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Business essentials for nurse leaders

The Business of Caring helps nurse managers navigate the business side of health care to become successful hospital leaders. Topics covered: budgeting, workforce management, cost containment, IT implementation, and more.

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Inside the Current Issue 

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Feature

Empowering Nurse Managers to Be Effective Business Leaders

The need for hands-on business training for nurse leaders has become even more important in these cost-conscious times.

Ask a Nurse Leader

How Nurse Leaders Can Help Increase Patient Volumes

by Kathleen D. Sanford, RN, MA, DBA, FACHE

Nurse managers can offer their expertise and insight during strategic planning and marketing efforts aimed at increasing patient volumes. Read the column.

How We Did It

Helping Patients Make Appropriate Medical Decisions

In shared decision making, nurses and other staff provide the patient with balanced information about treatment options and incorporate the patient's preferences and values into the medical plan.

Business School for Nurses

Benchmarking Labor Data

by ChrysMarie Suby, RN, MS

Comparing HPPD and caregiver-to-patient ratios against national benchmarks will allow you to confidently budget and defend necessary labor hours. View benchmark data for critical care ICUs.

Finance-to-Nurse Interpreter

Productivity Terms

by ChrysMarie Suby, RN, MS

Definitions for direct care, indirect care, productive worked hours, and more. Read the article.

Staffing Exercise

Matching Caregiver Ratios and Hours of Care to Work Intensity/Acuity

Do you suspect that your budgeted RN-to-patient ratios and HPPD targets are inadequate? Follow this hypothetical example for how to justify a possible increase. Read the article.

Operational Strategies

Increasing Nurse Salaries Contributes to Public Hospital's Turnaround

by Jan R. Radke, MD

A big part of the financial pressure at Natividad Medical Center involved nursing shortages, high turnover rates, and high registry costs. Changes in human resources policies and compensation was overdue. Read the article.

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Award-Winning Newsletter

The Business of Caring won two awards from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors.

 

Recent Popular Articles

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What Readers Say ...

"I have read each issue of The Business of Caring cover to cover. It has become a must read for my staff and me . . . "

Susan McRoberts, Vice President and CNO, St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers, Beech Grove Indianapolis-Mooresville

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