All managers would be full-time employees with benefits and salaries ranging between $35,000 to $40,000 with benefits and the opportunity for business equity.
In sum total, the facility would employ 30 nurses. The distribution of schedules and shifts amongst nurses would be shaped by what Ozcan & Hornby (2011) call activity measurement. According to Ozcan & Hornby, "as health service organizations began to emerge from the traditional approaches to determining staffing requirements, they increasingly adopted methods for determining staffing needs, which were based on some form of activity measurement (9). The staffing norms that emerged are all intended to be specific for the type and location of staff being considered." (Ozcan & Hornby, p. 212)
These are factors which would contribute to the breakdown in roles and responsibilities among the aforementioned 30 nursing professionals. Of these, 12 would be senior Registered Nurses earning roughly $35,000 per annum with benefits. These would be full time employees distributed across three shifts. Registered nurses would rotate between day, night and swing shifts, providing senior staff oversight and ensuring that at least 4 RNs are in the facility at all times.
12 practical nurses would serve in support roles but retain many of the same scheduling and shift...
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