Nursing Drug Shortages Kristen Lawton Nursing 531 March 18 2013 Annette Margaret Nursing Drug Shortages Drug shortages have become a hardship for hospitals and pharmacies across the country. This hardship has been felt especially by nursing personnel who have voiced their concerns regarding patient safety and medication management. “One factor contributing to patient safety concerns arises when a substitute drug must be used in place of the customary product and requires dosage strength or
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could have been prevented by lowering the patient to nurse ratio. Providing a lower patient to nurse ratio could possibly provide a better quality of care and lower the mortality rate. There are many ethical principles that play a part in the nursing shortage and patient care such as nonmaleficence‚ beneficence‚ and justice. Nonmaleficence asks us not to intentionally or unintentionally inflict harm on others‚ by not providing the patient the best possible care and not spending the appropriate time with
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Advantages and Disadvantages of present day education system Accessibility to education is one of the main advantages to present day education. In the past education was only for the wealthy .The poor were not given an opportunity to improve their lot in life. Females were also denied an education by virtue of the "fact" they would get married and so an education would be "wasted" on females. As North America was settled children were pulled from schools during the harvesting season or as
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EBOLA OUTRAGE‚ BY: JAYLA FRANKLIN Two US humanitarian workers who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia have been released from Emory University hospital in Atlanta after receiving an experimental drug treatment which has yet to go through full clinical and human trials. Dr. Kent Brantly of Texas and Nancy Writebol‚ a missionary from North Carolina‚ contracted Ebola while responding to the outbreak in Liberia. Brantly and Writebol were both treated in the hospital’s containment
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Ferry is considered upper basin and south is lower. It is the lower basin states (Arizona‚ California‚ Nevada‚ New Mexico‚ and Utah) that are experience the brunt of the water shortage. Climate change in the southwestern US includes above averagetemperatures‚ and less rainfalls. These changes are contributors to the water shortage. GeoscientistBrad Udall‚ director of the University of Colorado Western Water Assessment‚ estimates the climate change will contributeto 5-20 percent of water loss in the
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Health Care: Physician Shortage in Canada Hailey Cheema Heritage Park Secondary School English 11 “Studies state 4.4 million Canadians do not have a family doctor; 800‚000 of those do not have a place to go for regular medical care” (Picard‚ 2012‚ para.5). Canadian physician shortage is an ongoing and serious issue across the country. Canada remains to have one of the longest waiting lists‚ supply of doctors‚ and low levels of medical advancements (Hurtig
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The skills shortage issue in the Australian labour market is very apparent. In any case‚ the reasons as to why this is occurring always relates to factors of change. These factors of change include; the general economic conditions‚ conditions in the firms industry‚ changes in technology‚ the ageing population‚ the demand for labour‚ and the education‚ skills and experience of workers. The government investigates ways in which they can protect the Australian economy and the Australian workforce. This
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Vol.4‚ No.3 – October 2013 Investigating the Facility Management Professional Shortage Roscoe Hightower‚ Jr.‚ Ph.D. Professor of Marketing School of Business and Industry Florida A&M University Tallahassee‚ FL 32307 roscoe.hightower@famu.edu and James Highsmith MBA Candidate School of Business and Industry Florida A&M University Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this manuscript is to investigate the importance of creating a collegiate educational program that focuses on attracting
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING A PROJECT PROPOSAL In ELECTRONICS 1 (POWER SUPPLY) SUBMITTED BY: Michael Vincent Montero Crisdane Dave Caldea Leo Cantomayor Kevin Bocatera Joe Mar Flores 3-BSCpE INTRODUCTION A power supply is a device that supplies electric power to an electrical load. The term is most commonly applied to electric power converters that convert one form of electrical energy to another‚ though it may also refer to devices that
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Hiring temporary workers is very quick to overcome a worker shortage when the people you are hiring are only going to perform general tasks. However‚ a con is that if you are looking for employees who have a specific high-level skill set‚ it can take a very long time to find that particular temporary worker. A pro of a temporary workforce is that it can overcome short-term shortage. Another con of temporary workers is that they can have little or no loyalty to the organization or to the owner. They
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