use of mandatory overtime as a staffing tool‚ is a dangerous staffing practice. This dangerous staffing practice‚ in part due to a nursing shortages is having a negative impact on patient care‚ fostering medical errors‚ and driving nurses away from the bedside. The main law dealing with wage and hour limits is the federal Fair Labor Standards Act or FSLA‚ passed in 1938. Although the FSLA establishes the 40-hour work per week‚ it does not put an upper limit on the number of hours my boss can ask me
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Nursing Care Plan Nursing Diagnosis 1: Risk for Deficient Fluid Volume Risk for Deficient Fluid Volume related to evaporative loss of fluids and capillary damage through the burn wound as evidenced by weakness shown and abnormalities in PTR‚ BP‚ SpO2 due to flame burn at work on the entire right leg. Nursing Assessment: Objective data: (1) Temp 35.8°C in tympanic is below normal as pt sustained a flame burn at work causing heat loss from the body with risk of hypovolemic shock and
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Care Plan for Pain: Chronic| Student Name:|Samantha Lewis|Current Date: 4/19/12|| Patient:|SL|Age: |33|Sex:|F|Dates Care Given: 4/19/2012|| Admission Diagnosis/History: Chronic Pancreatitis| 1)PE 2) Hysterectomy 3)C Section | Nursing Diagnosis: Pain: Chronic | | ASSESSMENT| Objective Data|Subjective Data| · Increased blood pressure|· Pt holding lower left abdomen| · Increased heart rate|· Pt eyes closed| · Increased respirations|· Furrowed brow| · |· |
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Ostomy Care Teaching Plan I will be developing a Ostomy care teaching plan for client L.J‚ who is 24 days post operative following a colostomy. This teaching plan will be specific to L.J‚ taking into account his learning needs‚ his motivation and readiness to learn and any environmental factors that might influence his learning. The teaching plan will also include visuals for the client‚ active participation and an evaluation of the goals. While working with client L.J‚ I was able to complete
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Writing Assignment #7 Tiara Diaz ITT Technical Institute/Breckinridge School of Nursing NUR 270 Jennifer Kyte APRN‚ MSN May 7th‚ 2012 The plan of care for a patient with esophagogastric balloon tamponade tubes is formulated around the primary nursing diagnosis of ineffective airway clearance related to aspiration of blood (Ackley‚ B.‚ Ladwig‚ G.‚ 2011) Bleeding often stop spontaneously‚ but if it does not‚ a Sengstaken-Blakemore or Minnesota tube is inserted to provide constant
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Change for Providing Safe Patient Care”‚ on page 382 through 383‚ is about a Department of Medicine (DoM) in an urban academic medical center where in the past 2 years there has been cases where patients had needlessly suffered serious harm. Even though the cases were far and in betweeen‚ and most of the employees were comfortable with the status quo however‚ “the chairperson’s view of patient care safety meant that there was no place for such incidents.” Incidentally‚ the patient safety incidences occurred
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Strategic management Chapter 1 Strategic management definition: Consisting of the analyses‚ decisions and actions an organization undertakes in order to create and sustain competitive advantages. Romantic view of leadership Situations in which the leader is the key force determining the organization´s success – or lack thereof. X: Steve Jobs On the other hand‚ when thing´s don’t go well‚ much of the failure of an organization can also be attributed to the leader. X: Nokia External
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REVIEW ARTICLES ANESTHETIC CARE OF THE PATIENT WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA AMIR BALUCH*‚ SUNIL MAHBUBANI**‚ FAHAD AL-FADHLI***‚ ALAN KAYE**** AND ELIZABETH A.M. FROST***** Introduction Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an insidious‚ progressive disease1 that is significantly under diagnosed in the general population. It carries increased risk of difficult intubation preoperatively2 and increased risk of postoperative respiratory depression and airway collapse leading to hypoxia and possibly
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Family Nursing Plan of Care NUR/405 September 6‚ 2010 Sybil Beth Meadows‚ RN‚ MSN‚ NCSN CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY: I certify that the attached paper is my original work and has not previously been submitted by me or anyone else for any class. I further declare I have cited all sources from which I used language‚ ideas‚ and information‚ whether quoted verbatim or paraphrased‚ and that any assistance of any kind‚ which I received while producing this paper‚ has been acknowledged
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Bedside Rounding: Improving Patient Care and Safety Purpose: * PATIENT SAFETY * Reducing preventable errors resulting in facility acquired illness/injury * Reducing increased healthcare costs related to errors due to inadequate shift change reports * Involving patients in their own care by allowing them to be involved in their own report during shift change * Reducing barriers to communication between patient‚ family‚ and staff Benefits: * PATIENT SAFETY * Allows nurse
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