minimum staffing

Assignment:

• How does “minimum staffing” impact your ability to meet your budgeted numbers?
• This chapter deals with specific units of service for nursing workload requirements. What role should the nurse leader play and how should the leader interact with the finance department for a standard definition of measurement?
• As a nurse leader, you have to set up a new patient service budget. What sources of information do you need to build the budget?
• How should a nurse leader use a patient classification (acuity) system to justify nursing hours per day/staffing mix/nurse-to-patient ratios for budget purposes that would be understood by the finance department?

This PowerPoint® (Microsoft Office) or Impress® (Open Office) presentation should be a minimum of 20 slides, including a title and reference slide, with detailed speaker notes on content slides. pictures.  Use at least four scholarly sources.

Leger, J. M., & Dunham-Taylor, J. (2018). Financial Management for Nurse Managers: Merging the Heart with the Dollar, 4th Edition. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning.