...Nurses-R-Us Newsletter November 9, 2015 Nurses-R-Us Newsletter November 9, 2015 Dear Employees The holidays are quickly approaching make sure you give the gift that will keep on giving Nurses-r-Us will be having a blood drive November 19, 2015 in the dining hall goal is 150 pints we need a gift of life donate. TAKE PART IN THE INCREDIBLE GIFT BASKET RAFFLE Join us Monday November 24, 2015, for a chance to win a beautiful gift basket. Tickets May be purchased in the Nurses –r-us lobby from 8a.m.-4p.m. Proceeds will go towards Angel Tree. Dear Employees The holidays are quickly approaching make sure you give the gift that will keep on giving Nurses-r-Us will be having a blood drive November 19, 2015 in the dining hall goal is 150 pints we need a gift of life donate. TAKE PART IN THE INCREDIBLE GIFT BASKET RAFFLE Join us Monday November 24, 2015, for a chance to win a beautiful gift basket. Tickets May be purchased in the Nurses –r-us lobby from 8a.m.-4p.m. Proceeds will go towards Angel Tree. BECOMEA MENTOR: Introducing Nurses-r-us Big Program Nurses-r-us are extending an opportunity for employees to participate in a school based mentoring program. The school based program is one-to-one mentoring, with children age’s six to 12 that takes place on school grounds during school hours. Employees will find one hour each week, with permission and coordination from their supervisor, to go to together. If would like to mentor and missed the interest meeting at the facility...
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...Brooklyn, New York • Received "exemplary" and "exceeds expectations" ratings on all performance reviews. Cited for excellence in interpersonal communications, teamwork, customer service, flexibility and reliability. • Demonstrated the ability to interact with customers from diverse cultures and backgrounds. • Transformed "difficult" customers into loyal, repeat guests by leveraging strengths in premium service delivery and ability to find win-win resolutions. • Commended for multitasking abilities; frequently assigned the largest section of restaurant during peak dining hours. • Recognized for superior performance and dedicated service commitment through four-time awards as "Employee of the Month." Primary Care Provider 6/2003 - 3/2004, Brooklyn, New York • Shared joint responsibility (along with mother) for the care of terminally ill grandparent suffering from cancer. • Learned the basics of assessing patient vital signs under the tutelage of home healthcare nurse. • Assisted home nurse and hospice staff with all aspects of daily care, including bathing, feeding and dressing....
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...soul of nursing practice. We as nurses believe that we hold the patients’ safety and care in our hands, and we do. Many nurses give this advocate role a lot thought, considering looking out for our patients’ well-being is a big part of our daily job. Nurses are at the front lines of care, and we have a good handle on the issues and what the patients need more than other clinicians. Advocating is about standing up for the rights of your patients and firmly defending them even if you personally may not agree. Your personal feelings of preferences are put aside, since health care is about the patient and their needs, not us the caregivers. According to (Sylvan, 2013), Registered Nurses (RN) have a complex role in advocating for patients. The definition of advocacy varies according to who is providing the definition and the health care setting in which she acts. Many ethical, professional and personal issues are involved that require appropriate education, experience and judgment (Sylvan, 2013). Advocacy ranges from activities on behalf of patients, such as hand washing and proper identification before treatments, to arguing that an early discharge will harm her patient's recovery and etc…. Advocacy also means, if a nurse observes a practice or procedure she believes to be wrong, advocating for the patient demands means, she will speak out even if that practice was carried out by her superior. This is not always easy and may have a cost for the nurse because it is like she is stepping...
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...to make the nurse aware of the patient situation and monitor him more closely. While maybe I did accomplish that goal I had no plan to what to do when the nurse got defensive. Therefore, even though I might have made her aware of the situation I am unsure if she viewed that as being important. I did not share my believes with the nurse and to her knowledge I agree with here even though in my head I was thinking something totally different. Therefore, for the future I could develop a plan that actually includes defensiveness or resistance and how to effectively approach that situation. Third habit is to put first things first. In this step it is important to prioritize and pick out what...
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...mental hospital. He came to the institution just so he would not be put in jail, but he later influences the insane people. His upbringing causes the other people to look at MacMurphy as their leader. The influence of MacMurphy is mostly important on Chief, Billy, Cheswick, and Nurse Rached. His ideas and leadership allow these four character's to change their old ways and become new people. The "cuckoo's nest" is referred to as the mental institution, and MacMurphy is definately the "one" who took control over the "nest" of insane people." MacMurphy had the greatest effect on Chief. Through most of the movie, Chief never talked or communicated with anyone because they all thought he was deaf. We started to see change in Chief when MacMurphy tryed to teach the Chief how to play basketball. The Chief obeyed all of the commands that MacMurphy had taught him. This was the early sign of MacMurphy's impact on big Chief. Not only does MacMurphy try to teach him basketball, but also MacMurphy wants Chief on his side because he is the biggest guy. Also, when MacMurphy gets in a fight, Chief is the first one to help him. The Chief went from not being noticed to getting in scruffles with the nurses. In the end, big Chief is a new person, who wants to explore the world. MacMurphy told him that they were going to go to Canada, and Chief listened and continued to escape threw the window. Billy was also effected by MacMurphy. Billy has no confidence and studders everytime he talks. MacMurphy...
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...It seems that every time the patients are one step ahead of her, she finds a way to push them two steps down. If she loses a battle, it doesn’t matter in the long run because she has nothing to lose. However, if a patient loses a battle, it’s just another piece of themselves that is forever lost to the Combine. Whenever McMurphy gets to the hospital, things start to change. The nurse starts to lose more than win, giving the other patients more motivation to keep better hold of the parts of themselves they have left....
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...Hospital that has seen some dramatic issues taking place financial wise over the past 6 months that is a great concern for the chief financial officer. Over the past 6 months Middlefield Hospital has been dealing with deteriorating financial issues that can be placed on several issues that have been noted. The budget has taken a big hit due to the new facility across town admitting more patients and this has declined the number of patients being seen at our facility. The number seems to be dropping by the month, and more uninsured patients are seeking services here at our facility. The payer mix of Middlefield Hospital is creating an overall reduction of reimbursement and net income for the hospital because more and more patients is comprised of Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured patients. The facility across town is a very big competitor and seems to have opened a wellness center that offers its patients many different preventative and wellness services, and is attracting young families to seek care at their facility. In order to stay ahead of the competition Middlefield needs to make some changes in its operations and make a big effort to implement some strategies to improve its overall financial performance measures. Some of the strategies that will enable Middlefield to compete alongside its competitor and surpass them in the near future will include some of the following: • Accounting systems to cut costs and increase accounts receivable collections • Spending...
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...diagnosed with Leukemia. It was a big shock to her and her family. She began to go through extensive therapies and radiation treatments, it put her family through so much turmoil, stress, and financial binds and she quickly seen how her parent’s beliefs disappeared. She then questioned, why? “Why is this happening to me and why did you choose me and my family to go through this pain?” Her parents quit going to church and they had no time to gather as a family anymore. Everyone was going every which way. “Not only was I falling apart, my family is falling apart!” “I lost total faith in everything I ever believed in.” Her mother tried her best to keep things together, but all Clarissa saw was hurt, pain, and suffering. She became blaming herself for all the pain and heartache she felt she caused her parents. After 2 years of hospital visits and doctors there was finally a breakthrough. She became strong and accepted the fact she had and illness and became optimistic. She then noticed that whatever vibe she put off rubbed off on her parents, who then became positive and “alive” again. Since that day she vowed to stay positive and smile no matter what the day brings. Not only did this show her crisis of faith it was a journey with Daniels 2 Her family and friends that she still ventures into day by day. She believes that the Leukemia is the bully and stands up to it daily! She is never defeated and believes that she will win in the end! All she...
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...Many people lead busy and challenging lives, so they encounter conflict on a daily and sometimes hourly basis at home or at work. As for the people who become involved in conflict, they rarely have any or little understanding about the sources of conflict or how to manage it when it occurs. The whole other level that many people fail to understand is how often nurses encounter conflict and how difficult it can be to find a resolution. Between dealing with patients and their family, nurses also have to be on the same page as the doctors, other nurses, as well as people from other departments in the hospital. Nurses in particular encounter conflict and usually have no understanding of how to resolve it, which is a major problem health care facilities need to take a stand on. Conflict is an inevitable factor in our daily personal and professional lives. We are surrounded by conflict even if we may not realize it. Usually we do not like to experience conflict, but we do enjoy watching others deal with it. For example, television shows highlight the fact that disputes, arguments, and disagreements are normal and a necessary part of life. Conflicts can originate for numerous reasons including differing values, miscommunication and lack of information, or relationship breakdowns. As stated previously, resolving conflicts is a hard process that most people have no understanding of, meaning hospitals should include programs that educate and train hospital staff about conflict management...
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...Career Path Option 1:Registered Nurse Career Category:Social | Career Path Option 2:Lawyer Career Category:Enterprising | Job description (including daily responsibilities) | The job of a Nurse is to provide patient care; they give medication to people who are sick or have medical conditions/diseases or health problems. They develop care plans and provide nursing care to disabled, ill or injured patients. | Lawyers represent individuals on legal issues and disagreement in court and try to win their case. They represent clients in criminal and civil litigation. | Requirements for path (school, military, training, age, location, skills, etc.) | You must have minimum-Associate’s Degree to work in this position. Some basic work experience is needed for a job in this occupation. Typical on the job training once you have a job in the occupation. | The requirement to become a lawyer is to have a law degree. This law degree consists of 7 years of full time study after you get out of high school, 4 years of undergraduate study, and three years of law school. If you want to become a lawyer you must also pass states written bar test. | Salary/benefits information | The year of 2014, in Florida, salary wages for Registered Nurse varies from $21 to $39 an hour.Yearly salary is $45,000 to $81,000. | The median pay in 2012 for Lawyers is $113,530 per year and $54.58 per hour. | Opportunities for advancement | If you are a Registered Nurse and would like to continue your...
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...raised over 400 million dollars. It is a volunteer based organization with all its programs being run by volunteers. The organization serves about one and five thousand communities a big expansion in that it began twenty seven years ago. This is a sensitive and ethically sound organization dispensing its services not only to American people but in the entire world. They go an extra mile to create extensive cancer awareness and facilitate easy access of their services. The clientele know about their services by partnerships around the hospitals where newly diagnosed patients are helped the medical professionals. Also through tents who create awareness to the community. A nurse is very instrumental in the sense that they are first contact by the organization. A nurse is an educator in the sense that they will use there professional experience to educate the public, outpatients or inpatients, with relevant cancer related information. They act as advocate for patients or families with cancer by appealing to fellow professionals, organizations such as Alzheimer and the federal government to support fight against cancer campaigns. A nurse is a leader by giving direction to American Cancer Society on the available approaches to successfully win the battle against cancer. Particularly, a member nurse will be very valuable as a provider of professional advice and inpatient care for acute cancer patients. They participate in the organization’s programs such as I Can Cope program and...
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...his helmet and braces himself for a brutal 15 minutes, but this isn't football. This is cancer radiation. We're at Denver's Swedish Medical Center. The helmet is actually a white, hard-mesh mask that fits to every contour of Karl's big bucket head. It has red crosses all over it, like a hockey goalie's. He lays his 283 pounds on the table and the technicians clamp the mask on hard. How Karl breathes I'll never know. They secure his limbs and ask him to hold a blue plastic donut so no part of him moves. He looks like Hannibal Lecter about to get fried. "It makes you a little claustrophobic," the 58-year-old coach tries to say through the mask. "But what are you gonna do? Leave?" Coaching the wildly talented but wildly uneven Nuggets is hard enough, let alone doing it with throat and neck cancer, but that's what Karl is trying to do. Everybody tells him it's not possible, and today, maybe he's starting to believe them. With only three of his torturous six weeks of treatment done, and the inside of his mouth looking like he just took 100 bites out of a lava-hot pizza slice, and his head throbbing and his eyes hollow, Karl looks like a guy who should be on a stretcher, not an NBA bench. "George, this is only going to get harder," a nurse tells him. "You're not going to feel like working." Clearly, she's never met George Karl. He shows me many things I don't want to see. He's doing it because he wants people to know exactly what it's like. Wants to take the fear and...
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...government came up with the “Rosie the Riveter” campaign to inspire women to replace men in the workforce. Rosie the Riveter was a cultural icon of the United States. She was a strong fictional character who symbolized the female industrial worker of World War II. The campaign became one of the most successful recruitment tools in American history, as a great number of women were assured of their patriotic duty and quickly responded by entering the workforce Women held jobs in munitions and did an extremely hazardous work. The munitions industry heavily recruited female workers. According to Susan Brownell Anthony, “Women form[ed] almost half of all the workers trimming bullet jackets, annealing case parts and assembling bullets and cartridges. In big ammunition-artillery women form[ed] more than a third of the workers.” Women worked in textile mills and the clothing factories to assemble military apparel. They also prepared and packed food and worked in the nascent electronics...
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...My goal in this paper is not only to compare the film adaptation to the Novel but to also explain what I think the symbols represent, critic’s analysis, themes presented in this film, and the significance of the Novel. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest film’s setting begins with a police car driving down the road to people sleeping in bunk beds, ending with a glimpse of a drawing taped to the wall with a crazy face centered in it. A nurse enters a locked down facility, while another prepares medicine for the patients. The police car arrives at the facility with a prisoner in handcuffs that is released to the hospital staff. The characters in this film are as follows: Randall P. McMurphy played by Jack Nicholson, a rebellious convict with a loud mouth and a set of sexual playing cards. He’s courageous and challenges the staff/system of the mental hospital. Nurse Ratched played by Louise Fletcher is a calm, cold, well mannered, and soft spoken head nurse of the mental hospital that plays McMurphy’s enemy. Chief Bromdon played by Will Sampson is a big and tall Indian who is described as “deaf and dumb” (according to the character Billy). Billy Bibbit played by Brad Dourif is a young ‘momma’s boy’ who stutters and is a coward with suicidal tendencies. Harding played by William Redfield is a well educated intellectual who appears to be a leader for the patients until McMurphy arrives. He is a compliant patient participating in all the facilities requirements and activities. Cheswick...
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...Next is how Dally drives up to the church and lets pony out to the car to help save the kids that are stuck in the church but in the book he has to chase after both of the boys. A small one is how Two Bit special 10” switchblade in the book is a butterfly knife in the movie that he gives to Dally in the hospital to threaten the nurse. Dally doesn’t help the two boys get the kids out in the book whereas in the movie the he actively helps Pony and Johnny get kids out of the burning church. A big one is how the movie doesn’t show the change of Pony in the end where he is willing to bust a pepsi bottle and use it to defend himself from the soc the roll up on him outside of the store during lunch time. The last...
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