You are the nurse manager on a large unit that has 14 FTE RNS on staff, FTE LPNS
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You are the nurse manager on a large unit that has 14 FTE RNS on staff, FTE LPNS, and 15 FTE nursing aides, orderlies, and clerks. The schedule for next 2 months is due in administration by next week, and you are beginning to work on it. Various requests have been submitted by personnel for vacations, educational conferences, time to attend a wedding, and long weekends, and a request from one nurse asks not to be rotated to weekend evenings or nights because her husband bowls on weekends, and she has no babysitter for their three young children. Then answer the following questions: What types of additional information do you need to complete this schedule? How do you honor requests as submitted? What if two of the requests for vacations came from RNS schedule to work the same weekendsize, and they both asked for exactly the same Days Off? How do you inform staff whether their requests have been honored? Are they informed by seeing the posted schedule? Are requests taken in the order in which they are received? Or do you have another means of honoring requests? Provide your responses on an APA formatted paper.
Explanation / Answer
Additional information that is required for assigning leave as well as working schedule for all staff is to know the timings of their work and then priorities the type of leave should be taken into consideration for coming days as staff members are people on whom healthcare organisation depends.
Honouring the request of leave can be schedule based on whose reasons are more genuine and should be given more importance compare to staff members whose request for leave can be adjusted with their work schedule.
Out of the two RNS staff one staff members can be given leave based on the reason which can't be avoided and second staff members could have been given option of taking leave on other weekend or other days.
The staff members could be given information either through electronic mail system or through their reporting manager.
Even notice of sanctioned leave request could have been put on notice board where each members could have easy access about their acceptance of request.
For maintaining the privacy and confidential of each staff members one can maintain online profile of each employee where their request of leave and acceptance could have been circulated personally and staff members should have been given password of their own in order to access their personal information.
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