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Nursing Error and Understaffing

This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

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...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Patient Safety and Human Factors

This research paper pertains to nursing errors that threaten patient safety, such as medication errors. Five pages in length, five...

Nursing Shortage in an ED, Proposed Plan

This paper discusses nursing understaffing in an emergency department and proposes a plan to address it, using a SWOT analysis. Fo...

Aging Nursing Population/Healthcare

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

Human Error in Aviation Accidents

can included things like incorrect flight adjustments, incorrect equipment use, and poor skills in emergency reaction. Because of...

Cognitive Psychology and Human Error

so resulting in an error (Reason, 1990). Neville (2001) clarifies that there are other distinctions between errors as well which ...

Exploring the Fundamental Attribution Error

by someone else, they would likely have an external explanation handy to excuse their behavior, rather than acknowledging any mora...

Writers and Typical Errors in Grammar

words is that the word two is a number and the word too also refers to amount (as in the phrase too many). Though the greatest co...

How to Avoid Plagiarism

New England also maintained the boat building industry (Hall, 1999). "The boat builders of the 18th century were some of the most...

Communitarian Perspective, Informaticist

a negative effect on patient care. Sara will most likely need to use conflict management strategies. These include using active ...

Middle Range Nursing Theories, Medication Error

This paper pertains to two middle range nursing theories, Kolcaba's comfort theory and nursing intellectual capital theory, and th...

7 Nursing Theory Issues

patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Aviation Maintenance

mobile offices" (Pryma, 2002, p. NA). The portability of the laptops allows maintenance workers to bring them on the plane, if the...

An Analysis of Medication Errors

it can be catastrophic. Indeed, in England and Wales recent medication errors have resulted in thirty-seven deaths (Nursing Stand...

Reducing Errors in Research

necessary to choose the most appropriate method, in many cases this may include the use of screening and stratification in a numbe...

Type I and Type II Errors and Statistical Testing Uses

to third world countries where there are problems such as hunger and famine. The development of foods that need lesser levels of w...

Medication Errors

in control of the medication. Worse, not all medication errors are reported. If the wrong medication has reached the patient, the...

Medical Error and Quality Care

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...

Human Factors in Aircraft Repairs

of human error. Khalil (2007) reported that 70-80 percent of airline accidents are due to human error. Graeber (n.d.) put the rati...

Learning from Errors - The Impact of Organizational Perception

If organizations and individuals are to learn from mistakes, the organization in which they occur need to have a positive approac...

SELECTION ERRORS AND THEIR COSTS

Discusses the costs of false positive errors and false negative errors when it comes to recruitment and hiring. There are 3 source...

Issues Pertaining to Patient Consent and Dignity

This research paper/essay pertains to a case study in which a 69-year-old man is administered by enema over his protests. Consulti...

Increasing the Quality of Care in Nursing

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

Medication Error Reduction Lesson Plan

deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...

'Applying Airline Safety Practices to Medication Administration' Article Review

establish policy guidelines. In the administration of medication, "processes have been virtually ignored in the search for EBP" (...

Nursing Profession and Medication Errors

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...