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D Y Barhyte

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PubMed1988

Issues in nursing labor costs allocation.

Prospective payment has created a desire for improved internal operating efficiency by nurse executives and hospital administrators. Identifying nursing costs is one step in obtaining those efficiencies. Improved nursing cost allocation methods have been developed but these systems are costly to implement. Finding a low cost alternative to such systems would be valuable. The authors present direct comparisons of conventional daily and acuity based nursing labor costs allocation systems. Consistent with the findings of others, they demonstrate substantial differences between these methods. There is a high correlation of nursing labor costs with the patient's ancillary costs. However, the correlation is not sufficiently strong to use as a proxy for nursing costs. Consequently, nurse executives should strive to implement nursing cost allocation systems.

Ancillary Services, Hospital↗
PubMed1987

Participative management among staff nurses.

Findings are presented from a field experimental study of the effects of increased participation on the job satisfaction and attendance behavior of staff nurses. Eight units of nurses from a large teaching hospital were involved. Four units attempted to introduce participative management while four others served as contrast units. Repeated-measures analysis of variance and stepwise multiple regression techniques were used to assess the effects of the intervention on job attitudes and attendance behavior. Results of the one-year project suggest that increased involvement in decision making had insignificant effects on attendance behavior and satisfaction with the nurses' work, supervision, and co-workers.

Absenteeism↗
PubMed1987

Administrator decisions: data are better than opinions.

Nurse executives, in the current economic climate, may be requested to make decisions about resuming tasks that historically had been in the nursing domain but presently are done by other disciplines. Since these decisions shape nursing services in a variety of ways, support by non-nursing colleagues is important. This study reports a decision-making strategy that enhanced receptivity throughout the corporation. The strategy used a data base and involved non-nursing leadership persons in examining the issue.

Administrative Personnel↗
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Approaches to cleaning data sets: a technical comment.

Since each of the methods described has its costs and benefits, more than one method should be used. The combination of methods helps the researcher to obtain an error-free data set. Ideally, value-to-value verification for all data sets is preferred but the multiple entry method is more efficient for large data sets. Each researcher has a definition of large and small data sets. One definition of a large data set is one containing more than 250 records. Such a definition will not be appropriate for all investigators. Therefore, each researcher should balance the allocation of resources needed for a method against the confidence required for the data.

Data Collection↗
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Factors related to graduate nursing faculty scholarly productivity.

Department-level measures of productivity were constructed using information reported by 180 nursing deans of schools with graduate (master's and doctoral) programs. Productivity was calculated three ways: total (net), publications, and grants. The scores for each school were derived from nine categories of faculty scholarly activities. The following variables were examined for their contribution to productivity: three measures of environmental support, budgeted and doctorally prepared faculty, students (master's, doctoral), all graduate students-faculty ratio, scholarship time, and private faculty offices. The regressions of log-transformed variables yielded R2 = .59 for total (net) productivity, .54 for publications, and .50 for grants productivity.

Education, Nursing, Graduate↗