Safe Staffing Ratios on a Med-Surge Unit Angela Lyons Eastern Gateway Community College Abstract Nurses have an integral and important role in the health care system. In order to retain nurses and have quality patient care, acceptable nurse to patient ratios must be obtained. Three of the many benefits of adequate nurse to patient ratios are quality patient care, retention of nurses, and patient safety. Safe Staffing Ratios on a Med-Surge Unit Nurse staffing is a complex issue with no easy…
impact and firearm force. Are police using force differently today than in years past? For officers using physical force, chemical force, and firearm force. Just as an example of how use of force has changed in the past twenty years in 1990 the ratio between the frequency of physical force incidents to…
To properly analyze the long-term debt of Rite Aid, we must calculate various debt-related ratios. These ratios help find Rite Aid’s leverage and solvency. They also allow us to be able to compare Rite Aid to the industry average. Rite Aid’s ratios and the industry averages are shown on the next page in Figure 12. Looking at these ratios, the biggest concerns lie in the common-size debt, debt to assets, as well as long-term debt to equity. The company is doing very poorly in both categories.…
average which was 14.20%. The positive earnings of Intel and the negative earnings for AMD has resulted in better ratios for Intel when it comes to Return on Equity, Return on Assets and P/E ratio. Although Intel’s P/E ratio of 14.25 is in the positive it also showcases that they are expected to grow less than the industry average which has a P/E ratio of 22.10. Based on key ratios Intel has a clear financial advantage over AMD for at least the previous four years starting in 2012. Where Intel…
Ratio Analysis As of today, April 3, 2015, Micron has a P/E ratio of 8.66. Over the past 13 years, the highest P/E ratio of Micron was 115.75 and the lowest was 3.54. The overall median is 17.92. MU’s P/E ratio is ranked higher than 97% of the 1178 companies within the Global Semiconductor Memory Industry. This shows a positive sign of growth and that MU is outperforming other companies. The return on assets is 17.82% (as of Nov. 2014), while the minimum is -17.31% and the max was 18.39%. MU is…
diverse global economic issues as well as consumer, marketing and privacy related policies. For example, Groupon faced several lawsuits for violations such as the misrepresentation of expense items in its statement of operations (income statement or P&L) that did not comply with GAAP which led to the reinstatement of the financial statements in 2012. In addition, the company was allegedly involved in litigation for violating consumer acts and state laws. G. The role of a financial manager is…
their liquidity ratios listed below: Liquidity Ratio Name Liquidity Ratio Amount Current Ratio 1.50 Quick Ratio 1.50 Cash Ratio .05 Kelly Service Inc (KELYA) Stock Analysis - GuruFocus.com. (n.d.). Retrieved November 07, 2016, from http://www.gurufocus.com/stock/KELYA Kelly Service Inc (NASDAQ). (n.d.). Retrieved November 07, 2016, from http://www.marketwatch.com/search?q=kelya Kelly Services cash ratio is considered to be very low, but based on what I have read, a low cash ratio is not a…
According to the peer analysis that has been carried out, INRI has a moderate P/E ratio among its competitors (peer high 32.95; peer low 13.61). The ROE of INRI is the highest among its peers. The EBITDA margin is relatively lower than its peers and the net profit margin is slightly higher than the average of the peer group (14.09%)…
performing the financial ratio analysis of BMW and Suzuki is looking like the fiscal performance of Suzuki is much more stronger than BMW by two-thousand-five it had one-hundred-ten-thousand- three-hundred-thirty-five dollars to BMW’s forty-six-thousand-six-hundred-fifty-six dollars in revenue, (E*Trade, (2015). Financial Ratios for Suzuki 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Current P/E Ratios…
the impact on ROE as stated above). Combined with Orica's Debt to asset ratio increasing from (XX) to (XX) in 2012, Orica is financing almost 60% of its assets through debt (increasing their total liabilities by $624m). Orica needs to review its borrowing practises and debt financing as these high ratios show that they are relying more on debt than in the past (which results in increased interest expense). These high ratios also imply that Orica is becoming more capital intensive, which is…