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Unit 4
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• Sorrow shared is halved and joy shared is
  doubled.
• -Native American Saying

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Time Management

• Principles
• Communication
• Planning
• Delegation
• prioritizing

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Time Management Strategies

• Time styles (self-management)
• Time analysis
• Daily planning
• Crisis control
• Problem analysis
• Task analysis
• Time evaluation
• Barriers to effective time management

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Tips for managing time

• Allow time for planning and establishing
  priorities
• Complete the highest priority task first whenever
  possible
• Finish one task before starting another
• Re-prioritize based upon remaining tasks and new
  info

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• Ways to organize time
• Prioritize tasks
• Personal work sheet
• Time inventory
• To do lists
• Writing things down
• Color code

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Barriers to Effective Time Management

• Habit
• Work expansion
• Oversupervision
• Underdelegation
• Losing sight of objectives

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Types of nursing care delivery systems

• Functional
• Team
• Modular nursing
• Team leaders
• Total patient care
• Primary nursing
• Practice partnerships

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The Nature of Stress

• Causes of stress
• Organizational
• Interpersonal
• Individual
• Negative factors
• Role conflict
• Consequences of stress

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Managing Stress

• Personal methods
• Recognition
• Physical care
• Role redefinition
• Relaxation techniques
• Organizational methods
• Stress evaluation
• Job matching
• Skill training
• Communication and social support

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Budget terminology

• Operating budget
• Supplies
• Salaries
• Items that cannot be reused and are needed for
  daily operations
• Capital
• Major renovation and construction
• Major equipment purchases

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• Zero based budgets
• Everything is justified to be included in new
  budgets
• Flexible based budgets
• Builds off the previous budget

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Related Budgeting Concepts

• Accounting
• Income statements
• Balance sheets
• Cash flow statements
• Cost accounting
• Double entry accounting
• Long-range financial plans
• Types of budets

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Participation in budget matters

• Responsibility of everyone
• As a beginning level nurse, you can
• Request open unit session about the budget and
  its status
• Gain beginning level understanding of basic
  finance terms
• Recommend cost containment measures that do not
  adversely affect quality care
• Support change designed to keep nursing units in
  line with dollar realities