Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making.

29 Nov 2009 This article discusses delegation challenges and legal and regulatory oversight associated with delegation in the clinical practice setting. The authors address moral and legal attributes of the roles and responsibilities of health care providers ... Read more...

Redesign of a university hospital preanesthesia evaluation clinic using a queuing theory approach.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Changes in patient length of stay (the duration of 1 clinic visit) as a result of the introduction of an electronic patient file system forced an anesthesia department to change its outpatient clinic organization. In this study, we ... Read more...

Trends in work hours and vacation time among radiologists in the United States.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe recent trends in weekly work hours and annual vacation days among full-time radiologists in the United States with separate data for academic radiologists, radiologists in multispecialty groups, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personnel Staffing and Scheduling'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Thoughtful nursing practice: reflections on nurse delegation decision-making. 29 Nov 2009
• Creating leaders for the future. 30 Oct 2009
• A pod design for nursing assignments: eliminating unnecessary steps and increasing patient satisfaction by reconfiguring care assignments. 30 Oct 2009
• Redesign of a university hospital preanesthesia evaluation clinic using a queuing theory approach. 30 Oct 2009
• The feminisation of general practice--crisis or business as usual? Oct 2009
• Federation of Pediatric Organizations Task Force on Women in Pediatrics II: survey of active members of the Society for Pediatric Research regarding part-time and flexible work. 29 Sep 2009
• RN+RN=better care? What do we know about the association between the number of nurses and patient outcomes? 29 Sep 2009
• Trends in work hours and vacation time among radiologists in the United States. 29 Sep 2009
• Joint policy statement--guidelines for care of children in the emergency department. 29 Sep 2009
• Forecasting and perception of average and latest hours worked by on-call anesthesiologists. 29 Sep 2009
• Modeling procedure and surgical times for current procedural terminology-anesthesia-surgeon combinations and evaluation in terms of case-duration prediction and operating room efficiency: a multicenter study. 29 Sep 2009
• John W. Webb Lecture. Expanding the pharmacy enterprise: leadership needed. 13 Sep 2009
• Is the tail wagging the dog? 13 Sep 2009
• [Never sick during the weekend] 5 Sep 2009
• Nursing faculty shortage in 2009. 30 Aug 2009
• [Scarcity of nurses, Africa comes to the aid of Europe] 30 Aug 2009
• The burnout and exhaustion levels of nurses working in haemodialysis units. 30 Aug 2009
• Patients, beware: 731 nurses reveal what to watch out for in the hospital. 30 Aug 2009
• [Personnel and organizational prerequisites for prevention and control of nosocomial infections] 30 Aug 2009
• [Personnel and organizational requirements for the prevention of nosocomial infections: Recommendations from the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention] 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Personnel Staffing and Scheduling'

Definition: The selection, appointing, and scheduling of personnel.

Descriptor UI: D010561

Alternative terms: Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; Personnel Staffing; Staffing, Personnel; Staffing and Scheduling; Scheduling and Staffing;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N04.452.677.650;

History Note: 91(75); was see under PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 1975-90

Technical Notes: med or non-med personnel; DF: PERSONNEL STAFFING