...Introduction 12-Hour shifts have constantly been an argument in the field of nursing. This topic interests me because there is constant jitter around this topic in the nursing field, about whether these shifts are safe, or not. This can be taken into view from the patients view and also the nurses. Many people would support a side that nurses working these long 12-hour shifts could lead to accidents in the working environment. There are also people who would argue that these shifts benefit the patient/nurse relationship, and is more beneficial because there is only three shifts per week. Nurses should not be allowed to work 12-hour shifts because, the physical and emotional impact on their bodies is too debilitating, and the length of the...
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... Part 1: Based on Section 5.5 Graphs of Sine and Cosine Functions (Blitzer, 2013), the function can be used to exhibit the periodic behavior of water depth. A is amplitude, B can be used to find the period, B and C together are used to find the phase shift, and D is the vertical shift. The amplitude is defined as the difference between the maximum and minimum value divided by two, . The period is defined as . The phase shift is defined as , and the vertical shift, D, is found by taking the mean, or average, of the maximum and minimum values, (Thinkwell, 2001). The information above is what is used to find the water depth, y, during an amount of time, t (in hours) after midnight using the format, replacing t with x for this problem....
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...correlation between long working hours and poor patient outcomes as evidenced by an increase in patient errors, near sentinel events, and injuries to the nurse. The sentence outline is a clear and concise method of uniting the original study question of patient quality care outcomes directly affected by nursing hours worked and the major facts of the research evidence to support the conclusions and findings of the study. I. Clinical Issue Chosen: PICO format a. Problem/Population of Interest i. Registered nurses care for patients in a variety of settings, including hospitals that require 24-hour nursing coverage. ii. Does an RN working eight- or 12-hour shift create potential hazard to patient safety? b. Intervention of Interest i. Nurses who work eight-hour shifts do not cause an increased risk to patient safety. c. Comparison of Interest i. Nurses who work 12-hour shifts may increase the risk of errors and may potentially negatively affect patient care. d. Outcome i. XXXXXXX I don’t know what to put here… I’ve struggled with this part all along. I don’t know what it is????? II. Literature Search (Quantitative) a. Extended work shifts may predispose nurses to make more errors. i. Evidence supports that nurses working beyond a 12-hour shift may directly affect patient mortality rates and patient safety (Bae, 2012; Rogers et al., 2004). ii. Other studies expose evidence that supports there were no differences in nursing errors related to eight- or 12-hour shifts...
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... THE M/M/1 NOTATION REPRESENTS: Arrival distribution Service time distribution M = Poisson M = Exponential No. of service channels open m = 1 QUEUING EQUATIONS: λ = mean number of arrivals per time period (for example, per hour) μ = mean number of people or items served per time period SAMPLE PROBLEM 1 Angie is the Branch Manager of Citibank Lagos and she wants to improve the service of the bank by reducing the average waiting time of the bank’s clients. She was able to determine the average arrival and the average number of clients serviced per hour. How many clients are in the bank at any given time? How much time does a client spend in the bank? How many clients are waiting to be served? How much time does a client spend waiting? What is the probability that the teller is busy? What is the probability that there are no clients? DATA TABLE Given Description Value m λ μ Number of tellers Arrivals per hour Serviced per hour 1 11 12 1. Compute the average number of clients in the system (L) at any given time: L 11 = λ / (μ - λ) = 11 / (12 – 11) = 11 clients are in the bank on the average 2. Compute the average number of hours a client spends in the system (W): W 1 = 1 / (μ - λ) = 1 / (12 – 11) = 1 hour is the average time a client is inside the bank 3. Compute the average number of clients waiting in line (Lq): Lq 10.0833 = λ2 /...
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...each? The three base calendars are Standard, Night Shift, and 24 Hours. Standard default values is all week days from 8 AM to 12 PM then 1 PM to 5 PM. Night Shift is All week days from 12 AM to 3 AM, 4 AM to 8 AM, and 11 PM to 12 AM. Plus Saturday from 12 AM to 3 AM, and 4 AM to 8 PM. 24 Hours is every day from 12 AM to 12 AM. 2) What is the difference between a base calendar and a resource calendar? A base calendar defines the usual working and nonworking times and days, and exceptions, such as holidays, for the project or for a group of resources. You can select any base calendar as the project calendar or as the basis for a resource calendar. You can also apply a base calendar to tasks as a task calendar. Resource calendars ensure that resources are scheduled only when they're available for work. They affect a specific resource or category of resources. 3) Why schedule one project meeting after completion of the last task, Test System? This would be a final meeting to discuss the success or failure of the system test. If the test was successful, then all team members can be released from the project and given expectations as to where they will be next. If the test was a failure, the team meeting will allow discussion on how to proceed to address the issues that caused the failure. 4) Give an example of when you would assign a 24-hour calendar to a resource. You would assign a 24-hour calendar to a contractor or an outside source, they work...
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...Project and what are the default values of each? The three base calendars are Standard, Night Shift, and 24 Hours. Standard default values is all week days from 8 AM to 12 PM then 1 PM to 5 PM. Night Shift is All week days from 12 AM to 3 AM, 4 AM to 8 AM, and 11 PM to 12 AM. Plus Saturday from 12 AM to 3 AM, and 4 AM to 8 PM. 24 Hours is every day from 12 AM to 12 AM. 2) What is the difference between a base calendar and a resource calendar? A bade calendar is for everyone to use while a resource calendar is only for that resource that was assigned to. 3) Why schedule one project meeting after completion of the last task, Test System? Since we were working out the work days in the schedule, it lower the finish date on the project. But since the last project meeting was set to this date it could not be changed. So when we delete it, the project days lower down. 4) Give an example of when you would assign a 24-hour calendar to a resource. When we need that resource to work every day in the given time we need them to. For example a securities guard. 5) If you were doing a senior project, what would be the base calendar you would use for students working on the project and what adjustments would you make to it? If I was working on a senior project there is no set time on when they should do it, but there will be a due date. So I would put down 24 hours as the schedule since students would pick when to work on their...
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... And Dr Kathy Rudkin School of Accounting and Finance University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW 2500 Australia Tel: 61 2 42213148 Fax: 61 2 42214297 E-mail: krudkin@uow.edu.au The Effects of Employment on Academic Performance of Australian Accounting Students ABSTRACT This study examines factors that impact students engaged in paid employment while studying in a tertiary accounting program in a regional Australian university. It examines the differences in experience of domestic and international students. No direct significant relationship was found between paid employment and academic performance for the overall study sample. There was a positive relationship found between paid employment and academic performance with respect to domestic students. However, in the case of international students a negative relationship between paid employment and academic performance was observed. A significant positive relationship between a shift work pattern of paid employment and academic performance was found. The Effects of Employment on Academic Performance of Australian Accounting Students 1. Introduction This study makes a contribution to the literature identifying and examining the factors that impact student performance in tertiary accounting programs. Much of this existing literature is located within the United Kingdom and North American institutions. Documented factors in these studies include the impact of gender...
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...and researches of marine personnel fatigue especially of deck officers. There is a demand and great interest to survey the sleeping habits of Swedish marine engineers. The aim of this Master Thesis is to find out if marine engineers get enough sleep. The purpose is also to find differences in sleeping patterns between technical chiefs and engineers. This Master Thesis is a part of a greater study, where the marine engineers answered a medical questionnaire and filled a diary. Test persons wore also a special watch that recorded their sleep and wake results. This Master Thesis and its results are based on the answers given in the medical questionnaire. Questionnaire was filled in on Swedish vessels operating in different maritime sectors. The results indicated that there were differences between engine personnel’s sleeping habits and especially in how they felt the fatigue. The results received from the medical questionna ire point out that there is a demand at some level for planning, execution and surveillance of marine engineers’ work task. To prevent fatigue in the engine room is current and desirable. The individual circadian rhythm could be taken in consideration when planning work shifts. Work and especially sleeping environment should be suitable. Respecting the...
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...THE HOMEMADE KITCHEN is a new start-up. The idea arose after several years of retail experience in other ventures, most notably music distribution. The homemade kitchen is a different genre of business, although the template for retail success is in place. The Homemade kitchen is one that can attract a variety of people, all age groups, all genders. The demographics of the consumer is vast & after research it was decided that this was a venture. The homemade kitchen emerged to meet a need of the food market in periods of less accessibility. No matter the time that the consumer wants to satisfy his hunger, he now has a quality homemade option. The Homemade Kitchen is a new concept of quality fast food. Any time you want there will be always one of our magic food trailers near from the customers. It consists in a mobile fast food restaurant unit. Instead of a store, we have several wheels sustaining our delicious food. The Parisians that were in doubt if Paris has or not a place to eat after midnight and early in the morningwill be now our #1 fan. The Homemade Kitchen will be located in the most crowded places of Paris and near from non-stop commercial places and universities. Our target is to be Paris #1 option to eat healthy fast food and offer a comfortable place for our customers with friendly service. After clubs, parties, shows, in the middle of work time, the lights of our trailers will be on! Since we saw it is almost impossible to find a place to eat or buy drinks...
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...Managing Staff Adrienne Molett HCA/270 November 27, 2011 Axia College Managing Staff Annualizing staff is one way that health care facilities can monitor hours needed to provide care for patients. In this paper, I will be discussing how the costs are tied into staffing, the differences between annualized and scheduled-position methods. I will also talk about the reason to annualize the staff and what benefits of recording productive and nonproductive time. I will then provide a conclusion to summarize everything I have discussed. Managers in health care facilities are responsible for making sure the positions are fully covered at all times, especially if the facilities is opened 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There is one way the manager can monitor how the hours are distributed. The manager is given the cost for the month and this is when the manager must tie the cost into the actual staffing. The manager must look at how many hours it will take and find out based on the actual employee on how many nonproductive days they have to be able to equally distribute the hours for the week. Managers must know the difference between the annualized method and the scheduled-position method in order to schedule the hours correctly. These methods can vary depending upon the facility, so it is vital to know which method the facility uses. The annualized method is when the manager must include the employees’ unproductive days with their productive days to know what the exact...
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...thousands of different jobs around the country that are currently being worked by teenagers and adults alike. These jobs range vastly from typical grocery jobs to hard labor summer jobs. Two distinct jobs that are massively different are working at Fareway, and working for a detasseling company. While one is an easygoing all year job, the other is a hard labored, summer only job. The differences between Fareway and detasseling are the hours available, the management, and the type of labor required. Scheduling hours while working at fareway is a very easygoing experience. There are always plenty of workers that are available, so workers can take off when needed. The shift lengths can range from anywhere between 2 hours to 10 hours at a time. The store is open from 8am to 9pm at night and has shifts starting from 5am to 11pm. Detasseling on the other hand, has very strict and set work periods. It only lasts about a month during the summertime so working as much as possible in a short time period is critical. Every employee works at the same time starting from 5am to anywhere between 12-1pm. Nighttime shifts are not available to detasseling and if a worker misses a day, there is no way to make it up....
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...Outline • • • • • • • • • • Fonderia di Torino Overview Problem Definition Financial Considerations Determination of Discount Rate Estimation of Cash Flows NPV Equivalent Annual Cost Qualitative Considerations Sensitivity Analysis Conclusions and Recommendations 10 March 2015 2 Overview of Fonderia di Torino ● Founded in 1912 by Benito Cerini, located in Milano ● Specialized in the production of precision metal castings (automotive, aerospace and construction equipment) ● Its well-known safety pieces made them conclude contracts with Peugeot, BWM, Ferrari Problem Definition ● Original equipment manufactures(OEMS) shared confidential market demand information, ● Provided cheap loans to support capital expansion ● Benito Cerini predicted a postwar demand, enabled to meet that demand ● From 1940’s to 2000’s, the pace of growth was stable ● In 1991, on the Milan stock exchange (55% of the shared in Cerini family’s hands) 10 March 2015 3 Problem Definition: Should we replace old equipment or not? Old Machines Vulcan Mold-Maker ● Semi-automated machines; ● Automated molding machine; ● Workers stamped impressions under heat and high pressure; ● Prepares sand molds to obtain iron castings; ● Labor intensive process → training/retraining to obtain consistency in mold quality; ● Replace old machines; ● Heavy lifting from workers → medical claims for back injuries doubled in the last 10 yrs due to production...
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...time cues (exogenous zeitgebers) on our 24 hour cycles, and suggesting that an internal body clock (endogenous pacemaker) creates a free running sleep/wake cycle rhythm of 25 hours. Siffre (1975) * Case study of his own experiences in an underground cave for 2 months. Without any exogenous zeitgebers such as light or cues to guide him, his sleep/wake cycle generally adjusted to a 25 hour cycle, though sometimes changing dramatically up to 48 hours. Aschoff and Weaver (1976) * Designed a temporal isolation study by placing participants in an underground ww2 bunker without an environmental or time cues. * They found that the free running cycle persisted with a sleep wake cycle of 25 hours, sometimes increasing to 29. Weakness into research of circadian rhythms * Lack internal validity. * They removed natural light sources, artificial light from torches and cameras have been shown to reset the endogenous rhythms, thus interfering as an extraneous variable. Exemplified through Czeisler et al (1999) * Altered participants’ circadian rhythms down to 22 hours and up to 28 only using dim lighting to alter his release of melatonin from the pineal gland. * Findings do not reflect true isolation and have lower internal validity, so his rhythm may not have adjusted so well if he had been truly isolated. Siffre’s study * Criticised for being a case study reflecting Siffre’s personal individual differences which cannot be generalised to the wider population...
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...program: • In-State Cost Per Credit Hour - $72 to $82 • Out-of-State Cost Per Credit Hour - $154 to $216 • Average Tuition Per Semester (full-time in-state students) - $864 to $1,019 • Average Tuition Per Semester (full-time out-of-state students) - $2,627 to $3,168 Furthermore, the average costs do not include the average...
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...You are an HR practitioner in a medium-sized company that will soon be hiring 20 summer interns. You have been directed to provide a 1500-word briefing for all line managers outlining the legal obligations that your company has to these new employees. Write a memo that outlines the most important legal requirement that managers must know about when hiring and managing these employees. You may wish to make specific reference to your jurisdiction’s laws addressing employment standards, occupational health and safety, and human rights. * Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act * Managers must make sure that they comply with this act’s ten principles in regard to maintaining the standards for privacy. According to this act, the human resource department and the company are responsible for safeguarding the privacy of employees. According to this Act, employer can barely keep anything from an employee. Employers are allowed to gather information about employees such as performance, attendance, and possibility of advancement. * Employee Standards Legislation: * There are minimum standards that employers are required to meet * Human rights employment standards in Ontario: * Protects people in Ontario from employment discrimination * The protected grounds of discrimination in employment in Ontario are: race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion or religious creed, age (18 and over), sex (including...
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