Staffing in Healthcare

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Directions

For this project, you will be creating a discovery report for the leadership of Crystal Creek regarding the care facility’s organizational structure and its staffing needs and requirements. You must analyze and clearly explain your findings in a professional manner.

• Determine the most effective organizational structure for long-term care facilities. Explain to leadership why this would be the best structure for Crystal Creek.
  • Consider the importance of the various clinical and nonclinical roles that would be found at Crystal Creek.
  • List and describe state-mandated required staff for a long-term care facility. In your description, identify whether each staff member is clinical or nonclinical, include a brief job description for each, and identify all licensing and legal requirements for each staff member.

• Describe the current trends in healthcare staffing for long-term care facilities.
• Determine the appropriate nursing staff requirements, including licensing and legal requirements, to adequately care for Crystal Creek’s resident patients.
  • Assume that Crystal Creek has 30 residents at any given time.
  • Assume that the nurses are working 12-hour shifts.
  • Note that regulations will vary from state to state. For the purposes of this project, assume that Crystal Creek is located in Colorado in the United States. You can access information regarding Colorado’s staff licensing and legal requirements in the Supporting Materials section.
• To wrap up your report, provide a brief analysis of how staffing needs are determined for long-term care facilities. This should be an analysis of the overall process. Use what you have learned in the prior components of the discovery report.

What to Submit

Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your project can be assessed. For this project, you must submit the following:

Discovery Report
Write a 1,250- to 1,750-word discovery report to determine the future staffing needs of the Crystal Creek long-term care facility. Analyze current industry practices and trends to help best determine the most effective organizational structure and future staffing needs for the facility. Your discovery report should be a professional document, with citations as needed.

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Staffing levels in health care facilities in the United States have for a long time been a source of concern, largely due to the impact it has on patient outcomes. Long-term care facilities, in particular, are amongst the most affected health care facilities (Kirby, 2015). Issues such as poor wages, understaffing, excessive work pressure, insufficient training, and workplace injuries are affecting the quality of care accorded to patients (Kirby, 2015). Crystal Creek, like other long-term care facilities, also deals with similar issues. As such, this report will present a description of various organizational structures for long-term care facilities and propose an effective structure for Crystal Creek. The report will also look at the importance of the various clinical and non-clinical roles that would be found at Crystal Creek, followed by a description of state-mandated required staff for a long-term care facility. The report will culminate by

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