Nursing and Midwifery Workload and Workforce Planning
Nursing Workload and Workforce Planning
Introduction to Nursing & Midwifery
Workload
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Introduction
• Leading Better Care - repositions the SCN as ‘ visible embodiment of
clinical leadership’ SCN role as pivotal in delivering safe and effective care
• Education Framework
• Toolkit supports learning and development: Dimension 3; To manage and
develop the performance of the team, Capability 3:3 Managing the
practice setting
• The Toolkit:
• developed as a work-based guide to support workforce planning issues
relevant to the role
• offers the opportunity to develop an understanding of workload and
workforce planning and help with the use of workload measurement tools
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CQI
Policies etc. HR
Support
SPSP
NNMWWP Tools
& Methodologies
Analysis
SCN
Workforce
RTC
Effective Use of
Resources
Occupancy
Data etc.
SCN Role
Workload Measurement Establishment
Setting Skill Mix/Rostering
Time Out/Predicated Absence
Budgets/Financial Management
Information
Services
Educational
Framework
Education Toolkit
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Context
• Nurses and midwives comprise the largest part of the NHSScotland
workforce
• Planning Ward Nursing – Legacy or Design (Audit Scotland, 2002)
– decisions about staffing levels were based on traditional practices,
rather than current evidence
• Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Planning Project (SEHD, 2004)
– recommendations on methods used to calculate ward nursing
establishment
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Why is Measuring Nursing &
Midwifery Workload Important?
• critical to support workforce planning
• provides information about how clinical time is used
• need to capture accurate data to describe the work that
nurses do
• relationship between nursing workload and patient outcomes
• efficient decision making requires standardised, accurate and
timely operational management information
• presents opportunities for nurses
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Factors Influencing Nursing &
Midwifery Workload
• patient’s condition
• characteristics of the care provider
• elective and emergency admissions
• turnover
• length of stay
• nursing interventions
• different patterns of medical treatment
• work environment
• scope of professional practice
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NHS XXXX Experiences of Workforce and
Workload Planning
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