Subject: Need for additional staff Unfortunately I must address the issue in staff shortage during the night shift. As a nurse manager on the night shift‚ I am concerned about the ineffectiveness of the staff due to the need for additional staffing. We currently have a total of 10 staff on the night shift‚ when in reality‚ we need about twice as many. In order to ensure great customer satisfaction and superior effectiveness at our workplace‚ I believe it is crucial that we address this issue and
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Essentially‚ the term abuse is an issue facing the nursing profession today. Many unreported cases of encountered verbal and physical abuse have been found to be ample in acute and complex care settings. These cases are amongst professional individuals (nurse-nurse and nurse-physician abuse) and also among the patient abusing the nurses. Effectively‚ abuse is not only a Canadian issue. It has been reported internationally as well. Thus‚ many nurses today are lobbying for the decrease of abuse within
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Baccalaureate Nursing vs. Registered Nursing Grand Canyon University Baccalaureate Nursing vs. Registered Nursing There is an ongoing debate on the differences of nurses who possess an associate’s degree versus a bachelor’s degree. Individuals considering nursing as a career may find some confusion when comparing the two degrees. Both bachelor degree nurses as well as associate degree nurses can sit for the nursing licensure exam also known as the NCLEX. One might wonder why a bachelor’s
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Nursing Informatics: Module 2 Introduction The focus of this module is a continuum focus on the nursing informatics role or roles in a healthcare setting‚ what are the differences in competencies or skill set of nurses and how all this is continually evolving in the healthcare world today. Over the next four chapters it takes a look at how important it is to identify interrelationships with nursing informatics structures
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include all other personnel working within the private medical sector or other personnel working behind the scenes; where all managerial and logistical decisions are being made. This task of maintaining the current standard is hard‚ especially at the nursing level. With a country that has a young history‚ young education system‚ and young population with more than 50 percent of its citizens under the age of 18 years old. With these facts‚ having enough nurses seems to be an impossible task to be achieved
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their agriculture. Expanding to the desert will allow for a short time for those countries to be less depend upon others for food sources. However‚ the aquifers will be depleted and there will be a lack of food left. Countries in areas with water shortages will have to find ways to either farm with minimum water or seek outside assistance. We need to invest in more reach in desalinization. At the moment desalinization is a very expensive option that water companies are beginning to invest in. Governments
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several articles‚ most of them point to our shortage and demand of nursing staff. They have concluded that this has been ongoing problem since 1915. The article I found most interesting was Imbalance in the health workforce by Zurn‚ P.‚ Dal Poz‚ M. R.‚ Stilwell‚ B.‚ & Adams‚ O. What they describe is how this is an ongoing matter. Not only in the United states however‚ across the world. They go and defined that other countries deal with the shortage in other forms however‚ we all face the same
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The risks of water shortages are growing‚ and‚ as they do‚ so does the potential for conflict. When patterns of economic development on either side of a political border are uneven‚ the potential for ‘water wars’ becomes a growing concern. One rising soured of conflict is due to water availability from the Colorado River. For example‚ the Colorado may cause potential conflict between Mexico and the US in future years. 90% of water is extracted before it reaches Mexico due to its heavy usage; as
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Strategies and recommendations to Overcome workforce shortages And Improve Employee Morale. MIDDLEFIELD HOSPITAL MARCH‚ 2011 Prepared for: Board of Directors‚ Middlefield Hospital Prepared By: Deepthi Tandra (CEO)‚ Middlefield Hospital This report details strategies and recommendations to overcome the workforce shortages and improvement of employee morale of Middlefield Hospital. The Middlefield Hospital is a 50-bed tertiary care facility and has
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Nursing informatics‚ an essential skill for nurses as healthcare providers. Nursing informatics is the combination of sciences inclusive of computer‚ nursing and information intended to aid in the effective management and processing of nursing data‚ information and knowledge which supports nursing practice in providing nursing care. (Graves & Corcoran‚ 1989). As the nursing profession continue to evolve in a technology advanced environment‚ the need for informatics competency is deemed vital in order
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