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Chapter 16 staffing and scheduling

  1. The nurse manager who wishes or reduce mortality on the unity would adopt which strategy?
    Hire more nurses (Higher nurse staffing levels reduce mortality in hospitalized clients, but failing to match client needs to nurses skills also increases client mortality.)
  2. The hours of work for staff for two weeks, average daily census, and hours of care are techniques used for determining number of _____.
    FTEs (full time equivalent)
  3. Scheduling a certain number of people per day consistently.
    Block staffing
  4. Familiarity with the hospital, familiarity with staff, and lower cost are all advantages for using _____ pools of nurses for staffing purposes.
    Internal pools of nurses
  5. Most efficient because it allows for a pool of nurses to be used anywhere in the hospital.
    Centralization
  6. A staff member usually works for only one nurse manager or on only one unit.
    Decentralized pools
  7. A creative method for weekend staffing in which the nurse agrees to work 12 hour shifts only on weekends and is paid for a standard work week.
    The Baylor plan
  8. Posting a work schedule online is an example of?
    Transparent scheduling
  9. Allows staff to create and manage the schedule
    self scheduling
  10. The agency that review whether an organization meets its own criteria for staffing is?
    The joint commission
  11. Who specifies that only the right number of competent staff be provided to meet client needs?
    The joint commission
  12. Use patient needs to objectively determine work load requirements and staffing needs.
    Patient classification systems also known as Acuity system
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