Staffing Workload, ratios and other staffing issues

 






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Marie Manthey's Nursing Salon

Friday, August 04, 2006

 

Jean Harry feels that the term "ratios" is troublesome:

 

I agree that the "ratios" is misleading....and that the variety of entry points into practice is increasingly confusing. We need to analyze work complexity in terms of knowledge and skills needed for safe Nursing Interventions in a particular patient population that are sophisticated enough that also take into account the workplace relationships that impact utilization of support staff. I think that by going back to the basics over and over again (knowledge and skills coupled with effective interpersonal relations)....rather than trying to differentiate by broad credentialing, we will be able to see the forest for the trees.  

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