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Post Trend units to justify FTE increase
Author: carnold
Date: Jun 25, 2009 2:16 pm
Would like to know what others are using as trend units to help justify increase in FTE. I've tried to used the estimator for staffing available from CAPC, but administration declined my request to add an additional FTE for this next fiscal year. Our palliative care program is almost 5 years old and growing rapidly. We have 2 FTE(nurses)for the program, we utilize the hospital social worker and pastoral care staff for consults and have a 0.2FTE (Medical Director). As of today's date we have seen 697 new consults this Fiscal year. We are averaging 60-70 consults/month. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheryl Arnold, RN, MHS, CHPN
Palliative Care Coordinator
St. Mary's Medical Center
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Re:Trend units to justify FTE increase (by SharolHerr on 06/30/2009)
You may want to consider linking your request for staffing to financial outcomes that have been impacted by your palliative consult service. For example demonstrate the outcomes and cost savings that could be realized by increasing presence and work in the ED and ICU including decreased LOS, cost of care, earlier transition to the palliative plan of care, etc.

Sustainability is one of the big challenges facing maturing programs. This will be one of the major topics at the CAPC Seminar in Atlanta in October. If attending the conference is an option, I would encourage someone from your team to do so. If not, I'm sure there will be resources on the CAPC website following the conference.

Sharol Herr, RN, MSEd, CHPN
Nurse Clinician and Education Coordinator
Mount Carmel Health Palliative Care Leadership Center
Columbus, Ohio.

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