The Nurse Manager's Guide to Innovative Staffing

Nurse Managers, are you struggling with staffing schedules, productivity, and quality of care? Face it, managing day to day issues-such as how to staff, schedule, assess tradeoffs, maintain morale, deal with schedule hogs, and effectively run a unit-is a difficult job and something that you were never trained to do in nursing school. What you need is a book that provides easy to understand examples to obtain quality outcomes, staff satisfaction, and patient satisfaction.

As part of the Nurse Manager’s Guide series, this book gives a rounded understanding of the complexities of staffing and care delivery without focusing on a narrow view of traditional staffing.

Inside you will find:

• Examples of staffing plans, policies, and delivery models
• Calculations and worksheets, including FTEs, PTO, and productive and nonproductive time
• Sound strategies for introducing new processes and technology

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Staffing Smart

Chapter 2 The Current State of Staffing

Chapter 3 Start with Understanding Your Unit’s Care Delivery Model

Chapter 4 Maximize the Capacity and Capabilities of Your RN Workforce

Chapter 5 Analyze and Allow Everyone to Fully Practice

Chapter 6 Recognize, Mange, and Minimize Your Variability

Chapter 7 Target Technology That Improves Staffing and Outcomes

Chapter 8 Tying All Your Pieces Together

Chapter 9 Examples of Staffing Documents and Unique Care Delivery Models

Epilogue

References

Product #128685

Author: Jennifer Mensik

ISBN: 9781937554798

Nurse Manager's Guide to Innovative Staffing