is Kimberlee Deutsch. I am a Registered Nurse in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Writing you to request your support for Bill 476‚ Nurse Safe Staffing Legislation. Nurse staffing is a crucial health policy issue on which there is a great deal of consensus on an abstract level (that nurses are an important component of the health care delivery system and that nurse staffing has impacts on safety)‚ much less agreement on exactly what research data have and have not established‚ and active disagreement about
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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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“The stated goals of the profession of nursing are demonstrably ethical: to protect the patient from harm‚ to 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
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Systems Media Table Comparison HCS/482 – Health Care Informatics Systems Media Table: Comparison |System |Purposes |Examples |Uses | |Word processor |The purpose of a word processor |Microsoft Windows created MS |A word processor allows the user| | |is to create text documents to |Word and
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requires careful coordination of many resources on both the selling and client side throughout the sales process. What is team-selling? Team-selling is using the resources of a company to sell an account using all relevant decision makers. The goal of team-selling is establishing long‚ lasting profitable relationships between people‚ product‚and companies. Team-selling provides an ideal process for account managers and specialists to work together to serve a client. "The place and time to use team-selling
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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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QUESTION: Why is staffing critical to organization performance? SOLUTION: “Staffing is the process‚ through which competent employees are selected‚ properly trained‚ effectively developed‚ suitably rewarded and their efforts harmoniously integrated towards achieving the objectives of the business.” Staffing has been an important aspect in an organization’s performance. They are: 1. Staffing enhances other managerial functions: The Staffing function is very closely related to other managerial
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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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we propose a new notion of privacy called “closeness.” We first present the base model closeness‚ which requires that the distribution of a sensitive attribute in any equivalence class is close to the distribution of the attribute in the overall table (i.e.‚ the distance between the two distributions should be no more than a threshold t). We then propose a more flexible privacy model called closeness that offers higher utility. We describe our desiderata for designing a distance measure between
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Nurse staffing ratios Running head: NURSE STAFFING RATIOS Nurse Staffing Ratios Maureen K. Halstead Grand Canyon University: Theories and Concepts in Leadership and Management/451V September 15‚ 2012 Nurse Staffing Ratios Over the past number of years there has been a nursing shortage which has led to the need of more registered nurses in the hospital setting. This is due to the uprising acuity of patient care and a decrease in there overall hospital stay
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