Nurse leaders control the largest part of a hospital labor budget, in some cases the largest part of the overall budget. The effectiveness of overseeing this responsibility can mean the difference between an organization's financial stability and financial turmoil. The nursing department at Northwestern Memorial Hospital took ownership of its financial performance. Over the past 2 years, their ...

We give a simple explicit formula for turnover reduction when a large number of alphas are traded on the same execution platform and trades are crossed internally. We model turnover reduction via alpha correlations. Then, for a large number of alphas, turnover reduction is related to the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of the alpha correlation matrix.

More police reduces crime but little is know about the mechanism. Does more police deter crime by reducing its attractiveness, or is the reduction driven by an incapacitation of recurrent criminals? This paper exploits micro-level data on single robberies together with redeployments of two police forces within a city, providing first evidence of (negative) incapacitation that is driven by reduc...

The first passage times for enzymatic turnovers in nonequilibrium steady state display a statistical symmetry property related to nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems, which makes it possible to extract the chemical driving force from single molecule trajectories in nonequilibrium steady state. Below, we show that the number of decay constants needed to describe the first passage time distributi...

This study investigated the impact of motivation on employee turnover in Telecom sector of Pakistan. The questionnaire used was designed to focus on motivation and turnover questions. One hundred and six close-ended questionnaires were used for analyses. Regression and correlation analyses were proposed to explore the impact of motivation on employee’s intention to quit. Motivation was establis...

BACKGROUND Reliable and valid outpatient oncology acuity-based staffing systems are lacking. The existing staffing model in a midwestern cancer center demonstrated inefficiencies related to unpredictable patient flow, treatment regimen complexity, and physician practice variation. OBJECTIVES A project was initiated to implement an evidence-based oncology outpatient staffing system maximizing ...

AIM To investigate the views of senior nurse and human resource managers of strategies to retain hospital nurses in a metropolitan area. BACKGROUND Against a global shortage, retaining nurses is a management imperative for the quality of hospital services. METHOD Semi-structured interviews, thematically analysed. RESULTS Metropolitan areas have many health organisations in geographical pr...