The Effect of Hourly Rounding on Nurse Satisfaction and Productivity Kerri Austin Originally Submitted November 23‚ 2008 Revised and Resubmitted January 10‚ 2009 Hourly rounding is a strategy involving nurses and other health care staff to regularly “check in” on patients every hour. Because nursing staff is not reacting to call lights‚ patients are more content and happy; therefore nurses feel they are doing a better job helping their patients (Studer‚ 2007). Research has shown that rounding
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Improvement to Patient Care by Hourly Rounding A change that a nurse manager could implement that would help improve patient care is hourly rounding. In order to implement this change successfully‚ the nurse manager needs to clearly communicate the expectations‚ and then follow up with good monitoring. When the nurse manager sees the staff meeting the expectations the staff should be acknowledged rewarded/recognized and celebrated. On the other side‚ if the staff is not meeting the expectations
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Hourly Rounding for Falls Prevention in the Emergency Department Sandra Patchel‚ RN‚ CEN Chamberlain College of Nursing NR451 Professor Anderson February 01‚ 2013 Hourly Rounding for Falls Prevention in the Emergency Department Introduction Patient falls are one of the most frequently reported adverse events in the Emergency Department (ED)‚ and can lead to serious injuries‚ such as head injuries or fractures‚ or can result in death. Falls can lead to an increased length of stay for the patient
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"Peak" is categorized as a realistic fiction book. it’s about a boy named Peak Marcello who has a deep passion for climbing. He shows this passion through scaling skyscrapers in the big apple. One night whereas he’s making an attempt to scale the Woolworth building‚ he’s caught by the S.W.A.T team and brought to court. He’s saved by his long lost father‚ Joshua Wood‚ the renowned adventurer‚ volunteered to acquire custody of Peak for a 18 months‚ which would be his jail sentence anyway. Peak would
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According to the proponents of the ’Peak Oil’ theory‚ the world is expected to face severe oil shortages in the near future. Then‚ how can mankind meet its energy needs? Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached‚ after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. The concept is based on the observed production rates of individual oil wells‚ and the combined production rate of a field of related oil wells. The aggregate production rate
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Characters: Main Characters: Peak‚ 14-year-old Peak Marcello. His parents are professional mountain climbers. As Peak says‚ "It could have been worse. My parents could have named me Glacier‚ or Abyss‚ or Crampon."Peak gets in big trouble for attempting to climb a skyscraper in New York City‚ where he is living with his mother and stepfather. Peak gets sent off to Tibet‚ to join his father who leads groups of wealthy people up Mt. Everest. Climbing Mt. Everest is a dangerous pursuit but Peak’s
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more than 60% of the world passed their peak‚ this puts United States at a great risk because the U.S. alone uses more than 25% of the world’s oil. According to Tom Whipple‚ “Americans have consumed an average of 9.3 million barrels of gasoline a day so far this year‚ an increase of 0.6 percent from last year” (Whipple). In 1956‚ a man by the name of Dr. Marion King Hubbert‚ who worked as a geologist for Shell‚ came up with “Hubbert’s Peak.” Hubbert’s Peak is Dr. Hubbert’s theory‚ which he accurately
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Peak Performance Interview To be able to do one’s best in one’s physical state is a way of saying of how peak performers are. I am still in the process of becoming a peak performer. Even though I mostly know what I want‚ there are still some things I’m missing about being a peak performer. Ofelia Rios is my mom. She is a woman in her middle fifty’s living in Mexico‚ and recently she started her own business after being slave of the famous “living paycheck to paycheck” finally she can rule her own
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Mission peak One day I heard that there was this hill call mission peak. IN the summer 2012 I wanted to be the year that I taked my fear of heights. SO after all the planning I was ready. From this experience I learned that the ability was in me the whole time. It begins summer of 2012 I am talking with a favorite teacher of mine she told me that there is a lot’s of hill in bay area I ask her witch one is the closest to Fremont she said mission peak. Two-week letter I research
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Dante’s Peak Film review Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is a volcano expert whose interest became more than just a mere job after he lost the his fiancé during a volcano eruption in Columbia. When he is sent to investigate unusual seismic activity in the quiet Pacific Northwest town of Dante’s Peak‚ he discovers people boiled to death in the local hot spring and plant and animal life dying or displaying unusual illnesses near the city’s supposedly dormant volcano. Harry becomes convinced that a major
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