Walden CN4003 Staffing Plan Assessment

CN4003 Assessment Instructions

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Review the details of your assessment including the rubric. You will have the ability to submit the assessment once you submit your required pre-assessments and engage with your Faculty Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a substantive way about the competency. Walden CN4003 Staffing Plan Assessment

Overview

For this Performance Task Assessment, you will calculate full-time equivalents (FTEs) and staffing costs and create a staffing chart.

Submission Length: Completed Assessment Template, 2–3 pages

Instructions

To complete this Assessment, do the following:

Be sure to adhere to the indicated assignment length.
Download the Academic Writing Expectations Checklistto review prior to submitting your Assessment.
Access the following: CN4003 Assessment Template

Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the SME will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.

Rubric

All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring.

This assessment requires submission of one file, a completed Assessment Template. Save your file as follows: CN4003_firstinitial_lastname (for example, CN4003_J_Smith).

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Creating a Staffing Plan

You have just been hired as a unit manager for a 40-bed in-patient nursing unit. One of your first priorities is to create a staffing chart. However, first you will need to calculate your FTEs and salary costs. After analyzing the unit budget report, you find that the average daily census during the last fiscal year was 40 patients. Utilize the CN4003 Assessment Template document to complete your calculations and staffing chart. Walden CN4003 Staffing Plan Assessment

CN4003 Assessment Template

Part I: Calculating RN Full Time Equivalents (FTEs)

As the manager, you have been asked to provide an RN staffing plan for a 40-bed in-patient nursing unit with an Average Daily Census of 40. The proposed staffing ratio is 1:6 (1 nurse for each 6 patients per shift). Using the Nursing Hours Per Patient Day (NHPPD) methodology, calculate the number of FTEs needed to staff the unit for a 14-day pay period. Use the information in the Welch and Smith (2020) article to assist with your analysis.

Convert Nurse Patient Ratio to NHPPD.

Determine the nursing unit annual volume in patient days.

Determine total NHPPD for the previous year.

Determine number of FTEs needed to staff the unit.

Explain why the unit uses a particular staffing ratio and how that ratio is determined.

Explain whether other units in the same facility would have the same staffing ratio or different staffing ratios. Justify your response.

Part II: Calculating Salary Costs

Based on the FTEs you calculated in Part I, calculate the salary cost for each nurse FTE using the hourly wage multiplied by 2,080 (number of hours worked per year), then add 30% to cover benefits. Use the following to make your calculations: RN salary: $32.50 per hour + 30% for benefits = $42.25 per hour.

Determine the salary per year for one RN FTE.

Calculate the total salary costs for the entire RN staff to determine your initial professional staff budget for the entire year.
Explain the importance of budgeting when making staffing decisions.

Part III: Creating a Staffing Chart for 4 North Day Shift

Using the FTEs you have determined you need in Part 1, create a staffing plan for a 14 day pay period for the 4 North day shift.

(Remember that a nurse who works 72 hours per pay period is a 0.9 FTE; 48hrs/week is a 0.6 FTE; and 24hrs/week is a 0.3 FTE.)

4 North Schedule

FTE

Sun

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Day Shift 7a-7p

Example RN

0.9

K. Barnes RN

H. Keller RN

J. Jones RN

A. Hills RN

D. Scott RN

S. Guyan RN

J. Williams RN

Z. David RN

M. Williamson RN

P. Webb RN

D. Carey RN

(Add or delete RNs as needed)

Total FTEs

Assessment Rubric

CN4003: Staffing Plan: Create staffing plans that meet both patient care needs and budget constraints.

Assessment Rubric

Rubric Criteria	Does Not Meet Expectations	Meets Expectations	Exceeds Expectations
Module 1: Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) and Nursing Hours Per Patient Day (NHPPD)
Perform the necessary calculations for determining FTEs required for staffing in the scenario.	Response does not adequately complete each of the four calculations necessary for determining FTEs in the scenario.	Response adequately completes each of the four calculations necessary for determining FTEs in the scenario with only minor errors. Walden CN4003 Staffing Plan Assessment	Response clearly, accurately, and completely completed each of the four calculations necessary for determining FTEs in the scenario.
Learning Objective 1.1: Calculate FTEs
Explain why the unit uses a particular staffing ratio and how that ratio is determined.	Response does not adequately explain why the unit uses a particular staffing ratio or does not adequately explain how that ratio is determined.	Response adequately explains why the unit uses a particular staffing ratio and adequately explains how that ratio is determined.	Response clearly and completely explains why the unit uses a particular staffing ratio and accurately explains how that ratio is determined.
Learning Objective 1.2: Analyze staffing ratios
Explain whether other units in the same facility would have the same ratio or different ratios. Justify your response.	Response does not adequately explain whether other units in the same facility would have the same ratio or different ratios or does not adequately justify the response.	Response adequately explains whether other units in the same facility would have the same ratio or different ratios and adequately justifies the response.	Response clearly and completely explains whether other units in the same facility would have the same or different ratios and clearly and completely justifies the response.

Rubric Criteria	Does Not Meet Expectations	Meets Expectations	Exceeds Expectations
Learning Objective 1.3: Compare staffing ratios in different hospital units
Module 2: Personnel Costs
Perform the necessary calculations for determining salary costs for staffing budgets. Learning Objective 2.1: Calculate salary costs for staffing budgets	Response does not adequately perform the two necessary calculations for determining salary costs for staffing budgets.	Response adequately performs the two necessary calculations for determining salary costs for staffing budgets.	Response clearly, accurately, and completely performs the two necessary calculations for determining salary costs for staffing budgets.
Explain the importance of budgeting when making staffing decisions. Learning Objective 2.2: Analyze the importance of budgeting when making staffing decisions	Response does not adequately explain the importance of budgeting when making staffing decisions.	Response adequately explains the importance of budgeting when making staffing decisions.	Response clearly and completely explains the importance of budgeting when making staffing decisions.
Module 3: Staffing Plan Development
Create staffing plan for a 14-day pay period for the 4 North day shift. Learning Objective 3.1: Develop nursing staffing plans	Response does not create an adequate staffing plan for a 14-day period or does not use the details in the given scenario. Walden CN4003 Staffing Plan Assessment	Response creates an adequate staffing plan for a 14-day period using the details in the given scenario.	Response creates a thoughtful and clear staffing plan for a 14-day period using the details in the given scenario.

Professional Skills Assessment

Professional Writing

Professional Writing: Clarity, Flow, and Organization

Content contains significant spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors.

Writing does not demonstrate adequate sentence and paragraph structure and requires additional editing/proofreading. Key sections of presented content lack clarity, logical flow, and/or organization.

Content contains few spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors. Writing demonstrates adequate sentence and paragraph structure and may require some editing. Content presented is satisfactorily clear, logical, and/or organized, but could benefit from additional

editing/revision.

Content is free from spelling, punctuation, and grammar/syntax errors.

Writing demonstrates appropriate sentence and paragraph structure.

Content presented is clear, logical, and well-organized.

Professional Writing: Context, Audience, Purpose, and Tone

Content minimally or does not demonstrate awareness of context, audience, and/or purpose. Writing is not reflective of professional/scholarly tone and/or is not free of bias.

Style is inconsistent with the professional setting/workplace context and reflects the need for

additional editing.

Content demonstrates satisfactory awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is adequately professional, scholarly, and/or free from bias, and style is mostly consistent with the professional setting/workplace context.

Content clearly demonstrates awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is highly professional, scholarly, and free from bias, and style is appropriate for the professional setting/workplace context.

Professional Writing: Originality, Source Credibility, and Attribution of Ideas

Content does not adequately reflect original writing and/or paraphrasing. Writing demonstrates inconsistent adherence to

reference requirements, including the use of credible

Content adequately reflects original writing and paraphrasing. Writing demonstrates adequate adherence to reference

requirements, including the use of credible evidence to

Content reflects original thought and writing and proper paraphrasing.

Writing demonstrates full adherence to reference

requirements, including the use of credible evidence to

evidence to support a claim, with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and reference. There are

numerous and/or significant errors.

support a claim, with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and references.

There are one or two minor errors.

support a claim, with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and references.

Walden CN4003 Staffing Plan Assessment