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Nursing and the Global Environment, 2007.
This paper discusses how major technological advances have affected healthcare administration.
2,174 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the topic of healthcare has become increasingly more popular as the world moves into the information age. The writer points out that there are now many more opportunities in healthcare administration than there once were, and that a great deal of these opportunities are now open to women. Further, the writer maintains that there are still people who have such a strong desire to help others that they will willingly take a job making a low salary because the other rewards they receive are so great. The writer argues that the main hope for the future of nursing lies in finding more of these kinds of people. They are certainly out there, and with the changing global environment it seems quite likely that more and more of them will be able to be found. The writer concludes that the global environment is a very good thing for nursing.
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Introduction
Women in the Healthcare Field
Alternative Medicine
The Need for Lifelong Learning
The Shortage of Nurses
Conclusion
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"Women figure into the growing use of the Internet, as well. The Internet is out there to enlighten and empower consumers, and women are becoming very shrewd consumers. They like to read up on things, they like to know the facts...they want to be informed. Healthcare is especially important to women, who deal with healthcare not just for themselves, but often for their husband and children. They are very conscientious when it comes to their choice of a doctor or hospital, and they learn all they can before the appointment."
"Women who work in healthcare administration know this, because they have families too. The concerns of the wife and mother are the same concerns that these women have as well.
Now that women are starting to enter the field of healthcare administration in greater numbers, the marketing of healthcare will very likely change."
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Nursing Ethics and Globalization, 2007.
This paper offers a reflective review of the article "Nursing Ethics in an Era of Globalization" by Wendy Austin.
1,106 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 38.95
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The paper discusses Austin's thesis that globalization has profoundly changed nursing ethics. The paper looks at Austin's three key health issues of advances in biotechnology and their potential, the demands of equity and justice related to the allocation of global resources and the need for a universal ethic that accounts for diverse values. The paper comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
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Key Ideas
Strengths and Weaknesses
Impact on My Thinking
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"Austin's (2001) thesis is that globalization has profoundly changed nursing ethics because of the shift to a global frame of reference as opposed to an international one. We now live in a global community with entirely new issues from the past. As a result of living in a global village, we experience a new immediacy that essentially erases political borders. "We watch war, famine, epidemics, and the sufferings of the poor a continent away 'live' from our homes" (Austin, 2002, p. 2). Such immediacy changes the scope of our moral concern. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the implications of this alteration in the scope of moral concern."
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The Nursing Work Environment.
This paper discusses problems facing the nursing work environment and makes recommendations for improving these conditions
3,120 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper explains that the current nursing work environment faces a shortage of nurses and extended working hours for nurses, leading to fatigue and high turnover rates; while demand for nurses is increasing, the supply of nurses is not able to match the demand, which may lead to a 20% shortage of nurses in U.S. health care system by 2020. The author points out that hospitals with good working conditions provide clinical experiences to students so that changeover from academia to the work setting will be smoother; encourage differential nursing practice, based on level of education, job skills and pay scales and facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to foster team work and conflict resolution to ensure maximum patient care. This paper stresses that, because the primary role of health care organizations is to take care of patients without any errors, cost control measures should be used with extreme caution so that the quality of nursing does not suffer.
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Introduction
Issues
Changes Required
Recommendations
Conclusion
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"Working for long hours on the part of the nurse's makes them fatigue since it decreases their energy and reduces their attention to the patient and thereby poses to be a serious danger to the patients. Most of the nurses work for 8-12 hours per shift and some work for more hours. Those concerned regulatory bodies of the state should disallow nursing staff from working longer than 12 hours per day and more than 60 hours every week. In addition to changes in staff levels and working hours, the plans of restructuring of the hospital which began in the mid-1980s brought about considerable changes in how nurses function. As a major step in humanizing nurses work atmosphere and bringing back trust, the report advises health care organizations to involve nurse leaders at all management levels and to seek input from nursing staff regarding decisions about work design and execution. Nurses are in major positions to help identify unproductive work processes that could lead to mistakes, recognize reasons of nursing staff turnover, and find out suitable staff levels for each unit."
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Communication in a Nursing Environment, 2002.
This research paper deals with the subject of ensuring effective communication between nursing staff, their patients and the patient?s family
3,080 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 90.95
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The following paper proposes that understanding and utilizing body language would be an effective way for a nurse to improve communication. The nature of communication and the importance of body language in the communication process is examined with a focus on how this can be used to assist in communication in a medical set-up. Based on the research in this paper, it is seen that body language can be used by nursing staff to ensure they send the right message to patients and their families and also to ensure the real message and the real state of patients can be understood.
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"From the research, we can see that body language is an important part of communication and has great effect on communication. From the nursing perspective, we have seen how it can be used to determine the patients and their families real state. We have also seen how the body language of the nurse can be used to ensure that the patients and their family feel comfortable enough to speak freely and communicate the truth.By training and ensuring that nurses are aware of body language, effective communication can be better established. This is especially important because the nature of the situation means that understanding the patient?s state is critical to providing them with correct treatment and also because the nature of the situation means that the patient may not necessarily speak honestly about their conditions.Training nursing staff in the importance of body language would allow them to better communicate with the patients and their families and this in turn, would increase the quality of care that could be delivered, with the quality relating to personal needs as well as medical needs."
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Global Nursing, 2006.
A discussion regarding how the world is now a global village and is affected in it's entirety by occurrences in other places.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses how each person today lives in a global village. What occurs in any part of this village affects the entire village. The paper goes on to discuss how one-half of our world is developed and affluent while the remainder exists in disease and starvation. Everyone is aware of this inequity. As disease spreads, access to health care becomes more unequal. The entire village currently is threatened by nuclear conflict. We are confronted with environmental disaster that demonstrates our interdependence.
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The Working Environment of Nurses, 2006.
This paper is a literature review that assesses the working conditions and risks of nurses and suggests improvements in their working environment.
4,280 words (approx. 17.1 pages), 34 sources, APA, $ 113.95
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This paper relates that nurses face more than intense political, economic and stress related events in their working environments. Today's healthcare professionals also are at risk for physical injury, institutionally contracted disease and disability associated with their employment and commitment to patient care. The author examines primary and secondary evidence and concludes that stress, physical risks, poor rewards, violence and lack of communications are the leading factors pushing nurses to other professions. The paper suggests that these problems can be rectified with networking, fair wages, safety training, continued education and the continued validation and support of nursing staff in hospitals and nursing facilities.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Methodology
Literature Review
The Emotional and Political Environment
Physical Dynamics of Nurse's Working Environments
Disease Risk
Physical Injury
Improving the Working Environment for Nurses
Physical Risks
Political Dynamics
Psychological Factors
Management Techniques
Discussion and Conclusions
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"Frings (2001) believes that networking among employees, management, and the community is the key to reducing stress. By providing extra resources and reducing pressure in employees and clearly recognizing the stress of workers today's healthcare organizations can create a positive working environment that promotes commitment. However, it appears that it is the basic shortage of workers that creates stress and burnout and as Raske (2002) puts it nothing is going to improve until today's healthcare facilities are willing to spend the funds necessary to hire sufficient staff and create a positive working environment."
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Nurses and the Hospital Environment, 2006.
This paper examines the role of nurses in creating a positive physical and psychological environment in a hospital.
1,723 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper explores the role of the nurse in creating a positive hospital stay for patients. The author describes a case study of hospital patients and summarizes these findings and their implications to nursing. The paper highlights the difference between the physical setting of the hospital and the importance of the interpersonal connections of the nursing staff to patients.
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"Overall this study attempted to reveal the perceptions of the hospital environment to patients in the acute care setting. It bought to light the fact that patients are not as concerned with the physical environment as the interpersonal connections with nurses. Few people in the study spoke of the actual physical environment of the acute care hospital. The following words of one of the participants should be a reminder to nurses that we do make a vital difference to our patients. " The psychic income from being a nurse is having that personal reward fro knowing you're making a personal difference to someone in that human-to-human contact."(Shattell et al., 2005)"
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Nursing and Obstetrical Nursing Curricula, 2006.
A look at the organizations that regulate and control nursing and nursing education programs.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at nursing and obstetrical nursing and investigates what agencies police and design the curricula for these fields. The State Boards of Nursing and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission are examined and the policies and standards that they set are discussed as well as the required curriculum content and development they oversee. Their impact upon curriculum development and revision is also reviewed.
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"In the arena of nursing, there are so many specialties, so many fields, so many types of nurses, that there must be governing and regulatory bodies. Without such organizations that regulate and control nursing and nursing education programs, there would not be a singular and uniform set of expectations for this nation's nursing professionals. The two organizations that will be discussed in regard to how they influence the regulation of nursing, and more specifically how they could influence obstetrical nursing, are the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC). The first of the two governing agencies that this paper will discuss and investigate is the NCSBN."
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Director of Nursing in Nursing Home, 1999.
Examines issues affecting this position & role. Examines the economics of the institute, restructuring, responsibilities, quality of care and staffing.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 14 sources, $ 47.95
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"DONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY NURSING HOME ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
This research examines some of the issues affecting the position and role of the Director of Nursing (DON) in contemporary nursing home environments. DONs are experiencing increasing difficulties in their attempts to fulfill their responsibilities as the health care environment in the United States continues in a period of transition.
DONs and Transition in the Health Care Environment
An increasing number of nursing homes, in the pursuit of goals related to both efficiency and effectiveness, are implementing reorganization schemes that frequently involve downsizing, decentralization, or some combination of downsizing and decentralization (Barrett, 1995). Among health care.."
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Nurses Aids as Supplement to Nursing Staff, 2002.
A discussion of the conflict within a hospital setting between registered nurses and nursing aids.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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This paper examines a conflict between registered nurses and nurses' aids at a hospital. The conflict is centered around a misunderstanding on the part of the aids towards their respective duties. The paper provides a series of steps that can resolve this group conflict.
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Introduction
Problem
Overview of Situation
Recommendationa for Solution
Conclusion
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"It has come to the attention of the floor supervisors at Newport General Hospital that there is tension among the nursing staff. The decision of Harvard Group HMO to utilize "creative management" strategies to supplement the existing registered nurses with nurses' aids has been met with extreme prejudice on the part of the medical team and the patients. "
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Every Nurse Controls the Image of Nursing, 2008.
This paper is a persuasive essay on the changing role of the nursing profession's image in modern day society.
730 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses the changing role of nurses. The paper asserts that while every nurse controls the image of nursing, the demands of the times change what constitutes, and what will constitute nursing. Furthermore, the paper states that the nursing profession is undergoing transitions both within and without that profoundly impact it's public image as providing care to those in need. The author states that whereas technology can provide more and more timely cures, nurses are still typecast into a caring role, which may be less of a priority in the global scene that merely looks at health care as a service-oriented body repair shop.
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"As often is the case, internal and external change can have unpredictable effects on the components of the profession, not only as a whole. For instance, the broadening of the different roles a nurse can pursue has only happened in the latter quarter of the previous century in response to the expanding demand for them. There is an inherent advantage in specializing and giving students advancement options, even the option to independently practice is currently available. However, with the lack of time to develop these different tracks into distinct, autonomous, regulatory professional entities, this leaves the impression on the public that the nursing profession's demand-driven schism is a warning sign that health care is slowly becoming service-oriented rather than patient-oriented. Presently, it is difficult to distinguish nursing roles such as the nurse practitioner apart from the roles of other professionals such as physicians. Such increasing overlap in responsibilities, knowledge, patient treatment and management must be assessed and acted upon in order to ultimately establish a change in the public's perspective on nursing as a whole."
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Transformational Leadership in Nursing, 2008.
An analysis of the impact that the transformational leader can have on the nursing environment and on organizational commitment.
2,059 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 64.95
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This paper discusses the role of transformational leadership in response to change within the nursing profession. It describes the important impact that leadership can have both on the nursing environment and on organizational commitment. The paper suggests that the transformational leader should have the ability to transform the image of nursing and to resolve the nursing shortage by inspiring and motivating followers.
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"Transformational leadership is especially important at the present time since it inspires and supports nurse who work under heavy workloads and with numerous sources of stress. Because of transformational leadership, nurses realize that a new image and model of nursing is possible. Even under such strenuous conditions, the leader with inspirational motivation is able to energize the members of the organization (Beugre, 2006). This is possible because the transformational leader is able to impact on others' perceptions of themselves and also on their degree of trust and job satisfaction. The result is seen in a correlation between transformational leadership and organizational performance (Boerner, 2007)."
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Leadership and Nursing, 2007.
This paper explains the functions of leaders in nursing environments using a metaphor of a gardener.
1,080 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The paper discusses how a leader within a nursing unit is no different than a leader in any other organizational environment. The leader must take on a dynamic role, work to influence team members and must ensure a cohesive and collaborative work environment. The paper compares this to the role of a gardener. The paper notes that good communication skills, a charismatic personality and the ability to delegate tasks effectively are all critical skills necessary for a leader to succeed in the nursing environment. Likewise, a gardener has to take charge of the plants in their environment with flexibility and adaptability.
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Leadership Defined
Gardener Metaphor for Leader
Job Roles of Leader
Characteristics of a Leader
Conclusions
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"There are various metaphors one may use to describe the leader in the nursing environment. The metaphor that best describes my nursing unit is that of gardener. A gardener must know how to handle and raise various types of plants, possess the ability to problem solve, understand what the specific needs of each different plant are including the need for sunlight and water and also understand how to care for the garden as a whole. This is much like the responsibility associated with nursing leadership."
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Nursing Leadership, 2008.
This paper uses the author's own experience to exemplify the application of leadership theories to the hospital nursing environment.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses the correction of a situation of poor morale within the author's nursing staff of a hospital telemetry team. The author attributes this morale issue to a very busy workload, to demanding physicians who mostly are non-collegial and especially to a high turnover rate of new people who leave within a year. The paper related that these resignations were because many nurses, including senior staff nurses, felt powerless in their daily work. The author states that her goal became to enhance the staff's personal level of empowerment. The paper explains that some sources of power were in the extensive experience (expert power) of the staff itself and in the legitimate and recognized leadership power of the author. The author comments that this legitimate type of power can influence, motivate and facilitate the direction of the author's staff.
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"I began to empower my subordinates by first utilizing the human resources at hand. The senior staff was a promising starting point primarily due to their accumulated experience within the telemetry unit. This initiation of distribution of power started with the recognition of senior staff that see the opportunity to assume greater responsibility and accountability, influence and direct others, participate in planning, decision-making and implementation. This also went hand-in-hand with the examination of personal motivations for seeking and exerting power."
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