title: A brief compendium of curious and peculiar aspects of nursing resource management.
abstract: The compendium of extraordinary operational skills required, the lack of recognition about the exact nature of nursing work, and deeply imbedded negative mind-sets result in staff nurses experiencing guilt and anger rather than the satisfaction of knowing they made a difference in someone's life because of the nursing care they gave. A change of mind-set from entitlement thinking to entrepreneurial thinking, with an emphasis on maximizing available resources, will empower nurses to understand that they have the right and the responsibility to decide what to do and what not to do when there is more work to do than time available.
authors.affiliation: mmanthey@chcm.com
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Manthey
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D040841:Resource Allocation; D016526:Workload