Success of Performance Improvement Plan

Success of Performance Improvement Plan

The improvement plan anticipates to realize optimal nurse staff levels in the facility to address the current and future nurse workforce needs while balancing cost containment strategies. This will allow the facility to align its nurse workforce to meet the human capital objectives and goals that links to its strategic objectives and mission. This is expected to have financial and information implications. The implications have been identified considering that there is a correlation between staffing levels and measure of nurse outcomes (turnover, intent to leave, burnout and job satisfaction), and measures of patient outcomes (falls, mortality and failure to rescue). In fact, it is expected that optimizing nurse staff levels will result in higher proportions of nurses, low patient-to-nurse ratios and lower patient loads, which will be associated with lower rates of adverse patient outcomes that include mortality rates, urinary tract infections, and pressure ulcers Success of Performance Improvement Plan (Everhart et al., 2013).

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Still, it is important to note that increasing nurse staff levels will result in increased operating costs that could significantly affect profit margins, although these costs are reduced by cost savings resultant from improved productivity, shorter patient length of stays, and reduced incidences of hospital acquired infections. The implication is that although increasing the number of nurses could initially increase operating costs, it would improve profitability and cost savings in the long run through more efficient care processes, reduced length of stay, reductions in adverse events, and improved productivity. These implications are of importance in competitive hospital markets where this facility competes with other facilities in both price and quality. Overall, the optimized staffing plan is expected to improve financial performance, facilitate smart scheduling to streamline services, improve care outcomes, and improve staff satisfaction levels (Black, 2013).

References

Black, B. (2013). Professional nursing: concepts & challenges (7^th ed.). New York, NY: Elsevier.

Everhart, D., Neff, D., Al-Amin, M., Nogle, J. & Weech-Maldonado, R. (2013). The effects of nurse staffing on hospital financial performance: competitive versus less competitive markets. Health Care Manage Rev., 38(2), 146–155. doi: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e318257292b

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Success of Performance Improvement Plan