over the Nurse-to-Patient Ratios Emily Contreras Fresno Pacific University Advanced Academic Research and Composition Com 342 Linda Pryce-Sheehan March 22‚ 2013 The Effects of Working over the Nurse-to-Patient Ratios Hospital administrators need to work collaboratively with recruiters‚ nursing directors‚ and managers‚ to improve and support the work environment for nurses. This can be accomplished by involving the bedside nurse‚ hiring high-quality nurses‚ maintain nurse-two-patient ratios
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on how nurse patient ratio can affect the patient’s outcome but not much has changed over the years. Thirty years ago‚ when I was a new graduate nurse‚ I remember the exhausting 12-15 hour days I experienced working in a medical center‚ three days in a row and being responsible for fifteen patients while working with a Licensed Practical Nurse or a Certified Nurses Assistant. During that time I worked on a medical-surgical/telemetry floor where we also had patients on ventilators. Nurses were not
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individuals give informed consent to health services research. Existing ethical guidelines do not help us decide how to seek consent and have allowed managerial experimentation to remain unchecked. Do you think that alternative forms of community consent should be actively pursued? Why or why not? Read the following article from the Proquest database on South University’s Online Library. It will help you address the question better. "Why we should not seek individual informed consent for participation
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Push for Mandatory Nurse Patient Ratios Continues Mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios have been a hot topic of discussion for over 15 years. As of today‚ California is the only state with actual state mandated nurse- patient ratios in place. I support mandatory nurse-patient staffing ratios because research has shown that patients have better outcomes when cared for by nurses who practice under state mandated nurse-patient ratios. According to the article Mandatory Nurse-Patient Ratios “support
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Reference Coffman‚ J. M.‚ Seago‚ J. A.‚ & Spetz‚ J. (2002). Minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in acute care hospitals in California. Health Affairs‚ 21(5)‚ 53-64. Retrieved from http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/21/5/53.full.html In the article‚ Coffman‚ Seago‚ and Spetz (2002) questioned that mandating minimum nurse-to-patient ratios could eventually help to improve outcomes and conditions of both nurses and patients in acute care hospitals in California. They found that mandatory ratios
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Why is good communication important in the relationship between practitioner and patient? In the essay I am going to write about why good communication is vital to a healthy practitioner/patient relationship in clinical areas. I am going to do this by looking at many different ways to communicate and how effective they are. I will also be looking into how barriers can effect good communication. I will achieve this by observing communication skills while out on practice and also by researching other
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Impact the Nurse-patient ratio has on workloads Betty Jo Ayers Fayetteville State University Dr. D. Jefferys Nursing 300- Group 1 Project Introduction: The nurse-patient ratio has been a debatable problem for many years. It has been found that it is key in ensuring patient safety‚ protecting the nurses and ensuring overall quality of health care service. Background Information: There are four main reasons nurses are experiencing higher workloads
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between healthcare provider and the patient because it will help them work together towards a common goal‚ patient’s health goals. Unlike social relationship‚ this relationship is dynamic‚ client focused‚ and client’s goal oriented to enhance patient outcome.
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Acquiring informed consent in ethical group practice is not just getting a signature on a piece of paper but a process of sharing information and addressing questions and concerns. Being a competent and responsible group leader involves obtaining informed consent from the participants including the group members you are working with (Corey‚ 2004). There are reasons why informed consent is important in ethical group practice. According to Corey‚ “If basic information about the group is discussed
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Objection 1: The argument is invalid because patient autonomy is the ability to have control over what medical procedures are consented to and decided upon‚ while informed consent is define as a patient’s right to be sufficiently informed about medical procedures‚ so the patient is able to make intelligent decisions based on comprehensive data. The author can respond to this: Donating the patient organs and consent is full authority to proceed upon a person’s death. However; there are a large discussion
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