What are the implications for the nurse manager

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Assignment: Financial Management Case Study

One of the important duties of a nurse leader is to manage personnel and personnel budgets. In this assignment, you will assume the role of a nurse manager. You will use given data to make important decisions regarding budgets and staffing.

Some nurse managers have computer spreadsheets or software applications to help them make decisions regarding budgets and staffing. You will only need simple mathematical operations* to perform the needed calculations in this assignment because the scenario has been simplified.

Furthermore, some data have been provided for you that a nurse leader might need to gather or compute in a real setting. Still, you will get a glimpse of the complexity of responsibilities nurse leaders shoulder regarding financial management.

• To calculate the percent of the whole a given number represents, follow these steps:

Change the percentage to a decimal number by moving the decimal twice to the left (or dividing by 100).

Multiply the new decimal number by the whole. Example: What is 30% of 70?
30%= .30; (.30) × 70 = 21

• To find out what percentage a number represents in relation to the whole, follow these steps: Divide the number by the whole (usually the small number by the large number).

Change the decimal answer to percent by moving the decimal twice to the right (or multiplying by 100).

Example: What percent of 45 is 10? 10 ÷ 45 = .222; so, 10 is 22% of 45.

* You will only need addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Case Study

Patient Data

ADC: 44

Budget based on 4.9 Avg. HPPD

(4.9 HPPD excludes head nurse and unit secretaries)

Staff Data

Total FTEs                  35.0 Variable FTEs

1.0 Nurse Manager

2.2 Unit Secretaries

38.2 Total FTEs

Staffing Mix

RN       65%

LVN     20%

NA       15%

Average Salary Scale per Employee
(Fringe benefits are 35% of salaries)

Nurse Manager

$72,999.00 per year

Registered Nurses (RN)

$34.00 per hour

Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN)

$22.00 per hour

Nurse Aides (NA)

$12.00 per hour

Unit Secretary (US)

$10.00 per hour

You are the manager for 3 West, a medical/surgical unit. You have been given the following data to assist you in preparing your budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

Questions

1. How many RNs, LVNs, and NAs, by category, are on the staff of 3 West? (Round FTEs to the nearest tenth.) Compute totals for each column.

Positions

Variable FTEs

% by Position

FTEs by Position

RN

35.0

0.65

 

LVN

35.0

 

 

NA

35.0

 

 

Totals

 

 

2. Compute the annual salary budget for 3 West. (Round to the nearest tenth.) Compute totals for appropriate columns.

 

Positions

 

FTEs

 

Salary

 

Hours

Salary Subtotals

 

Benefits

 

Total

MANAGER

1.0

72,999

XXXX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

 

XXXXX

XXXXXX

 

 

 

3. Your hospital unit, 3 West, is a 45-bed general medical-surgical unit. Over the past year, the ADC (Ave. Daily Census) was 44 patients.

Use the following data on 3 West during the last year to perform these calculations and answer these questions.

A. Complete this table to calculate the actual average hours of care required per patient day
(HPPD) for the patients in 3 West. (Round to the nearest tenth)

Acuity Mix

Average Hours of Care Required

Average Daily Census (ADC)

Total Hours of Care Per Day

I

1.4

3

 

II

3.9

18

 

III

5.6

16

 

IV

8.8

7

 

Totals

 

 

Hours per patient day (HPPD)

 

B. Remember that your established personnel budget for 3 West assumes a HPPD of 4.9. If your calculated HPPD is different, explain the significance of the variance. (If your calculated HPPD is different than 4.9, you must write more than, "We need more/less nurses.")

What is the Significance of the variance? If you believe you need more staff, what will be your rationale for making this requires? If you have too much staff, what would your proposal be for bringing your staffing into a better balance?

C. What are the implications for the Nurse Manager? As an example, based on your conclusions in Section B, what other observations would you make as you review your total budget and what would you expect to see as a result? (HINT: supply costs; overtime hours, average census of 44 on a 45 bed unit, etc.)

4. You have set two new goals for your unit for the next year related to personnel:
• Provide stronger unit management support on evening and night shifts and in the absence of the manager.
• Correct unfavorable efficiency variances due to overtime. To accomplish these goals, you plan to make these changes:
• Add 1 RN FTE position
• Eliminate 2 LVN positions
• Add 2 FTEs NA positions
• Add 1 Assistant HN position at $62,000/year

Calculate ONLY the cost of the proposed recommendations for 3 West. Compute totals for each column. If the change represents a reduction in the budget for that category, record the total as a negative number. If it represents an increase in the budget for that category, record the total as a positive number. (DO NOT INCLUDE INFORMATION IN Q 2) (Round to the nearest tenth)

 

Positions

 

FTEs

 

Salary

 

Hours

Salary Subtotals

 

Benefits

 

Total

RN

1

 

 

 

 

 

LVN

-2

 

 

 

 

 

NA

2

 

 

 

 

 

AHN

1

62,000

 

 

 

 

Totals

 

XXXXX

XXXXX

 

 

 

5. Assume your proposal was approved. Calculate the new personnel budget. Compute totals for each column. (ADJUST Q 2 TO INCLUDE RECOMMENDED CHANGES) (Round to the nearest tenth).

 

Positions

 

FTEs

 

Salary

 

Hours

Salary Subtotals

 

Benefits

 

Total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

 

XXXXX

XXXXX

 

 

 

 

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