Decentralization reduces nursing administration budget.
Faced with the need to decrease personnel costs, nursing administrators at Bayfront Medical Center analyzed the nursing department's organizational structure. The resulting change to a decentralized management structure, streamlining the management staff, is described. The radical, yet promising approach of eliminating evening and night shift nursing supervisors is discussed.
D000288:Administrative Personnel; D002017:Budgets; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005376:Financial Management; D005431:Florida; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling