Question

A hospital is an acute care short-term stay and emergency medical center that also includes medical departments such as, surgical, obstetrics, infectious disease, radiology, laboratory and mental health.

Scenario

You are the administrator of a medium-sized hospital. The Director of Human Resources has been summoned to an executive team meeting in an effort determine why an unusual number of nursing staff leaving for other employment. During the discussions, the Director of Nursing provides her thoughts re- garding why the nurses may be less productive and why some are departing. She states that the primary reason is salaries/benefits. A charge nurse thinks the reason might be working conditions, especially involving patient load in the various nursing units. Overall morale is low, which is adversely affecting pro- ductivity. This has also resulted in some patient quality outcomes discovered by the Continuous Quality Improvement team.

During the discussion, the Senior Director of Admissions shares some experiences she had with a for- mer employer--that the nursing staff tended to remain longer with the employer based on good working conditions, specifically in the area of learning new skills, obtaining additional certifications, licensure, and cross-training for other areas not usually assigned. She feels that these measures result in higher reten- tion and patient quality outcomes.

After the meeting, you meet with the Director of Nursing and Human Resources Director, who is also in charge of all training and development for the hospital. As the administrator, you consider developing
a small group to explore the feasibility of providing more skills development and training to your current nursing staff. Before implementing this directive, consider the following:

Question 1

How would you determine which skills, certifications, and licensure would be effective in retaining the current nurses?

Question 2

Is there a direct correlation between additional skills and retention and motivation of the nurses?

Question 3

How would you determine who would be provided the skills development? Are all skills for all nurses feasible?

Question 4

How would you determine if additional compensation would be required for trained nurses?

Question 5

How would you quantitatively determine the cost of this initiative?

Answer 1

Q1-ANSWER:

The nurse required trained certificate and licence from the APNMC (ANDHRA PRADESH NURSE MIDWIFERY AND COUNCIL) she should have the skills to do work in the hospital. He is having the certificate of skillful nurse with experience so the current nurse needed these skills in order to retain or effect in the hospital.

Q2-Answer:

The co relationship between the additional skills and retention and motivation because the siillfus nurse can able to manage in the emergency situations, motivate the other staff members by her skills.

Q3-ANSWER:

The nurses are learning skills from the hospital settings where there working but all the nurses are not skillfuled in their training while they are providing treatment for the client.

Q4-ANSWER:

The additional compensation is needed for the skillful nurse because based on her work the hospital has to provide compensation for nurse.

Q5-Answer:

Based on the skills and experience and need of the hospital we need to provide the compensation for the nurse .