Issue #24: Does Your Job Require You to Provide Support or Accountability?

Both support and accountability are required to drive results, so understanding your role in this respect is critically important.

Support includes activities like education, 1:1 time, tools, communication, setting expectations, and other activities that help individuals achieve their goals. Accountability, on the other hand, facilitates individual responsibility including leveraging reports to ask tough questions, ensuring deadlines are met and that rules are enforced.

In the education field, our job is almost 100% support. What about yours?

NewslettersCara CookApril 11, 2024Best Practices, Leadership, Support, Accountability

Issue #23: Are You Checking it Twice? ...Your Staffing Grid, That Is!

Staffing grids connect clinical and financial guidelines in a way that effectively supports sustainable operations.

We aren't sure how long they've been around, but we would assume that the first staffing grid is older than anyone reading this, given how beautifully simple and impactful these little pieces of paper can be.

Does your nursing unit's staffing grid align with the budget financially? Are your nursing units staffing in alignment with their grids? How do you know? How do you ensure consistent nursing ratios between units? Across multiple hospitals in a health system?

NewslettersCara CookDecember 18, 2023Patient Throughput, Best Practices, Staffing Grids, Seasonal Staffing

Issue #22: Is your ER Full of Inpatients?!

Is the ER solely responsible for boarders at your hospital? If so, #youredoingitwrong!

While patients with admission orders waiting to go upstairs are physically in the ER, the drivers of their delay has very little to do with the ER itself. The truth about boarders is that they are primarily driven by inefficient processes on the inpatient side, while the ER pays the price.