Efficient Utilization of Nursing Manpower during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kuppuswamy, Rajarajeswari; Sharma, Suresh K

doi:10.5005/jp-journals-10084-12145

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“…They emphasized the importance of monitoring personnel health, organizing a divided team, social distancing in the workplace, and the use of personal protective equipment by suggesting that laboratories should organize with the smaller teams and decrease the number of consecutive working days. Kuppuswamy and Sharma [16] investigated the experiences regarding shifts of nurses providing frontline care for patients infected with Covid19 in Shanghai and Wuhan. The data were analysed using Colaizzi's data analysis method.…”

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A Novel Simulation-Based Two-Stage Optimization Approach for Nurse Planning

Akin¹,

Ordu²

2022

Int. j. simul. model.

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Maintaining the dynamism of the work scheduling of the nurses without causing them to lose their work motivation provides the sustainability of the effectiveness of health services. Thus, there is a need to develop patient-centred operational research approach applied to health services against new Covid19 waves or new pandemics. In this context, the aim of this study is to develop a novel simulation-based two-stage optimization approach to determine the required number of nurses and schedule the shifts of the nurse working in the Covid19 inpatient service in a Turkish State Hospital. We develop our model in three stages: 1) A simulation model is developed to specify the weekly required number of nurses and run for the scenarios based on demand increases and patient activity, 2) The first mathematical model is used to determine the weekly number of shifts, and 3) The second mathematical model is applied to prepare a fair nurse shift schedule in the pandemic service. This paper suggests a crucial study that will provide managers of healthcare services to plan ahead for personnel needs problems that may take place in the next waves of the Covid19 pandemic in advance.

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A Novel Simulation-Based Two-Stage Optimization Approach for Nurse Planning

Akin¹,

Ordu²

2022

Int. j. simul. model.

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“…13,18 2. The Human Resources and preparation of the team 12,29 Shift work in the Cohort IMCU is a 12-hour rotation (morning shift 7.00-19.00 and afternoon shift 19.00-07.00). There is one Internal physician (daytime) and one On-call physician (overnight coverage) for their patients with a multi-professional team, in detail as: 2.1 Total healthcare workers are 12-13 people per day (excluding Head of Department, a unit secretary, and preceptor).…”

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“…It affected human resources planning and health care quality of these patients. 12 Therefore, the objective of this article is to share experiences for the Cohort IMCU arrangement. This article discusses how the idea of the Cohort IMCU has been applied in BHQ, Thailand.…”

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Fast Facts: Gene Therapy A new therapeutic direction?

Herzog¹,

Popplewell²

2021

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To share experiences for the Cohort Intermediate Care Unit (IMCU) setup description. It also involves the focusing on integrated nursing care in collaboration with Multi-professional team to improve patient outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We collected and searched many articles from the published medical literature that reported standard protocols for the IMCU and nursing management of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). This study was a collection of data from COVID-19 patients who were confirmed cases with positive real time-PCR test results. They were receiving treatment and admitted at Bangkok Hospital Headquarters (BHQ) from May 1 st -June 30 th , 2021. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the results in frequency, percentage and mean. We compared the average number of days for COVID-19 patients stay between two groups. A confidence interval (CI) was used to explain a different sample proportion and a different interval of hospital mortality rate. RESULT: Among 122 COVID-19 patients, 41 (33.6%) patients were admitted to the Cohort IMCU. The average length of stay (LoS) was 5.1 days, with minimum 1 day and maximum 15 days. Three quarter of them (31/41, 75.6%) had clinical improvement and were transferred to Cohort ward, while a quarter (10/41, 24.4%) had experienced clinical deterioration and were transferred to intensive care unit (ICU). Mortality rate of this group was 4.9% (95%CI -1.7, 11.5). During the same time period, 81 COVID-19 patients were directly transferred to ICU. The average LoS in ICU of 6.2 days. Among them, 8 of 81 patients did not survive. As a result, mortality rate among this group was 9.9% (95%CI 3.4, 16.4). CONCLUSION: In our experience, the Cohort IMCU can reduce mortality rate of the COVID-19 patients and proper management also decrease crowding of ICU.

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“…Nurses comprise an average of 35.0% among the manpower component ratio that makes up the hospital, and the operation and management of the nursing organization comprise a significant part in managing the hospital organization ( Shin et al., 2018 ). Moreover, as nurses are essential in the hospital service on the forefront closest in dealing with patients, they have a critical impact on the hospital environment and become the major subject of efficient workforce management ( Kuppuswamy & Sharma, 2020 ). Therefore, possessing skilled nurses with experience and excellent competencies is imperative for maintaining and improving the quality of nurses.…”

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“…It is considered a component important in acceptance and commitment therapy. It is evident that performing work in connection with others while constantly exposing oneself among patients, guardians, co-workers, and other medical staff as per the nursing duties and environments is an arduous job ( Kuppuswamy & Sharma, 2020 ). If one can look at the external environment and internal psychological state more objectively through the acceptance of experience and self-acceptance, job-related stress will be reduced.…”

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Influence of the Clinical Nurse's Self-Acceptance and Experiential Acceptance on Leadership Versatility

Park

Shin

2023

SAGE Open Nursing

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Introduction This study identifies how the self-acceptance and experiential acceptance of nurses working in hospitals influences leadership versatility to utilize the information as basic data for developing strategies for improving nursing quality through effective manpower management. Objective This study aims to identify the relationships of nurses’ self-acceptance, experiential acceptance, and leadership versatility and verify the influence of experiential acceptance and self-acceptance on leadership versatility. Methods This study used a descriptive design. The convenience subjects were 100 nurses at the one territory hospital in Korea. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regressions. Results There were significant positive correlations between self-acceptance and leadership versatility ( r = .39, p < .001). Among predictors, self-acceptance had statistically significant influences on leadership versatility ( β = 0.35, p < .001). Self-acceptance indicated an explanation power of 24.0% of the total variance and was shown to be statistically significant ( F = 6.89, p < .001). Conclusions Self-acceptance and experiential acceptance and factors according to nurses’ clinical experience and position should be identified in depth, and subsequent studies on factors related to this should be conducted.

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Efficient Utilization of Nursing Manpower during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

A Novel Simulation-Based Two-Stage Optimization Approach for Nurse Planning

A Novel Simulation-Based Two-Stage Optimization Approach for Nurse Planning

Fast Facts: Gene Therapy A new therapeutic direction?

Influence of the Clinical Nurse's Self-Acceptance and Experiential Acceptance on Leadership Versatility

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