Health Care: Evidence-Based Resource Plan Homework Help

Deliverable: Develop one component of an evidence-based resourcing plan.
Scenario:
The hospital leadership team has already allocated the major capital expenditures for the heart failure clinic, such as the facility, legal services, IT, and security services. However, as a member of the nurse team, you have been asked to develop one component of a resourcing plan for the next leadership meeting.
You may use any combination of documents (for example, a spreadsheet or a table) in addition to explanatory information to convey information clearly and succinctly.
Choose one of the following:
Budget:
• Apply evidence-based management strategies and best practices for resourcing health care services.
o Identify the business plan budget categories and subcategories (not necessarily the actual cost) to establish a new clinic.
o Start-up expenses.
o Examine fixed and variable costs.
o Capital budget items.
o Examples: salary and benefits, staffing mix, specialized equipment or materials, et cetera.
o Contingency fund and parameters.
• Apply legal and professional standards for resourcing outpatient services.
o Explain the alignment to best practices and professional standards for cost effective outpatient services.
o How will uninsured or underinsured patients be managed?
• Describe management and accountability tools and procedures used to manage health delivery services and patient outcomes.
o What data resources and tools analyze costs, health insurance, and hospitalization services?
o How will billing be handled?
o How will you determine if outpatient management is cost-effective?
o How does transparency impact the consumer?
Staffing Plan:
• Apply evidence-based management strategies and best practices for resourcing health care services.
• Identify the disciplines and skill mix needed for appropriate staffing.
• Estimate staffing requirements by discipline and staffing ratios (evidence-based).
• Develop a sample staffing schedule.
• How will you staff to meet corporate diversity goals or the needs of diverse patients?
• Explain how delegation, collaboration, negotiation will affect staffing plan.
o How does a union contract affect the staffing plan or schedule?
o Examine the Nurse Practice Act for the state of New York.
o How does the Nurse Practice Act affect your staffing plan?
• Apply legal and professional standards for resourcing outpatient services.
o Align your staffing plan to best practices, the Nurse Practice Act for new York state, scope of practice, and the Joint Commission standards for outpatients.
• Describe management and accountability tools and procedures used to manage health delivery services and patient outcomes.
o How will you know if staffing is cost-effective?
o How will you know if staffing mix or schedule impacts patient outcomes?
Additional Requirements
• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
• Length: The plan should be 3–4 pages in content length, double-spaced.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• Number of resources: Support your plan with a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources, in addition to professional standards.
• Apply evidence-based management strategies and best practices for resourcing health care services.
• Describe management and accountability tools and procedures used to manage health delivery services and patient outcomes.
• Apply legal and professional standards for resourcing outpatient services.

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• Mensik, N. (2013). What nurses need to know about nurse staffing today | Transcript. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo5OFmGQQH0
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