Nursing Economics back issues from March 2005:
Share this issue of Nursing Economic$ with your HR and IT Departments.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2005; ... LOOK AT YOUR WATCH, take 60 seconds and tell me why a registered nurse should accept a position and/or keep a position in your organization. The next task is to write out your 60-second script. Certainly as a leader in your organization you know why a nurse should work in there, and I am ...
Six-Part series on the State of the RN workforce in the United States.(registered nurses)
Mar 01, 2005; ... IN 2000, NURSING ECONOMIC$ published a four-part series of articles on the nurse labor market that was based upon a study published earlier in The Journal of the American Medical Association (Buerhaus, Staiger, & Auerbach, 2000a). That study identified the reasons behind the rapid aging of ...
Is the shortage of hospital registered nurses getting better or worse? Findings from two recent national surveys of RNs.
Mar 01, 2005; ... DURING THE 1990S, hospitals experienced two national shortages of RNs. The first occurred in 1990 and 1991 and was marked by an increase in the hospital RN vacancy rate (the percent of unfilled, full-time RN positions which hospitals are actively trying to fill) to a national average of ...
Nurse-physician communication: an organizational accountability.
Mar 01, 2005; ... COLLABORATIVE nurse-physician communication is one of the attributes of Magnet-status hospitals (American Nurses Credentialing Center, 2003). Knaus, Draper, Wagner, and Zimmerman (1986) and Baggs et al. (1999) have demonstrated that frequent, effective nurse-physician communication is ...
Celebrate National Nurses Week: May 6-12.(Data Bank)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... "Nurses: Many Roles, One Profession" is the theme for 2005. National Nurses Week is devoted to highlighting the diverse ways in which RNs, the largest health care profession, are working to improve health care. From bedside nursing in hospitals and long-term ...
NPSF improves patient safety through web-based education.(Data Bank)(National Patient Safety Foundation)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), which contributes the "Patient Safety" column to Nursing Economic$, is pleased to announce the launch of an interactive Web site containing three education modules focused on physicians (http://www.npsf.org/html/mcw/physicians. html), ...
Army Nurse Corps sets new incentives for Army Reserve Nurses.(Data Bank)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The U.S. Army Nurse Corps announced new pay incentives for Army Reserve psychiatric, medical-surgical, critical care, perioperative nurses and nurse anesthetists. Approximately 7,100 Army Reserve nurses encompassing 13 specialties currently serve as ...
FIU School of Nursing receives $1 million for new PhD program.(Data Bank)(Florida International School of Nursing)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The Florida International School of Nursing is the recipient of a $1 million grant from the federal Division of Nursing at the Health Resources and Services Administration to support the implementation of a new PhD in Nursing program beginning the 2004-2005 academic year. This ...
The impact of hospice programs on U.S. hospitals.
Mar 01, 2005; ... LIFE EXPECTANCY in the United States from 1980 to 1998 rose at a rate of 0.15 per year for an increase of 2.7 years to a record high of 76.6 years (Fries, 2003). These factors indicate that the United States population is living longer and is increasingly facing the ultimate challenge of ...
Analyzing fluctuating unit census for timely staffing intervention.
Mar 01, 2005; ... IN TODAY'S EVER-CHANGING and demanding health care environment, hospitals are increasingly required to deliver high-quality health care at costs that often do not cover expenditures. Nursing labor costs are and have been the greatest single source of expense in a hospital's budget (Tuttas, ...
Work excitement in nursing: an examination of the relationship between work excitement and burnout.
Mar 01, 2005; ... THE NURSING SHORTAGE has been the target of much discussion in the literature over the past few years. The literature suggests that the two main causes of the nursing shortage are individuals not entering into nursing and nurses leaving nursing. One reason associated with nurses leaving ...
As we lie in the bed we made: the malpractice and regulatory consequences of failing leadership.(Leadership Rountable)
Mar 01, 2005; ... WE CURSE THE GREED of personal injury lawyers. We dread the next edition of increasingly stringent Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO) standards. We fret over how to pay for the staff needed to manage safety and quality functions. While many leaders, ...
Homeland Security extends deadline for screening certain foreign health care workers.(Data Bank)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) welcomed the decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to extend the deadline for Mexican and Canadian health care workers to obtain a special visa certification to deliver patient care and services in the U.S ....
Joint Commission Sets 2005 National Patient Safety Goals.(Data Bank)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations set the 2005 National Patient Safety Goals for each of its accreditation programs and its disease-specific care certification programs. The goals and associated requirements apply to the nearly 16,000 Joint ...
Expertise isn't the only answer to leadership in safety.(On Leadership)
Mar 01, 2005; ... "MOST AILING ORGANIZATIONS have developed a functional blindness to their own defects. They are not suffering because they cannot resolve their problems but because they cannot see their problems."--James Gardner (Covey, 2004, p. 271) The cry for a safer and more reliable health ...