Hospital Essays

Banner Health celebrates its fifteen year anniversary this year (2014). Samaritan Health System merged with Lutheran Health System September 1st, 1999. Lutheran Health System began in 1938 across Western and Mid-Western states. Samaritan Health System dates back to 1911 that covered California and Arizona, primarily in the metro Phoenix area. …

I can hardly recall how my best friend and I met, but I do remember not liking her so much as it takes a lot for me to call someone a friend. Luckily, fate had a different plan and gave me a shoulder I can always lean on. There are …

According to Cleveland Clinic The ANA says “Nursing Informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice” (Cleveland Clinic, 2010, Para 26). The hospital that I work for employs more than one Nursing Informatics Specialist. …

Nursing requires daily, hourly and even up to the minute tasks and details. The nurse is reactive and supportive, caring and efficient. It may be overwhelming to keep up with the many activities of daily nursing. But being professional nurse is all that and more. It means that you have …

The Joint Commission focuses on certain goals each year. For patient safety and positive outcomes, hospitals are required to follow certain standards. National Patient Safety Goals were established in 2002 to help identify areas of concern with patient safety. This group is made up by a panel of experts including …

Over fifty years ago, Madeline Leininger was on a mission to advance the practice of transcultural nursing. Times have definitely changed in the last fifty years, and transcultural nursing has become a major focus for the government as well as many nursing organizations. Emerging standards of care regarding culturally competent …

The use of telehealth and telemedicine technologies are predicted to provide a benefit to both health care providers and the patients they treat. With the right mix of technology telehealth will provide the physicians and the patients with a means to have a face-to-face way to perform an evaluation and …

Protecting patient’s privacy is of the most important when it comes to the health care field. There are many individuals who want to steal information which is not theirs, but allows them to this information to get what they want and this is, called identity theft. This paper will take …

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA was created in 1996. (www.health.state.tn.us/hipaa) The goal of HIPAA is to protect patient’s confidentiality of their health care information, help control administration costs and to make it accessible to keep health insurance. HIPAA requires health care providers, health care …

“To make a difference in people’s lives through excellent patient care” (Banner Health, 2014, para. 1). This is Banner Health’s mission statement. Banner Health is a nationally known and recognized health care organization. Twenty-three years ago in 1991, Banner Health first merged with Lutheran Health Systems and Samaritan Health Systems. …