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Mrs. Sharon Tanks, RN, MSN,MPA,RN,NEA-BC,MSCN is currently a nurse manager for the spinal cord injury/disorders/multiple sclerosis center of excellence department (SCI/D) at the Veteran’s Hospital located in East Orange, NJ. She manages a fourteen bed unit with eleven nurses and nine ancillary staff. Besides managing a fourteen bed unit, she also manages the outpatient spinal cord injury clinic located on the unit. Mrs. Tanks started as a unit nurse in the SCI/D unit and over the course of her…

Travel nursing offers many opportunities and benefits. Nurses require special traits to work in the field. Medical institutions pay travel nurses well, because they fulfill acute staffing needs and provide incentives that encourage caregivers to join their nursing pools. Within the discipline, there are many agencies and several specialties to choose. Special Personalities for a Special Field Travel nurses complete temporary work assignments at various medical facilities. They must earn the…

Research shows that a new graduate nurse may feel unprepared to carry out their new role (Kelly & Ahern, 2008). Graduating from a student nurse to a new graduate is not just a change in title, but a change in responsibility, expectations and accountability. A new graduate will need to undergo a series of steps to adjust and transition to their new position, this has always been considered a very challenging, stressful and overwhelming time in the nurse’s life (Morrow 2009.) The first…

and shortage of nurses has become an enormous problem that is widely affecting the health care arena which results in poor patient satisfaction and outcome. Nursing shortage and turnover unenviably influences the leadership skills of direct managers, staffing level, work-related stress flexibility of schedule, capability of clinical staff and recognition of an organization. Hunt states that, “therefore nursing leaders and managers are highly depended upon in changing current trend of shortage…

Their Only Choice: Daily Struggles of Living in a Nursing Home You hear it all time older adults telling their children, “don’t you ever put me in a nursing home” because over the years, nursing homes have acquired bad reputations for the action of those employed there. Nursing homes should not be as dreadful as people make it seem. These should be places where the elderly are able to go and live out their final life moments in peace and serenity. Instead there are incidents all over the nation…

Literature Review: Simulation Based Education in Undergraduate Student Nurses and Experienced Nurses in a Surgical Clinical Setting. Simulation is not technology but it is a technique that is used to replace or supplement real life experiences in an interactive way (Gaba, 2004). A simulation based method of education in the nurse clinical setting improves student learning enhances confidence and communication skills in learners, aids in recruitment and retention of nursing in the clinical…

Organizational Assessment This assignment will address the use of evidence based practice in a hospital in the metro area. Using assessment tools provided by the instructor, it is the goal of this assignment to look for areas of improvement in implementing evidence based practice by interviewing leaders and staff within the organization. Four staff nurses and two middle management individuals were surveyed. The staff nurse surveys are given more credence as to how well evidence-based…

Over many years, the nursing team has faced countless complications, physically and mentally, in the work setting. The basis of these complications arises from a low nurse-to-patient ratio. The typical ratio of one nurse to a multitude of patients has been proven to be detrimental to the nurse and patient. It can be harmful to the nurse by inflicting stress on himself or herself and to the patient by being subject to poor care that is given by the nurse. With a miniscule amount of nurses…

While being down a nurse or two on a unit may not seem like the end of the world to some, it is a huge crisis in hospitals these days. Understaffed nurses are being forced to take on more patients and pick up more overtime shifts to make up for the shortage of nurses. As Sung-Heui Bae points out in his article, “Presence of Nurse Mandatory Overtime Regulations and Nurse and Patient Outcomes,” this in turn puts patient at a high risk for nosocomial infections, falls, and even medication errors…

The statistical test to find out the correlation between work fatigue with the nurse performance in giving nursing care, showed very strong inverted relationship (p =-0807). Thus, it can be concluded that increased work fatigue can lead to decreased performance of nurses. According to the authors, work fatigue occurs due to excessive workload. It caused the increasing number of patients exceeds to total bed capacity, whereas the number of nurses is inadequate. On the other hand, the nurses are…