Optimizing the Nurse Staffing and Schduling Program: The Abstract When we obtain knowledge and learnings through lessons‚ it is important to share this information with others. As a professional‚ dissemination this knowledge is even more important. When professors and faculty publish their work‚ they increase their own prestige along with the institution where they are working (Jeffress & Lyle‚ 2012). More importantly‚ as Forsyth‚ Wright‚ Scherb‚ and Gaspar (2010‚ p. 15) state‚ “Knowledge synthesis
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Dramatic increase in the 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
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Correct Staffing: To Be or Not to Be Tom is an excellent nurse. He wants to do the very best he can in taking care of his patients. He became a nurse because he believes taking care of others is the core of being human. As he goes to work today‚ he begins to wonder if today will be like most days or will it be a good day because the hospital has chosen to have enough nurses for patients. Tom’s story is not unusual. Many nurses have been put in positions that to take care of patients‚ they must
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an Iraqi emergency is hard and dangerous thing. You have to develop special survival skills to save yourself‚ and you should have an extra-talent not only in diagnosing and treating patients (despite limited facilities); but also in the way in which you manipulate them otherwise you will face distresses‚ become frustrated‚ and unable to keep your daily work‚ You may even get offended! {1} On my first duty at emergency department—I was shocked when my senior colleague told me ‘’the patient is your
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degrees and all staff was running on fumes to get everyone out safely. The staff had to carry the patients down several flights of steps‚ sweating and getting little to no sleep (Anna pou 60 minutes youtube.com). The staff members were fanning the patients because the patients were hot as well(Anna Pou 60 minutes youtube.com). There was a certain area of the hospital where all the critical ill patients were that needed a lot of medical attention and help(Memorial Medical Center and Hurricane Katrina
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Emergency Department Models of Care July 2012 NSW MINISTRY OF HEALTH 73 Miller Street NORTH SYDNEY NSW 2060 Tel. (02) 9391 9000 Fax. (02) 9391 9101 TTY. (02) 9391 9900 www.health.nsw.gov.au This work is copyright. It may be reproduced in whole or in part for study or training purposes subject to the inclusion of an acknowledgement of the source. It may not be reproduced for commercial usage or sale. Reproduction for purposes other than those indicated above requires written permission from the
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Emergency Department Triage Triage is an essential element of providing care to patients who present at a hospital emergency department. Triage is defined as a brief clinical assessment that determines the time and sequence in which patients should be seen in the emergency department. During triage‚ an emergency department nurse interviews a patient or the patient’s representative about the medical problem causing concern‚ makes a brief evaluation of the patient‚ and takes the patient’s vital signs
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SIMULATION MODEL FOR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT ABSTRACT The paper presents a comprehensive research study on the Simulation Model for Emergency Department. The study was conducted in the Emergency Department (ED) at The Ohio State Medical Center. A simulation model was developed using Arena (7.0) to model the process flow of patients in order to analyze the ED System performance. A Statistical Design of Experiments study was performed to study the significance/ non significance
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Triage and Emergency Department Experience Triage and the emergency department is not always as the movies picture it. However‚there are also other times that triage and the emergency department become a wild place for all kinds of people at varies degrees of danger. Many people cannot distinguish between a life-threatening situation and a situation that does not require emergency intervention while in an anxiety mode. Therefore‚ those people become angry and frustrated with the waiting and are
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