Water Shortage Currently California is facing a water shortage. The issue has been addressed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in February. He called for all state agencies to find the way to help in the statewide water shortage. This is California’s third consecutive year of drought and last spring and summer was the worst of the season because it had the lowest amount of water recorded and California’s reservoirs were at their lowest point as well which did not help in the water shortage. Many
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0048-3486.htm Skill shortages‚ recruitment and retention in the house building sector Linda Clarke and Georg Herrmann Westminster Business School‚ University of Westminster‚ London‚ UK Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how internal and external labour markets operate in the construction sector‚ associated with different strategies taken by firms in recruiting and retaining particular
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This month we look at the STEM job shortage. The proponents of STEM say that we have an acute shortage of STEM graduates. But is that true? One indicator is employment numbers. Let’s take 2012. In that year we had twice as many people with STEM degrees (immigrants and native born) than STEM jobs available. 5.3 million STEM jobs vs. 12.1 million people with STEM degrees. With less than half of the immigrants with STEM degrees were working in STEM jobs. Wages are good measure of labor demand. If STEM
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The impact of nursing of nursing shortage on the provision of quality healthcare and patient safety was discussed in this paper. The negative impact of nursing shortage on the quality of care and patient safety is that when nurses are few‚ patient safety is threatened and health care quality is diminished. This can incur high cost to hospitals. Nurses who have heavy workload are more likely to experience burnout and intend to leave their job within the next year causing high turnover rate. When nurses
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Causes of the Popularity of Fast food Restaurants In the United States‚ the popularity of fast food restaurants is growing every day. Nowadays people can buy a whole meal in those restaurants for just three dollars. The fast food restaurants have been considered to have poor health benefits on the people who consume it regularly. American people consider that fast food restaurants make their life easy and uncomplicated. The popularity of this type of restaurants is increasing because
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English 1101 March 4‚ 2013 The Causes for the Popularity of Fast Food Restaurants Brainstorming ~Modernization has come a long way. Many things evolve with it. This evolutionary process causes people to remain busy all through the rest part of the day. ~ The busy schedule leaves not time for making food either for breakfast‚ lunch‚ or dinner. ~ Restaurants offering fast foods. ~This problem triggered the popularity and rise of fast food restaurants. ~Fast food has never been an issue in the
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themselves. Fast food restaurants are expanding throughout America very rapidly and that is not a good sign due to all the overweight and obese individuals.
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Countries living in desert-like conditions should not expand their agriculture. Expanding to the desert will allow for a short time for those countries to be less depend upon others for food sources. However‚ the aquifers will be depleted and there will be a lack of food left. Countries in areas with water shortages will have to find ways to either farm with minimum water or seek outside assistance. We need to invest in more reach in desalinization. At the moment desalinization is a very expensive
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Difficult situations were faced in my facility three months ago where staffing shortage force nurses for weeks work on the floor in technician position with increased patient ratios per nurse and left patient care undone. Some technicians approach vacation time other staff members decide canceled they are working days early in the morning or fail to report‚ placing facility and staff nurses in hard situations. It created stressful environment and conflict among colleagues. We start noted that during
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Shortage of Nurse Practitioners To determine why there is a shortage of nurse practitioners it is best to understand that there is a shortage of healthcare workers overall. The shortage of nurse practitioners began in the 1960s as a result of a shortage of primary care physicians. This was due to many physicians pursuing medical specialties that were more profitable. (Hamric‚ Spross‚ &Hanson‚ 2009) In 1965 Medicare and Medicaid began providing health coverage to low-income women‚ children‚ the
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