Articles Tagged With: goals
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Patients’ Goals During Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Stays
After a long-term acute care hospital stay, most patients will achieve goals of ventilator liberation, eating, drinking, and speaking, but many will not achieve independence in walking, grooming, toileting, or returning home.
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Medical Organizations’ Ethics Statements Are Inconsistent
Investigators analyzed the ethics statements of 22 organizations and characterized each as traditional (18%), relational (9%), or social constructionist (73%). Overall, there was significant inconsistency and lack of clarity on the direct goals of medicine. The study showed 33% to 53% of direct statements regarding the goals of medicine contained a fundamental philosophical disagreement.
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How to Make Performance Evaluations Useful for Everyone
Performance evaluations should be conducted throughout the year and in a thoughtful way that increases their usefulness and helps staff improve their work skills.
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Trust Patient Access Employees With These Important Projects
Patient access employees appreciate being asked to participate in projects, and the department benefits from their feedback.
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Department reaches million-dollar milestone
Tips for celebrating successes in the patient access department.