centralized and decentralized staffing
staffing and scheduling options
staffing and scheduling options pt 2
workload measurement tools
misc.
100

in decentralized staffing, who is making the schedule

what is the unit manager

100

 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 

100

explain flextime scheduling

what is this system gives the employee the choice to pick times that best fit their personal schedule.

100

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

100

gracies cats name

what is winston

200

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

200

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.

200

positives of self scheduling

what is this gives the nurse a sense of control of their work-life

200
when using a patient classification system, which patient would be higher acuity, level 1 or level 4
what is level 4
200

macy and gracies hometown

what is blanchard

300

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

300

positives to 10-12 hour shifts

what is 

  • Work less days 

  • Better work-life balance

  • Longer patient to nurse familiarity care

300

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.

300

name 1 of the 3 workload measurement tools

what is nursing care hours per patient day, patient classification systems, workload measurement systems

300

based on what the article included, is setting patient ratios beneficial

what is yes