title: What every nurse executive should know about staffing and scheduling technology initiatives.
abstract: Staffing in hospitals has a history of being based in opinion and tradition, not evidence. In recent years, for many, staffing practices have spun out of control creating chaos in overtime, the use of incentives, entitlement behaviors, dissatisfaction and frustration among nurses, and has opened doors for such things as staffing ratio legislation. Unprecedented pressures around budgets and financial performance have no doubt compounded this situation. We are in a new day, where technology can help us more than ever in a move towards staffing excellence and staffing practices based on evidence. Highly successful implementations of new technologies are the result of good leadership. The effectiveness of staffing and scheduling has significant business, safety, and quality implications that sit at the heart of the nurse executive's role.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Staffing Excellence and Innovation, Hartford, WI, USA. kathy@staffingexcellence.org
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Douglas
mesh_terms: D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010562:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Information Systems; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States