In an effort to cut down on wait times in Palo Alto, the Veterans Affairs hospital create minute clinics for veterans to allow openings for higher priority cases rather than treating common illnesses (source article and date?). These minute clinics will allow more veterans to be treated for whatever they may need and get medication. Minute clinics were built in order to try and achieve an average goal of wait times no longer than 30 days for veterans needing care. The wait time begins after the veteran has scheduled an appointment and a doctor hasn’t given them a time frame for their next visit. (WE NEED TO GET THE VA TO CLARIFY THESE DEFINITIONS. I THINK THERE IS A BIT MORE TO IT THAN THAT)
These changes were brought on by scrutiny the VA received in 2011 when veterans were not receiving the care they needed. In a survey with VA staff, they said the hospitals were under staffed, they did not have enough room to help all the veterans they could and they did not meet the two-week wait list window for new patients.(source article and date?).
THIS IS NOT APA STYLE CITATION. LOOK AT THE HOMEWORK PAGE FOR A LINK ON APA STYLE, USED IN ACADEMIC PAPERS
THIS IS A SUPERFICIAL SUMMARIES OF PRESS RELEASES AND NEWS STORIES. GO TO THE SOURCE AND READ THE ACTUAL THING:
THIS ISNT A NEWS STORY – IT’S A VA NOTICE IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER
While Veterans Wait The New York Times October 25, 2011 Tuesday
- With so much data how can we easily show the data clearly?
- How can we tell if their data is correct and accurate?
The research should have been more clearly documented and you should have gone to the original source of the newspaper articles and not rely on someone else’s account of the material. You cited a Federal Register notice for one of the articles, which is not a news story. It’s a government publication.
The questions needed to be a bit more detailed and thoughtful. Score 3 of 5 points.