Quality Improvement Report Kathleen Lepley HCS/588 January 14‚ 2013 Patricia Wolcott Quality Improvement Report Quality Improvement (QI) is an organizational approach leading to the quality of patient care and patient services through use of specific guidelines‚ principles‚ and methods to ensure quality of care for every patient and health care facility throughout the world. Quality outcomes focus on the principles of quality management. These measurements investigate the quality of care
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Week Six Plan Review HCS/588 August 11‚ 2014 Dr. Georgia Rothstein Week Six Plan Review During week six‚ learning team A continued their collaborative efforts in implementing and evaluating the quality improvement plan designed to assist each team member to enhance the quality of their individual assignments. This team utilized peer review‚ proofreading‚ and discussion as strategic tools to improve the quality of academic writing. This review will summarize the quality improvement process by critiquing
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Ethics Case Study Your name HCS/335 October 17‚ 2011 All medical facilities are responsible for given the best treatment as possible to their patients. This may include having the ability to react the correct way in a determinate situation‚ always thinking in the patient and the organization’s benefit. In medical field there many precautions that must be taken in order to prevent a real problem‚ such as malpractice and law suit cases. For this reason is good to apply “think before act” because
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HCS/335 Ethics Case Study UOP JASON ZERWEKH May 14‚ 2012 “Jerry McCall is Dr. Williams’s office assistant. He has received professional training as both a medical assistant and a LPN. He is handling all the phone calls while the receptionist is at lunch. A patient calls and says he must have a prescription refill for Valium‚ an antidepressant medication‚ called in right away to his pharmacy‚ since he is leaving for the airport in thirty minutes. He says that Dr. Williams is a personal friend
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Case Study Danjerell Burks HCS/335 November 26‚ 2014 Susan Miedzianowski Case Study The scenario‚ which this paper will examine‚ involves Jerry McCall‚ an office assistant with training as both a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) and a medical assistant. Jerry‚ alone in the office‚ receives a call from a patient asking him to call in a prescription for Valium to a local pharmacy. The patient states that he is heading to the airport and is in need of the prescription. The patient also relays to Jerry
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Leading Building and Sustaining Performance and Excellence GM 588 Managing Quality 4-16-2011 Russell Roberson Introduction “The North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (DJJDP) were established in July 2000 as the first cabinet-level agency to focus on juvenile justice issues and at-risk youth in the state”. Seeking to provide a single cabinet-level agency focused on deterring juvenile from crime through sanctions and prevention programs‚ former Governor
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McCall Ethics Case Study Ethics: Health Care and Social Responsibility HCS 335 June 01‚ 2013 McCall Ethics Case Study Jerry McCall is Dr. Williams’s office assistant. He has received professional training as both a medical assistant and an LPN. He is handling all the phone calls while the receptionist is at lunch. A patient calls and says he must have a prescription refill for Valium and that the provider‚ a friend‚ calls in the medication prior to any flights. This type of request happens
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CLICK TO DOWNLOAD BSOP 588 Final Exam 1. (TCO E) Suggested reasons why many customer satisfaction efforts fail include all of the following EXCEPT: 2. (TCO D) The Six-Sigma problem solving approach contains the phases of: 3. (TCO C) Terms such as “kanban”‚ “single minute exchange of dies”‚ and “visual controls” are most closely associated with: 4. (TCO C) Poka-yoke focuses on two aspects: 5. (TCO B) _____ measures are generally tracked by senior leadership to gauge overall organizational
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Alzheimer’s Disease Case Study Kathleen Voves HCS/245 February 1st‚ 2014 Sheela Alvarado Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia‚ a neurologic disease characterized by loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living‚ lasting at least six months (Deirdre‚ Blanchfield‚ & Longe‚ 2006). At first Alzheimer’s disease will destroy neurons in parts of the brain that control memory. As these neurons stop functioning‚ the short-term memory will
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Running head: HEALTHCARE LEGAL CASE Health Care Legal Case Alfredo A. Garcia Jr. University of Phoenix HCS/430 Rosilyn Nolan Many current legal issues surrounding health care exist in the United States today. The most significant topic is the legalities of the Health Care Reform Act. The Health Care Reform is said to be one of the most important pieces of legislation today. The Health Reform website says that health care reform will be the answer to uninsured Americans (www. Healthreform
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