Nurse Staffing: Maximizing Nursing Productivity
ObjectiveImproving nursing productivity by removing waste and inefficiency in patient care work through streamlined nursing activities, optimal task allocation, and improved staffing management.
Target Problems
- Staffing and demand often misaligned
- Nurses dissatisfied with time spent on indirect care activities, which are spiraling out of control
- Inefficient clinical task delegation that underleverages the RN
- Insufficient accountability for meeting productivity targets
Average Partner Results
- 5% to 10% reduction in nursing costs per patient day
- 20% decrease in overtime costs
- 5% to 8% reduction in HPPD
- Increased direct care activities improving retention
Grounded in Experience
"The real value we got out of this was in both correcting our process and training our people about how to do a process like this in the future. This has given managers a tool to fix things." - Chief Executive Officer