title: Collaborative practice: matching staff skills to patient needs and checking baseline staffing levels.
abstract: Vancouver Coastal Health uses a collaborative practice process to enable nursing units to be proactive and adapt quickly to changing patient population needs using a standardized and integrated approach. The process involves clinical directors, frontline managers, staff, and union representatives from the outset and is based on a registered nurse/licensed practical nurse/patient care aide collaborative model of practice. Results show a total return on investment in 2.4 years.
authors.affiliation: Vancouver Coastal Health, 601 West Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4C2, Canada.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Priddy
mesh_terms: D001955:British Columbia; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*