Hospital Budget Analysis Paper

I think the ideas you came up with to reduce overall budget on your unit were very smart. I hadn’t even thought about using 3-in-1 shampoo to lower costs, but it really would help. Just one small item like a hygiene product can end up making a huge difference. Before this week’s assignment I hadn’t thought much about hospital costs. Of course I know they are expensive, but I guess I didn’t put too much thought into every little detail. Now knowing how much it costs a patient to stay one day on the medical-surgical unit at St. John’s Hospital really put things into perspective for me. “To provide care and appropriately advocate for patients in the 21st century, all nurses need at least a basic understanding of health-care costs” (Marquis & Huston,