Nursing Shortage: Is Technology the Answer? Sandi Coufal University of Phoenix Influencing the Future of Nursing and Healthcare NUR/531 Catherine M. Hill MSN‚ RN March 28‚ 2008 Nursing Shortage: Is Technology the Answer? Nursing has always been synonymous with caring. Dr. Jean Watson describes caring as the center of all nursing practices and that it is “a moral ideal rather than a task-oriented behavior” (Tomey & Alligood‚ 2006‚ p. 94). At this time in history‚ there is a nursing
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The Birthplace of humanity All people are most likely to be descendents of beings who lived in Africa millions of years ago. Fossils and genetic evidence suggest that both humans and the forest dwelling great apes descended from a common ape like ancestor who lived in Africa 5 to ten million years ago. The earliest known hominids to which humans belong were the australopithecines‚ which emerged about four million years ago. Recently scientists have found Homo habilis fossils in the Caucasus region
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Informative Speech: Drug Shortages in Hospitals Paul Davis‚ the chief of an ambulance squad in Vernon‚ Ohio‚ was down to his last vial of morphine early September when a woman with a broken leg needed to get to the hospital. The ride was 30 minutes‚ and she was in obvious pain. But because of a recent countrywide shortage of drugs‚ his morphine supply had quickly dropped from four to one‚ leaving him with a dilemma. Should he treat the woman now or should he save it for a patient who might need
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Canada is facing a critical shortage of nurses. Nurses are one of the most important components of the health care‚ they see to a moment to moment care of patients after the doctor has done their services. There have been many causes to nursing shortage in Canada. One of the major causes was the issue that happened in the 1990’s. In 1993 Ralph Klein decided to layoff tens of thousands of nurses‚ causing an aftermath of a Canada wide nursing shortage. The nursing shortage has become a concern to Canadians
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2. Ironworking in Africa The Bantu speaking people in three thousand B.C.E. to one thousand C.E. began to migrate south and east from where they originated‚ which was the Benue region‚ in Africa. For years to follow they migrated through the Savanna‚ implementing agriculture and ironworking‚ particularly iron smelting to other African tribes. Throughout their migration‚ they assimilated with the other inhabitants of Africa‚ sharing their language‚ agricultural innovations‚ ironworking skills‚ and
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Development Policy Management Forum Addis Ababa © 2002 by Development Policy Management Forum (DPMF) All rights reserved. Published 2002 Printed in Ethiopia Development Policy Management Forum (DPMF) United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) P.O. Box 3001 Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia Tel. 251-1-515410/ (DL) 443197 Fax: 251-1-515410 Email: dpmf@uneca.org Website: http://www.dpmf.org All views expressed in the Occasional Papers are those of the authors and not necessarily those
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care there have been times in which‚ the directors of the hospital have been trying to get rid of Licensed Practical Nurse or LPNs and want their nursing staff to only be Registered Nurses or RNs. If LPNs are eliminated there will be a huge nursing shortage in the hospital setting. If a LPNs is currently working in a hospital setting are told to get their RN by a date or they will be fired. This is a problem because older LPN that is close to retirement they are not likely to want to go back to school
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Three species of zebra still occur in Africa‚ two of which are found in East Africa. The most numerous and widespread species in the east is Burchell’s‚ also known as the common or plains zebra. The other is Grevy’s zebra‚ named for Jules Grevy‚ a president of France in the 1880s who received one from Abyssinia as a gift‚ and now found mostly in northern Kenya. (The third species‚ Equus zebra‚ is the mountain zebra‚ found in southern and southwestern Africa.) Physical Characteristics The long-legged
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PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute What works* Healing the healthcare staffing shortage *connectedthinking Table of contents 01 02 03 04 Executive summary l Key findings l Future Forces l Recommendations l About the research 05 Background: Business policy issues around the supply of nurses and physicians 11 The challenges of inadequate supply 20 Overcoming the disconnect 22 23 25 27 31 Strategies for developing a workforce
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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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