Nurse

Dear Australian Federal Minister for Health, In recent years, the mass retirement of nurses linked to the ageing population of most developed countries has resulted in a depletion of nurses. Also, the pressures related to the nursing career such as shift work and high levels of burnout have exacerbated this shortage (Stankiewicz & O’Connor, 2014). This shortage compounded with the increased consumer demands of care due to higher prevalence of chronic diseases and longer life expectancy may jeopardise

A nurse saves lives and make sure you are okay. And they solve problems all the time. People wouldn't be here with out them just like me . Your life depends on nurses all of them.My Mama is a nurse and she knows how hard it is for me because I have a disability but by the help of her my disability doesn't bother me a lot. We all love nurses because they tell us how to treat our body's and health.So I thank nurses across the country about what you do to help us and others.Nurses have very hard jobs

A Nurse Practitioner is a licensed clinical health care provider that possesses comprehensive clinical expertise in diagnosing and treating health conditions with additional education and skills needed to educate about disease prevention and health management across the life span. (AANP, 2017). Nurse Practitioners usually work under the direction of physicians. Millions of Americans are choosing Nurse Practitioners more for their healthcare needs today. Nurse Practitioners serve to evaluate and diagnose

study uses nurse staffing variables, patient outcome variables, and background variables. The nurse staffing variables will involve the number of nurses to skill mix and patient volume. Patient outcome variables will be categorized into infection control, patient safety, subjective and objective outcomes, and complications. The background variables are important to accurate correlation and may relate to both patient outcome and nurse staffing and will include organizational systems, nurse characteristics

Does the Shortage of Nurses Risk Patients? “Given that you’ll have more patients and you don’t want to increase (nursing) ratios, the only way you’re going to do that is with more personnel . . . But finding them is not easy. With an average age of a nurse being 48 years, its going to be much more difficult.” This quote written by Janet Elkin, the president and CEO of Supplemental Health Care and it explains in the article how in the next few years the already high need for nurses is going to skyrocket

the hospitals to the tertiary institutions, there has been ongoing argument and discussions about the readiness of new graduate nurses (Levett-Jones, FitzGerald, 2005). Even though the thought of becoming a new graduate nurse makes me excited and feel accomplished, I am dreading by the responsibilities that come with it. “The role change from being a student to being a nurse involves a certain fear and feeling of humility in relation to the new role” as concluded by (Sneltvedt, Odland, & Sørlie, 2010

Increasing acuity and rising complexity of acute-care patient populations, lack of a standard national nurse residency program, low job satisfaction scores of graduate nurses, and a high turnover rate of graduate nurses are a few of the important factors that led to the creation of the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) national nurse residency program (NRP). Multiple deans from AACN baccalaureate programs and chief nursing officers

To date there has been limited research on charge nurse competencies, job satisfaction, and development. Additionally, there are no validated instruments to measure these constructs as they relate to charge nurses. Charge nurses are usually not in a defined permanent charge nurse role as delineated by a job description, but rather rotate through if assigned for their shift (Krugman & Smith, 2003). Additionally, many charge nurses enter their role through default (because they are the most experienced

Nurses’ Work Hours I have been a staff nurse in the emergency room for fourteen years. I have worked a variety of 8, 10, 12, and even 16 hour shifts. I currently am working 8 and 12-hour shifts on nights. Previously, I also worked some 12-hour day shifts. I personally have been struggling with working the 12-hour shifts. My commute to work is 1 hour one way and I have fallen asleep several times driving home from work. The last four hours of my shift I experience great

Nursing Liability As a nurse, there continues to become a concern with lawsuits held against the healthcare professional. With the increase number of responsibilities for nurses and the idea of being faced with nursing staff shortages, the risk of liability increases. Nurses “has a duty to do or promote good, to prevent harm, and to remove evil or harm” (Burkhardt and Nathaniel, 2007, pg. 159). The three nurses at the Centura St. Anthony Hospital were accused of criminally negligent homicide in