for the troubled unit. During this time she felt, as she did this evening, tired and overwhelmed. As nurse manager she was responsible for managing the staff, scheduling and budget for the unit. Her 33-person staff included 25 RNs and eight patient care assistants (PCAs). In her first month as nurse manager she had already lost two RNs and in the six months prior to her joining the unit three RNs had left. But because of the recently instituted hiring freeze at EMU, Barbara was not able to replace
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Strategies for Addressing the Nursing Shortage: Coordinated Decision Making and Workforce Flexibility LANDI L SCHOCK NURS/531 September-17, 2012 Holly Stenerson Scarce Resources Article: Strategies for Addressing the Nursing Shortage: Coordinated Decision Making and Workforce Flexibility The issue that was chosen to do an editorial response on was “Strategies for Addressing the Nursing Shortage: Coordinated Decision Making and Workforce Flexibility”. The nursing shortage statistics are as follows:
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interpretative inquiries. The nursing profession uses nursing theories as the framework and foundation for practice. Many people find nursing theories to be meaningless and of no use to the profession until they learn the history and meaning behind nursing theories. Nursing theories aid nurses by improving patient care and enhancing communication between members. “The theory of human caring was initiated by Jean Watson in the late 1970s. Jean Watson was a nursing professor at Colorado University
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And Nursing Considerations As a nurse, one must expect to be faced with diverse situations. From teaching patients of varied educational backgrounds to explaining a difficult diagnosis, it is the place of the nurse to build a proper relationship and provide therapeutic communication to each person in the most effective manner possible. This paper first describes the fundamental elements of the communication process, and second, reviews the three levels of communication with nursing applications
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XXXXXUniversity Name hereXXXX Nursing Leadership and Management March 5, 2016 Leadership and Management in a Magnet Hospital The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast traditional hospital management and the current magnet model hospital. According to Margaret McClure, a professor at New York University and president of American Nurses Association, Magnet Credential program has developed as a result of a collection of nursing leaders discussing nursing shortages, thirty years ago in
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Nightingale Executive Summary Western Governor’s University Nightingale Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital is a 180 bed hospital that provides acute care and a range of services to their community. Nightingale has four core values that consist of safety, community, teamwork, and accountability. Communication is a key concept in achieving and defining those values. According to the National Patient Safety Goal Data in regards to communication for Nightingale Community Hospital
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client. You should ask yourself each question as you enter your client’s room and throughout your clinical day and write an answer. You should then write all appropriate nursing diagnoses in PES format. l. Is patient able to maintain personal hygiene? Bathing and Oral Care: Client is able to handle her own bathing and oral care with assistance and help from the aide. Client's vision is very minimal. As per her chart she has glaucoma and she stated that it is very difficult for her to see.
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professional adjustments of Enrolled Nurses in their practice. It focuses on the principles underlying nursing practice and enables practitioners to develop a positive attitude and be equipped with the requisite capacity and skills which in turn prepare them to meet and fulfil the psychological, physical and social needs of the clients under their care. In the case of more than one person taking care of a patient, there should be a professional relationship between the team members in a respectful and
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Asian Indian Culture and Tradition NURS236: Transcultural Nursing March 29, 2016 According to the U.S. census, there are over 1.6 million people of Asian Indian origin in the United States. Asian Indians began immigrating to the U.S. as early as the turn of the 20th century. Most found work in agriculture working on farms. Between 1980 and 1990, the population of Asian Indians in the U.S. increased by 125%. Due to family reunification laws, the number of Asian Indian elders who followed their
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seclusion reduction, the barriers of elimination of this practice and experts’ opinions regarding alternative interventions (Peake, 2013). The negative impact of this practice on health care providers and mental health service recipients has been acknowledged. However, seclusion receives wide support from health care providers, particularly nurses as a necessary behaviour management therapy (Happell & Koehn, 2010). Many efforts have been made to reduce the use of seclusion but elimination of the
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