name is Kimberlee Deutsch. I am a Registered Nurse in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Writing you to request your support for Bill 476‚ Nurse Safe Staffing Legislation. Nurse staffing is a crucial health policy issue on which there is a great deal of consensus on an abstract level (that nurses are an important component of the health care delivery system and that nurse staffing has impacts on safety)‚ much less agreement on exactly what research data have and have not established‚ and active disagreement about
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Working on the ICU: Nurse Staffing The process of going to college‚ studying to become a nurse‚ and ultimately finding a position in our ever growing‚ competitive work field is quite the challenge. Now that the beginning stages of our career have been completed and we have secured our positions as an ICU nurse‚ we face a different dilemma daily within the workplace; understaffing. We have lost three nurses and currently‚ those positions will not be re-filled‚ leaving the workload to fall onto our
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& research Exploring Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory in learning disability nursing: Philosophical parity paper: part 1 In a two-part article‚ Paul Horan and colleagues explore the relevance of this popular nursing model from a variety of perspectives. Can Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory be helpful in meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities? (Taylor 2002) and is one of the most frequently used theories in general nursing practice (Alligood and Marriner-Tomey
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Not Enough Nurses Historically‚ the need for nurses evolved from the dire need of innovative and vigilant care during the War. Because of its nature to serve and give‚ the demand increases as the health care needs get complicated. Although nurses comprise the majority of the health workforce‚ the physical and psychological challenges entailed in nursing exhaust aging nurses who will soon reach their retiring age. As the nation realizes the diminishing supply of nurses‚ it is important to understand
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Ethical Dilemma Decision Making Matrix Case Scenario: Mrs. Jones vs Mr. & Mrs. Smith Step 1 Questions What is/are the ethical question(s)? Who is entitled to have custody of the Baby that was born May5? Step 2 Known To Be Gathered What are the facts? A baby was born May 5 and a couple Mr & Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones agrees to be surrogate mother. Mrs. Jones provided the egg Mrs. Jones was inseminated with Mr. Smith’s sperm Mrs. Jones was
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head: ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN THE HEALTHCARE SETTING Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Harold Ben Harris Jr. Trident University International BHS365 - Ethics in the Healthcare Setting (Mod 1 - SLP) Charles Spach November 3rd‚ 2012 Abstract Session Long Project: The goal of the Session Long Project is to identify and evaluate the ethical principles used in resolving ethical dilemmas‚ and to apply the principles to specific ethical issues that may have professional
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The term “shortage” refers to a situation where there is a demand for something but there is not enough of a supply to meet the demand. In order to determine whether there is an actual nursing shortage currently present‚ we must know what the demand for for nurses and what the current supply of nurses is. According to Buerhaus ‚ Staiger ‚ and Auerbach‚ the demand for nurses is expected to increase two to three percent per year. Furthermore‚ The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration suggested
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What is presented in this statement is the fact that Nurse Rivers did not endorse the questioning of the physicians in charge. Although she took orders and did what she was told by the doctors she failed to carry out the responsibility that she was given as both an intelligent human being and as a nurse. Whatever Rivers did to be considered to be immoral and unethical because of her inaction during this study‚ it must be taken into account the era in which she was practicing. This was taking place
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Dilemmas are an everyday thing. We all have been in a situation where we have to choose between two things. What if you were in a situation where you had to make a decision between two options that are right and two options that are wrong? Many parents are placed in that tragic situation were deciding what option to choose is devastating. Death at any age is traumatic‚ however I believe it is specially hard when it involves children. It is especially challenging because they cannot make their own
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date with current health care‚ expanding research‚ and ways in which patient care and treatment outcomes can be improved. This is especially important in the nursing field‚ in which the main focus is holistic and patient-centered care. There are constant research studies being conducted which introduce new ways to treat and approach patients. Three articles that talk about prevalent healthcare issues in modern society are: The Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Nurse Practitioners Using Behaviour
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