Nurse absenteeism

Introduce the chosen process for improvement: Nurse Absentee/Sick policy for employees and hospital

1. Identify problem to be changed;

Problem: (topic) Nurse absenteeism

2. Discuss the need for the change or enhancement, including driving forces such as:

Regulatory, such as OSHA mandate
Benchmarking
Improved efficiency

Patient satisfaction: (idea) There is not enough time to give quality care

Life safety issue: (idea) when nurses are absent, there are not enough nurses to take care of the patients, it creates a safety issue because the nurse to patient ratio is not safe. Therefore, the patients are in danger when one nurse has 6-7 patients to take care of by herself or himself.

3. Integrate the methodology chosen.

 

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