Unit 538 Handout 1

As part of the budget announced February 11, 2014, the federal government proposed changes to the requirements for filing a Section 156 election for closely related groups on form GST25. These changes take effect January 1, 2015.

I just wanted to pass along an update. I got with Kathy for more clarification on what needs to be changed and I am currently working on the requirements.

UNIT 524. Facilitate change, in health and social care or children and young people’s settings.

In addition, nurse managers must make skilled staffing and scheduling decisions to ensure that safe and cost-effective care is provided by caregivers (Yoder-Wise, 2015, p. 256). However, as a nurse manager I would select “to require hospitals to have a nurse driven staffing committee which create staffing plans that reflect the needs of the patient population and match the skills and experience of the staff.” In addition, as a nurse manager, I would also select “for legislators to mandate specific nurse to patient ratios in legislation or regulation” since during the TJC accreditation process, the surveyor reviews the staffing plans developed by the nurse manager for any obvious staffing deficiencies, such as, a shift or series of shifts in which the unit staffing plan is not met (Yoder-Wise, 2015, p.

The recruitment and selection process’s procedures and policies at St Jude’s nursing home can be altered in order to appeal to a wider range of legal context, by conforming to the UK laws and regulations. One would believe that the current staff turnover problem is actually being caused by the policies for recruitment and selection.

In the past two decades, a lot of changes have been characterised in the healthcare working systems. One of these changes has been the assimilation of shift work systems and the flexibility in work schedules. The need for 24 hour care makes the healthcare professions to work with different shift systems such as 12 h, 8 h, 9 h or 10 hour shifts. However, the common shift work systems divide a 24-h day in two (12-h) or three (8-h) shifts. Nonetheless, this requires the staff to be adapted with the various forms of shift work schedules.

As the health care administrator, responsible for staffing levels I will conduct and analysis to determine the number staff members required for each department to run efficiently. Upon completion, each employee will be assigned to 8-hour shifts five days per week. Since there will be adequate coverage for each shift that will eliminate the need to have people working over-time which will be a cost saving measure. Now that the staffing levels are ideal this allows patients to receive the necessary medical care which will increase their satisfaction with the health care organization. By having each person working a standard work week without having to do overtime to meet the needs of the department will reduce stress and the possibility of them

The American Nurses Association supports a legislative model in which nurses are encouraged to create staffing plans specific to each unit. This approach will aide in establishing staffing levels that are flexible and can be changed based on the patients needs, number of admissions to the unit, discharges and transfers during each shift (“Nurse staffing plans,” 2013). This model will assist in keeping the unit staffed appropriately and organized in need of a change during each shift. Without an organized plan like this, a nurse may be required to take on a new admission and already have too big of a workload.

Staffing needs affect the nursing department’s budget, staff productivity, the quality of care provided to patients and even the retention of nurses (Jooste, 2013). The nurse manager has to explain to the management of the benefits of change in providing adequate staffing all the time. Adequate staffing helps staff retention. Staff retention saves a lot of money in terms of orienting new people to the unit. Safe staffing always helps in the reduction of falls, infection rates, pressure ulcers, decrease hospital stays and death. Flexible and creative scheduling is essential for retaining staff and promoting a positive work climate (Grohar-Murray & Langan, 2011). Adequate staffing with good staffing ratio will help nurses to concentrate on their patient care which may help in a reduction in medical errors and lawsuits to the hospital.

Staffing is probably the most challenging and certainly the most important to the delivery of patient safety and quality of care. Staffing ensures that appropriate number and level of staff members are available to provide care. Otherwise, surrounding issues will result such as staff dissatisfaction and compromised patient outcomes. The article presents a brief list of strategies on how to cope with short staffing and reference other articles to help manage short staffing.

In the orthopedic department the unit leaders (charge nurses or managers/ directors) determines the level of staffing needed before and during the shift based on patient acuity.

It is well known that nursing is an integral part of the health care system. In order to provide high-quality health care services it is important to understand the value of adequate nurse staffing.

Online recruitment is a cheap and efficient method by which candidates can be filtered through. Once a CV has been uploaded, CV-matching software places the candidate in a shortlist if appropriate (HRM D.Torr, p.168). Those whose CV’S made the cut will be put through to a

There would be an adequate number of nurses and physicians available in each health care facility. The number of medical staff needed would be determined based on the prior year’s numbers of staff vs. patients.

In order to ensure the right amount of distribution of health services each health care organization needs to establish a method to determine what the staff levels need to be in their facility. Staff levels change due to variations of population numbers, age of population, wealth of population, education of population, and whether the population has public or private health benefits. A facility will also need take in account when flu or cold season hits in the winter season, or heat related illnesses in the summer season. In some instances staff levels will need to be changed at a moment’s notice, and no matter what method of staffing is used there needs to be a way to handle the unexpected, and a way to remove the additional staff when no