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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INDISPENSABLE 2 Empathy - An Indispensable Ingredient Is empathy a productive tool to develop effective patient provider communication? How does empathy influence active listening in therapeutic care settings? What role‚ if any‚ does empathy play in the delivery of cultural competent health care? This paper will examine the positive impact of empathy in establishing trusting patient-provider therapeutic relationships and the benefits of "putting oneself into another ’s shoes." While "empathy
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the 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
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Pakistan tobacco Company Ltd 2012 Efficiency and effectiveness of IT in Production and Supply chain Systems and Operations Management Aleem Arif www.ptc.com.pk Pakistan tobacco Company Ltd 2012 Efficiency and effectiveness of IT in Production and Supply chain Systems and Operations Management Aleem Arif www.ptc.com.pk Table of Contents Executive Summery2 Introduction2 Value Chain3 Competitive Advantage5 Production Process Structure6 Process Analysis and Design7 Supply Chain Design8
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Reference Coffman‚ J. M.‚ Seago‚ J. A.‚ & 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
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discussion post will critically reflect on the care of Mrs Smith‚ a patient who had been admitted to an acute respiratory ward due to exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Ways in which the nurse can facilitate patient self management will be explored initially; following this‚ barriers to the promotion of patient self management will be considered. Including Evidence strongly suggests that empowering patients to self manage their long term health conditions is associated
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lawmakers on how nurse patient ratio can affect the patient’s outcome but not much has changed over the years. Thirty years ago‚ when I was a new graduate nurse‚ I remember the exhausting 12-15 hour days I experienced working in a medical center‚ three days in a row and being responsible for fifteen patients while working with a Licensed Practical Nurse or a Certified Nurses Assistant. During that time I worked on a medical-surgical/telemetry floor where we also had patients on ventilators. Nurses
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Seisay I completely agree with you that nurses play a vital role in ensuring patient safety‚ since we all know that patient safety can improve patient outcome and subsequently reduce the cost of healthcare. The culture of safety is a continuously changing concept and focus on preventing medical errors and maintaining patient safety and that when those errors happen‚ they lead to bad consequences including‚ increase in length of hospital stay‚ litigation costs‚ healthcare-associated infections‚ lack
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Asian Paints: Supply Chain Efficiency Introduction: Asian Paints is India ’s largest paint company and ranked among the top ten Decorative coatings companies in the world with a turnover of INR 66.80 billion. Asian Paints along with its subsidiaries have operations in 17 countries across the world with 23 paint manufacturing facilities‚ servicing consumers in 65 countries through Berger International‚ SCIB Paints – Egypt‚ Asian Paints‚ Apco Coatings and Taubmans. Asian Paints sells through some
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my care for a dying patient with a lingering illness such as cancer because the patient and I may have a different definition or outlook on what quality of life means. To me this would mean making the best of what little time the patient has left to live. Most importantly is to keep the patient comfortable which may include positioning the patient in bed‚ giving a gentle massage and administering pain medications if necessary. It is also very important to provide the patient and the family with emotional
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