MSN-5130: v1

Aiken, L. H., Cerón, C., Simonetti, M., Lake, E. T., Galiano, A., Garbarini, A., … Smith, H. L. (2018). Hospital nurse staffing and patient outcomes. Revista Médica Clínica Las Condes, 29(3), 322–327.
In this article, you will examine how proper and improper nursing staffing has an acute effect on patient outcomes.

American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2011). The essentials of master’s education in nursing
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AONL. (2015) AONL nurse executive competencies.
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Kisseberth, J. (2017, May 17). Hospital staffing model – are you using the right one? connectRN.
The acuity and nurse to patient ratio models will discern which model is correct to use for the facility staffing needs.

Moss, J. (2019, December 11). Burnout is about your workplace, not your people. Harvard Business Review.
In this crucial article on nurse burnout, you will explore that it is not the nurse but the workplace that is responsible for leading to the stress of nurse burnout.

Schreuders, L. W., Geelhoed, E., Bremner, A., Finn, J., & Twigg, D. (2017). Feasibility of using payroll data to estimate hospital nurse staffing. Collegian, 24(4), 345–350.
This research article used inpatient unit movement data to see if the impact of the data between nurse staffing fluctuations of nursing hours and used the nursing payroll but found they were masked by annually aggregated data.

Stafseth, S. K., Tønnessen, T. I., & Fagerström, L. (2018). Association between patient classification systems and nurse staffing costs in intensive care units: An exploratory study. Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, 45, 78–84.
This article analyzes resource allocation in the ICU by studying the association between nurse staffing costs and two patient classification systems. This is important because it makes nurses’ workload visible and for future planning and budgeting of ICU resources.

Penner, S. J. (2017). Economics and financial management for nurses and nurse leaders. Springer Publishing Company.
By reading Chapter 4 of your text, you will learn about budgets and budgeting, rules and conventions for reporting indicators, categories of indicators, and measuring nursing care.