The financial impact related to nurse turnover is astronomical; the cost of replacing a nurse costs anywhere between $42‚000 and $64‚000 dollars (Lynn & Redman‚ 2005). To properly stabilize staffing in order to operate a high-reliability organization and provide high-quality and safe patient care it is imperative to retain the nursing staff. Nurse retention is more important than ever before with the constantly changing healthcare environment. There is a gap in the literature when it comes to
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publications‚ conferences and academic literature. There are two sides of the use of technology in hotels: “back of house” systems (property management systems‚ revenue management systems‚ internal control instruments etc.) and technology that is used directly and mainly by the consumers. The following review aims to put the current technological state‚ future trends and most pressing issues of the hotel and hospitality industry into perspective. II Literature review The newest trends in the hospitality
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The Problem of Plagiarism: Literature Review Selection Melinda “Mindy” L. Boucher Lower Columbia College The Problem Students routinely hand in papers in which the writing is so complex and the vocabulary so sophisticated that there is doubt that they were written in the students’ own words. When samples of the writing are typed into a Google search engine‚ sentences and whole paragraphs are found to be a match. Students are confronted with the plagiarism and given information
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the law‚ a settled course of action that men may follow. Poetry and literature generally do this in a quiet and unobtrusive way. Novels are known to have changed the direction of the human mind and set in motion movements that have altered our ways of life. The influence of literature on society is felt directly or indirectly. Thus Miss Stowe’s "Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ was directly responsible for a movement against slavery in literature and life in USA of those days. The novels of Dickens had an indirect
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A Review of the Literature Transracial adoption occurs when two parents of one race or ethnicity adopt a child of another (Hoffman‚ Pena‚ 2013). Through the years there has been significant controversy surrounding transracial adoptions as it has been said that “(white families) no matter how well intentioned‚ may be ill equipped to help black children survive in a racist society and develop a healthy sense of themselves and racial identity” (Butler-Sweet‚ 2011). Most notably the National Association
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myopia concept to promote strategic agility. Journal of Strategic Marketing ‚ 17 (2)‚ 139-148. Len Tiu Wright‚ C. J. (2008). Marketing Myopia. Journal of Marketing Management ‚ 24 (1-2)‚ 131-134. Levitt‚ T. (1960). Marketing Myopia. Harvard Business Review ‚ 138-149. N. Craig Smith‚ M. E. (2010). The New Marketing Myopia. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing ‚ 29 (1)‚ 4-11. Ozment‚ M. L. (2000‚ November - December). Beyond Marketing Myopia: The Service of Small Railroads. Business Horizons . Philip
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Tourism Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes" Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2011‚ there were over 983 million international tourist arrivals worldwide‚ representing a growth of 4.6% when compared to US$ 940 billion in 2010.[2][3] International
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attributable to low FV consumption. Inadequate FV intake in Australia is thought to be responsible for 2.1% of the overall burden of disease.10 Increasing individual FV intake could reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease by 31%.11 In particular reviews of studies have indicated that FVs reduce the risk of developing cancer12; cardiovascular disease13 and obesity.14‚15 A meta-analysis of studies investigating FV intake and the incidence of type 2 diabetes indicated no significant benefits for increasing
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The purpose of this literature review is to evaluate the influence episiotomy’s have on postpartum pain. In the first study by Leeman et al. (2009)‚ the purpose was to evaluate the pain associated with genital trauma‚ labor care‚ and different incidences during birth from a group of healthy women who had few instances of episiotomies and delivered vaginally. The sample size consisted of 565 midwifery patients that were at least eighteen years of age. These women signed consent forms allowing their
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Gender and Leadership Literature Review 1. Introduction Leadership theories and literature describe what leaders should do and on the other hand literature also exists on what leaders actually do‚ the former are prescriptive and the latter are descriptive (Bratton et al; 2005). Leadership style is a relatively consistent set of behaviours that characterise a leader (DuBrin; 1995). The main leadership theories encompass the trait‚ behaviour‚ contingency‚ power
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