Hourly Rounding & Fall Precaution Falls are a common occurrence among medical‚ surgical and elderly patients in hospitals. One of the largest categories of reported adverse events in hospitals are patient falls‚ which are estimated to cost more than $20 billion a year. (2010 Lippincott Williams &Wilkins‚ Inc.) Prevention is the best method to decrease the number of falls and reduce hospital cost and increase patient satisfaction. One of the best ways to prevent falls is patient hourly rounding
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Hourly rounding is a systematic‚ proactive nurse-driven evidence-based intervention to anticipate and address needs in hospitalized patients (Meade‚ Bursell & Ketelsen‚ 2006). Research shows that hourly rounding or purposeful rounding seeks to increase the patient experience and patient satisfaction. According to Meade‚ Bursell & Ketelsen‚ effective hourly rounding can promote patient safety‚ foster team communication‚ and improve staff ability to provide efficient care. Despite‚ mounting research
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Emotional Intelligence‚ Job Satisfaction‚ and Job Tenure among Hotel Managers Kara Wolfe & Hyun Jeong Kim a a b Bradley University‚ Family and Consumer Sciences‚ Peoria‚ Illinois‚ USA b School of Hospitality Business Management‚ College of Business‚ Washington State University‚ Pullman‚ Washington‚ USA Published online: 27 Feb 2013. To cite this article: Kara Wolfe & Hyun Jeong Kim (2013): Emotional Intelligence‚ Job Satisfaction‚ and Job Tenure among Hotel Managers‚ Journal of Human Resources
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Introduction The core function of managers in any organisation is to ensure that organisational goals are met through the effective utilisation of the organisations resources‚ the most important of these resources being the people within the organisation. As each individual is unique‚ it would be fair to assume that no two individuals would have the same dreams‚ hopes‚ needs and aspirations‚ and would thus be motivated by different things. To understand what motivates people‚ it would be prudent
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Assignment #2 “Managers should do whatever they can‚ within reason‚ to enhance the job satisfaction of their employees.” I have to say I agree with this statement as it relates to employers because doing whatever they can to increase job satisfaction will reduce negative results like absenteeism‚ turnover‚ and deviant behavior‚ thus increasing productivity in the workplace. Absenteeism is defined as the number of employees that don’t show up to work‚ so by increasing their job satisfaction more
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falls hospitalized patients that would be provided to accomplish the results of the research document entirely. 1st Article: Lowe‚ L. & Hodgson‚ G. (2012). "Hourly Rounding in a High Dependency Unit." Nursing Standard‚ 27 (8)‚ 35-40. Abstract of Article: The analysis study details some advantages of the patient hourly rounding is for the protection of patients
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The researchers stated that more in depth research is needed to evaluate the effects of structured nursing rounding interventions. Also that other strategy may need to be added besides just hourly rounding to decrease falls in acute care settings. Another area that needed to be added to advance this research is a better documentation system and health information technology to increase the reliability of
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Intentional One Hour Rounding In the nursing profession patient safety and satisfaction is greatly stressed and very important‚ thus I chose to do my leadership change project on intentional one hour rounding and how it affects patient safety‚ specifically falls‚ and patient satisfaction. To bring this vision to a reality it was important to understand the problems and to set measurable goals for achieving them. It was also important to gain knowledge from other leaders in the community and health
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Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on research completed for CIPD by The Kingston Engagement Consortium drawing on both quantative and qualitative data collected from member companies over a six-year period of study. Findings – The paper argues that managers need a deeper understanding of how employees are engaging with their work to effectively leverage performance through engagement. It finds that despite much work on engagement‚ the issues of with what and at what level people are engaging is still
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Job Analysis: Assistant Store Managers at Today ’s Fashion Problem Statement Mary Watson has no formal training in description and specification of job analysis process. Analysis and Evaluation Mary Watson was awarded a promotion for her ability to manage a department line of clothing Mary had been both a store manager and an assistant manager in a casual wear department. She is now the regional manager for the Pacific Coast‚ which is one of the largest Fashion’s markets. Mary will manage
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