care has been to mandate nurse staffing ratios. In 1999 California became the first state to mandate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. California is not the only state to enact minimum nurse staffing ratios for hospitals‚ over the past four years at least eighteen other states have considered legislation regarding nurse staffing in hospitals. Policymakers are forced to consider alternatives to nurses ratios due to nurse shortages. Whether minimum staffing ratios will improve working conditions
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provide care that prevents complications‚ and to maintain a healing psychological environment for patients and families (Corley‚ 2002).” The nursing staffing issues posed upon nurses today can create a state of moral distress. Moral distress is common “when there are insufficient numbers of staff‚ inadequately trained staff‚ and organizational policies and procedures that make it difficult‚ or even impossible‚ for nurses to meet the needs of patients and their families (Corley‚ 2002). When faced
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Chapter 12 Final Match Employment Contracts True / False Questions 1. The three elements required for a contract to be legally binding are: offer‚ acceptance‚ and written documentation. True False 2. It is very important for an organization to know‚ in advance‚ whether an individual will be classified as either an employee or an independent contractor. True False 3. A third party is someone other than the employer or the offer receiver who speaks on their behalf in the
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Optimizing the Nurse Staffing and Schduling Program: The Abstract When we obtain knowledge and learnings through lessons‚ it is important to share this information with others. As a professional‚ dissemination this knowledge is even more important. When professors and faculty publish their work‚ they increase their own prestige along with the institution where they are working (Jeffress & Lyle‚ 2012). More importantly‚ as Forsyth‚ Wright‚ Scherb‚ and Gaspar (2010‚ p. 15) state‚ “Knowledge synthesis
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Internet Staffing methods versus Traditional Staffing Methods Quatonya Collins quatonyacollins@yahoo.com Keller Graduate School of Management Professor Frye 18 April 2013 HRM594 Introduction: In light of the drawbacks of traditional methods and ever-increasing reward of innovative technology this intends to wrap up that the use of internet staffing has now become essential in the aggressive environment of organizational behavior for the market. Social media recruitment assists an employer
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Staffing Project Final Report and Presentation Darnise Jordan Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on June 20‚ 2014 for‚ Yulanda Harris’ B433 Human Resource Recruitment and Selection class. JR Smith Training and Consulting Firm‚ Inc. Staffing Strategies Assistance Report Staffing Plan JR Smith can use sourcing as a way to locate qualified individuals and the labor markets to recruit them from. This is a way to identify potential candidates
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Tanglewood Case 1 Staffing Strategy Penny Ross HRM301-F1WW Jennifer Martin October 6‚ 2015 Tanglewood Case 1 Staffing Strategy Tanglewood should focus more on acquiring talent externally because they should govern the initial intake of all applicants in the organization. The consolidation of management strategies would make Tanglewood take a look at how close it is to the original company mission. There is an inconsistency with previous management. So developing a talent strategy would be
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Staffing Staffing is the selection and training of individuals for specific job functions‚ and charging them with the associated responsibilities (Business Dictionary‚ n.d.). Effective staffing involves understanding company needs‚ such as when it’s most important to save money and when it’s most important to do the best job possible. It also involves understanding the skills and needs of staff members‚ as well as their passions and idiosyncrasies in order to find the best possible fit (Gartenstein
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Dramatic increase in the use of mandatory overtime as a staffing tool‚ is a dangerous staffing practice. This dangerous staffing practice‚ in part due to a nursing shortages is having a negative impact on patient care‚ fostering medical errors‚ and driving nurses away from the bedside. The main law dealing with wage and hour limits is the federal Fair Labor Standards Act or FSLA‚ passed in 1938. Although the FSLA establishes the 40-hour work per week‚ it does not put an upper limit on the number
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Staffing Plan Paper Giselle Walton MGT431 October 12‚ 2010 Lori Gardner Staffing Plan Paper Appropriate staffing can be the key to success for many organizations therefore‚ the human resources (HR) department must develop a staffing plan. In this paper I will develop a staffing plan for a new division at T-Mobile called Loyalty. Loyalty will consist of marketing‚ customer service‚ distribution‚ and accounting. Specific strategies to recruit the appropriate applicants including the legal compliance
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