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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Kaiser Permanente"”.
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Improving Workplace Wellness at Kaiser Permanente
… beginning to become a more common practice, and Kaiser Permanente is leading the way. However, they are discovering that simply providing resources is not enough. To enhance their workplace wellness, the Wellness Leaders program was implemented in order to get all departments involved in wellness …
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Closing the Gap: Achieving Equitable Healthcare Outcomes for Kaiser Permanente Members
… experience and completed over 400 hours at Kaiser Permanente to focus on eliminating health disparities for the patients, families, and communities that Kaiser serves. Kaiser Permanente has been actively pursuing multiple possibilities in the organization to close the disparities gap and …
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Assessment of the health needs of the communities served by Kaiser Permanente of Riverside
… Way of the Inland Valleys, in cooperation with Kaiser Permanente of Riverside conducted this study as part of their community based needs assessment.
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A descriptive analysis of the 1992 active-duty physician asset: with comparisons to the Kaiser-Permanente physician staff model data
… from the Defense Manpower Data Center and the Kaiser-Permanente HMO, northern CA region, in Oakland, CA (K-P). A baseline assessment of the 1992 active-duty physician asset is done by first analyzing each Service's number of active-duty physician specialists and then by comparing DoD …
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A research study on emotional adjustment of a spouse following stroke
… records of 80 stroke cases were reviewed at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Fontana, California. Patients and spouses were examined in two age groupings, age 55 and below, and ages 56 and above. Study of these two age groups afforded the most meaningful division to study spouse adjustment.
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Understanding the Barriers to Perioperative Specialty Certification
… analysis of the Post Anesthesia Care Unit at Kaiser Permanente, San Rafael reveals specialty certification for registered nurses is at 0%. This is a critical metric for the hospital as it embarks on its three year preparation phase for application of Magnet Recognition® status, in 2012. The …
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Instrumentation Acquisition: Do the Numbers Justify the Purchase?
… This project identifies Dignity Health, Kaiser Permanente, and Sutter health as entities which may benefit from centralizing testing for viral load. Findings encourage the purchase of the more expensive Roche® 8800 due to cost savings of reagents, labor savings, and higher population of …
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The Importance of Health Education and Promotion: Promoting the Right Message
<p>Kaiser Permanente in the Greater Southern Alameda Area (GSAA) conducted a needs assessment and determined that the areas primary needs included access to preventative health measures and access to education and training programs. Through the needs assessment Kaiser was able to determine that the …
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Nursing Student Work-Study Internship: Partnering to Bridge the Education-to-Practice Gap
… this issue. The Northern California Region of Kaiser Permanente partners with five universities to conduct the Nursing Student Work-Study Internship Program (WSP). The program provides senior level nursing students with a paid internship in clinical practice settings, working under the …
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Implementation of an Innovative Early Warning System: Evidenced-based Strategies for Ensuring System-wide Nursing Adoption
… issue. To address this problem, since 2013, Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KP NCAL) has piloted Advance Alert Monitor (AAM) at two hospitals. This early warning system employs a set of predictive models developed by the KP NCAL Division of Research, which automatically predicts …
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Readiness for improving safe care delivery through web-based hospital nurse scheduling & staffing technology: A multi-hospital approach
… to the profession as well as patients. Though Kaiser Permanente (KP) is generally known for being a healthcare trailblazer, staffing technology was lagging. The purpose of this project is to prepare KP nursing for transformative change with web-based hospital scheduling and staffing. This work …
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Failure Mode Effects Analysis of Auto-verification in the Clinical Laboratory
… for auto-verification of PT at two NCAL Kaiser Permanente medical center laboratories over three months. At the time of publication, the pilot sites identified a need to refine the algorithm in order improve efficiency. Study findings identify the need to take a methodical approach to …
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Creating A Culture of Mobility: A Quality Improvement Project
… University of San Francisco; Kaiser Permanente Nurse Scholar Academy; Kaiser Permanente Hospital, San Francisco (CNL practicum site).</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Background Information</strong></p> <p>The medical/surgical unit had the average ambulation score of …
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Improving Pain Management in the Cardiac Procedure Unit
… University of San Francisco; Kaiser Permanente Nurse Scholars Academy; Kaiser Permanente Hospital, San Francisco (CNL practicum site).</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Background Information</strong></p> <p>Cardiac Procedure Unit (CPU) specializes in the care of …
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The road to enterprise Artificial Intelligence : a case studies driven exploration
… Mills automating insights for marketers, and Kaiser Permanente using state of the art Natural Language Processing techniques on unstructured triage notes to improve patient flow forecasting. Learnings from the case studies are synthesized into recommendations to aid practitioners on the road …
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The Inpatient Palliative Care Consult: Description of the Target Population in the Acute Care Setting
… of the palliative care population at Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa.</p>
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Exploring the Impact of Virtual Medicine on the Patient-Centered Medical Home
… with the results of a study conducted at Kaiser Permanente Northwest (Zhou et al., 2007). The result in this thesis then showed that the decrease in overall visits was dominated by a decrease in primary care visits. The analysis showed an increase in specialty care visits with email …
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