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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From my viewpoint nursing’s biggest challenge today is the issue of safe staffing . This topic has been an issue for a long time‚ and still is. Reductions in nursing salaries has led to the nursing shortage. Nurses have also been in shortage for a long time because of the educational/personal requirements. Nurses are having to work longer hours and this can lead to ineffective care because nurses are overworked and underpaid. State nurses associations are required to staff each unit appropriately
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Katrin Mössler The Pros and Cons of International Staffing April 2003 The ethnocentric staffing policy refers to the strategy of a multinational company to employ managers for key positions from the parent headquarters instead of employing local staff ("Global Human Resource Management"). Many organizations have traditionally relied on parent country nationals (PCNs) for staffing top management positions abroad for a number of reasons ("Global Human Resource Management"): 1. The expatriate’s
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Nurse staffing refers to the ratio of nurses to patients in a particular unit. The current global nursing shortage is simply wide spread and dangerous lace of skilled nurses who are needed to care for individual patients and the population as a while. A study on the nursing shortage by Linda Aiken of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing‚ fund that an estimated 20‚000 people die each year‚ because they have checked into a hospital with overworked nurses. (The American Nurses Association
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Staffing Case Study Critical Thinking 3 Once I evaluated the Staffing Case Study‚ many things need improvements in the hiring process‚ legal ramifications could occur if the hiring process is not enhanced immediately. The owner of Stars Hollow Hat Company has asked the customer service supervisor to hire additional customer service representatives (CSRs); there has been an increase in overtime pay in the past three months. The owner let the supervisor know that there was a job analysis completed
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Project Delivery Method The selection of a project delivery method is likely to be influenced by an array of things including – Standard/common practices used by the principal i.e. if the delivery method worked well in the past then why change it. The uniqueness of contracting roles and responsibilities. The level of documentation available before contracts are entered. The difficulty of meeting at a contract price. The lender’s preference (to protect their investment). After thorough comparisons
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In the case of “Staffing Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc” the greatest issue seems to be that of diversity. Numerous lawsuits surfaced against the Wal-Mart corporation with allegations of gender discrimination. One symptom that may have been overlooked was the fact that while Wal-Mart’s employment figure had increased by 50 percent in a span of five years‚ the percentage of women the company employed had actually decreased by three percent. Another issue‚ particularly prior to 1998‚ was that higher-level
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Difficult situations were faced in my facility three months ago where staffing shortage force nurses for weeks work on the floor in technician position with increased patient ratios per nurse and left patient care undone. Some technicians approach vacation time other staff members decide canceled they are working days early in the morning or fail to report‚ placing facility and staff nurses in hard situations. It created stressful environment and conflict among colleagues. We start noted that during
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CHALLENGES OF EFFECTIVE STAFFING (RECTUITMENT SOURCES‚ TYPES AND CHALLENGES) TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 RECRUITMENT 3 SOURCES OF RECRUITMENT 4 NON TRADITIONAL RECRUITING 5 EXTERNAL VERSUS INTERNAL CANDIDATES 6 RECRUITING PROTECTED CLASSES 6 PLANING THE RECRUITMENT EFFORT 6 CONCLUSION 7 REFERENCES 7 INTRODUCTION Modern organizations are facing tremendous challenges in the process of staffing as they need to streamline
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In this essay I will compare two well-known and widely used methods of software development‚ the traditional Waterfall Method and the more recently established Agile Method. The Waterfall method is a structured‚ linear approach that breaks down the software development process‚ or life-cycle‚ into distinct stages. The Agile method is just as the name states‚ it is flexible and adaptable. It breaks the development process into smaller segments defined by deliverable goals‚ each segment runs through
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