vacant nurse position‚ considering the use of per diem nurses‚ use of overtime for your current staff‚ or just working with the available staff needs to be decided by the nurse manager. The pros and cons of each option will be discussed. When using per diem nurses or giving overtime to the current nurses‚ the one of the concerns is budget. Even though per diem nurses are paid more hourly than a normal hourly pay for a current nurse‚ this changes when looking at overtime pay. Per diem nurses cost $35
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aim of this assignment is to demonstrate how Peplau’s concept of the nurse-patient relationship can be used to influence an incident in practise. I have chosen to focus on the nurse-patient relationship‚ as I am in the early stages of my adult nurse training and I feel it would be beneficial to understand this relationship more accurately. The first part of this assignment defines a concept and briefly outlines the nurse-patient relationship as a concept. The second part focusses and outlines Peplau’s
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Nurse Patient Relationship Nurse-patient relationship According Cutliffe and McKenna (2005)‚ research‚ theoretical and educational literature on interpersonal relations between nurses and patients has proliferated since the 1960s. This has generated a range of divergent accounts of what the nurse-patient relationship (NPR) ought to be‚ how this should be achieved‚ and how the NPR is constituted in practice. I have chosen the concept of nurse-patient relationship because this relationship
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It’s not by demanding that minimum wage is raised; it’s by actually acquiring the skills. That’s the way that people get ahead in life.” Politian Raul Labrador expresses. According to At Issue from the SIRS data base‚ in 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act successfully re-established a national minimum wage after it was battled between 1933 and 1935 by the Supreme Court. Critics of minimum we say it is not sufficient. They believe it should be changed to a living wage standard‚ which accommodates for
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Nurse Patient Communication According to the article‚ “Nurse-Patient Communication Barriers in Iranian Nursing” (Anoosheh et al‚ 2009) communication is one of the basic social needs of human beings. This article is the description of a study done to better understand the barriers that inhibit nurse-patient communication. Communication is critical in the nursing profession and can be considered a main aspect of nursing care. Patients and families count on nurses to keep them informed‚ help them
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Minimum Wage As living expenses rise‚ and inflation takes its toll‚ it is merely common sense to raise minimum wage to help blue collar Americans cope with the everyday change in our currency. Raising the minimum would help cover the basic necessities of an average worker’s life‚ stimulate the economy‚ and help balance the growing gap between the middle and upper classes. In 2011‚ there were near 4 million Americans who were earning the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. In Georgia‚ the average
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March 2004 Hospital Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care Hospitals with low nurse staffing levels tend to have higher rates of poor patient outcomes such as pneumonia‚ shock‚ cardiac arrest‚ and urinary tract infections‚ according to research funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and others. Yet increasing staffing levels is not an easy task. Major factors contributing to lower staffing levels include the needs of today’s higher acuity patients for more care and a nationwide
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minimum wages than the federal minimum of $7.25‚ but our national government still has not gotten the message that America needs its minimum wage to be raised (Jost 76). Raising minimum wage has been a hot topic ever since its conception in 1938‚ back when minimum wage was only $0.25 (“Minimum Wage”). Although it is a successful tradition to raise minimum wage to match inflation and match people’s needs‚ some individuals believe there is no need to raise it. Many others believe that raising wages will
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raising their minimum wage to $11 an hour starting next month in order to compete and fill low wage jobs in a tighter labor market. As Hooker wrote in his book:” Integrity is the result of being consistent with who we are”. On my point of view‚ Target is just following the market fluctuation. Even before raising their minimum wage to $10 it was because the leader on the market Walmart said that it would increase wages for most of its U.S workers. In an addition‚ Target promise a wage of $15 an hour within
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Nursing Care‚ Staffing‚ and Patient Falls Grand Canyon University Nursing Research Nursing:433-V Angie Lawson‚ RN March 9‚ 2014 Introduction Patient safety is a concern in the hospital setting. Missed nursing care due to high nurse patient ratios‚ or staffing issues leads to patient falls. Patient falls tend to be a big issue and expensive matter for hospitals nationwide. This paper will focus on a qualitative research article regarding missed nursing care‚ staffing‚ and patient falls. Included
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