Project: Nurse Patient Ratio Improvement
Organization: LHC
Student name: Albertine Mundle
Best Practice #1: Create a Formal Staffing Plan
Best Practice Strategies | How Your Practices Differ From Best Practice | Barriers to Best Practice Implementation | Will Implement Best Practice (Yes/No; why not?) |
| Hiring a third party to create the plan | Unbiased decision making | Delays in stakeholder agreement | Yes |
| Skilled personnel to offer advice | Ensure the staffing plan is maximized | Few personnel who are skilled | Yes |
| Employing new technology | Smooth running of work | Current technology is expensive | yes |
| Hiring the best HR manager | Swift supervision once the strategy has been implemented (Coetzee et al., 2013). | Limited resources to measure skills | yes |
Best Practice #2: Reduce Turnover
Best Practice Strategies | How Your Practices Differ From Best Practice | Barriers to Best Practice Implementation | Will Implement Best Practice (Yes/No; why not?) |
| Reducing mandatory overtime | It enhances moral | Lack of specific steward | yes |
| Delegation of paperwork other staff who are qualified | Reduces pressure of work | Weakness in attracting stakeholder contribution ( Tabatabaee et al., 2016) | yes |
| Adopting current technology to enhance the workflow | Improves work quality | Lack of authorities trust to the models | yes |
| Offering competitive compensation | Boosts moral | Lack of mutual interests between stakeholders | yes |
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Best Practice #3: Establish a Staffing Committee
Best Practice Strategies | How Your Practices Differ From Best Practice | Barriers to Best Practice Implementation | Will Implement Best Practice (Yes/No; why not?) |
| Coming up with teams | Enables collaborative approach | Time consuming | yes |
| Brain storming | Best ideas are implemented | Clashing ideas | No, because clashing ideas my result into conflicts |
| Daily meetings | Ensures that everyone is up to date with current affairs | Attendance of staff may be poor | No, because of the poor attendance, this may be ineffective in the long run |
| Surveys | Feedback from patients and other hospital staffs for better performance (You et al., 2013) | Poor feedback | yes |
References
Coetzee, S. K., Klopper, H. C., Ellis, S. M., & Aiken, L. H. (2013). A tale of two systems—Nurses practice environment, well being, perceived quality of care and patient safety in private and public hospitals in South Africa: A questionnaire survey. International journal of nursing studies , 50 (2), 162-173.
Tabatabaee, S. S., Nekoie-Moghadam, M., Vafaee-Najar, A., & Amiresmaili, M. R. (2016). Barriers against required nurse estimation models applying in Iran hospitals from health system experts’ point of view. Electronic physician , 8 (12), 3348.
You, L. M., Aiken, L. H., Sloane, D. M., Liu, K., He, G. P., Hu, Y., ... & Shang, S. M. (2013). Hospital nursing, care quality, and patient satisfaction: cross-sectional surveys of nurses and patients in hospitals in China and Europe. International journal of nursing studies , 50 (2), 154-161.
