title: Stoplight Grid: a color-coded visual system for per diem staff assignment.
abstract: What is the best way to appropriately assign per diem nursing personnel? The author describes a systematic approach to per diem staff assignment called the Stoplight Grid. The Stoplight Grid correlates staff skills and preferences with unit needs and integrates this data into a color-coded system for staff assignment.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Inpatient Unit, Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ernst
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000592:standards; D010559:Personnel Management; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires