The article highlights issues and potential outcomes due to nurses working long hours; nurse fatigue is a critical topic that needs to be addressed within the medical profession. Most hospitals assign nurses to 12-hours shifts‚ and the average of four to five patient’s per nurse. The long shifts are extremely tiring for most nurses‚ and furthermore‚ can be detrimental to their health‚ which ultimately puts the patient at risk. As a result‚ nurses may not extend the therapeutic communication as expected
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Professional Nursing Values Yvonne Simms NUR/403 Undergraduate Nursing Studies April 29‚ 2010 Joseph DeCostanza Professional values are the foundation for practice; they guide interactions with client‚ colleagues‚ other professionals‚ and the public‚ by providing the framework for commitment to the Welfare of others. They are also belief or ideas to which an individual is committed and which are reflected in patterns of behavior. Institute of medicine (2000). In this article
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Neonatal Nurses (NANN) is a professional organization for neonatal nurses in United States. NANN founded in 1984‚ “represents the community of neonatal nurses that offers evidence-based care to high-risk neonatal patient ()”‚ according to NANN. Neonatal nursing is one of specialty in nursing that care for infants who are born with health issues such as birth defects‚ infections‚ cardiac malformations or prematurity. In a hospital setting‚ there are level I to III which depends on how much patient requires
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Human Resource Management Coursework The Value of Recruitment and Selection to Business Organization Table of Content Introduction 2 2. Literature Review 3 2.1 The Process of The Recruitment and Selection 3 2.1.1 Recruitment 5 2.1.2 Selection 7 3 Case Study Analysis 9 3.1 Case Description 9 Case One: Barclaycard International Case 9 Case Two: The Selection and Recruitment in Chinese Multinational Enterprises Case 10 3.3 Summarize the Similarities and Differences of Two Case
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to ensure safe and effective patient care has been to mandate nurse staffing ratios. In 1999 California became the first state to mandate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. California is not the only state to enact minimum nurse staffing ratios for hospitals‚ over the past four years at least eighteen other states have considered legislation regarding nurse staffing in hospitals. Policymakers are forced to consider alternatives to nurses ratios due to nurse shortages. Whether minimum staffing
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Bed-to-nurse ratios‚ provision of basic nursing care‚ and in-hospital and 30-day mortality among acute stroke patients admitted to an intensive care unit: Cross-sectional analysis of survey and administrative data Sung-Hyun Cho a‚*‚ Sung-Cheol Yun b a Department of Nursing‚ Hanyang University‚ Seoul‚ Republic of Korea b Department of Preventive Medicine‚ College of Medicine‚ University of Ulsan‚ Seoul‚ Republic of Korea A B S T R A C T Background: The literature reports inconsistent evidence
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with associations between people and how they can best live in tranquility and agreement. The goal of morality is to defend a high value of life for the person and the community as a whole. Morality directs a person’s life; it is the core of all decisions‚ attitudes and goals. The process of being moral is developed from a person’s experiences and parental influences. Each person’s values might be different yet neither is necessarily wrong. Personal morality is a collection of values‚ duties‚ actions
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Family Values Family Values The concept of family as the client has become an integral part of nursing. Research has shown that personal illness affects the family unit and not just the individual‚ plus‚ effectiveness of health care is improved when emphasis is placed on family (Harmon Hansen‚ 2001). Nursing theorists have touched on family nursing; however‚ there is no complete theoretical framework for family nursing. Friedman‚ Bowden & Jones (2003) address the lack of a complete family nursing
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suffering of the patient‚ and to enable them to accept and cope with their illnesses. It also contributes in medical research and it participates in educating people with different health care practices. Nursing is both a science and an art concerned with the physical‚ psychological‚ sociological‚ cultural and spiritual concerns of the individual. The science of nursing is based on a broad theoretical framework; its art depends on the caring skills and abilities of the individual nurse (Doenges‚ Moorhouse
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“ The term professional nurse‚ as used in this document‚ refers to that individual prepared with a minimum of a baccalaureate in nursing but is also inclusive of one who enters professional practice with a master’s degree in nursing or a nursing doctorate.” (2008‚ p. 2) The three main roles of the professional nurse talked about in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing are being a provider of direct and indirect care to individuals‚ families‚ groups‚ communities‚ and populations. Secondly
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