in sight. People pack two days worth of activities and errands into one‚ work more hours‚ and spend less time relaxing and just getting away than ever before. Many would argue that this ever busy lifestyle is from always being connected (through cell phones‚ text messaging‚ voicemail‚ email‚ etc.) and never making the separation from work and play. That is why a growing disease in today’s culture is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)‚ at about half a million people in America alone. Currently
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The Adverse Effects of Clinical Alarms: Alarm Fatigue Juleen Barnes Maria Galo-Parrilla Harriet Meulendyke Elynor Furlan HSN 510 February 23‚ 2015 Delores Deihl The Adverse Effects of Clinical Alarms: Alarm Fatigue Technology has taken over the patient’s bedside. The sounds of ventilator alarms‚ cardiac monitors‚ and infusion pumps are only a few reverberations heard through the halls of any hospital. As we attempt to protect our patients by using sophisticated technology‚ device alarms place
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Paradigm Shift NT1110 This paper will discuss how video games and how it has effected people. We will also discuss if video games create jobs for people and how it affects the economy. Also what might prevent them from advancing? And what might make it obsolete? Video games have become a part of every day. People use the daily for entertainment from Phones‚ video arcades
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Compassion Fatigue Jessica Schultz Brigham Young University – Idaho What does compassion fatigue mean? Compassion fatigue is a severe exhaustion that results from the strain of caregiving. Prolonged‚ continuous‚ and intense caring for patients and families that are dealing with stressful changes can lead to compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue can be described as the combination of burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Burnout involves emotional exhaustion‚ and depersonalization. Secondary
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important is to know how communicate in the right way. After 12 hour working concentration is decreased and the rates of accidents and errors increased by that time you will be giving shift report to the next shift. imagine that you try to remember all the detail for all of your patients. Miscommunications during shift report causes harmful mistake. Handoff‚ handover or shift report are referring to the first 15 to 30 minutes in the begin of the shift when the
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Paradigm Shift It’s very complicated to aim at certain technology and express its different impacts. If you talk about one‚ you have talked about all of them. That’s just my opinion. Technology has enhanced and advanced itself over a 20 years period. Can you see where we are headed? Do you remember where we were when technology had run rapid across the globe? I have very strong views and feelings on this particular subject. Since I’m limited to how far I can push this topic‚ I will keep it very
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Disadvantages to Working the Night Shift By Sid Williams III‚ eHow Contributor updated: March 11‚ 2010 1. As many companies operate 24 hours per day‚ there are jobs that require night or graveyard shift employees. Although it is true that working in night shifts has advantages--higher pay and less supervision--it also has several disadvantages. Health Concerns 2. Working the night shift poses health concerns primarily because the brain is programmed to sleep at night. Since the sleeping
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field of nursing with a duty to compassionately care for the sick‚ wounded and weak patients in their charge. However‚ emphatic and caring nurses can become victims of the continuing stress of meeting the often overwhelming needs of patients and their families resulting in compassion fatigue (Kim‚ 2013). Boyle (2011) defines compassion fatigue as contemporary label affixed to the concept of personal vicarious exposure to trauma on a regular basis. For health professionals‚ compassion fatigue arises
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October 8‚ 2012 The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber both captured my interest from the very beginning. These short stories represents gender roles and marriage. They both are about married couples with controlling mates. “The Story of an Hour” is about a young married woman and how she reacts to the news of her husband dying
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After this experience‚ the rest of the clinical shift went astonishingly well. With that great self-confidence and the motivation to efficiently accomplish all the other tasks‚ I realized that the coordination with my partners was the primary influence towards my self-esteem today. My partners and I communicated with each other on every aspect to clarify and divide responsibilities. We started the shift by splitting up and individually going into the patient’s room to wake them up and ask if they
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