Bedside Shift Reporting Jennifer J. Fay Indiana State University Bedside Shift Reporting In every profession there are changes that propel how tasks are done; nursing is no stranger to this. One of the biggest changes that have come into nursing’s daily events is how report hand-offs are being done. Gone are the days of taped report that each off going nurse must tape about each patient and the oncoming nurse must listen to. Nurses are now being encouraged to move their report to the
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Nurse Fatigue Nurse fatigue is experienced every day in the nursing field‚ it is the inadequate adaptation and restoration of work energy (Drake‚ Luna‚ Georges‚ & Steege‚ 2012). Nurse fatigue can be emotional‚ physical or mental‚ it can also be a feeling of weariness‚ tiredness‚ lack of energy or having trouble performing at work (Drake‚ Luna‚ Georges‚ & Steege‚ 2012). Also it can be caused by working long shifts and causing exhaustion from staff burnout‚ leading to an adverse effect on patient
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Employment Trends: Nursing Shortages Introduction The United States is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows. Compounding the problem is the fact that nursing colleges and universities across the country are struggling to expand enrollment levels to meet the rising demand for nursing care. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is concerned about the shortage of Registered Nurses (RNs) and is working
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reason why I want to accomplish this goal. Secondly‚ there is a wide variety of job opportunities to choose from such as a hospital‚ clinic‚ school‚ nursing home‚ and travel nurse. As a Pediatric Nurse I will have the opportunity to choose a position in the nursing field such as a staff nurse‚ floor charge nurse‚ floor unit manager‚ director of nursing and many more to choose from. When I become a Pediatric Nurse I would like to work in a hospital. I won’t to work with the babies. Being around
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charges‚ incidental overtime‚ med errors‚ and an increase in nursing and patient satisfaction. Strategies and Internal and External Need for this Change: The first step to implementing this change is to gather baseline data on falls‚ hospital acquired decubiti and call light statistics. Falls and decubiti information may be acquired from
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Scarce Resources: The Nursing Shortage September 24‚ 2012 Scarce Resources: The Nursing Shortage It is a widely known fact that the United States is facing a critical shortage of Registered Nurses (RN’s)‚ and that over the next several years the need for nurses is going to increase significantly due to the ageing baby boomer generation. It is expected that by 2020 the United States will face a shortage of over one million nurses (Buerhaus‚ Auerback‚ & Staiger‚ 2009) and this fact has drawn
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Canada is facing a critical shortage of nurses. Nurses are one of the most important components of the health care‚ they see to a moment to moment care of patients after the doctor has done their services. There have been many causes to nursing shortage in Canada. One of the major causes was the issue that happened in the 1990’s. In 1993 Ralph Klein decided to layoff tens of thousands of nurses‚ causing an aftermath of a Canada wide nursing shortage. The nursing shortage has become a concern to Canadians
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In nursing‚ burnout is a real problem. Nurses expressed symptoms of stress and burnout as reasons for their intention to exit the profession (Maville‚ Huerta‚ 2013‚ p. 446). It leads to job dissatisfaction and high turnover rates‚ which could be the case in the dialysis center I work for. We practice in the outpatient clinic and inpatient hospital setting. We perform hemodialysis‚ continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT)‚ plasmapheresis‚ and peritoneal dialysis. We can work very long hours
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important in nursing because through leadership the various elements of nursing practice are implemented to ensure the best quality of care
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Nursing Shortage Impact on Healthcare Tracey Simmons Aquinas College Department of Nursing; RN-to-BSN Program November 13‚ 2012 Nursing Shortage Impact on Healthcare Dating back to the 1940s‚ the healthcare industry has realized that there is a need for more nurses. The increased demand for nurses was mainly driven by the casualties of World War II (Mahaffey‚ 2002). The question of how to address the nursing shortage back then was answered a decade later with the Associates Degree in Nursing
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