Palliative care program stresses teamwork

Hospital sees teaching future generations of providers as part of its role. Medical, social, psychological, and spiritual goals comprise individualized care plans. Having hospitalists in a hospital improves the chance of palliative care program being a success.     

寓护理审美教育于护理学基础教学中

为培养具有一定审美修养的新一代护理人才,笔者将护理审美教育寓于护理学基础教学中,把"传授知识"与"护理审美"有机地结合起来,使护生感受护理美、鉴赏护理美,激发她们热爱护理美、表现护理美、创造护理美,在美的享受中培养情感、规范行为、掌握知识和技能,全面提高了护生的素质.     

Turning critics into allies

The siting of psychiatric intensive care units can rouse unreasonable hostility among local communities. Most of the opposition results from fears based on misinformation which can be calmed by a public relations exercise aimed directly at the community concerned.     

Turning data into dialogue

Health visitors often see resource management as threatening, so changing their attitude is no easy task. But one training scheme did just that, as Joyce Steen and Marie Thistleton explain.     

Turning loss into legislation

Same-sex partnerships encounter tremendous challenges in the context of healthcare, including empowerment to act on behalf of loved ones. We share challenges faced by two women who confronted this issue head-on when their same-sex partners were critically, and, in one case, fatally, injured. In both cases, hospitals initially refused to recognize these women as next of kin; one woman endured years of legal battles in her struggle to win the right to care for her partner. The other testified about her heartrending experience before the Washington State Judiciary Committee, helping to inspire legislation regarding rights for visitation and end-of-life decisions on behalf of same-sex partners. We seek to remind health care providers of the limitations of current laws and to inspire them to support change.     

Turning danger into opportunity

Brian Edwards looks at the management of change required to pave the way for successful implementation of the white paper, and sees a challenging time ahead.     

Turning research into practice: cases on adopting evidence-based innovations for everyday care

Turning clinical research and innovations into actual practices that enhance quality care--at both the hospital level and the health system level--can be challenging. But many organizations are finding creative ways to get those ideas on the front line.     

Incorporating health care quality into health antitrust law

Background  

Antitrust authorities treat price as a proxy for hospital quality since health care quality is difficult to observe. As the ability to measure quality improved, more research became necessary to investigate the relationship between hospital market power and patient outcomes. This paper examines the impact of hospital competition on the quality of care as measured by the risk-adjusted mortality rates with the hospital as the unit of analysis. The study separately examines the effect of competition on non-profit hospitals.