Nursing Unit Turnover on Patient Outcomes in Hospitals While it might seem intuitive that higher rates of turnover within a unit are problematic, the study by Bae, Mark, & Fried (2010) attempts to show using a quantitative study the extent to w Continue Reading...
You have been appointed to chair a hospital-wide committee to develop and implement a plan to improve patient satisfaction in your facility. Your Chief Nursing Officer has provided you a summary report indicating a steady decline in patient satisfact Continue Reading...
Employee turnover and customer satisfaction: a comparison of rural and urban healthcare facilities Staff turnover within the long-term care industry continues to increase at a significant rate (Castle, 2003). National averages show the overall turn Continue Reading...
Staffing in Nursing Staffing and Other Nursing Issues The main topic of this paper is staffing related to the field of nursing, here it is very important to realize a correct balance between the demand of nurses and available nurses at any medical Continue Reading...
Nurse Leadership Literature Cummings, et al. (2010) found that relational leadership led to greater productivity, effectiveness, and extra effort when compared to task-focused leadership styles. The importance of the study to the current research i Continue Reading...
Piney Woods Hospital Satisfaction is the pivotal problem for Piney Woods Hospital to address. Satisfaction across all stakeholders has a substantive impact on the other key challenges the hospital is facing. When customers are satisfied with the ser Continue Reading...
Reducing Turnover in New Graduate Residence Program Introduction- The process of recruiting and training, particularly in high-impact fields like healthcare, has become increasingly complex and expensive. Turnover is the rate at which an organizatio Continue Reading...
Norris Case AnalysisSection 1 Introduction to the Organization Barbara Norris was the new nurse manager at the General Surgery Unit (GSU) of Eastern Massachusetts Medical Center (EMMC). She oversaw a unit of 33 staff, including 25 RNs and 8 patient Continue Reading...
Inpatient Ratio and Morale ER: INPATIENT RATIO AND MORALE Emergency Room: Nurse to Patient Ratio and Morale Nurse to patient ratios in health institutions is one of the most influential factors in health providence, in any country's health sector. Continue Reading...
Dialysis organizations would be another opponent to the change due to the cost. Raising the costs of treatment might be necessary to hire new nurses. Dialysis clinics, because of their small size, often have fewer resources than large hospitals and Continue Reading...
Leading Change for Patient and Service Improvement Module about service quality: Service quality concept in the current literature The developed countries have given a significant importance to the service sector of the country. With every passing Continue Reading...
Reducing Nursing Turnover by Implementing Innovative E-Health: A New Strategy for Incentivizing Nurses and Improving Organizational Culture Problem Identification: Nursing turnover rates are a serious issue for hospitals: they are costly and result Continue Reading...
Public Policy Annotated BibliographyOne potential public policy issue that may be of interest to me is the issue of mandatory staffing ratios for hospitals so as to ensure that adequate quality care is available to patients. Fox and Abrahamson (2009) Continue Reading...
Evidence- Based Patient Safety Initiative Introduced in the year 2003, Transforming Care at A Bedside (TCAB) represents a national- level initiative originally formulated and headed by the IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) and RWJF (Robert W Continue Reading...
The researchers believe that future research should include studies with large enough sample sizes to assess whether factors associated with satisfaction vary by subgroup such as new graduates in the first year of practice. For instance, the study i Continue Reading...
" (North, 2005) Plan Design As indicated from the literature review, an effective approach to establishing a performance improvement process is to establish a 'Champion" to drive the process through the organization and to obtain ensure management Continue Reading...
(Singh, 2007) E. Conflict Resolution Conflict resolution is inclusive of several specific steps which are stated to include: (1) Fact finding: Identify all individuals who are affected by the behavior and get complete history about the patterns o Continue Reading...
New staffing legislation would require Medicare-participating hospitals to establish committees consisting of staff nurses who will make decisions regarding unit staffing needs. According to Rothberg, Abraham, Lindenauer and Rose (2005) many states h Continue Reading...
Nursing shortages and high nurse turnover are very common issues faced in the health care industry. This instability of workforce in the health care industry in many countries is raising questions about performance of the nurses and quality of the pa Continue Reading...
Job Satisfaction in Nursing Levels of Job satisfaction in nursing in relation to generational differences The contemporary society has suffered an acute shortage of nurses within the public and the government sponsored hospitals. Indeed the shortag Continue Reading...
Nurse Turnover and LeadershipThe healthcare industry faces numerous challenges, one of which is the high rate of nurse turnover. This persistent issue can significantly impact patient safety, care quality, and overall healthcare operations. Addressin Continue Reading...
Introduction As of now, at least fourteen states across the country have legislations on safe staffing. Although California is among the fourteen jurisdictions, it is unique in the sense that its legislation includes a nurse to patient ratio clause. Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage on Nurse Retention and Patient Care Delivery The work of Gess, Manojlovich, and Warner (2008) entitled "An Evidence-Based Protocol for Nurse Retention" reports that turnover of nursing staff creates a "dysfunctional human resource Continue Reading...
human resources and psychology is job satisfaction. Not surprisingly, people have noted that higher levels of job satisfaction are linked to improved job performance. Hackman and Oldham were some of the first researchers to really highlight the rela Continue Reading...
PPACA on Nursing Practice: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a legislation that was enacted in March 2010 as part of meaningful and comprehensive reform for America's healthcare system. Upon enactment, the legislation has had signif Continue Reading...
Shared Vision Two issues that affect our hospital are staff shortage and high turnover resulting from poor job satisfaction. As more and more physicians leave primary care to enter into specialized care and the lack of RNs to fill that gap persists Continue Reading...
New Employee Orientation on Employee Satisfaction and Retention One of the most integral parts of successful and efficient business production is associated with employee satisfaction. Employee satisfaction can be achieved through a systematic and Continue Reading...
Work Environment, Job Satisfaction, Stress and Burnout Among Haemodialysis Nurses This article was authored by Hayes, Douglas, and Bonner and published in the Journal of Nursing Management in 2015. The article was selected as an example of the cross Continue Reading...
PICO/PIO development Key term Child Salbutamol Alternatives Paediatric, pediatric, infant Albuterol, ventolin How would you describe your Participant, Patient, or Population group? Female hospital worker age 20 to 45 What characteristics of Continue Reading...
Nurses Turnover among nurses is a result of dissatisfaction with the workplace. This dissatisfaction could be because of low pay, poor working conditions, and lack of motivation to work as well as a general feeling of disregard for their interests. Continue Reading...
\\\"In patients admitted to the ICU, how does goal-directed light sedation compared to no current standards implemented affect the risk of patients developing ICU delirium?\\\"The Problem High incidence of delirium in mechanically ventilated ICU pati Continue Reading...
Family Nurse Practioner Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) in family surburban clinic The paper provides information on an advanced nursing role (Family Nurse Practitioner). It consists of the requirements of the nursing role in terms of certification Continue Reading...
patient satisfaction with the care provided by nursing staff and physicians, as well as how satisfaction can be improved through better communication among physicians and nurses, and with their patients. It will, in particular, deal with a nursing s Continue Reading...
Organizational Behavior Case Study ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Residential care facility's staff plays an important role in the daily lives of residents; unfortunately these facilities are usually faced with organizational obstacles and lack of inform Continue Reading...
Stakeholders I might seek input from Stakeholders are defined as "those key individuals (or groups of individuals) who have an influence over either decision-making or implementation (or both) either directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly" (Be Continue Reading...
Financial Management for Nurses The modern healthcare industry is extremely labor intensive. To be effective, a modern nurse manager must balance patient care vs. staffing, procedures vs. patient load, and fiscal budgets in line with appropriate lev Continue Reading...
