title: Right-sizing clinical education.
abstract: Frequently, education is prime when hospital administration is seeking opportunities to reduce the budget. Our hospital region faced that dilemma. This article discusses how our facility used management engineering to determine the number of education hours for each unit, based on specific negotiated criteria developed by a collaborative group, to answer the question "How many staff can one educator represent?"
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA. vickie-johnsen@byu.edu
authors.forename: Vickie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Johnsen
authors.forename: Janell
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bagley
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Piccioni
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hansmann
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D017145:Models, Educational; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*; D014589:Utah