Staffing levels in a fire department can determine the successful or unsuccessful outcome of an incident. As per Fire Engineering‚ “Over the past three decades‚ fire department response has expanded to include emergency medical services‚ terrorism response‚ hazardous materials response and mitigation‚ natural disaster response‚ specialized rescue‚ and responses to other community needs” (Wilson 89-90). In addition‚ “Minimum staffing has become one of the most controversial subjects in the history
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Nurses are turning increasingly to staffing agencies to find employment. Many hospitals and other healthcare facilities go through cycles of hiring personnel and then laying them off when budget cuts come down at the end of the fiscal year. This leaves many nurses unemployed while there is an increasing need for their talent. One of the challenges for staffing agencies that handle nursing positions is having the capacity to add personnel when demand increases. If cash flows are tight‚ adding additional
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Working on the ICU: Nurse Staffing The process of going to college‚ studying to become a nurse‚ and ultimately finding a position in our ever growing‚ competitive work field is quite the challenge. Now that the beginning stages of our career have been completed and we have secured our positions as an ICU nurse‚ we face a different dilemma daily within the workplace; understaffing. We have lost three nurses and currently‚ those positions will not be re-filled‚ leaving the workload to fall onto our
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Skills Audit: Skills- Interpersonal Skills- I have been working In the food and Hospitality industry for past two years. Working with Colleagues and Customers is an important part of the job. Customer relations and interpersonal skills are the two most important skills that a person working in that industry will need to know about. Customer relations techniques include a number of skills‚ such as effective verbal and non-verbal communication‚ ability to ask relative questions‚ to be attentive‚ problem-solving
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PLANNING THE IT OPERATIONS AUDIT The mere mention of an "audit" is enough to make anyone nervous. But‚ put in proper perspective‚ an audit of IT operational policies and procedures is an effective means of assessing the viability of IT services and functions. An audit will serve its intended purpose if two primary objectives are reached: 1. Audit goals are clearly defined in advance‚ stating the purpose of the audit and the expected results. 2. Audit results are applied to improve
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External Marketing Audit HYPO Group Wageningen‚ October 2012 Charne Annandale Jessica Backes Lilian Bakker Caitlin Buenting Lydia van Dam External Marketing Audit HYPO Group (Hippodam) A company description of the external market of Hippodam. Wageningen‚ October 2012 Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences Client: Supervisor: Students: Class: Group: HYPO Group Hans van Tartwijk Charne Annandale Jessica Backes Lilian Bakker Caitlin Buenting Lydia van Dam ELS1a
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word count: 4106 Introduction...............................................................................................................................2 Social accounting as a concept.................................................................................................2 `Social accounting` definition The development of the concept The reasons of producing such reports nowadays Principles of good social accounts Global standards for social and environmental reports Critical
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VALUE FOR MONEY It could be defined as a concept that evaluates the use of resources at the disposal of an organization with the view to ensuring that the resources have been properly utilized. VFM frequently makes extensive use of performance indicators in the form of ratios and other statistics to sign post VFM through trends over time‚ in comparison to two operating units etc. Under this concept‚ we have three test ways to know if the firms resources have been properly utilized and it includes;
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Marketing Audit How to conduct a marketing audit The marketing audit is a fundamental part of the marketing planning process. It is conducted not only at the beginning of the process‚ but also at a series of points during the implementation of the plan. The marketing audit considers both internal and external influences on marketing planning‚ as well as a review of the plan itself. There are a number of tools and audits that can be used‚ for example SWOT analysis for the internal environment‚ as
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support the particular figure or disclosure in the financial statements. A scope limitation is usually imposed by circumstances and sometimes imposed by the reporting entity. In both cases‚ the auditor is prevented from carrying out a particular audit procedure that is considered necessary to obtain evidence that reasonably can be expected to be available. Inherent uncertainties about the outcome of future events do not arise from‚ or give rise to‚ a limitation on the auditor’s work since it
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