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A summer nursing camp for junior and senior high school youth, planned and implemented by a multi-agency advisory group, demonstrates one way to attract future nurses into the profession. To effectively solve the problem of the nurse shortage, the efforts of nurse administrators in education and practice must be coordinated.
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1. In the health care environment, occupational stressors may be physical, chemical, biological, or psychosocial. 2. Psychosocial stressors include physical and mental overload, job insecurity, role ambiguity, a client population with anxiety or fear, and poorly designed work schedules. 3. Stress can be an occupational hazard because it arises from the environment, and may lead to accidents or injuries. 4. Psychosocial stressors will become increasingly important as the hospital environment demands more of nurses.
Physical and environmental hazards commonly found in hospitals include slippery floors, electrical hazards, noise, poor lighting, and inadequate ventilation. Describing the extent of musculoskeletal injury in nurses, one survey showed that nurses lost 750,000 working days a year as a result of back pain, which is twice the national average. Most workplace exposures do not result in disease, because either the biohazard is not transmitted by the airborne route or because the agent is present in too low of a dose. The more nurses know about potential occupational health and safety hazards, the more successful they will be in reducing risks, avoiding accidents, and minimizing occupational stressor outcomes.
Women's health care is a growing component of the health care business. Developing women's health services can offer hospitals and clinics the opportunity to generate greater revenue and gain the competitive edge. The nurse executive plays a critical role in the development of marketable women's health services.
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Women who require nonobstetric surgery during their pregnancy, regardless of the date of gestation, present a complicated and enigmatic clinical picture for the nurse. The clinical picture is challenging by virtue of the existence of pregnancy, compounded by the implications of surgical disease. The impact of surgery on the mother and fetus is described. Information on how the physiologic changes of pregnancy interact with surgical processes and nursing interventions to improve the outcome of surgery are presented.
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to estimate the effects of heparin flush and saline flush solutions on maintaining patency, preventing phlebitis, and increasing duration in peripheral heparin locks. The average effect size (d value) across 15 studies with a total sample size of 3,490 was .0573 for patency (clotting). The 95% credibility interval ranged from -.2267 to .3413. The average effect size across 13 studies with a total sample size of 2,356 was -.0757 for phlebitis. The 95% credibility interval ranged from -.2497 to .0983. The average effect size for duration across six samples with a total sample size of 1,960 was -.0550. The 95% credibility interval ranged from -.2424 to .1324. It can be concluded that saline is as effective as heparin in maintaining patency, preventing phlebitis, and increasing duration in peripheral intravenous locks. Quality of care can be enhanced by using saline as the flush solution, thereby eliminating problems associated with anticoagulant effects and drug incompatibilities. In addition, an estimated yearly savings of $109,100,000 to $218,200,000 U.S. health care dollars could be attained.