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Guide to Nursing Workforce Management Study Guide

Guide to Nursing Workforce Management

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Managing the Nursing Workforce and Healthcare Environments

Current Issues and Future Nursing Management

Current issues in managing nursing include workload, stress, burnout, staff turnover, recruitment, retention, workplace violence, and union versus nonunion environments, while looking to the future involves workforce diversity, multigenerational nursing workforce, value-based care, information technology, population-based care, and responding to disasters.

  • Nurses' workload, stress, and burnout
  • Staff turnover, recruitment, and retention
  • Workplace violence management
  • Union versus nonunion environments
  • Workforce diversity
  • Multigenerational nursing workforce
  • Value-based care implications
  • Nursing workforce and information technology
  • Population-based care
  • Disaster response for nurse managers

The Nursing Workforce in Healthcare Organizations

This content explores the nature of nursing work, types of licensed and unlicensed nursing personnel, models of nursing care delivery, and methods for managing nursing workload and staffing requirements.

  • Physical, cognitive, emotional, and organizational nursing work
  • Licensed and unlicensed nursing personnel
  • Team-based and interdisciplinary care
  • Models of nursing care delivery
  • Skill mix
  • Nursing workload measures
  • Nurse staffing requirements
  • Patient classification systems
  • Nurse staffing budget
  • Full-time equivalent (FTE)
  • Productive and nonproductive hours
  • Nursing workload
  • Staff turnover and retention
  • Nurse burnout and stress
  • Professional judgment staffing
  • Volume-based staffing
  • Benchmarking
  • Timed-task approach
  • Indicator methods

Human Resources and Workplace Violence in Healthcare

Strategies for system level implementation and addressing workplace violence to support the nursing workforce in healthcare organizations.

  • System level strategy implementation
  • Organizational learning
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Evidence-based management
  • Nurse burnout
  • Workplace violence types
  • Criminal intent
  • Customer or client violence
  • Worker-on-worker violence
  • Personal relationship violence
  • Horizontal violence
  • Workplace bullying
  • Mitigating workplace violence

Unionization and Workplace Behavior Standards

This text examines the nursing workforce, including unionization impacts on wages, staffing levels, and patient mortality, as well as strategies for managing workplace violence and nurse satisfaction.

  • Nursing workforce
  • Unionization in nursing
  • Nurse staffing levels
  • Patient mortality rates
  • Workplace violence prevention
  • Zero-tolerance policy
  • Nurse satisfaction and retention
  • Human resources in healthcare
  • Management and staff communication

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