entering a hospital has become a health gamble. Hospital budget cuts lead to less staff. Fewer and fewer nurses are trying to tend to more and more patients. This creates a dangerous environment for the patients and poor work conditions for the nurses. It’s a vicious cycle because nobody wants to enter a profession where you are overworked. Too many hours of forced overtime quickly lowers moral and causes burnouts. So‚ people quit. In an effort to promptly replace them‚ new people are brought in and
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Bed-to-nurse ratios‚ provision of basic nursing care‚ and in-hospital and 30-day mortality among acute stroke patients admitted to an intensive care unit: Cross-sectional analysis of survey and administrative data Sung-Hyun Cho a‚*‚ Sung-Cheol Yun b a Department of Nursing‚ Hanyang University‚ Seoul‚ Republic of Korea b Department of Preventive Medicine‚ College of Medicine‚ University of Ulsan‚ Seoul‚ Republic of Korea A B S T R A C T Background: The literature reports inconsistent evidence
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Ethical Decision Making in Health Care: APPLYING ETHICAL FRAMEWORKS IN PRACTICE Alice Verrett Grand Canyon University: 437V April 26‚ 2013 Privacy of your medical records in health care is the means used in guarding facts that clients state when seeking treatment/medication(s) when they are or they feel unwell. Data obtained in the seeking of well care usually will not
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Employment Trends: Nursing Shortages Introduction The United States is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows. Compounding the problem is the fact that nursing colleges and universities across the country are struggling to expand enrollment levels to meet the rising demand for nursing care. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is concerned about the shortage of Registered Nurses (RNs) and is working
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theorist (person who created the theory) 2. A brief discussion of the important assumptions and concepts of the theories. Florence Nightingale is the most recognized name in the field of nursing. Her work was instrumental for developing modern nursing practice‚ and from her first shift‚ she worked to ensure patients in her care had what they needed to get healthy. Her Environmental Theory changed the face of nursing to create sanitary conditions for patients to get care. Biography of Florence
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Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma-Part II Grand Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care NRS-437V-O192 Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma-Part II Larry Schmidt‚ Registered Nurse (RN) ‚ Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN)‚ Masters of Science in Health Administration (MSA) is a veteran nurse with over 30 years of experience in health care. In addition to his impressive credentials‚ he is also the Central Valley Service Area Director of the Emergency Department at Kaiser Permanente. Larry
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Nursing Shortages and Continuing Education The debate continues over the reason for the shortage of nurses‚ especially at the bachelor’s degree level‚ and what can be done to attract more associate degree nurses (ADN /RN) to continue their education into the baccalaureate degree (BSN) level. Although a shortage of all nurses across the spectrum is concerning‚ it is most acutely felt at the baccalaureate level where only 30 percent of the nursing workforce holds a BSN degree (source). Doctor Janine
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question that sustain the research of a descriptive article is: How can moral compass allow nurses to act ethically in the way to provide patient with better outcome after discharge? This clinical question arises from the following issue: Lack of nursing moral compass and impact of ethical practice. The purpose of this paper is to explain how moral compass can help nurses to act ethically when facing a complex ethical dilemma. Problem The issue this paper addresses is actual and can be
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system‚ nurse staffing is a big concern in the U.S. The inadequate nurse staffing has been linked to poor patient outcomes and quality of care‚ job dissatisfaction among nurses‚ and so forth. Therefore‚ the implementation of adequate nurse staffing may be a solution to improve these outcomes. However‚ there is lack of evidence that the safe and effect nurse staffing. • Define your question using PICO: Narrative form: In hospitals and nursing homes‚ will the implementation of optimal nurse staffing
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states the question “How are we to relate to each other in order to ensure that our individual and collective well-being is enhance?”. Ethics is crucial not only in personal and business but within our society and community‚ the business world is competitively brutal and without a set of ethics to follow it could be disastrous‚ not only for employees but employers as well. If a business has a sturdy set of ethical standards it could result in good business and good moral judgement in employees while
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