Reflection Paper Donna Ishay Grand Canyon University Trends and Issues in Today ’s Healthcare NRS-440V Professor Linda Gobin July 20‚ 2015 Reflection Paper Recommendation 4: Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020. According to the IOM report‚ they wanted to increase the number of nurses with a baccalaureate degree by 80% (American Nurses Association‚ IOM report‚ 2010). I knew for myself this would mean for me to go back to school and get a higher level of degree
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Canyon Ranch XXXX Canyon Ranch Canyon Ranch Health Resorts is an organization designed to inspire and motivate individuals in their quest to become a more health conscientious human being. “Canyon Ranch prides itself with being a company that can influence one’s quality of life from the moment one arrives to long after one returns home” (Applegate & Piccoli‚ 2004). The founders of Canyon Ranch (Enid and Mel Zuckerman) wanted their business to be a place where individuals could “relax‚ enjoy
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attitude towards the elderly‚ but that it is all‚ directly or indirectly‚ down to staffing. The situation on my own ward is one that is mirrored across the trust‚ and indeed across the country. Low morale‚ high stress levels‚ short tempers and neglected patients all result from the fact that we do not have enough staff to provide complete and adequate care for our 26 very dependent patients. On a night shift‚ we have two nurses and two HCAs
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The Damnation of a Canyon By Edward Abbey Not many people know of the used-to-be 150-mile excursion that the Glen Canyon had to offer. Not many people know how to sail a raft down a river for a week. Not many people know how to interact with nature and the animals that come with it. We seem to come from a world that is dependent on time and consumed in money. Edward Abbey is what you would call an extreme environmentalist. He talks about how it was an environmental disaster to place a dam
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utilizing the nurse to their full extent‚ the IOM report touches on how the nurses are able to practice within different scopes‚ not based on the extent of the education or their training‚ however it is based more off of which state the nurse practices in. For example‚ in some states a nurse practitioner is able to write prescriptions without a supervising physician‚ and other states do not. This is a clear example of the education or training not determining the extent the nurse practices at‚ yet
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Application of Grand Theory to Nursing Practice In today’s world there are many nursing theories and theorists that not only define the nursing profession‚ but also are used as the basis to guide a nurse in his or her current practice. Meleis defines nursing theory “as a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing reality communicated for the purpose of describing phenomena‚ explaining relationships between phenomena‚ predicting consequences or prescribing nursing care. Nursing theories
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Staffing and Scheduling The debate on safe and adequate nurse staffing has remained a growing and controversial issue in healthcare. The most important issue is determining a safe number of nurses that should ideally work on a unit. In an article by The Journal of Nursing Administration it is stated that‚ “over the course of the last decade‚ hospital restructuring‚ spurred in part by a move to managed care payment structures and development of market competition among
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Due September 22‚ 2009 1. What is the value of customer information to Canyon Ranch? To Canyon Ranch‚ customer information is vital in order to successfully implement their business model. The value that it provides to the business is the ability to understand each customer’s unique needs and provide appropriate alternatives that will allow each guest to achieve their individual goals. This is essential for Canyon Ranch to attain its mission to “inspire people to make a commitment to healthy
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Case 1-3 Canyon Ranch Should Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires develop a clear customer relationship management strategy and make it a cornerstone of its positioning as a preeminent destination spa. Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires has been a profitable business for the affluent customer since 1989. Following in the footsteps of the original location that opened in 1979 in Tucson Arizona by priding themselves on their exceptional customer service and ability to reach each customers individual needs
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1. Problem Statement: Canyon Ranch has proven itself to be the undisputed leader in the destination segment of the spa industry. However‚ due to increasing competitive forces in the market‚ Canyon Ranch must address ways to sustain its business by maintaining its competitive advantage and further growing the business. 2. SWOT Analysis: STRENGTHS: • Proven market leader o 25 years in the business o Widely recognized as gold standard in spa industry • High attention to service with
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