Managing Staff
Managing Staff Rebecca James HCA/270 January 15, 2012
What role does a manager have? Healthcare services administration has several roles in a facility, which depends of course on the type of facility and the size of medical facility. Overall administrators supervise, plan, and organize all decisions made within the facility. That also includes taking responsibility in staff members’ duties. Managers are also in charge of finance, accounting, marketing, policy, budgeting, and most important human resources.
How are costs tied to staffing? Obtaining control of labor staff cost in a medical facility is not as simple as saying the sky is blue. This task takes lots of consideration. There would always be patient volume, once again depending on what type of practice it is, staffing calculations are actions used to calculate coverage all periods of times. Since medical staff members working all day that means shift would change every eight to twelve hours. The method is a basic 40 hour work week. That’s saying if someone is working twelve hour shifts they would work three in half days which would add up to 40 hours a week. Or if its eight hours shift they would work five days a week.
Why annualize staffing?
Annualizing is important because employees work hard and deserves their time off such as vacation time, also if due an emergency employee could gain personal/sick days. Annualized is based on hours accumulated based around a yearly method. This method annualizing is important because the staff member won’t be on duty but would get paid as if he/she worked a full week.
An example of annualize staff would be if an employer works 40 hours a week which relates to eight hours a day shifts, this would average out to five shifts a week, or ten shifts every two weeks or twenty shifts every four weeks. All Though pay numbers end in usually odd nuber for instant 36 hours , 37.5 hours or even 39 hours.
What is the difference between the
What role does a manager have? Healthcare services administration has several roles in a facility, which depends of course on the type of facility and the size of medical facility. Overall administrators supervise, plan, and organize all decisions made within the facility. That also includes taking responsibility in staff members’ duties. Managers are also in charge of finance, accounting, marketing, policy, budgeting, and most important human resources.
How are costs tied to staffing? Obtaining control of labor staff cost in a medical facility is not as simple as saying the sky is blue. This task takes lots of consideration. There would always be patient volume, once again depending on what type of practice it is, staffing calculations are actions used to calculate coverage all periods of times. Since medical staff members working all day that means shift would change every eight to twelve hours. The method is a basic 40 hour work week. That’s saying if someone is working twelve hour shifts they would work three in half days which would add up to 40 hours a week. Or if its eight hours shift they would work five days a week.
Why annualize staffing?
Annualizing is important because employees work hard and deserves their time off such as vacation time, also if due an emergency employee could gain personal/sick days. Annualized is based on hours accumulated based around a yearly method. This method annualizing is important because the staff member won’t be on duty but would get paid as if he/she worked a full week.
An example of annualize staff would be if an employer works 40 hours a week which relates to eight hours a day shifts, this would average out to five shifts a week, or ten shifts every two weeks or twenty shifts every four weeks. All Though pay numbers end in usually odd nuber for instant 36 hours , 37.5 hours or even 39 hours.
What is the difference between the
References: http://www.staffmanagement.com/ http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/02/personnel.html http://ezinearticles.com/?Managing-Staff-Performance---How-What-You-Expect-From-Your-Staff-is-a-Big-Influence-on-What-You-Get&id=1387543