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Staffing. The five-level pyramid
1Critical Care Division and the Emergency Department, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Nursing Management
|March 13, 1998
Abstract:
Staffing practices significantly affect hospital expense control. At a 571-bed hospital in the Southwest, a redesign of the nurse staffing system reduced annual premium nursing labor expenses by $7.5 million without decreasing the nursing hours per patient day. Strategies to achieve similar cost savings at other agencies are suggested.