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Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

Impact of Professional Environment on Nursing Knowledge

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

Missed Nursing Care/Research Article Critique

reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...

Coping with Being Understaffed

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

Transformational Leadership/Nurse Retention

profession. The current nursing shortage-Why retention is important Basically, this shortage results from "massive disrupts in t...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

Hospital Administration and Retention

at improving management systems and supporting a positive organizational culture based on employee commitment. Body Introduc...

Creating a Sexual Health Clinic

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

Hospital Social Work

evolving to meet the needs of contemporary society (Globerman, White and McDonald, 2002, p. 274). For example, the Department of S...

Electronic Medical Records, An Analysis

This research paper describes the factors that hospitals purchasing an electronic medical records (EMR) system. Fifteen pages in l...

State Differences Scope of APRNs

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) are licensed registered nurses (RNs) who have advanced graduate degree education. They ...

Moving to Evidence Based Practices

This paper reports one change that was made in a hospital. An announcement was made that nursing staff would be required to use ev...

Nosocomial Infections

This research paper reports on recent studies that concern the most prevalent pathogens causing nosocomial, that is, hospital-acqu...

Using NPV to Assess a Project

The writer uses a case study provided by the student to assess the potential of a new project using internal rate of return (IRR)...

Stop Smoking in Psychiatric Ward

Numerous articles conclude that people who have mental health disorders are more likely to smoke than people who do not have such ...

Assessing Risk in Critical Care

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on the problem of infections contracted in the hospital setting and considers the i...

Mental Health Hospital Quitting Smoking

There are hundreds of smoking cessation programs in the country. Most focus on a specific population. This essay is part of a prop...

Quitting Tobacco Use

This paper includes one Table and one Gantt Chart. One of the two heaviest smokers are the mentally ill. Why is not exactly known....

Break Addiction to Tobacco

This paper continues on in the quit smoking program in a mental health hospital. The paper reports a simple revenue and expense bu...

Nursing Leadership and Hospital Strategic Planning

This research paper presents a discussion of the nursing leadership role in regards to hospital strategic process planning. Five p...

Reducing Staff Healthcare Facility

Most healthcare facilities today are short staff, especially nurses. Still, this paper discusses things to consider when reducing ...

Health Care Reimbursement, Its Future

This research paper discusses reform trends pertaining to hospital reimbursement. Several new Medicare rules and initiatives are d...

Prenatal Education in a Military Program

This research paper addresses a scenario that describes a prenatal education class that pregnant military personnel and wives are ...

Health Care Seeking Behaviors

Many elements converge to determine whether or not an individual will see a physician or go to a hospital, or avoid the system ent...

Nursing Director, Hospital Hiring Practices

This research paper discusses hospital hiring practices and policies and specifically focuses on the position of nursing director...

Outsourcing Hospital Functions

This research paper explains how many hospitals are turning to outsourcing, that is contractual arrangements with outside vendors ...

MRSA Article Critiques

This paper critiques three articles that focus on the control, treatment and prevention of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant...