and effective patient care has been to mandate nurse staffing ratios. In 1999 California became the first state to mandate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. California is not the only state to enact minimum nurse staffing ratios for hospitals‚ over the past four years at least eighteen other states have considered legislation regarding nurse staffing in hospitals. Policymakers are forced to consider alternatives to nurses ratios due to nurse shortages. Whether minimum staffing ratios will
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Mandatory Hospital Nurse-To Patient Ratio in the Healthcare Field (Professor/Instructor) November 07‚ 2011 Mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are a controversial topic in healthcare. In this practice‚ state laws are established that require a certain level of staffing within a particular unit. Organizations such as hospitals must balance income with expenditures‚ and nurses and patients may be affected by these decisions. Mandating ratios is one attempt at ensuring nurses’ workloads do not exceed
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and cope with their illnesses. It also contributes in medical research and it participates in educating people with different health care practices. Nursing is both a science and an art concerned with the physical‚ psychological‚ sociological‚ cultural and spiritual concerns of the individual. The science of nursing is based on a broad theoretical framework; its art depends on the caring skills and abilities of the individual nurse (Doenges‚ Moorhouse & Murr‚ 2008). This is a profession that provides
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Nurse staffing refers to the ratio of nurses to patients in a particular unit. The current global nursing shortage is simply wide spread and dangerous lace of skilled nurses who are needed to care for individual patients and the population as a while. A study on the nursing shortage by Linda Aiken of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing‚ fund that an estimated 20‚000 people die each year‚ because they have checked into a hospital with overworked nurses. (The American Nurses Association
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Role of Home Health Nurse St Clair College 0689028 NRS63171-16F Professor Gina Bondy & Debbie Ferraari October 31‚ 2016 Page Break Home health nursing is an independent form of nursing. It allows patients to maintain living in their home while a nurse comes by and assists them. It is defined as " the provision of healthcare services and equipment’s to client’s and families in the homes" (Potter & Perry‚ 2014). The purpose of this paper is to gather an insight on the role of a home health
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professionalism roles for the nursing student and demonstrating professional behaviors while in school‚ working in the field as well as in everyday personal life. Professionalism is an area in Nursing that will carry into all aspects of ones’ life if they are to exhibit professional behaviors and become a true professional in every sense of the word. The article about taking a village to assure nurse professionalism was very enlightening. It spoke of the importance of nurse educators and nursing
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2009‚ 6‚ 2550-2567; doi:10.3390/ijerph6102550 OPEN ACCESS International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ISSN 1660-4601 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph Review Specialist Community Nurses: A Critical Analysis of Their Role in the Management of Long-Term Conditions Gretl A. McHugh *‚ Maria Horne‚ Karen I. Chalmers and Karen A. Luker School of Nursing‚ Midwifery & Social Work‚ University of Manchester‚ Jean McFarlane Building‚ Oxford
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Bed-to-nurse ratios‚ provision of basic nursing care‚ and in-hospital and 30-day mortality among acute stroke patients admitted to an intensive care unit: Cross-sectional analysis of survey and administrative data Sung-Hyun Cho a‚*‚ Sung-Cheol Yun b a Department of Nursing‚ Hanyang University‚ Seoul‚ Republic of Korea b Department of Preventive Medicine‚ College of Medicine‚ University of Ulsan‚ Seoul‚ Republic of Korea A B S T R A C T Background: The literature reports inconsistent evidence
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Preparation There is an ongoing debate about nurses trained at the Associates Degree level versus the baccalaureate degree level. In this paper‚ I will discuss some of the important differences between the two levels of education and try to determine if one is really better than the other. First of all‚ when considering the difference between the two types of degrees‚ it is important to recognize that at either level‚ a nurse must be able to pass the same NCLEX examination in order
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reproducing a skill to demonstrate it to absolute perfection. Becoming a nurse requires learning the underlying principles‚ analyzing them‚ and then‚ applying the principles to many different clients with similar problems‚ but very individual needs. Student nurses must use their minds and their hearts‚ as well as their hands and their senses to be successful professional nurses in today’s challenging health care world. Being a student nurse requires hard work‚ persistence and many sacrifices. So as you face
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