The intensely political cultural production that erupted during Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 encompassed music, art, literature, film and theatre. Painting the Town Red is the ...little-known history of these developments. The book opens with an overview of the political context in Hungary after the First World War and how the Soviet Republic emerged in the chaotic months which followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy. It looks at the subsequent roles during the Soviet Republic of artists, film-makers, actors, musicians and writers, and the attitude of the newly established People's Commissariat for Education and Culture, in which the future internationally renowned Marxist Gyorgy Lukacs played a leading role. At its centre are the questions: why did so many prominent people in the arts world participate in the Soviet Republic and why did their initial enthusiasm later subside? Painting the Town Red is an important contribution to the lively debate about the interaction between art and politics.
Nurse staffing is complex. Nursing leaders have taken many initiatives to incorporate evidence and scientific data into nurse staffing. Midland Memorial Hospital (Texas) developed nine principles to ...improve nurse staffing. The principles include budgeting nursing resources and reconciling the position control or hiring plan created on a National Database of Nurse-Sensitive Quality Indicators 50th percentile for registered nurse hours per patient day. Nursing leaders must understand data-driven nurse staffing plans to communicate clearly and budget appropriately for nursing resources.
It is my privilege to interview a great nurse leader, Pam Thompson, about her plans in the next phase of her life after retiring as American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) chief executive ...officer (CEO)/American Hospital Association (AHA) chief nursing officer (CNO). She plans to keep life simple and reflect on how she might best add value to the nursing profession. She assured me she was not looking for another full-time job. She loves her work with young leaders, teaching, and her international work. “I want to better understand how I might contribute to this work,” Pam says. Although writing may be an unknown exploration for her, she has a lot to say and will begin journaling her insights. She is only going to do the things she loves to do but not at the same pace. Bob, Pam's husband, tells her she cannot go from “hair-on-fire” (90 mph) to stop. Pam said she has been practicing. Pam has a love for endangered species and plans to raise bees in her retirement. Other simple pleasures she plans to indulge include volunteering, learning Spanish, and remodeling her kitchen (she and Bob love to cook). I know you will enjoy hearing about her and hearing from her journey as she answers my interview questions.
* The growth of travel nursing results from the dramatic expansion of health care demand that has occurred since the end of the recession, coupled with workforce preferences and shortages in ...virtually all healthcare fields. * Healthcare organizations need to accurately determine the cost of travel nurses in comparison to the full cost of core staff to achieve greater precision in budgeting and planning for their clinical workforce. * When full costs are included in the cost of core staff nurses, and when core staff overtime is used as the basis for comparison, the cost of travel nurses is often lower than the cost of core staff nurses in the hospital units examined in this study. * This result contradicts the prevailing assumptions that it is more expensive to contract for travel nurses than to utilize core staff nurses.
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