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D2AR0N

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on: Jul 8, 2018
You are a perioperative nurse in a small rural hospital and have just received your schedule for the upcoming month.
 
  You are dismayed to find that you seem to be scheduled to work on the one day you requested off in order to attend an event at your son's elementary school. Whose responsibility is it to schedule staff, and whom should you talk to about this? a. staff members themselves c. nurse manager
  b. nursing staffing office d. director of nursing

Question 2

You are a nursing manager on an inpatient medical-surgical unit. How many FTEs per day would you need if your target NHPPD was 8, and you expected to have 22 patients on your 24-bed unit?
 
  a. 20 c. 24
  b. 22 d. 26


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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Scheduling staff is the responsibility of the nurse manager. Scheduling may be overseen by the nursing department's staffing and scheduling office. Staff may become involved in self-scheduling, which is a process in which staff on a unit collectively decide and implement the monthly work schedule, but the ultimate responsibility for staffing lies with the nurse manager of the unit/department.

Answer to Question 2

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In order to determine the number of FTEs per day you would need for this specific scenario, you would need to multiply 8 NHPPD times 22 patients to get 176 productive hours needed each day. Dividing the 176 productive hours by 8-hour shifts worked by each FTE would give you 22 FTEs per day.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 8, 2018
Excellent

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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