plants in the system is insufficient to supply all consumers with electric power of the required quality. A shortage of real power can result in a lowering of frequency throughout the power system and can ultimately lead to a breakdown condition. The breakdown condition can be prevented by connecting additional (spare) generators to the system or by disconnecting some of the consumers. A shortage of reactive power causes a voltage drop in the system. In extreme cases a so-called voltage avalanche can
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With nearly 10 percent of the American labor force unemployed and another 7 percent so discouraged by their job prospects that they have either dropped out of the labor force altogether or are working at parttime jobs when they would prefer full-time employment‚ it may come as something of a surprise that within less than a decade‚ the United States may face exactly the opposite problem – not enough workers to fill expected job openings. This remarkable turn of events is likely to occur as
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Shortage of Nurse Practitioners To determine why there is a shortage of nurse practitioners it is best to understand that there is a shortage of healthcare workers overall. The shortage of nurse practitioners began in the 1960s as a result of a shortage of primary care physicians. This was due to many physicians pursuing medical specialties that were more profitable. (Hamric‚ Spross‚ &Hanson‚ 2009) In 1965 Medicare and Medicaid began providing health coverage to low-income women‚ children‚ the
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------------------------------------------------- To what extent can water shortages be dealt with on an individual level? Water is the basic necessity of life which is even more important than food. A person can live 2 weeks without food but not even 7 days without water. Since few years‚ there has been a population boom and population in present is almost twice the population before the boom. This has caused water and food crisis in many countries‚ more importantly LEDCs. Presently‚ statistics
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The business model acquired by the hospitals has led to the fragmentation of health care. The shrinking budgets of hospitals and a profit motive preceded to reduction of the number of nurses employed by direct lay-offs‚ converted many jobs to part time and adopted policies to reduce costs. So‚ as the demand for nurses has not changed‚ patient acuity has increased resulting in greater work place demand‚ paperwork‚ turnover‚ overtime and burnout (Reineck and Furino‚ 2005); The increasing exhaustion
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Water shortage may be next cause of world war While much attention and debate have been correctly focused on the impending planet-wide oil shortage‚ a far greater calamity awaits us as the reality of the looming global water crisis becomes more apparent. It is not unreasonable to wonder whether the next world war will be fought over oil or water. No resource on Earth is more precious than water. While ongoing events draw our attention to oil‚ we ignore what will become the most serious resource
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Water Shortage Water shortage problem is when humans or living creatures suffer from a scarcity of water another definition for water shortage is either the lack of enough water or lack of access to safe water and it happens because of the dreadful use of water and polluting rivers‚ oceans and lakes. Water is the reason for our existence; Water everywhere on the planet is a basic part of the global hydrologic cycle‚ it ’s a finite resource. The amount of water supply in the global hydrologic
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Hospital care differs from care at a nursing home facility. Hospitals specialize in short-term patient care. On average‚ a patient stays at the hospital for about four days. Hospitals treat and release their patients rather quickly because of the lack of rooms to accommodate them all‚ and the many demands from the insurance company. Patients come for numerous reasons that differ for all individuals. Patients come to the hospital in crucial situations‚ for which teams of medical specialists come
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Food Shortage. Lester Brown addresses this issue on chapter nine of his book Plan B. He tries to explain what can be done to sufficiently feed a world with a population of 8 billion persons. He gives an example of China’s way of increasing its food production and how in just about a decade‚ china was able to have enough food to feed hundreds of millions of people who were starving. China became self-sufficient in food production and in 2005 was able to manage its hungry population and she not
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The nursing shortage in the United States is much worse than previous shortages. Combining an aging population and fewer nursing students in school is a catalyst for nurse burn-out in hospitals that are already short staffed. The United States is hiring more and more foreign trained nurses. These nurses are filling many vacancies‚ many in less attractive areas and there is a marked difference in their educational level compared to their American counterparts. Both of these traits are impressive in
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