Nurses’ Work Hours I have been a staff nurse in the emergency room for fourteen years. I have worked a variety of 8‚ 10‚ 12‚ and even 16 hour shifts. I currently am working 8 and 12-hour shifts on nights. Previously‚ I also worked some 12-hour day shifts. I personally have been struggling with working the 12-hour shifts. My commute to work is 1 hour one way and I have fallen asleep several times driving home from work. The last four hours of my shift I experience great
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Academic Calendar Shift: “Here we go! Paradigm Shift!” Over the past two years‚ the Philippines‚ though still quite behind compared to other countries‚ has achieved major changes to the systems it envelops. One such change was the implementation of the long awaited Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013‚ or simply the K-12 educational system. This said system brought about new opportunities for the Filipino people as well as taking the country a step closer to a better economic status.
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EVOLUTION OF FATIGUE IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS TREATED WITH RITUXIMAB Background: Fatigue is a common symptom of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)‚ it can greatly affect the patient’s quality of life. Our study aimed to evaluate fatigue evolution and its correlation with the scalability parameters in RA patient’s naive to TNF blockers‚ treated with rituximab (RTX). Methods: prospective observational study Including patients who fulfilled the ACR 1987 RA criteria and/or ACR/EULAR 2010 RA criteria‚ treated
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Patient safety is a universal topic shared among healthcare professionals. The Texas Board of Nursing (2007) mandates caregivers to “implement measures to promote safe environments for clients and others” and great efforts have been made to make observations‚ collect data and apply cutting edge technology to better serve patients. However‚ as new safety precautions have been executed to protect the patient‚ new hazards have emerged. One such hazard is the increased number of devices that have been
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physical action is fatigue. This is something that can modify a persons’ execution immensely. Having the capacity to understand fatigue when talking about human bioenergetics is fundamental. Exhaustion happens for the reason that one or a few of the physiological procedures that empower the contractile proteins to produce a drive get to be distinctly weakened. The site of weakness relies on upon the assignment being performed. This impact is known as the task dependency of muscle fatigue and is one of
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It’s something no leader wants to accept‚ but leadership fatigue can hit hard like a ton of blocks. Although before it does‚ there are usually warning signs. According to the American Psychological Association‚ fatigue is “described as emotional weariness and bad attitudes against one’s co-workers and job role.” It can display in a number of tangible ways‚ everything from headaches to gastrointestinal ailments‚ muscle disorders‚ high blood pressure‚ sleeping problems and a lower immune system‚ resulting
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have to work for extended durations and irregular shift hours (Vila‚ 2006). A large body of work has shown that shift work of police is linked with increased spread of sleep disorders‚ malefic health outcomes and self reported slumberous driving (Vila and Samuels 2011). Short and long duration of sleep have been found associated with increased levels of leptin and may have implications for conditions related to obesity (Charles
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The dark rings under Issac’s eyes showed his fatigue as a man in with a checklist checked the damages that were done the previous night. It was strange to say the least‚ a door being knocked down and split in two‚ a window being blown out along with most of the wall‚ and it seemed like someone that ran a lawnmower in the garden. And that wasn’t even going into how the perfect design walls now had cracks. The older man sighed‚ as a group of men continued to examine the damages that were done. Though
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The article entitled “Children Caught in the Crossfire” explores the effects of proper and dysfunctional parenting on Caribbean children. This article identifies dysfunctional homes that foster improper parenting and the impact of psychological and physical absence of parents on their children. It also assesses the consequences of “child shifting” on affected children. The social impairments of children suffering from “child shifting” were cross-examined with the various parenting styles they would
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In Michael Cunningham’s novel “The Hours”‚ all three of the main female characters- Clarissa‚ Virginia and Laura- feels caught in familial‚ social and public roles. Using examples from the book‚ discuss what these ‘performances’ suggest about how normalcy and sanity are aligned with the ability to act out social roles. Which of the characters refuse to play a role‚ and what price does he/she play for refusal? Drawing on your first essay‚ discuss how Cunningham’s portrayal of those characters mirror
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