title: Resource teams: their structure and use.
abstract: With the current nursing shortage and changing health care climate, nursing administrators are concerned with the effective and efficient use of supplementary staffs such as internal resource teams (RTs) or float pools. This article describes a telephone survey of 20 leading hospitals nationwide, which identified organization structure, personnel use, and the main characteristics of state-of-the-art resource teams.
authors.affiliation: Evanston Hospital, Illinois.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Stenske
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Biordi
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Gillies
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Holm
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006801:Humans; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010559:Personnel Management; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012494:Sampling Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce