Los Rayos Del Sol Medical Center Case Study
Los Rayos del Sol Medical Center is a hospital and surgery center in Florida with 500 beds who has partnered with Mayo Clinic.
Overview of Firm Competitive Advantage
The only advantage Los Rayos del Sol Medical Center has is there partnership with Mayo Clinic and requiring all nurses to 60 hours of continuing education courses for annual license renewal; this entails developing, planning and presenting.
Problem(s) Statement
Los Rayos del Sol Medical Center, has changed their staffing model but nevertheless, the shortage of nurses has continued to stagger. They have added two registered nurses along with a housekeeper who is making minimum wage to all units. In addition, they have also reduced the number of nurses from 12 patients per nurse …show more content…
The cons are having nurses perform housekeeping duties and having housekeeping perform clinical care duties without being trained. Plus, giving nurses additional responsibilities that management should employ, such as, policy and cost cutting measures on quality managements. Almost in a threatening manner, if this was not provided, they would be given poor job review performances. I was on the fence with this action; having nurses use tablets charting patients medicine. Realistically, I believe this is a great feature to reduce drug theft but ideally the way of acclimating the procedure should be tweaked. Furthermore, Los Rayos, has also changed the nursing staff work hours from 8 to 12 hour shifts. They stated that this would reduce costs and allow the patients to get to know their nurses providing care.
Decision and Support
I would do a complete overhaul of the staffing requirements and policies at Los Rayos. There are many governing agency that regulate the procedures and protocols at hospitals. I would never allow service from a nonprofessional with no clinical training or education to assist in patient care. This is unethical and
Overview of Firm Competitive Advantage
The only advantage Los Rayos del Sol Medical Center has is there partnership with Mayo Clinic and requiring all nurses to 60 hours of continuing education courses for annual license renewal; this entails developing, planning and presenting.
Problem(s) Statement
Los Rayos del Sol Medical Center, has changed their staffing model but nevertheless, the shortage of nurses has continued to stagger. They have added two registered nurses along with a housekeeper who is making minimum wage to all units. In addition, they have also reduced the number of nurses from 12 patients per nurse …show more content…
The cons are having nurses perform housekeeping duties and having housekeeping perform clinical care duties without being trained. Plus, giving nurses additional responsibilities that management should employ, such as, policy and cost cutting measures on quality managements. Almost in a threatening manner, if this was not provided, they would be given poor job review performances. I was on the fence with this action; having nurses use tablets charting patients medicine. Realistically, I believe this is a great feature to reduce drug theft but ideally the way of acclimating the procedure should be tweaked. Furthermore, Los Rayos, has also changed the nursing staff work hours from 8 to 12 hour shifts. They stated that this would reduce costs and allow the patients to get to know their nurses providing care.
Decision and Support
I would do a complete overhaul of the staffing requirements and policies at Los Rayos. There are many governing agency that regulate the procedures and protocols at hospitals. I would never allow service from a nonprofessional with no clinical training or education to assist in patient care. This is unethical and