centralized and decentralized staffing
in decentralized staffing, who is making the schedule
what is the unit manager
negatives to 10-12 hour shifts
What is
Fatigue!
Less Recovery Sleep in between shifts
Increase in Medication and other errors (poor judgement)
Drowsy Driving
explain flextime scheduling
what is this system gives the employee the choice to pick times that best fit their personal schedule.
what is most important about workload measurement tools
what is the workload measurements need to be reviewed and adjusted frequently to ensure that they are working
gracies cats name
what is winston
limitations of decentralized staffing
what is
Can lead to more randomized staffing, rather than based on need
May not be cost effective
Time-consuming for the manager
a pro and a con to travel nurses
what is they are very useful for low staffing situations, but result in being a lot more expensive.
positives of self scheduling
what is this gives the nurse a sense of control of their work-life
macy and gracies hometown
what is blanchard
strengths of centralized staffing
what is
Provides organizational wide view of staffing needs
More consistent and impartial
More cost effective
Gives the nursing manager more time for other tasks
positives to 10-12 hour shifts
what is
Work less days
Better work-life balance
Longer patient to nurse familiarity care
in shift bidding, how does the organization choose who works the shift
what is the organization will choose the lowest bid from the nurse and choose who gets to work.
name 1 of the 3 workload measurement tools
what is nursing care hours per patient day, patient classification systems, workload measurement systems
based on what the article included, is setting patient ratios beneficial
what is yes