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Lindsay R Hennek1, Pawan Bhandari, Kelly Ashley
1Author Affiliations: Nursing Administrator (Hennek, Ashley, Renneke, and Stransky), Chief Nursing Officer (McConnell), and Nursing Manager (Runge), Department of Nursing; Principal Health Systems Engineer (Dr Bhandari) and Senior Management Consultant (Mathew), Strategy Department; and Manager (Pederson) and Operations Manager (Slama), Operations Administration, Mayo Clinic Health System - Southwest Minnesota Region, Mankato.
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Ambulatory staffing to workload based on visit volume in an outpatient setting is an elusive formula, and the literature describing such processes is limited. One health system tasked a multidisciplinary team with developing an ambulatory staffing to workload tool to meet the needs of staff, management, and leadership. The resultant tool includes an automated dashboard for determining staffing needs on the basis of quantified workload, prospective modeling, and historical dashboards to demonstrate actual staffing (full-time equivalents) to workload (outpatient volumes) compared with budget.
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