As the nurse manager of a 30-bed medical-surgical unit‚ you have just received the results of the quarterly patient satisfaction survey. The satisfaction scores for your unit show an ongoing decline over the past three reporting periods. You also look at your unit’s satisfaction scores as compared with other units in the hospital and realize that the scores for your unit are now lower than those of most other units in the hospital. As you begin to ponder the meaning of these data‚ you receive a call
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Culturally Competent Nursing Care To be a successful nurse one must have knowledge of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. It is important to provide culturally competent nursing care. A nurse must know what the patient beliefs are and how their certain beliefs relate to health care. This will effect the patient ’s decisions on the way he or she chooses to be taken care of. A nurse should be very open minded and knowledgeable of different cultures and there beliefs
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Harry S. Truman played a major role in history. He took reign as President after Franklin D. Roosevelt passed. The U.S was in a World War and a crucial decision was to be made by President Truman‚ one that could change history. To bomb or not to bomb. During this momentous time in the war‚ I believe President Truman did indeed do the right thing by bombing Japan. The war was nearing an end as many countries were losing soldiers as well as supplies left and right. However‚ the fighting would not
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1950’s HISTORY Assessment task Bill (host): Good morning people of Newton‚ its Bill here. I am speaking to James and he’s a 1950’s baby and today we are here to talk to him and ask questions about what it was like growing up in the 1950’s. James thanks for your time. James: Thank you Bill‚ glad to be here. Bill (host): Did the British or the American culture influenced Australia in any way? James: The American culture made a huge influence on Australia such as entertainment‚ clothing and
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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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Even though there were many important discoveries relating to insulin and diabetes‚ there still was no cure or treatment for it. Individuals diagnosed with this disease died shortly after diagnosis. In the early 1900’s‚ Frederick Allen – a leading diet therapist – invented a diet specifically for diabetic patients. He called it ‘the undernutrition approach’ where as his patients called it ‘the starvation diet.’ This diet allowed the diabetic patients an intake of 800-1000 calories per day for six
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History Vs. Hollywood: The Roaring Twenties was a time of jazz and flappers and good times‚ however‚ other aspects of the twenties life were arduous and troublesome. The youth of America was lied to by the government and their parents during the 1910s and World War I. With the reintroduction of the car‚ the youth rebelled against their parents and standards previously created. Other minorities also began to change. The women of the 1920’s wanted more rights‚ which they received when Congress amended
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1800’s Transportation In order to create regional‚ national and international markets‚ strong commerce‚ trade and transportation are necessary. During the 1800’s‚ social change became more prominent in different areas of the country such as the South and Midwest. As economic prosperity grew‚ the need for new and more efficient means of transportation grew as well. Through the development of new transportation technologies such as canals and railroads‚ America saw a large increase in the monetary
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revenue that has been earned but not yet collected in cash. | | | d. A. and C. | | Correct Marks for this submission: 5/5. Question 2 Marks: 5 Which resource provider typically receives first priority when resources are divided as part of a business ’s liquidation? Choose one answer. | a. stockholders | | | b. owners | | | c. the company ’s managers | | | d. creditors | | Correct Marks for this submission: 5/5. Question 3 Marks: 5 Which of the following transactions
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Finnie 1 Kerra Finnie Mrs.Todt English III 2 March 2012 Nurse Anesthetist Since 2010 there has been a high demand for Nurse Anesthetist in the United States. A career with a high salary is appealing. With the challenges and hard work of a nurse anesthetist‚ one must understand the steps and dedication of a person of this type of medical role. To become a Nurse Anesthetist the general requirements are to have an RN license and a bachelor of science degree‚ either in nursing or an appropriate
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