Mandatory Nurse Patient Ratios Continues Mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios have been a hot topic of discussion for over 15 years. As of today‚ California is the only state with actual state mandated nurse- patient ratios in place. I support mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios because research has shown that patients have better outcomes when cared for by nurses who practice under state mandated nurse-patient ratios. According to the article Mandatory Nurse-Patient Ratios “support for mandatory-patient
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Mandatory Hospital Nurse-To Patient Ratio in the Healthcare Field (Professor/Instructor) November 07‚ 2011 Mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are a controversial topic in healthcare. In this practice‚ state laws are established that require a certain level of staffing within a particular unit. Organizations such as hospitals must balance income with expenditures‚ and nurses and patients may be affected by these decisions. Mandating ratios is one attempt at ensuring nurses’ workloads do not exceed
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In finance Ratio analysis is carried out to judge the liquidity of the organization. It helps the analysts to find if a company is capable enough to pay its liabilities. Moreover it also helps to show the operating efficiency and internal return of an organization. Keep in mind that the ratio is good or bad only if it is compared to the industry in which the organization is operating in. Some of the important ratios are: * Current Ratio * Asset Test Ratio * Return on Asset *
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Patton-Fuller Ratio Computation Shourn Henderson‚ Marilyn Lilly‚ Noralva Rodriguez HCS/405 February 11‚ 2013 Dr. Ben Kukoyi Patton-Fuller Ratio Computation Introduction This paper will address the ratio computations to Patton-Fuller Community Hospital taken from Audited and Unaudited Reports from 2008-2009. From 2008-2009 the existing assets reduced‚ but showed a growth in the hospital’s responsibilities. The hospital is presently making adequate revenue to cover the debts‚ which
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Activity Homework (Day 1): As homework‚ you will build a paper plane out of the sheet of graph paper provided to you. The next day‚ you will bring in your plane and we will have a paper airplane contest!! There will be awards for longest flight‚ longest time in air‚ and fastest plane. The Rules of the Contest: 1. You will be given a sheet of graph paper from which to construct your plane. You can make test planes from sheets of regular paper‚ but your final product needs to be constructed out of
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Financial Ratio Formulae http://www.HelpWithAssignment.com Liquidity Ratio 1. Current Ratio = Current Asset / Current Liabilities 2. Quick Ratio = (Current Asset – Inventory)/ Current Liabilities 3. Net working capital to sales ratio = Current Asset - Current Liabilities/ Sales Profitability Ratio 1. Gross Profit Margin = Gross Income / Sales 2. Operating Profit Margin = Operating income/ Sales 3. Net Profit Margin = Net Profit/ Sales Operating Ratio A ratio that
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Spetz‚ J. (2002). Minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in acute care hospitals in California. Health Affairs‚ 21(5)‚ 53-64. Retrieved from http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/21/5/53.full.html In the article‚ Coffman‚ Seago‚ and Spetz (2002) questioned that mandating minimum nurse-to-patient ratios could eventually help to improve outcomes and conditions of both nurses and patients in acute care hospitals in California. They found that mandatory ratios could create opportunity costs that were
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Concentration Ratios in Manufacturing ECO 204 Principles of Microeconomics June 28‚ 2011 Industries go through a lot of changes to make themselves successful. There is so much competition that they have to keep up with the market. Using the concentration ratio which is the share of industry output in sales or employment accounted for by the top firms (Karl Case‚ Ray Fair‚ Sharon Oster 2009 p285). Porter explains that there are five forces that determine industry attractiveness
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Ratio analysis of financial statements EXECUTIVE SUMMARY For the purpose of ratio analysis of financial statements ‚ we have choosed 6 cement industries i.e. ➢ Lucky cement ➢ Fauji cement ➢ Bestway cement ➢ Dadabhoy cement ➢ Maple leaf cement ➢ Attock cement We have calculated following categories of ratios: 1. Liquidity ratios 2. Asset management ratios 3. Debt management ratios
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Nurse-to-Patient Ratios Emily Contreras Fresno Pacific University Advanced Academic Research and Composition Com 342 Linda Pryce-Sheehan March 22‚ 2013 The Effects of Working over the Nurse-to-Patient Ratios Hospital administrators need to work collaboratively with recruiters‚ nursing directors‚ and managers‚ to improve and support the work environment for nurses. This can be accomplished by involving the bedside nurse‚ hiring high-quality nurses‚ maintain nurse-two-patient ratios and provide
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