Staffing - Science topic

This inquiry is about the journal paper "Challenges facing blood transfusion services at a regional blood transfusion center in Western Kenya" written by B.M. Kavuvalu. and others. The purpose of this essay was to provide a succinct summary of the main issues with blood transfusion services in Sub-Africa.

How does Christina Sieloff's theory of group and power to the organization impact nursing safe staffing issues?

What key criteria/measures could be used to establish the effectiveness of a major university restructure e.g. 3 to 4 years after a restructure.

Some universities seem to restructure every 5 to 7 years as new VCs are appointed. A lot of effort is focused on a university restructure mostly prompted to save cost, become more efficient and innovative. A significant number of staff are made or choose to be made redundant and some corporate knowledge is lost, Yet after the restructure, new staff get re-appointed and generally after 4 or so years staffing numbers are similar to those before the restructure. How effective are restructures and should universities tread carefully before goindg down that track. What key criteria/measures could be used to establish the effectiveness of a major university restructure e.g. 3 to 4 years after a restructure.

Even though community health nursing is recognized as a priority, community health facilities are experiencing some of the worst staffing shortages. However, to guarantee the profession remains fit for purpose and support future recruiting efforts, urgent action is required to keep the community health nurses now employed in their existing positions.

Hi everyone,

ICU nursing staffing's impact on patient (and other) outcomes is well documented in the literature. Nonetheless, methods (e.g. Nursing activities score) have been criticized during the last decade for not including several aspects of the nurse's work besides bedside duties.

Currently, which would be the most valid approach /tool to objectively estimate nursing staffing?

Any idea related to data/metrics related to Indian Staffing industry will be highly appreciated.Thanks and regards.

How can I measure the effect of nurse staffing on quality of care of patients in a hospital? What are the parameters to take into consideration? What are the indicators of the quality of care in relationship with the nurse staffing?

I have to summarize model of care for staffing of diagnostic imaging that includes the following modalities: Xray, CT, MRI, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine.

Looking at number of staff required on a shift based on number of inpatients and outpatients

What are the attributes we should select when solving Software Project Staffing Problem using GA Algorithm?

I am currently working on Software Staffing problem. I have ISBSG dataset for implementation. I am trying to solve the staffing problem using GA algorithm. Kindly guide me.

At the beginning of each shift, how nurses distribute current patients in the unit?

According to my experience, there several factors that are considered such as if the patient is on ECMO, mechanically ventilated, on a particular isolation precaution...

Also, there are nursing to patient ratios as guidelines but their account for the number rather than specific features of the patient.

Any other criteria or methods?

Hi,

At the beginning of each shift, how nurses distribute current patients in the unit?

According to my experience, there several factors that are considered such as if the patient is on ECMO, mechanically ventilated, on a particular isolation precaution...

Also, there are nursing to patient ratios as guidelines but their account for the number rather than specific features of the patient.

Any other criteria or methods?

Thanks in advance for your input.

Hi All

I need your guidance on how we can combine multiple variables and develop one index.

The goal is to have a index based of which we can plan for staffing. The variables are: daily patient volume,

%admitted,

% severity.

For example if the daily vol is high, also % admitted is high, and % severity is also high then we give more score lets say 3.5 which means we have to plan for more nurses vs if vol is high but severity is low means we might not need more nurse even the vol is high because the severity is low ( low severity = less attention needed)

data lay out:

Date Patient daily vol % admitted %high severity

10/20 250 35% 10%

Any guidance will be highly appreciated.

Thank you

A library built-in with Smart Library technology will enable us to keep libraries open, extend the opening hours without being staffed. The technology enables remote control of library buildings, including automatic doors, lighting, self-service kiosks and public computers. This allows us to significantly extend library opening hours, so more people can use the library at times that is convenient for them.

How do I make up a 0.01M Na2HP04/NaH2P04 buffer solution, pH adjusted to 7? Both chemicals that I have on hand are anhydrous. The molecular weight of Na2HP04 is 141.96 g/mol and the molecular weight of NaH2P04 is 119.98 g/mol. Do I just dissolve 1.4196 g of Na2HP04 and 1.1998 g of NaH2P04 into 950 ml distilled water, then adjust the pH to 7 and make up to 1000 ml in a volumetric flask? Most of the methods I find use Na2HP04.2H2O and NaH2P04.2H2O. Thanks! (Please note that chemistry is not my field but I am helping out in the chemistry lab because we are short staffed currently)

Need carbon stock/sequestration value in above-ground-biomass of mangrove at different mangrove site of Gujarat,Orissa,Maharashtra.

Gujarat : Pandey, C. N., and R. Pandey. "Carbon sequestration in mangroves of Gujarat, India." International Journal of Botany and Research 3.2 (2013): 57-70.

Maharashtra: Patil, Vikrant, et al. "Estimation of carbon stocks in Avicennia marina stand using allometry, CHN analysis, and GIS methods." Wetlands 34.2 (2014): 379-391.

Pachpande, Sheetal Chaudhari, and Madhuri Pejaver. "Natural carbon sequestration by dominant mangrove species Avicennia marina var. Accutissima ex Staf and Moldenke ex Moldenke found across Thane Creek, Maharashtra, India." International Journal od Scientific and Engineering Research 6 (2015): 1162-1165.

Kindly refer articles.

Hi all,

I’m working on a project for developing models for disease progression in plants, early diagnostics, and treatment recommendations using sensor arrays and AI. Additionally we’re looking at phenotyping and making adjustments during the grow cycle. We’re in early stage budgeting and project planning. I’m budgeting for the wet lab and need to establish the best equipment and costs. We’ll need to be able to culture various plant pathogens and develop inoculums. We need to monitor the incoming plant genetics, work with tissue cultures, and monitor the progression of the pathogen on infected hosts. We’ll need to monitor the outcome of various treatments. We’ve determined the sensor equipment, grow chambers, and other configurations. I’ve attached an excel sheet on some very preliminary thoughts on lab equipment.

Any advice on equipment and costs for the lab would be extremely helpful! Any other insights would also be useful. We’re looking to begin staffing the project in three months and will have several positions available for plant biologists. If you think you can help with the budgeting for equipment send a message and we can compensate you for your time.

What are the Challenges around organisational structure and staffing?

Utilizing the correct mix of physicians and non physcisions can asssit in assuring there is 24 hour coverage based on the strategic mission, patient outcomes, and catchement area.

If you have no previous recruiting or staffing experience and you want to break into the arena, I suggest you to follow a state-of-the-art training program that will put you ahead of the curve as a certified Search and Hiring Job Market recruiter.

Personally I just followed a three-stage training program designed to learn the best practices of recruiting at each stage of the recruitment life cycle.

After that i suggest you to have access to workbooks, live training webinars, articles, videos, and other resources to help you along the way.

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In general across Australia regional campuses are in retreat. From having been viewed at one stage as a dynamic component of universities' participation and expansion agenda they can sometimes be framed as out-of-touch with a vision of world class universities in the neo-liberal competitive world of university league tables. Faced with the challenges of a shift towards on-line learning and the centrality of competitive world class research agendas, regional campuses - from once being viewed as success stories - are now sometimes viewed as a drag upon performance and an economic drain upon resources. They are often staffed by more junior and casualised faculty members.

I work at a regional campus of a university currently reflecting upon how central 'place' and place-based pedagogies are to its future vision. How do others view this question from their national settings?

Obviously we have the smoking ban in place but are finding it hard to cope with on the ward. Patients have e-cigarettes a their disposal and use these well. There is no issue with patients that have unescorted leave as they are able to go for a cigarette whenever they want. However, patients with escorted leave need staff to take them out for a cigarette. As a team we are aware that we should no longer be escorting out for cigarettes but due to the majority of incidents revolving around patient inability to smoke, we do escort out and have put in place set times when we will do this that the patients are aware of. The issue with this is that we are often short staffed and are unable to escort out at the set times which increases incidents. This also brings up the issue of leave for sectioned vs informal patients. Obviously it is easier to not escort a sectioned patient for a cigarette then an informal patient.

I'm trying to find an easier way to deal with this that suits both staff and patients (as much as possible), so anything that can be offered in terms of experience or research would be very helpful.

Thanks in advance.

In this model the INPUT OF CAPACITY MODEL

Six types of input data are required to run the model:

1. Yard geometry, 2. Yard operations, 3. Crew staffing, 4. Arriving trains, 5. Classification-yard assignment, and 6 . Departing trains.

I found this from the paper done by W. A. STOCK, M. SAKASITA, M.A. HACKWORTH, P. J. WONG, D. B. KORETZ, AND V. V. MUDHOLKAR

published in Transportation Research Record 802

In Ireland the Taskforce on nurse staffing and skill mix is using "trendcare" to assist in identifying missed care, we also use an EWS to identify escalation in deterioration for the patient. I wonder if you have experience of these being used in the UK and what are the benefits if any of there use in care.

I am seeking the community's help on this: Do you have any experience with validated, non-proprietary scores which facilitate physician and nursing staffing ratios. Is SOFA score an appropriate tool for this?  What is your opinion about other scores such as the TISS scores, CMI scores, etc.?   Any substantiated input will be appreciated. 

Thank you,

Markos

I know it has been successful before at UF & Shands & UPMC in Pittsburgh

Critical Review to evaluate the strengths and weakness

Recruitment ans Staffing Process

Companies are increasingly checking online representation and social network activities of candidates for suitability. This also applies to academic institutions, I would assume. What are the pitfalls to avoid and good practices to follow from the candidates' point of view regarding social network activities (such as here on RG)?

Coaching from HRM practitioners is highly encouraged, which might be well appreciated by younger colleagues.

Disclosure: I am not involved in hiring academics, and I do not seek new employment.

The relationship between nurse staffing ratios and quality