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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?