Hour vs. 8-Hour Work Shifts The Effect of 12 Hour vs. 8-Hour Work Shifts on Health Care in Intensive Care Units Critical care areas, such as intensive care units (ICUs), may be very demanding and challenging places to work. ICU's are typically populated by very highly dependent patients. This work requires an increased staff to patient ratio, entails periods of high activity, the use of advanced equipment, and the need for

Nursing Burnout Polikandrioti M.( 2009). Burnout Syndrome. Retrieved March 24, from 2014 http://www.hsj.gr/volume3/issue4/340.pdf This article is on burnout syndrome which is described as a complex phenomena on the rise associated with a stressful work environment.it was described by Freudenberger in the mid-1970s and ever since it has been a subject of discussion. According to the article, the burnout syndrome is characterized using three dimensions; emotional exhaustion which refers to the depletion of

There is a need for the nurse to be proficient and efficient in her work, because ED's are experiencing an increasing number of patient visits, and there are normally more patient's waiting to be seen than is appropriate for the size of the facility's ED (GAO, 2008). If we compare the patient flow and the speed with which the ED nurse must work in order to accomplish her responsibilities and

autobiography of the author of this report. The remainder of the report will mostly focus on the four meta-paradigms of nursing. Of course, those meta-paradigms are patient, nurse, health and environment. The author will also offer two practice-specific concepts from the scholarly literature that can be applied to the career and environment of the author of this report. Next up will be a list of propositions that will number

jobs, but the one in which I was most significantly effected by ethical challenges was the time I spent working in the business office and customer service department of a large Health Management Organization (HMO). For reasons of anonymity and because I truly believe that my experiences may not have been universal for the entire organization, I prefer not to name the organization. In order to set the stage,

Nurses are considered the backbone of the medical care-giver community. Good quality patient care centers on having a competent educated nursing labor force. There is a wealth of empirical evidence that has demonstrated Baccalaureate (BSN) nurses are associated with fewer medication errors, lower mortality rates, and greater overall positive patient outcomes than nurses at lower levels of educational achievement. For example, Brady, Malone, and Fleming (2009) performed an extensive literature