Course Title: Efficient Budgeting of Nursing Resources
Type of Course: Teleseminar (telephone based; no other media equipment necessary)
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2007 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Eastern Time
or
Thursday, November 8, 2007 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Eastern Time
Credits: This educational offering has been reviewed by the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) and approved for 2 clock hours and 2 participant hours.
Location: Participant's Home or Office
Cost: $59.95 per participant
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Target: Nursing Home Administrators, Directors of Nursing, Directors of Finance, or others interested
Description:
This teleseminar is designed to describe nursing resource management in long term care facilities, stressing the relationship between staffing levels and the quality of care, and then progress to introduction of methods to determine staffing patterns, skill mix, and shift allocation, as well as the caculation of the number of staff needed to be hired to achieve these patterns. Tools for monitoring staffing effectiveness and compliance are also described. The teleseminar format will be a lecture presentation with opportunity for discussion and questions at the end of the call. Hand outs and sample budgets will be distributed by email prior to the program.
Domains: 10.00 Resident Care and Quality of Life, 30.00 Finance
Objectives:
At the completion of this program, the participant will be able to:
1. Explain the relationship between quality of care and nursing staffing, focusing on research studies and a review of quality data and staffing data.
2. Describe process of developing a budget for nursing services based on census and acuity, using RUGS data as a measurement of workload.
3. Explain the process of developing staffing patterns for nursing units based on census and acuity, including the determination of skill mix and allocation of resources by shift.
4. Demonstrate the process of calculating the number of full time equivalents required to meet the arrived at staffing pattern.
5. Identify strategies for budget monitoring and variance analysis throughout the fiscal year.
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