• What is the effect of fringe benefits on nurse staffing? According to the Internal Revenue Service’s definition, “A fringe benefit is a form of pay for the performance of services” (Internal Revenue Service, 2014). Such benefit could range from insurance coverage, tuition reimbursement to a retirement contributions. As some positions are difficult to fill due to its nature, employers often uses benefits to encourage nurses to take on such shifts. For instance, nurses who are working night shift
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To earn a BSN, the process approximately takes four years. In addition to general education courses, a student in this major will learn emergency care, health assessment, research and scholarship for evidence-based projects, issues and trends in nursing and so much more. Enrolling in a four-year BSN program is a serious commitment. While some students manage to work while in school, a nursing student is devoting a great amount of time to coursework and lab time so they must consider whether they
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Nursing leadership must demonstrate nursing values and model ethical behavior and responsibility while upholding integrity and understanding of nursing ethics in a working environment for staff to follow. Through nursing leadership, discussion about professional ethics should be encouraged; goals for nurses to improve professional ethics should be set, and leaders should ensure that the staff is meeting the goals and that there should be a clear communication about ethical practices expectations
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Ethical Issue Paper: My ethical issue paper focused on substance abuse among nurses. I decided to focus on why and how substance abuse impacts patient care. I also tried to focus my paper on the number one thing we as future health care members should do which is to get those nurses who are abusing substances help. I feel like many people would argue and say that they should get fired and never be able to work as a nurse again and I strongly disagree with that. No one is perfect and everyone deserves
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PROBLEM Nurse fatigue has become a serious problem throughout hospitals around the world. Even though fatigue can be due to a variety of causes, overworking is the main cause of nurse fatigue. Nurses can struggle during work time and time outside of work. Having fatigue during work time for a nurse can cause damage and mistakes to him or her, or even the patients and other workers in the vicinity. Nurse fatigue has become worse throughout the years because of short staff. Short staff is when few
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One of the rules John Maxwell mentioned was having to make trade-offs (2016). I personally have seen what the trade-off is when transitioning from a floor nurse to a leader. Our old Director of Surgical Specialties Units was my charge nurse when I was first hired. I loved working on the days she was there. We were all happy for her and her promotion, unfortunately all the close relationships she had with the nurses had to be altered because now she was in a position of authority. In an article by
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Holding a position of leadership was always a goal for Dr. Tammi Damas, who was inspired by her education as a nursing student to advance her career early on. She simultaneously worked as a bedside nurse while pursuing her MSN as a women’s health nurse practitioner, and then went on to complete a dual MBA (specialization in health care management) and PhD (nursing) program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her motivation to leave the clinical setting and become a nurse leader was fueled by her desire
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There has been multiple studies over the years in the relationships between the staffinglevels in nursing homes and quality of care measures. Finding the best evidence for staffinglevels on the quality of care has become more and more difficult. In the research article“Systematic Review of Studies of Staffing and Quality in Nursing homes,” the results of thereview are based to three major categories, Staffing measures, Quality measures, and RiskAdjustment or Control Measures. Staffing measures are
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There are two kinds of people in this world, the kind that jump into the swimming pool and the people that slowly creep in inch by inch before finally fully submersing themselves into the water. I’m more like the later type of person especially when it comes making big life decisions. Not surprisingly it has taken me many years to finally decide that I want to be a nurse. It took a lot of thought and prayer to finally come to this conclusion. I initially had the idea that I wanted to pursue a career
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How obtaining my nurse aide license will change my life? When people ask me this question there are so many potential answers that, I struggle when answering it, because that is how profound the effect of me obtaining my nurse aide license would be. Whenever I was asked what I planned to do once I grew up, there was always a stern and steady belief that I held deep inside heart, that when I grew up I would follow in my Grandmother's footsteps and succeed in a field she spent many years advancing
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