mamakc

Hi everyone! I am a senior nursing student and I'm doing a case study for my management class about a rehab unit. The case involves a nurse manager of a 25 bed unit trying to make decisions about staffing. She wants to take a FTE staff member from the day or evening shift and place him/her on the night shift because the budget only allows her to move a FTE member to another shift instead of adding a FTE member to the busy night shift. One of the questions regarding this case is which shift would it be better to take a FTE staff member from, the day or evening shift. Another question is asking about what tasks could be moved from the day or evening shift to the night shift to reduce the overload since one FTE member was taken off the day/evening shift. And can any tasks be eliminated at all? I was hoping a rehab nurse could help me some ideas and suggest certain tasks that could be moved to night shift, if any? Your help would be greatly appreciated!!