Nurses are turning increasingly to staffing agencies to find employment. Many hospitals and other healthcare facilities go through cycles of hiring personnel and then laying them off when budget cuts come down at the end of the fiscal year. This leaves many nurses unemployed while there is an increasing need for their talent. One of the challenges for staffing agencies that handle nursing positions is having the capacity to add personnel when demand increases. If cash flows are tight‚ adding additional
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Critical Issue Paper: Proper Staffing related to Patient Safety Introduction The appropriate staffing of Registered Nurses is critical in the safety of hospital patients. Nursing shortages‚ along with major cuts in nursing budgets‚ have combined to result in fewer nurses at the bedside. This creates a safety hazard for patients‚ as well as a critical issue in the nursing profession. Nursing and patient outcomes are both highly affected by inadequate staffing. This paper will focus on the necessity
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Introduction Improving the quality of care and patient safety is the top priority of every hospital. Strategies and interventions are implemented often to improve quality and safety in the hospital settings. One approach is clinical risk management‚ it evaluates system failures and identifies what places patients at risk of harm and takes action to prevent or control such. Evaluating the processes in place allow for improvement continuance. Unfortunately‚ healthcare facilities still struggle
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head: Nurse-Patient Relationship 1 Nurse-Patient Relationship as a caring relationship Abra Nayo Central Connecticut State University Nursing 110-01: Introduction to Nursing Theories Dr. Linda Wagner November 28‚ 2011 Nurse-patient relationship as a caring relationship 2 The nurse-patient relationship is central to patient satisfaction
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Week Three Individual Paper Patton- Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project CMGT 554/IT Infrastruct In week’s three individual dissection of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Department‚ I will discuss three topics that will help with a better understanding of the Hospital’s Networking Department. During the first topic‚ a complete analysis will be completed on the network systems in use. While covering the second topic‚ discussion on what standards may be missing from the Hospital’s
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Why is good communication important in the relationship between practitioner and patient? In the essay I am going to write about why good communication is vital to a healthy practitioner/patient relationship in clinical areas. I am going to do this by looking at many different ways to communicate and how effective they are. I will also be looking into how barriers can effect good communication. I will achieve this by observing communication skills while out on practice and also by researching other
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Literature Review:Raise of Minimum Wage Minimum wage is a topic that is always being discussed and debated over. One reason that this subject is so popular is because everyone who has a job is affected by the result of the wage. Some believe that the minimum should be raise to at least $9‚ while others strongly believe that the raise in wages will disturb the state of the economy. In the articles I have selected the pros and cons of raising the minimum wage are clearly stated. Some of the texts
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Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project Hospitals like any commercial business interest rely on the principles of best practices in the treatment of its patients. Without a standard of care provided through these practices‚ hospitals would fail to provide the basic service that they are designed to provide. Similarly‚ these standards of best practices extend across the entire organization from clinical functions
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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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