Discuss what additional aspects mangers and leaders would need to initiate in order to ensure professionalism throughout diverse health care settings while addressing the selected issue.

Discuss what additional aspects mangers and leaders would need to initiate in order to ensure professionalism throughout diverse health care settings while addressing the selected issue.

To establish optimal nurse staffing levels, managers and leaders need to comprehend
the fundamental determinants which include patient factors, nurse staffing factors and ward
factors (Driscoll et al., 2018). Hence, there is need for continous training of nurse leaders and
managers to ensure their interminable competence. The training must cover knowledge on the
hospital, the industry, professional standards and staffing regulations and laws. Training will
help to bolster innovation, competency and professionalism in staffing matters. It will also
help them to stay current on enacted legislations on staffing. Second, the leaders need to
implement a combination of patient acuity, budget-based, or nurse-patient ratio staffing
models and tailor their holistic staffing techniques to the organization and specific staff needs.
In addition, these leaders need to adopt alternative care models to handle the issue.
There are different nursing care delivery systems including functional nursing, total patient
care, team or modular nursing, primary nursing and case management. For example, a mix of
modular and case management nursing can be quite useful especially in non-acute health
settings especially rehabilitation centers and nursing homes. Also, the adoption of initiatives

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such as Accountable Care Organizations especially for acute healthcare institutions can go a
long way in ensuring sharing of resources thus patient-centered nursing care under effective
physician leadership.