The document discusses various committees and organizations that have established norms and recommendations for staffing levels in nursing. It outlines the norms set by the Staff Inspection Unit (SIU) in 1991-92, which are still widely followed today. It also summarizes recommendations from the Bajaj Committee in 1986 and the High Power Committee on nursing, which looked at nursing working conditions, staffing norms, and training needs. Both committees made recommendations regarding nursing staff requirements and ratios for hospitals and community health services.
The legal implications of nursing practice are tied to licensure, state and federal laws, scope of practice and a public expectation that nurses practice at a high professional standard. The nurse's education, license and nursing standard provide the framework by which nurses are expected to practice.
The legal implications of nursing practice are tied to licensure, state and federal laws, scope of practice and a public expectation that nurses practice at a high professional standard. The nurse's education, license and nursing standard provide the framework by which nurses are expected to practice.
These indicators included: Falls, Falls with Injury, Nursing Care Hours per Patient Day, Skill Mix, Pressure Ulcer Prevalence, and Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcer Prevalence.
PATIENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS, PLANING NURSING SERVICES, MANAGEMENT, Patient classification systems are essential tools in healthcare settings that aim to categorize patients based on various factors such as their clinical conditions, resource requirements, and level of care needed. These systems provide a standardized framework for healthcare professionals to assess and classify patients, ensuring appropriate care delivery, resource allocation, and effective management. The primary purpose of patient classification systems is to streamline healthcare processes and optimize patient care delivery. The Johnson Patient Classification System typically categorizes patients into different levels or categories based on their care needs.
These indicators included: Falls, Falls with Injury, Nursing Care Hours per Patient Day, Skill Mix, Pressure Ulcer Prevalence, and Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcer Prevalence.
PATIENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS, PLANING NURSING SERVICES, MANAGEMENT, Patient classification systems are essential tools in healthcare settings that aim to categorize patients based on various factors such as their clinical conditions, resource requirements, and level of care needed. These systems provide a standardized framework for healthcare professionals to assess and classify patients, ensuring appropriate care delivery, resource allocation, and effective management. The primary purpose of patient classification systems is to streamline healthcare processes and optimize patient care delivery. The Johnson Patient Classification System typically categorizes patients into different levels or categories based on their care needs.
STAFFING
Staffing is the systematic approach of selection, training, motivating and retaining of a professional and non- professional personnel in Any organization.
Philosophy of staffing
Match the employee’s knowledge and skills to patient needs that optimizes job satisfaction and quality of care.
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Running head: ASHFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL PROPOSAL 1
ASHFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL PROPOSAL 2
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Problem: Ashford General Hospital’s Response to Nurse Staffing Shortage
1. The shortage in the number of nurses is one of the biggest problems that many
hospitals in America, including Ashford General Hospital, encounter.
2. About sixty-eight percent of the total number of nursing staff is facing retirement, for
they are over the age of 45.
3. Nurses’ retention rate in this hospital is sixty-one percent, lower than the nationwide
retention rate of sixty-five percent.
B. Scope of the problem
1. Many of the nurses find the job to be more physically demanding. They, therefore,
also feel burnt-out emotionally.
2. To fill personal shifts and also try to meet the immediate staffing needs that arise
from medical leaves and vacations for staff, the hospital has utilized both traveling
and per diem nurses. These nurses are contracted on a short-term basis. The process
has, therefore, risen hiring costs, and lowered the score on the surveys on patient
satisfaction.
II. SOLUTIONS
A. Short-Term Strategies
1. Utilizing Temporary Staff
i.) The hospital should continue with the use of traveling and per diem nurses.
Though this approach is expensive to the organization, these nurses help to fill
the gaps arising from medical leaves and vacations of employees (Conway &
ASHFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL PROPOSAL 3
McMillan, 2007). We can rely on this strategy especially when the shortage is
very severe.
ii.) We can also employ the use of float pools or internal staffing agencies as a
short-term strategy to curb this shortage (Bish, Kenney & Nay, 2012).
Though the internal agency nurses are paid a package bigger than the staff
nurses, the amount is less than that given to external agency nurses. Therefore,
this approach is cost effective.
2. Financial Benefits and Salary Increment
i.) The Hospital can also shift on offering competitive salaries to aid in recruiting
and retaining nurses in a high-demand environment. The strategy not only
targets new recruits but also wage increase for all the nursing staff across the
board. It is also a critical approach when targeting long-term solutions since
more people will be attracted to the nursing profession, and most especially to
this organization.
ii.) Ashford General Hospital can also implement the use of retention, referral, or
sign-on bonuses or even some combination of the rewards. It helps to
encourage the staff to join or remain in the organization.
iii.) We can also begin using self and flexible scheduling programs. Money alone
cannot make employees or nurses comfortable and happy. Their demands
keep changing now and then, and one of the new demands is to balance
between home and work life. Their programs should be made flexible in such
a way that a nurse can freely and easily balance these t ...
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Defecation
Normal defecation begins with movement in the left colon, moving stool toward the anus. When stool reaches the rectum, the distention causes relaxation of the internal sphincter and an awareness of the need to defecate. At the time of defecation, the external sphincter relaxes, and abdominal muscles contract, increasing intrarectal pressure and forcing the stool out
The Valsalva maneuver exerts pressure to expel faeces through a voluntary contraction of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced expiration against a closed airway. Patients with cardiovascular disease, glaucoma, increased intracranial pressure, or a new surgical wound are at greater risk for cardiac dysrhythmias and elevated blood pressure with the Valsalva maneuver and need to avoid straining to pass the stool.
Normal defecation is painless, resulting in passage of soft, formed stool
CONSTIPATION
Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. Improper diet, reduced fluid intake, lack of exercise, and certain medications can cause constipation. For example, patients receiving opiates for pain after surgery often require a stool softener or laxative to prevent constipation. The signs of constipation include infrequent bowel movements (less than every 3 days), difficulty passing stools, excessive straining, inability to defecate at will, and hard feaces
IMPACTION
Fecal impaction results from unrelieved constipation. It is a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum that a person cannot expel. In cases of severe impaction the mass extends up into the sigmoid colon.
DIARRHEA
Diarrhea is an increase in the number of stools and the passage of liquid, unformed feces. It is associated with disorders affecting digestion, absorption, and secretion in the GI tract. Intestinal contents pass through the small and large intestine too quickly to allow for the usual absorption of fluid and nutrients. Irritation within the colon results in increased mucus secretion. As a result, feces become watery, and the patient is unable to control the urge to defecate. Normally an anal bag is safe and effective in long-term treatment of patients with fecal incontinence at home, in hospice, or in the hospital. Fecal incontinence is expensive and a potentially dangerous condition in terms of contamination and risk of skin ulceration
HEMORRHOIDS
Hemorrhoids are dilated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum. They are either external or internal.
FLATULENCE
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FECAL INCONTINENCE
Fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of feces and gas from the anus. Incontinence harms a patient’s body image
PREPARATION AND GIVING OF LAXATIVESACCORDING TO POTTER AND PERRY,
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2.
Introduction:
Organization is the formal structure of authority calculated to
define, distribute and provide for the co-ordination of the tasks as
contribution to the whole.
Aims of the organization:
Properly design the planning of its institutions and its functional
standard,
It will identified the kind and numbers of personnel it needs.
HUMAN RESOURCES FOR
HEALTH
3.
Definition:
Staffing is the systematic approach to the problem of selecting,
training, motivating and retaining professional and non
professional personnel in any organization.
It involves manpower planning to have the right person in the
right place and avoid “Square peg in round hole”.
STAFFING
4.
Philosophy
Components of the staffing process as a control system include a
staffing study, a master staffing plan, a scheduling plan, and a
nursing management information system (NMIS).
NMIS includes these five elements;
1. Quality of patient care to be delivered and its measurement.
2. Characteristics and care requirements of patients.
3. Prediction of the supply of nurse power required for components 1
&2.
4. Logistics of the staffing program pattern and its control.
5. Evaluation of the quality of care desired, thereby measuring the
success of the staffing itself.
5.
Nurse administrators of a hospital nursing department might adopt the following
philosophy:
1. Nurse administrators believe that it is possible to match employee‘s knowledge
and skills to patient care needs in a manner that optimizes job satisfaction and
care quality.
2. Nurse administrators believe that the technical and humanistic care needs of
critically ill patients are complex that all aspects of that care should be provided
by professional nurses.
3. Nurse administrative believe that the health teaching and rehabilitation needs of
chronically ill patients are so complex that direct care for chronically ill patients
should be provided by professional and technical nurses.
4. Should believe that patient assessment, work quantification and job analysis
should be used to determine the number of personnel in each category to be
assigned to care for patients of each type (such as coronary care, renal failure,
etc.,).
5. Should believe that a master staffing plan and policies to implement the plan in
all units should be developed centrally by the nursing heads and staff of the
hospital.
6. Should the staffing plan should be administrated at the unit level by the head
nurse, so that can change based on unit workload and workflow.
Philosophy of staffing in nursing
6.
Provide an all professional nurse staff in critical care units,
operating rooms, labor, delivery unit, emergency room.
Provide sufficient staff to permit a 1:1 nurse-patient ratio for each
shift in every critical care unit.
Staff the general medical, surgical, Obsteritic and gynecology,
pediatric and psychiatric units to achieve a 2:1 professional –
practical nurse ratio.
Provide sufficient nursing staff in general medical, surgical,
Obsteritic, pediatric and psychiatric units to permit a 1: 5 nurse-
patient ratio on a day and after noon shifts and 1:10 nurse –patient
ratio on the night shift.
Objectives of staffing in nursing
8.
Norms:
Norms are standards that guide, control, and regulate individuals
and communities.
For planning nursing manpower we have to follow some norms.
The nursing norms are recommended by various committees, such
as; the Nursing Man Power Committee, the High power
Committee, Dr. Bajaj Committee, and the staff inspection
committee, TNAI and INC.
The norms has been recommended taking into account the
workload projected in the wards and the other areas of the hospital.
NORMS OF STAFFING(S I U-
staff inspection unit)
9.
All the above committees and the staff inspection unit
recommended the norms for optimum nurse-patient ratio.
Such as 1:3 for Non Teaching Hospital and 1:5 for the Teaching
Hospital.
The Staff Inspection Unit (S.I.U.) is the unit which has
recommended the nursing norms in the year 1991-92.
As per this S.I.U. norm the present nurse-patient ratio is based and
practiced in all central government hospitals.
10.
The norms for providing staff nurses and nursing sisters in Government
hospital is given in annexure to this report. The norm has been
recommended taking into account the workload projected in the wards
and the other areas of the hospital.
The posts of nursing sisters and staff nurses have been clubbed together
for calculating the staff entitlement for performing nursing care work
which the staff nurse will continue to perform even after she is
promoted to the existing scale of nursing sister.
Out of the entitlement worked out on the basis of the norms, 30%posts
may be sanctioned as nursing sister. This would further improve the
existing ratio of 1 nursing sister to 3.6. staff nurses fixed by the
government in settlement with the Delhi nurse union in may 1990.
The assistant nursing superintendent are recommended in the ratio of 1
ANS to every 4.5 nursing sisters. The ANS will perform the duty
presently performed by nursing sisters and perform duty in shift also.
Recommendations of S.I.U
11.
The posts of Deputy Nursing Superintendent may continue at the
level of 1 DNS per every 7.5 ANS.
There will be a post of Nursing Superintendent for every hospital
having 250 or beds.
There will be a post of 1 Chief Nursing Officer for every hospital
having 500 or more beds.
It is recommended that 45% posts added for the area of 365 days
working including 10% leave reserve (maternity leave, earned
leave, and days off as nurses are entitled for 8 days off per month
and 3 National Holidays per year when doing 3 shift duties).
Most of the hospital today is following the S.I.U. norms.
In this the post of the Nursing Sisters and the Staff Nurses has been
clubbed together and the work of the ward sister is remained same
as staff nurse even after promotion.
The Assistant Nursing Superintendent and the Deputy Nursing
Superintendent have to do the duty of one category below of their
rank.
13.
An "Expert Committee for Health Manpower Planning, Production
and Management" was constituted in 1985 under Dr. J.S. Bajaj, the
then professor at AIIMS.
Manpower is one of the most vital resources for the labour
intensive health services industry. Health for all (HFA) can be
achieved only by improving the utilization of these resources.
BAJAJ COMMITTEE, 1986
14.
1. Formulation of National Medical & Health Education Policy.
2. Formulate on of National Health Manpower Policy.
3. Establishment of an Educational Commission for Health Sciences
(ECHS) on the lines of UGC.
4. Establishment of Health Science Universities in various states and
union territories.
5. Establishment of health manpower cells at center and in the states.
6. Vocationalisation of education at 10+2 levels as regards health
related fields with appropriate incentives, so that good quality
paramedical personnel may be available in adequate numbers.
7. Carrying out a realistic health manpower survey.
Major recommendations are:-
15.
Hospital Nursing Services-
1. Nursing superintendents - 1:200 beds
2. Deputy nursing superintendents - 1:300 beds
3. Departmental nursing - 7:1000 + 1 Addl:1000 beds
(991 x 7 + 991)
4. Ward nursing - 8:200 + 30% leave reserve supervisors/sisters
5. Staff nurse for wards- 1:3 (or 1:9 for each shift) + 30 leave reserve
6. For OPD, Blood Bank, X-ray, Diabetic clinics, CSR, etc. - 1:100
(1:5 OPD) + 30% leave reserve
In relation to nursing, the Bajaj Committee recommended staffing
norms for nursing manpower requirements for hospital nursing services
and requirements for community health centers and primary health
centers on the basis of calculations as follow:
16.
7. For intensive units - 1:8 (1:3 for each shift) (8 beds ICU/200
beds) + 30% leave reserve
8. For specialized departments and clinics, OT, Labour room -
8:200 + 30% leave reserve
Community Nursing Service-
Projected population - 991,479,200 (medium assumption) by 2000
AD
1 Community Health Centre - 1,000,00 population
1 Primary Health Services - 30,000 population in plain area
1 Primary Health Services - 20,000 population in difficult areas
1 Sub-centre - 5000 population in plain area
1 Sub-centre - 3000 population for difficult area
17.
It also requires nursing manpower to cater to the needs of the rural
community as follows:
Manpower requirements by 2000 AD:
Sub-centre ANM/FHW- 323882
Health supervisors /LHV- 107960
Primary Health Centres PHN- 26439
Community health centre Nurse-midwives- 26439
Public health nursing supervisor- 7436
Nurse-midwives- 52,052
District public health nursing officer - 900
In additional to the above, 74361 Traditional Birth Attendants
will be required.
19.
High power committee on nursing and nursing profession was set
up by the Government of India in July 1987, under the chairmanship
of Dr. Jyothi former vice-chancellor of SNDT Women University,
Mrs. Rajkumari Sood, Nursing Advisor to Union Government as the
member-secretary and CPB Kurup, Principal, Government College
of Nursing, Bangalore and the then President.
TNAI is also one among the prominent members of this committee.
Later on the committee was headed by Smt. Sarojini Varadappan,
former Chairman of Central Social Welfare Board.
Introduction
20.
The terms of reference of the Committee are:
To look into the existing working conditions of nurses with particular
reference to the status of the nursing care services both in the rural and
urban areas.
To study and recommend the staffing norms necessary for providing
adequate nursing personnel to give the best possible care, both in the
hospitals and community.
To look into the training of all categories and levels of nursing, midwifery
personnel to meet the nursing manpower needs at all levels of health
services and education.
To study and clarify the role of nursing personnel in the health care delivery
system including their interaction with other members of the health team at
every level of health service management.
To examine the need for organised nursing services at the national, state,
district and local levels with particular reference to the need for planning
service with the overall health care system of the country at the respective
levels.
To look into all other aspects, the Committee will hold consultations with
the State Governments.
21.
Employment
Job description
Working hours
Work load/ working facilities
Pay and allowances
Promotional opportunities
Career development
Accommodation
Transport
Special incentives
Occupational hazards
Other welfare services
Recommendations Of High Power Committee On
Nursing And Nursing Profession
22.
Additional Facilities for Nurses Working In the Rural Areas:
Family accommodation at sub centre is a must for safety and
security of ANM's /LHV.
Women attendant, selected from the village must accompany the
ANM for visits to other villages.
The district public health nurse is provided with a vehicle for field
supervision.
Fixed travel allowance with provision of enhancement from time
to time.
Rural allowance as granted to other employees is paid to nursing
personnel.
23.
NURSING EDUCATION
The committee recommends that;
1. There should be 2 levels of nursing personnel –
a) Professional nurse (degree level) and
b) Auxiliary nurse (vocational nurse).
Admission to professional nursing should be with 12 yrs of
schooling with science. The duration of course should be 4 yrs at
the university level.
Admission to vocational /auxiliary nursing should be with 10 yrs
of schooling .The duration of course should be 2 yrs in health
related vocational stream.
2. All school of nursing attached to medical college hospitals is
upgraded to degree level in a phased manner.
3. All ANM schools and school of nursing attached to district
hospitals be affiliated with senior secondary boards.
24.
4. Post certificate B.Sc. Nursing degree to be continued to give opportunities
to the existing diploma nurses to continue higher education.
5. Master in nursing programme to be increased and strengthened.
6. Doctoral programme in nursing have to be started in selected universities.
7. Central assistance be provided for all levels of nursing education
institutions in terms of budget( capital and recurring)
8. Up gradation of degree level institutions be made in a phased manner as
suggested in report.
9. Each school should have separate budget till such time is phased to
degree/vocational programme. The principal of the school should be the
drawing and the disbursing officer.
10. Nursing personnel should have a complete say in matters of selection of
students. Selection is based completely on merit. Aptitude test is
introduced for selection of candidates.
11. All schools to have adequate budget for libraries and teaching equipments.
12. All schools to have independent teaching block called as School Of
Nursing with adequate class room facilities, library room, common room
etc. as per the requirements of INC.
25.
Continuing Education and Staff Development
Definite policies of deputing 5-10% of staff for higher studies are
made by each state. Provision for training reserve is made in each
institution.
Deputation for higher study is made compulsory after 5 yrs.
Each nursing personnel must attend 1 or 2 refresher course every
year.
Necessary budgetary provision be made.
A National Institute for Nursing Education Research and Training
needs to be established like NCERT, for development of
educational technology, preparation of textbooks, media, / manuals
for nursing.
26.
NURSING SERVICES: HOSPITALS / INSTITUTIONS
(URBAN AREAS)
Definite nursing policies regarding nursing practice are available in
each institution. These policies include:
A. Qualification/recruitment rules
B. Job description/job specifications
C. Organizational chart of the institutions
D. Nursing care standards for different categories of patients.
1. Staffing of the hospitals should be as per norms recommended.
2. District hospitals /non teaching hospitals may appoint professional
teaching nurses in the ratio of 1; 3 as soon as nurses start
qualifying from these institutions.
3. Students not to be counted for staffing in the hospitals.
4. Adequate supplies and equipments, drugs etc. be made available
for practice of nursing.
27.
5. Nurses to be relieved from non -nursing duties.
6. Duty station for nurses is provided in each ward.
7. Necessary facilities like central sterile supplies, linen, drugs are
considered for all major hospitals to improve patient care. Also
nurses should not be made to pay for breakage and losses. All
hospitals should have some systems for regular assessment of losses.
8. Provision of part time jobs for married nurses to be considered. (min
16-20hrs/week)
9. Re-entry by married nurses at the age of 35 or above may also be
considered and such nurse be given induction courses for updating
their knowledge and skills before employment.
10. Nurses in senior positions like ward sisters, Asst. nursing
superintendents, Deputy NS; N.S must have courses in management
and administration before promotions.
11. Nurses working in speciality areas must have courses in specialities.
Promotion opportunities for clinical specialities like administrative
posts are considered for improving quality nursing services.
28.
Norms recommended for nursing service and education:
Hospital setting
1. Nursing Superintendent - 1: 200 beds (hospitals with 200 or more
beds).
2. Deputy Nursing Superintendent - 1: 300 beds ( wherever beds are
over 200)
3. Assistant Nursing Superintendent - 1: 100
4. Ward sister/ward supervisor - 1:25 beds 30% leave reserve
5. Staff nurse for wards - 1:3 ( or 1:9 for each shift ) 30% leave
reserve
6. For nurses OPD and emergency etc - 1: 100 patients ( 1 bed : 5
out patients) 30% leave reserve
7. For ICU - 1:1(or 1:3 for each shift) 30% leave reserve
For specialized departments such as operation theatre, labour room
etc - 1: 25 {30% leave reserve}.
29.
Community Nursing Services
Appointment of ANM/LHV to be recommended.
1 ANM for 2500 population (2 per sub centre)
1 ANM for 1500 population for hilly areas
1 health supervisor for 7500 population (for supervision of 3
ANM's)
1 public health nurse for 1 PHC (30000 population to supervise 4
Health Supervisors)
1 Public Health Nursing Officer for 100000 population
(community health centre)
2 district public health nursing for each district.
ANM/LHV promoted to supervisory posts must undergo courses
in administration and management.
Specific standing orders are made available for each ANM/LHV
to function effectively in the field.
Adequate provision of supplies, drugs etc. are made.
31.
The Indian Nursing Council is an Autonomous Body under the
Government of India and was constituted by the Central
Government under the Indian Nursing Council Act, 1947 of
parliament.
It was established in 1949 for the purpose of providing uniform
standards in nursing education and reciprocity in nursing
registration throughout the country.
Nurses registered in one state were not registered in another state
before this time.
Introduction
32.
Functions of Indian Nursing Council:
o To establish and monitor a uniform standard of nursing education for nurses
midwife, Auxiliary Nurse-Midwives and health visitors by doing inspection
of the institutions.
o To recognize the qualifications under section 10(2)(4) of the Indian Nursing
Council Act, 1947 for the purpose of registration and employment in India
and abroad.
o To give approval for registration of Indian and Foreign Nurses possessing
foreign qualification under section 11(2) (a) of the Indian Nursing Council
Act, 1947.
o To prescribe the syllabus & regulations for nursing programs.
o Power to withdraw the recognition of qualification under section 14 of the
Act in case the institution fails to maintain its standards under Section 14
(1)(b) that an institution recognized by a State Council for the training of
nurses, midwives, auxiliary nurse midwives or health visitors does not
satisfy the requirements of the Council.
o To advise the State Nursing Councils, Examining Boards, State
Governments and Central Government in various important items regarding
Nursing Education in the Country.
33.
Staff nurse Sister(each shift) Departmental
sister/ assistant
nursing
superintendent
Medical ward 1:3 1:25 1 for 3-4 wards
Surgical ward 1:3 1:25 1 for 3-4 wards
Orthopedic ward 1:3 1:25 1 for 3-4 wards
Pediatric ward 1:3 1:25 1 for 3-4 wards
Gynecology ward 1:3 1:25 1 for 3-4 wards
Maternity ward
including newborns
1:3 1:25 1 for 3-4 wards
THE EXISTING NORM BY INC WITH REGARD TO
NURSING STAFF FOR WARDS AND SPECIAL UNITS:
34.
Staff nurse Sister(each
shift)
Departmental sister/
assistant nursing
superintendent
ICU 1:1(24 hours) 1
CCU 1:1(24 hours) 1
Nephrology 1:1(24 hours) 1 1 department sister/assistant
nursing superintendent for 3-4
units clubbed together
Neurology & and
neurosurgery
1:1(24 hours) 1
Special wards-
eye, ENT etc.
1:1(24 hours) 1
Operation theatre 3 for 24 hours per
table
1 1 department
sister/asst.nursing
superintendent for 4-5
operating rooms
Casuality and
emergency unit
2-3 staff nurses
depending on the
number of beds
1 1 department sister/assistant
nursing superintendent
35.
Collegiate programme-A
Qualifications and experience of teachers of college of nursing-
1. Professor-cum-Principal
Masters Degree in Nursing
Total 10 years of experience with minimum of 5 years of teaching
experience
2. Professor-cum- Vice Principal
Masters Degree in Nursing
Total 10 years of experience with minimum of 5 years in teaching
3. Reader/Associate Professor
Masters Degree in Nursing
Total 7 years of experience with minimum of 3 years in teaching
Staffing pattern according to the Indian Nursing Council
(relaxed till 2012)
36.
4. Lecturer
Masters Degree in Nursing with 3 years of experience.
5. Tutor/Clinical Instructor
M.Sc.(N) or B.Sc. (N) with 1 year experience or Basic B.Sc. (N)
with post basic diploma in clinical specialty
For B.Sc. and M.Sc. nursing:
Annual intake of 60 students for B.Sc. (N) and 25 for M.Sc. (N)
programme
One in each specialty and all the M.Sc. (N) qualified teaching
faculty will participate in both programmes.
Teacher-student ratio = 1:10
37.
B.Sc. (N) M.Sc. (N)
Professor cum principal 1
Professor cum vice principal 1
Reader/Associate professor 1 2
Lecturer 2 3
Tutor/clinical instructor 19
Total 24 5
38.
Professor cum principal 1
Professor cum vice principal 1
Reader/Associate professor 1
Lecturer 4
Tutor/clinical instructor 35
Total 42
GNM and B.Sc. (N) with 60 annual intake in each
programme
39.
Basic B.Sc. (N)
Admission capacity
Annual intake 40-60 61-100
Professor cum principal 1 1
Professor cum vice principal 1 1
Reader/Associate professor 1 1
Lecturer 2 4
Tutor/clinical instructor 19 33
Total 24 40
Teacher student ratio= 1:10 (All nursing faculty including Principal and Vice
principal)
40.
Two M.Sc (N) qualified teaching faculty to start college of
nursing for proposed less than or equal to 60 students and
4 M.Sc (N) qualified teaching faculty for proposed 61 to 100
students and by fourth year they should have 5 and 7 M.Sc (N)
qualified teaching faculty respectively, preferably with one in each
specialty.
41.
Part time teachers and external teachers:
1. Microbiology
2. Bio-chemistry
3. Sociology
4. Bio-physic
5. Psychology
6. Nutrition
7. English
8. Computer
9. Hindi/Any other language
10. Any other- clinical discipliners
11. Physical education
The above teachers should have post graduate qualification with
teaching experience in respective area.
42.
School of nursing-B
Qualification of teaching staff-
1. Professor cum principal
M.Sc. (N) with 3 years of teaching
experience or B.Sc.(N) basic or post
basic with 5 years of teaching
experience.
2. Professor cum vice principal
M.Sc. (N) or B.Sc. (N) (Basic)/Post
basic with 3 years of teaching
experience.
3. Tutor/clinical instructor
M.Sc. (N) or B.Sc. (N) (Basic) / Post
basic or diploma in nursing education
and Administration with two years of
professional experience.
43.
For School of nursing with 60 students i.e. an annual intake of 20
students:
Teaching faculty No. required
Principal 1
Vice-principal 1
Tutor 4
Additional tutor for interns 1
Total 7
Teacher student ratio should be 1:10 for student sanctioned
strength
45.
Policy:
1. Statement of predetermined guidelines
2. Policies in general, they are guidelines to help in the safe and efficient
achievement of organizational objectives
Personnel Policy-
1) A set of rules that define the manner in which an organization deals with a
human resources or personnel-related matter. A personnel policy should
reflect good practice, be written down, be communicated across the
organization, and should adapt to changing circumstances.
2) Personnel policy is an integrated function which encompasses many aspects
of the personnel management.
3) The written statement of an organization‘s goal and intent concerning
matters that effect the personnel working in an organization.
4) Personnel policies are the statements of the accepted personnel principles
and the resulting course of administrative action by which a specific
organization pattern determines the pattern of its employment conditions.
DEFINITION OF PERSONNEL POLICIES
46.
IMPORTANCE:
1) To the employee it represents a guarantee of fair and equitable
treatment.
The establishment of good personnel policies helps to give the
employee a sense of security and individual worth.
It gives employee pride and loyalty to the organization for which
he/she works.
Policies that are planned in advance are likely to meet the needs of
the organization better.
2) To the supervisor it is a safeguard in that it relieves her of the
responsibility of making a personal decision which may conflict with
decisions given by other supervisors.
Established personnel policies serve as guides to action so that a
great deal of time is saved by administrational personnel in handling
individual cases.
A well understood clearly written policy saves the time of an
employee as well as the employer.
47.
PHILOSOPHY:
“The nursing service administration of…….. believes that its
supreme objective ; the best possible patient care, can be achieved
only by the full cooperation of all who are privileged to take part
in that care”.
“It seeks to establish a team dedicated to the protection of health
and well being of the patient in an environment that will enable
every member of the team to obtain as well as give satisfaction in
his or her work”.
48.
OBJECTIVES:
1) To employ those persons best fitted by education, skill and
experience to perform prescribed work.
2) Guarantee fairness in the maintenance of the discipline.
3) Upgrade and promote existing staff wherever possible.
4) Take all practical steps to avoid excessive hours of work.
5) Ensure the greatest practicable degree of permanent and continuous
employment.
6) Maintain standards of remuneration
7) Provide and maintain high level of physical working conditions.
8) Maintain effective methods of regular consultation between
administration and employees.
9) Provide suitable means for the orientation, on the job training and
evaluation of employees.
10) Encourage social and recreational facilities for employees.
11) Develop appropriate schemes for employees welfare.
49.
SL NO. FUNCTIONS TECHNIQUES
1. Employment Job analysis, job specifications, time schedules, works
Schedules, manuals, agreed code of regulations,
assessment of personnel
2. Remuneration Job evaluation
3. Health and safety Physical examination, safety training, accident
analysis, sickness statistics
4. Welfare Social and recreational programs, rest rooms, canteen,
pension schemes, employers counseling
5. Training On the training, training for leadership
FUNCTIONS AND TECHNIQUES OF ADMINISTRATION TO
MEET THE OBJECTIVES SPECIFIED BY THE STATEMENT OF
POLICY.
50.
TYPES OF POLICIES
a) Implied Policy:
It is the policy which is not directly voiced or written but is
established by pattern of decision.
They may have either favourable or unfavorable effects.
It is the policy neither written nor expressed verbally have usually
developed over time and follow a presendent.
If you have people who are accountable to you, you don‘t need to
formally issue policy statements to create policy.
Parents, bosses, boards, government administrations, etc. are
producing implied policy all of the time.
For Example: Imagine that an employee comes to the boss and
asks, “What should I do about this?" If the boss responds by
giving an instruction, that employee will assume that this is how
to cope with all similar situations. They will interpret the
instruction in terms of the implied values or the general policy that
would result in the instruction.
51.
b) Expressed Policy:
These are delineated verbally or in writing.
Oral policies are more flexible than written ones and can be easily
adjusted to changing circumstances.
Most of the organization have many written policies that are
readily available to all people and promote consistency in action.
It may include:
• Formal dress code
• Policy for sick leave or vacation time
• Disciplinary procedures
52.
ELEMENTS OF PERSONNEL POLICIES STATEMENT
Operating
Procedures Employee Conduct
Equipment Use
Regulations
Professionalism
Employer Authority
53.
PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONNEL POLICIES
Clarification by top management of philosophy and the objectives
of the organization.
Analysis of personnel policy requires assessment of relevant
facts. Job is delegated to the committee who through interviews
and conferences collect data from inside and outside the
organization.
Consultation with staff representatives.
Writing the first draft of the policy statement.
Further discussion to get the final approval of policies from top
management and staff representatives.
Communication of policy statements by means of training session,
discussion groups and staff hand books.
Periodic re evaluation and follow up
54.
Fact Finding
Reporting Of Personnel
Policy
Writing the Personnel
Policy
Discussing the Proposed
Policy
Adopting and
Launching Policy
Communicating the
Policy
Appraising the Policy
PROCESS
55.
POLICIES RELATED TO NURSING PRACTICE:
SERVICE STAFFING POLICIES
(HOSPITAL)
Employment- recruitment Vacations
rules, qualification
Job description Holidays
Working hours Sick leave
Work load, working facilities Weekend off
Policies for breakage and losses Rotation to different shifts
Special allowances- special duty/ Overtime
hard duty allowance, medical allowance. Part time personnel
The nursing personnel have demanded a Exchanging hours
uniform allowance of Rs 3,000 per month
and a nursing allowance of Rs 1,600 per month.
Promotional opportunities
Career development
Accommodation
Transport
Special incentives
Occupational hazards
56.
POLICIES RELATED TO NURSING EDUCATION
Policies For College Of Nursing
STUDENTS STAFFS HOSTEL POLICIES
Admission Policies
Working Hours
Attendance
Uniform
Medical Facilities
Internship
Holidays
Special Leave
Withdrawal From Course
Discipline
Recruitment Policies
Policy On Termination
Staff Benefits
Uniform
Duty Hours
Retirement Age
Permission to meet only
authorized visitors
Permission for a dayout
Visiting hours
Permission letter for outing
Signing the register
Disciplinary action on
violation of rules
57.
FACTORS INFLUENCING PERSONNEL POLICY
Law of the country
Social values and customs
Management philosophy and values
Stage of development
Financial position of the firm
Type of work force
58.
CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONNEL POLICIES
Specific Consistency, Permanency, Flexible with Purpose
Recognize individual differences.
Be formulated with regards for the interest of all parties, i.e.
employer, employee (individual/ groups) public and clients.
Confirm to the government regulations be written and formulated
as a result of careful analysis of all facts available.
Be forward looking and forward planning for continuing
development
Recognize individual difference
59.
ADVANTAGES
Helps to give employees a sense of security and individual worth.
Gives the employees pride and loyalty to the organization for
which they work.
Employees tend to give good service and identify themselves with
the goals of the organization and they want to remain in the
organization.
Are planned in advance and with due consideration on how policy
will apply in various situations to meet the needs of the
organization
As guides to action, save a great deal of time of the administrator.
A clearly written policy saves the time of the employee as well.
60.
It was observed that nurses are not involved in making policies
that govern their status and practice. They are invariably excluded
from the govt. bodies that decide these policies. Most of the
decisions concerning nursing care and nurses are made by other
people, usually physicians without the benefit of professional input
from by nurses. It is possible that this situation is the direct result
of lack of appropriate status accorded to the nursing staff. Nearly
97% of nursing staff are in group "c "category and their status are
too low.
Conclusion