Week 7 - Staffing

Staffing

Employee selection is so crucial that nothing else — not leadership, not team building, not training, not pay incentives, not total quality management — can overcome poor hiring decisions. (Gerald Graham)

Effective employee selection is foundational

importance of making good hiring decisions

3rd Phase of the Management Process

• Staffing in nursing is a critical process that ensures that there is an adequate number of nurses with appropriate skills to provide safe, efficient and high quality careers to patients

A healthcare manager should be sensitive to the importance of the following factors:

• Physical Resources - These are the technology, space, building, medical equipment or strategic positioning of station, bench and doors

• Financial Resources - In order to be able to operate efficiently and sufficiently well to promote success.

• Human Resources - During the last several decades, the value and potential for the development of a third element, the human resources, gain new recognition