proclaim laws that will recuperate the overall working conditions of hospital and clinical staffing. Proposed nurse to patient staffing ratios has become a huge discussion in the healthcare field. It has developed a huge concern that patients and nursing staffs are being harmed related to the inadequate nurse to patient ratio staff. This issue alone has caused an increase in severity of illness, fatigue, hospital stay, and harm to patients. With the increase in complexity of care per patients, nurses
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Nursing Competencies: ADN versus BSN Suzi Roberts Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430V Brittney Grabill May 2, 2015 Nursing Competencies: ADN versus BSN According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), nursing is “the largest health care profession, with 3.1 million registered nationwide.” The AACN states on their website, in 1980, 22 percent held the bachelor’s degree and 18 percent held an associate’s degree (American Associate of Colleges of Nursing
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Leadership & Management in Nursing Shortage & Nurse Turnover We are all leaders and managers at some point in our lives. There are many opinions about the differences in leadership and managerial styles of leading. There are those who use the terms interchangeably and believe they are the same, those who believe that “leaders” and “managers” are opposites, and those who are in between. Although there are fundamental differences, individuals can be successful in both roles, and organizations need
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Los Angeles region in 2007 • Founded the National Association of Travel Healthcare Organizations (NATHO) in 2008 2 Today’s Agenda • A Look at Today’s Healthcare Workforce • Reviewing the KPMG U.S. Hospital Nursing Labor Costs Study Results • Strategies for Optimizing the Nursing Workforce 3 Learning Objectives • Understand how to successfully blend full-time and contingent labor to achieve financial and patient care goals. • Develop proactive contingent staffing strategy to attract
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Self-Assessment I am Karen Franklin BSN, I have been a nurse for 4 years. I am applying for Clinical II, I have grown as a person and as a nurse. I have had the priviledge to work in several different areas of nursing and truly enjoy being a nurse. My first position was on a telemetry unit where I got to learn of how to care for and manage critical care patients. In addition to learning how care for my patient, I learned how to initiate care plans, comply with core measures and do bedside teaching
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There were many things that I observed during the Capstone experience. The first thing was that many of the nurses were severely fatigued throughout the night shift. Some nurses relied heavily on caffeine throughout the night and others would get multiple items from the vending machine. A couple nurses had a hard time keeping their eyes open, while other nurses were wide awake throughout the entire shift. I also observed nurses taking breaks and walking the stairs to help themselves gain more energy
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where a male nurse helps deliver a baby to a teenage mom and encourages her to take care of her baby although faced with adverse situations in her life. To Jada Pinkett Smith in the television series ‘Hawthorn’ where she took on the role of Chief Nursing Officer and showed her passion for her job although being faced with challenges in her personal life . All these characters are fictitious and none of them accurately portrayed the true challenges that nurses face every day in their daily roles.
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“A growing body of research shows that nurses working 12-hour shifts are more fatigued and at greater risk for making errors” - Roxanne Nelson. Nurses are our primary caregivers and have a duty to perform. If a nurse is exhausted and can not meet his or her full potential then that can intrude into the patient's safety. Therefore, nurses should be limited to 4 days a week with 8-hour shifts. The connection between extended work hours and worker fatigue, decreased productivity, and increased patient
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There are shortages of nurses in various locations around the U.S. as well as other countries, which means that travel nurses are in high demand. Along with demanding top pay, travel nurses can spend time in locations that they've always wanted to visit. While a nurse might work long, demanding hours, she should be able to spend time at the beach, visiting local museums or hitting up popular tourist destinations while living locally. These are 10 of the most desirable travel destinations for traveling
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Analyzing and Implications for Practice of Qualitative Research: A Qualitative Study Of Charge Nurse Competencies Yvette Thornton Grand Canyon University May 27, 2011 NRS 433V The article,” A qualitative study of charge nurse competencies” by authors Yoder, Connelly and Miner-Williams in the October 2003 issue of MedSurg Nurse, focus on the lack of formal training for charge nurses and the feedback from the staff on what competencies are necessary for a charge nurse to be effective
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