You are the nurse manager of a medical-surgical nurse unit.

Slide 1
You are the nurse manager of a medical-surgical nurse unit. Your unit has 25 patient beds that it is responsible for overseeing. As a part of schedule construction, you allow your staff to self-schedule. You have provided education, and your staff knows that you may need to adjust the schedule on an as-needed basis.

Analyze three variables that could impact the scheduling of staff.
Slide 2
You are the nurse manager of a medical-surgical nurse unit. Your unit has 23 patient beds that it is responsible for overseeing. This year, your unit is focused on improving outcomes for the following nurse-sensitive indicators:

Nursing hours per patient day
Patient falls
With and without injury
Pressure ulcer prevalence
Hospital-acquired
Unit acquired
Community-acquired
Nurse vacancy rate
Healthcare-associated infection
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection
Central line-associated bloodstream infection
Ventilator-associated pneumonia
Now, answer the following questions on this slide:

Explain how adequate staffing (number of staff, staff ratios, staff experience, staff education) can impact these outcomes.
What kind of data (decrease/increase in incidence/prevalence) might you expect to be collected?
How will this impact quality improvement initiatives?