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Summary of Ethical Dilemma: Low Nurse-Patient Ratio

There is an existing nursing shortage in America today primarily because of the increasing number of patients in the aging population, frequency of chronic diseases, an aging workforce, and the limited number of Americans taking up Nursing education to cover the growing needs for the profession. The nursing field belongs to the group of fastest-growing careers not only in America, but in other countries as well. However, the demand surpasses the supply of nurses, which results in high nurse to patient ratio. As a consequence, quality care that patients supposedly should receive from the medical industry suffers. Studies reveal ...

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Depression is one of the most prevalent psychological disorders in the world, and it can be estimated with the help of a number of different instruments. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is one of the most popular self-assessment instruments in the world to determine depressive symptoms. This instrument was initially proposed by Aaron Temkin Beck and his colleagues, and has been used in over 7,000 studies (Wang & Gorenstein, 2013).

Revisions of BDI

Since its development, BDI has gone through two major revisions. One revision occurred in 1978, when it was modified into BDI-IA, and the second important revision occurred ...

Effects of Higher Education in Nursing Regarding Patient Care

In any field of life, a person with advanced knowledge is more beneficial for that field than the average. Better educated person has the skill set to tackle more complex problems. This is exactly why education, especially higher education, is important in nursing. Nurses do not deal with minimum standard protocol every day. Sometimes the patient’s cases are too complicated and the time taken for a physician to arrive at the patient’s bed can mean the difference between life and death. In the meantime, the patient is under nurses’ care. Nurses with higher education can better assist ...

Introduction

The report focuses on the future development of agriculture in India. The lack of education, disproportionate workforce in agriculture and other non-farming industries, low productive and virtually no development strategy significantly affect and hinder general development. The problem of food produce is among the most burning due to the forecast that world population will increase to almost 10 billion people by 2060. The amount of food present today will be unable to satisfy the needs of everyone on this planet. Therefore food production must increase by 70%. In order to achieve this goal the only viable solution is seen ...

Article Review

ARTICLE REVIEW The article titled as “How nurses and their work environment affect patient experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study” explains how incorporating different elements of patient care in the nursing practice can influence the level of patient satisfaction and help in promoting better healthcare. The article is based on a qualitative research performed on four groups of nursing professionals. The study design consisted of twenty six registered nurses responsible for providing utmost level of patient care in a hospital setting. The interviews conducted with these nurses were recorded and later transcribed for a thorough analysis. ...

26th May 2010. Organized crime refers to the criminal activities of gangs who plan their activities before unlashing the crime. They do not just act but do so after planning strategically. The future of organized crime and drugs is rather bleak, and it will be difficult for criminal justice to be rendered especially in the Americas where organized crime has taken new technological heights, with criminal activities being organized online and not manually. Knowing the faces behind these criminal activities becomes difficult and they have attracted very many people because of their sophisticated use of the technology ( ...

One major challenge that is brought about by this major shift towards the internet controlled crimes is that it becomes very difficult to trace these criminals via the internet: it is difficult to catch the internet based virtual gangs. These criminals a part from recruiting and conducting mentorship sessions for criminals via the internet, they also advertise the stolen merchandise and sell it via the internet. Once you pay for these highly quality-endangered drugs, you risk loosing lives while the real culprits will never be caught. (Brouwer, G., 23) Gangsters have developed ways of going past the installed security ...