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#### **Slide 1** You are the nurse manager of a medical-surgical nurse unit. Your unit has 25 patient beds that it is responsible for overseeing. As a part of schedule construction, you allow your staff to self-schedule. You have provided education, and your staff knows that you may need to adjust t…
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#### **Slide 1**
You are the nurse manager of a medical-surgical nurse unit. Your unit has 25 patient beds that it is responsible for overseeing. As a part of schedule construction, you allow your staff to self-schedule. You have provided education, and your staff knows that you may need to adjust the schedule on an as-needed basis.
– Analyze three variables that could impact the scheduling of staff.
#### **Slide 2**
You are the nurse manager of a medical-surgical nurse unit. Your unit has 23 patient beds that it is responsible for overseeing. This year, your unit is focused on improving outcomes for the following nurse-sensitive indicators:
– Nursing hours per patient day
– Patient falls
– With and without injury
– Pressure ulcer prevalence
– Hospital-acquired
– Unit acquired
– Community-acquired
– Nurse vacancy rate
– Healthcare-associated infection
– Catheter-associated urinary tract infection
– Central line-associated bloodstream infection
– Ventilator-associated pneumonia
_Now, answer the following questions on this slide:_
1. Explain how adequate staffing (number of staff, staff ratios, staff experience, staff education) can impact these outcomes.
2. What kind of data (decrease/increase in incidence/prevalence) might you expect to be collected?
3. How will this impact quality improvement initiatives?
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