The Concept of Advocacy in Nursing: A Critical Analysis
As health care professionals practice as a team, they take on responsibilities that are specific to their roles—responsibilities that are recognized and understood by the team and management as pertaining to their professional domain and expertise. Is advocacy part of the role of the nurse? Members of the nursing profession commonly maintain that it is, but is there a consensus on this issue, both within the profession and among other stakeholders? Is there a clear understanding of the term advocacy, and is this reflected in Codes of Practice and research into practice? An examination of significant documents and reports...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
A Qualitative Study of the Change-of-Shift Report at the Patients’ Bedside
Concerns about patient bedside change-of-shift reporting at a community hospital in northern Indiana stimulated the development of this qualitative phenomenological study. A review of the literature revealed a research deficit in acute care nurses’ perceptions of bedside reporting in relation to compliance. The research question addressed in this study was, “What are acute care nurses’ perceptions of the change-of-shift report at the patients’ bedside?” Personal interviews were conducted on 7 medical, surgical, and intensive care unit nurse participants at a community hospital in northern Indiana. Five themes wer...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Change Management in Health Care
This article introduces health care managers to the theories and philosophies of John Kotter and William Bridges, 2 leaders in the evolving field of change management. For Kotter, change has both an emotional and situational component, and methods for managing each are expressed in his 8-step model (developing urgency, building a guiding team, creating a vision, communicating for buy-in, enabling action, creating short-term wins, don’t let up, and making it stick). Bridges deals with change at a more granular, individual level, suggesting that change within a health care organization means that individuals must transitio...
Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Call for Editor-in-Chief Applications
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Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Call for Editor-in-Chief Applications Source Type: research
Letter from the Publisher
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Source: The Health Care Manager - April 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Letter from the Publisher Source Type: research
The Requirements of Strategic Purchasing of Health Services for Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study in Iran
This study aimed to determine the requirements for the strategic purchasing of health services for cancer patients in Iran. As a qualitative research with a framework analysis, this study was conducted in Iran from July 2018 to February 2019. The participants were included some administrating managers, experts, and specialists of insurance selected purposefully by snowball sampling method. The framework analysis of the study included 5 steps. Data were saturated after 21 semistructured interviews. The main findings included 3 main themes (supply management, insurance trusteeship, and financial performance) and 14 subthemes...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Budgeting for Results
Budgeting is a mandatory yet misunderstood function in most organizations because of its current focus on estimating revenues and expenses. A budget should be a roadmap specifying in dollars and cents organizational goals and how management performance will be assessed. Like a roadmap, its value is entirely dependent on whether the plan is followed. Improving treatment and controlling costs require implementing budgets that focus managers' attention on the elements of production systems that they control and lead directly to better results. The choice between using an incremental, flexible, zero-base, program, or activity-...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Health Care Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems
This article described different types of systems and discusses why health care organizations are considered complex adaptive systems. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Physician Social Media Abuse: What Would You Do?
Over the past decade, physician social media use has been made popular and evolved from simple Facebook pages to rapid, instant media sharing. New social media applications, such as Snapchat and Instagram, are finding welcome homes in personal cell phones of physicians. The purpose of this article is to determine patients' views of not only physician use of these apps but also how they would react if their physician abused this technology. As outlined in the article below, physician abuse of social media is growing—and not strictly confined to one demographic group of physicians. The results of this study show patient co...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
The Growing Problem of Hepatitis C Virus Infection: The Case of West Virginia
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the most significant public health problems currently facing the United States, especially in West Virginia. If it is undetected and left untreated, the likelihood of sustaining a treatment response decreases. While early identification has been identified as a critical focus in trying to obtain better health outcomes, new drug treatments appear promising, if somewhat expensive. West Virginia is a predominantly rural state, where the incidence of HCV is 9 times the national average and Medicaid costs for treatment amounted to more than $27 million from 2014 to 2016. The purpose of this stu...
Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
In memoriam: charles r. mcconnell, editor, mba, bs, cm
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Source: The Health Care Manager - January 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Tags: Letter from the Publisher Source Type: research
To Catch a Thief: Protecting Proprietary Information Including Trade Secrets From Corporate Espionage
This article provides helpful guidance for managers to maximize protection against theft of proprietary information. (Source: The Health Care Manager)
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Managing Security Risk: Modeling the Root Causes of Data Breaches
Health care data breaches are occurring at unprecedented rates, but breach causes are challenging to identify. The purpose of this exploratory study was to identify potential root causes associated with health care data breaches and to create a model of potential data breach factors to inform risk assessment and future predictive analysis. We considered organizational factors, business processes, and technological tools that may be associated with health care data breach occurrences. Using legal requirements, security industry frameworks, and health care standards, we developed a testable health care data breach model. Thi...
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
The 340b Program, Contract Pharmacies, Hospitals, and Patients: An Evolving Relationship Impacting Health Care Delivery
The 340B Drug Pricing Program, created by Congress in 1992 through the Veterans Health Care Act, has provided discounted drug prices to hospitals and other health care organizations serving a wide population of low-income patients. Some 340B programs use contract pharmacies, an arrangement whereby the hospital or health care organization signs a contract directly with a pharmacy to provide covered pharmacy services at discounted prices. The federal 340B Drug Pricing Program has provided access to reduced price prescription drugs to more than 35 000 individual health care facilities and sites certified by the US Department ...
Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Article Source Type: research
Prenatal Opioid Maintenance in the United States and Its Effect on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: The Case of West Virginia’s Opioid Epidemic: Erratum.
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Source: The Health Care Manager - October 1, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Erratum Source Type: research
