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Part 1: Staffing Patterns You are the nurse manager of a 15-bed step-down unit in a metro-area hospital. You employee RNs, UAPs, and unit secretaries to staff the unit. You are not responsible for staffing or the budget related to other ancillary hospital staff. These are your staffing ratios for 12-hour shifts. Staffing on day shift and night shift are the same. RNs: 3:1 ratio UAPs: 6:1 ratio Secretary – one per shift Your 15-bed unit had 372 patient days in July. Calculate the average daily census (ADC). Discuss the daily staffing patterns for the unit based on the ADC. How many staff from each discipline do you schedule each day? What are the downfalls of the nurse-patient ratio staffing model? Discuss an alternative staffing model. Part 2: Staffing Adjustments Suppose that you are working in the charge nurse role. One of the staff assigned to collaborate with you becomes ill and must go home suddenly, leaving their designated client assignment to be assumed by someone else. As a charge nurse: What factors would you consider as you determine how to reassign their work to other nurses? List and discuss at least 4 factors. Identify behaviors of coworkers that would complicate the staffing situation further. List and discuss at least 2 behaviors. Give credit to your sources using APA 7th edition format; use both in-text citations and include references.

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