be resolved to maintain our accreditation with the Joint Commission. Rather than focus on the discrepancies found within each unit‚ we will look at the trends that affect the hospital’s compliance with the Joint Commissions recommendations regarding patient care. Armed with the trends
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are the purposes of doing a RCA for an event such as this? Answer: The purposes of Root Cause Analysis (RCS) is to find out what happened‚ why such error did happen‚ and how to prevent it from happening again .The RCA process aimed to identify the root cause of the problem. It is a tool for identifying prevention strategies. Its effort is to build a culture of safety and move beyond the culture
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Commission focuses on during the accreditation audits for a hospital: Information Management which involves the efficient management of health information and accuracy‚ Medication Management involving labeling and sterility‚ Communication involving verification‚ and Infection Control to minimize spread and infection. We will be performing an accreditation audit to confirm that compliance standards are met for Nightingale Community Hospital. This accreditation audit will focus on Nightingale Hospital
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