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The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority is an independent state agency located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Its mission is to improve the quality of healthcare in Pennsylvania by collecting and analyzing patient safety information, developing solutions to patient safety issues, and sharing this information through education and ...
An admission note is part of a medical record that documents the patient's status (including history and physical examination findings), reasons why the patient is being admitted for inpatient care to a hospital or other facility, and the initial instructions for that patient's care.
The union led a 23-day nurses' strike in the winter of 2003, one of Pennsylvania's longest health care walkouts. [5] In April 2010 the union led a month-long strike at Temple University Hospital defeating many hospital demands, including one banning nurses from making public critiques of management policies related to patient care.
Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. [1] [2] [3] A 76-page volume with 3 page appendix published by Harrison of Pall Mall, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others.
Pennsylvania Department of Health is a cabinet-level agency in Pennsylvania.It was established in 1905 and later modified by the Administrative Code of 1929. [1] [2] In 1996, the requirement for the Secretary to be a physician was eliminated and the position of Physician General was created.
The Tri-Nursing Education Building (or Tri-NEB), originally built in 1972, was later named for Claire M. Fagin, a former dean of Penn Nursing who later served as Interim President of the university. The building originally housed the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing which was a three-year diploma in nursing.
As of July 2018, there were 249 state licensed hospitals and VA hospital facilities in Pennsylvania. 148 of these facilities were non-profit, 86 were for-profit or "investor-owned", and 15 were public hospitals owned by the Federal government, state government, or in one case, the city of Philadelphia. [1]
The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who ...