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Sally Shane A. Arayata

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 STAFFING

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o selecting personnel to
carry out the goals and
objectives and placing
them in positions
appropriate to their skills
and knowledge.

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 RECRUITMENT
o Activity that links the requirements of staff planning with the
personnel selection process.
o Locate and attract qualified applicants' insufficient number of that a
pool of potential applicants is available from which qualified
individuals can be selected.

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 SELECTION
o The interviewing and evaluation processes that measure the applicants
skills, ability, and knowledge and, at the same time, conform to
employment law.

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 PLACEMENT
Decisions based on employee strengths and the organization needs

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 SCHEDULING

o Centralized-One or more individuals in a central staffing office schedule staff on all the units or teams within
the organization
o Decentralized- Nurse manager is responsible for preparing monthly unit schedules, providing coverage for
holiday, vacation and sick leave, and adding staff during periods of high patient census or acuity.

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 SCHEDULING VARIABLE
SELF ROTATING PERMANENT BLOCK/
SCHEDULING WORK SHIFTS SHIFTS CYCLICAL

o A System that coordinated
by staff nurses.
o A process by which
nurses and other staff
collectively develop and
implement work
schedules, taking policies
a variables affecting
staffing into
consideration.
o A Process might allow 2
weeks for staff to indicate
the days, shifts,
weekends, holidays and
vacation days that they
went. Then 2 weeks for
negotiations and
finalizing the schedule
o Rotating work shifts are o Relieve nurses from stress
common for staff nurses. and health related
The frequency of problems.
alternating between days o Provide social, educational
and evenings, days and and psychological
nights or rotating through advantages.
all shifts, o When nurses are able to
choose their shift that best
fit to their personal lives,
can participate in social
activities.
o They may continue their
education by planning
courses.
o Uses the same schedule
repeatedly. With a 6 day
forward rotation, personnel
are scheduled to work
successive days followed
by at least 2 days off. The
schedule repeats itself
every 6 weeks
o A method that uses
patient needs to determine
the number and mix of
staff. Time measures are
done for direct and
indirect patient care/
o 8 hour shift, 5 day
workweek
o 10 hour shift, four day
workweek
o 12 hour shift, 3 days on
and 4 days off
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 SKILL MIX
o Refers to the varying levels of education, licensure, certifications and
experience of the staff.
o Include a team made up if various numbers of RNs, LPNs an UAPs.

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 PATIENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

o referred to Patient Acuity System

o the categorization/ grouping of patients according of patients according to an assessment
of their nursing care requirements over a specified period of time. (Hilli Card &
Marelli,1997)
o Three Basic Styles:
a. Descriptive- the nurse classifies the patient in the category that most closely describes
the care received.
b. Checklist Style- divides the descriptions of care routines into activity categories
c. Time Standard/ Relative Value Unit-measure of time to various activities of patient care.
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 PATIENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

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 NURSING CARE DELIVERY

CASE METHOD FUNCTIONAL TEAM PRIMARY MANAGED MODULAR CASE

NURSING NURSING NURSING CARE NURSING MANAGEMENT

Assigning each Hierarchical RN supervising RN giving total Comprehensive District nursing Management and
patient to a nurse division of labor auxiliary nursing patient care to a health care system A modification of coordination of the
for total patient staff few patients services through team and primary care a patient
care. Main features: 24 hours per day established nursing. receives in all
1. Nursing care through out the networks of settings
conference hospitalization. hospital, throughout an
2. Nursing Care The NA cares for physicians, and episode of illness
Plan the patient when other health care
the RN is off duty. providers to give
population- wide
access to
economical, high-
quality care

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 PATIENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

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“
Nothing we do is more important than
hiring and developing people. At the end of

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the day, you bet on people, not on strategies.
Lawrence Bossidy
Thank you