Health Medical Homework Help

1. First Student

1. a.The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, located at 7600 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77054 is a private organization affiliated with HCA. To help new graduate nurses gain the experience needed to begin work in specialty areas, HCA Gulf Coast Division has implemented StaRN, a Specialty Training Apprenticeship for Registered Nurses. This program focuses on Medical/Surgical, Telemetry, Critical Care Nursing, Women’s Services, ER, OR, Cath Lab and Behavioral Health. Other benefits include educational benefits for you and your dependents including tuition reimbursement, clinical certifications support, HCA Healthcare Scholars Program, Dependent Scholarship Program, and Education and College Advising. In addition, they offer medical, dental, vision, 401k, extended paid family leave, adoption assistance, an employee stock purchase plan, and consumer discounts. Other perks include free counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program, Disaster Relief Support, Disability and Life Insurance, and a Student Loan Assistance Program.
2. b. I chose to research this hospital because it was the hospital I was born at, and I always hear nothing but good things from women about this hospital. My second choice in career paths is NICU nursing, and I was pleased to find that they are a Level IV Advanced NICU. The only drawback I could find was that they are affiliated with HCA, who is known for low pay rates and other negative things, which I won’t speak of in this discussion. In addition, we had our Foundations and MedSurg clinicals at an HCA location and it wasn’t the best experience. After hearing such good things about The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, it makes me believe that it was just that particular hospital with the issues.

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2. Second Student

a Comment on the hospital organizations’ types of program, education, and specialties offered, vision, benefits, work ethic, and/or cultural climate.

Texoma Medical Center (TMC) only offers an accredited graduate medical education program that covers total healthcare for the area population and their families – this is a Family Medicine Residency Program which will require a medical school degree. With this only type of program available at TMC, I believe this limits the options of new BSN graduates who aspire to get a job position with this hospital because as a new nursing graduate, majority barely have any professional medical experience and transitioning from a nursing student role to a professional registered nursing role will be tedious without a RN residency program designed to help new nursing graduates moved to their professional role smoothly. The benefits that come with working with this organization is a typical employee benefits offered by most employer which include medical, dental, vision, insurance and income protection, retirement & savings, and flexible spending accounts. Compared to most hospital organizations, TMC benefits package is not attractive enough because it does not offer tuition reimbursement like other organizations in the same category. Work ethic and cultural climate at TMC seems to foster a healthy working environment from review posted about the organization as the hospital encourage employees work to carry out the hospital’s mission of providing quality care, delivering innovative services, and exceeding expectations.

b List one benefit and/or limitation to pursuing employment with the agency or what was of special interest to you.

Before researching this hospital, what makes it of a special interest to me was that I did my nursing foundation clinical rotations at this hospital. It seems like a great hospital to work, improve, and advance ones’ nursing talent because the work atmosphere, and the great feedbacks from nurses on the unit speaks volume about the teamwork approach employed by this organization. But unfortunately, the hospital does not have a residency program for newly graduated register nurses which I see as a limitation to pursuing employment with this agency.

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