Achieving Appropriate Staffing: A Guide for Beginners

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Appropriate staffing is a challenge nurse leaders face, and tools to overcome it are not readily available. Join this advanced beginner session to learn how to calculate the number of nurses you need and how to proactively predict turnover. This is an opportunity for leaders to learn creative solutions to improve their ability to determine hiring needs. We also share strategies to recruit, onboard and orient large numbers of nurses while improving quality of care and staff satisfaction.

Objectives

Describe how appropriate staffing impacts retention, quality of care and the overall work environment.
Identify methods to develop a cost-effective proactive hiring model using historical data and effective recruitment strategies.
Evaluate methods to successfully duplicate this work across multiple departments and service lines.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity. Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.