Economic shortage

unfavorably affect safety and quality of care. Moreover, healthcare organizations are struggling with an ongoing nursing shortage, which is projected to grow in the near future based on nurses retiring (Center for American Nurses, 2015) According to the American Nurses Association (2015), lateral violence is one of the main reasons nurses leave or plan to leave the profession; negative effects, such as (a) decreased job satisfaction, (b) reduced organizational commitment, (c) decreased personal…

There is currently a nurse shortage that is increasing in intensity every year and as stated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration, by the year 2025 Arizona is estimated to have the greatest shortage of nurses. This shortage could be the result of a high turnover among nurses as a result of burnout. The nursing shortage forces nurses to increase their workload, meaning their patient to nurse ratio. With an increase in workload more…

Transition to practice is defined as defined as ‘formal program of active learning that includes a series of educational sessions and work experience for newly licensed RN’ (Krsek & McElroy, 2009.The main goals for this program are to improve the quality of care and retain new nurses while developing their role as a professional nurse. The program is aimed to boost new graduate confidence by help them understand the system and learn the environment before they threw them on the floor alone.…

At Sacred Heart Medical Center (SHMC) in Springfield, Oregon, the most recent quarterly overall hospital turnover rate was 7.6%. The emergency department’s (ED) quarterly turnover rate during the corresponding time period was 7.23%. An extraordinary departure of senior leadership has occurred in our organization over the past year. Such changes in senior leadership may be unnerving and generate fear, mistrust, and unrest in the organization leading to staff turnover (English & Chalon, 2011). In…

Introduction The nation is suffering from a shortage of school nurses. (Camera, 2016) This shortage has hit the Philadelphia area forcefully due to severe budget cuts and a large population of chronically ill students. Within the Philadelphia Public School System, the current laws regulating nurse ratios place the nurse to student ratio at 1 nurse for every 1,500 students. In many cases, this means that a nurse must travel between schools in order to provide care, even to the detriment of…

Any nurse who has worked in long term care know that the ability to deliver effective care to your patients is affected by the increased acuity and complexity of their health problem (Rodney, P; Doane, G.H.; Storch, J.; Varcoe, C. 2006). The patient to nurse ratio is getting out of hand and harder to handle. Nurses feel that they are unable to provide adequate care to their patients (Rodney, P 2006). A situation that arise on an everyday basis in my past long-term care facility is we must…

unendurable shortage of clinical nurses. Throughout the past few decades, U.S. hospitals have faced cyclical shortages of nurses, hospital nursing positions were unfilled and the percentage continued to drop due to a broad set of factors related to recruitment and retention-among them, fewer workers, an aging workforce, and unsatisfying work environments-that have contributed to a different kind of shortage that is more complex, more serious, and expected to last longer than previous shortages…

rely on water. In the primary sector, water is used for agriculture while in the secondary and tertiary sectors it is used for mineral processing, apparel and electronics. Shortage of water or poor water quality risks instability in all of the sectors which in return leads to a less politically legitimate nation due to economic and social restraints. In many regions of Latin America, scarcity of fresh water is a continuously increasing problem. Most of Latin America is arid to moderate climate…

Britain indecisive decision in leaving the European Union has had a huge economic impact. For instance, Britain faced an interest rate cut from .5 percent to .25 percent in August resulting in negative outcomes. One being the weakening of the pound compared to other big currencies causing an increase on cost for vacation in Britain…

Main Points The Price of Everything is an unabridged dialogue between a seasoned professor of economics and a passionate college student that takes place as the student decides to stand against corporate greed. One of the overarching themes throughout the book is that even though a company may seek to maximize profits it is by no means malevolent or malicious. In the case of Big Box, it is easy to illustrate them as an evil corporation, capitalizing on the misfortune of others in the wake of a…