Week 10 Assignment 2: Human Resources and Staffing Crisis at Blumberg’s Nursing Home

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Week 10 Assignment 2: Human Resources and Staffing Crisis at Blumberg’s Nursing Home.

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Human Resources and Staffing Crisis at Blumberg's Nursing Home

Blumberg's Nursing Home (BNH) is a 100-bed Medicare and Medicaid certified facility in suburban Philadelphia, PA. The administrator recently terminated the facility's DON, receptionist, and dietary aid for inappropriate conduct. They had all been involved in purchasing and using illegal substances on facility grounds. The facility staff and many of the more lucid residents have found out about the incident.

The charge nurse has been appointed interim DON. The human resource manager has sent a memo to all staff informing them of a mandatory staff meeting to discuss BNH's code of ethics and to provide additional training on workplace culture. Because federal law requires that there be at least one registered nurse on duty for a minimum of eight hours a day, seven days a week, and that the DON must be a registered nurse (RN) which the interim DON is not—BNH is out of compliance.

Instructions

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you:

1. Assess the immediate staffing needs at BNH. Prioritize the order in which BNH should fill the main unstaffed position. Justify your selection.

2. Considering the reason behind the termination of the employees, formulate a human resources policy that addresses inappropriate conduct in the workplace, the process of reporting inappropriate conduct, and the consequences of violating the policy. Explain your rationale.

3. Per the text, an effective long-term care facility administrator must have both leadership and management skills. Propose at least one way the administrator in this case must demonstrate quality leadership skills and one way the administrator must demonstrate quality management skills in the aftermath of this crisis so as to improve and maintain staff and resident morale.

4. Recommend a strategy for BNH to use the Quality Indicator Survey to improve administrative practices and ensure future compliance at the facility. Justify your recommendation.

5. Use at least three quality academic resources. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

FOLLOW THE GRADING RUBRIC

1. Assess the immediate staffing needs at BNH.

Prioritize the order in which BNH should fill

the main unstaffed positions. Justify your selections.

20 %

Did not submit or incompletely assessed the immediate staffing needs at BNH. Did not submit or incompletely prioritized the order in which BNH should fill the main unstaffed position. Did not submit or Incompletely justified the selection.

Partially assessed the immediate staffing needs at BNH. Partially prioritized the order in which BNH should fill the main unstaffed position. Partially justified the selection.

Satisfactorily assessed the immediate staffing

needs at BNH.

Satisfactorily prioritized the order in which BNH should fill the main unstaffed position. Satisfactorily justified the selection.

Thoroughly assessed

the immediate staffing

needs at BNH.

Thoroughly prioritized

the order in which

BNH should fill the

main unstaffed

position. Thoroughly

justified the selection

2. Formulate a human resources policy that addresses Inappropriate conduct in the workplace, the process of reporting

inappropriate conduct, and the consequences of violating the policy.

Explain your rationale.

20 %

Did not submit or Incompletely formulated a human resources policy that addresses inappropriate conduct in the workplace, the process of reporting inappropriate conduct, and the consequences of violating the policy. Did not submit or Incompletely explained the rationale.

Partially formulated a human resources policy that addresses inappropriate conduct in the workplace, the process of reporting

inappropriate conduct, and the consequences of violating the policy.

Partially explained the rationale.

Satisfactorily formulated a human resources policy that addresses inappropriate conduct in the workplace, the process of reporting

inappropriate conduct, and the consequences of violating the policy.

Satisfactorily explained the rationale.

Thoroughly formulated

a human resource policy that addresses

inappropriate conduct in the workplace, the

process of reporting

inappropriate conduct, and the consequences of violating the policy.

Thoroughly explained

the rationale.

3. Propose at least (1) way the administrator in this case must demonstrate quality leadership skills, and (1) way the administrator must demonstrate quality management skills in the aftermath of this crisis to improve and maintain staff and resident morale.

20 %

Did not submit or

Incompletely proposed at least one way the administrator in this case must demonstrate quality leadership skills, and one way the administrator must demonstrate quality

management skills in the aftermath of this crisis to improve and maintain staff and resident morale.

Partially proposed at least one way the administrator in this case must demonstrate quality leadership skills, and one way the administrator must demonstrate quality

management skills in the aftermath of this crisis to improve and maintain staff and resident morale.

Satisfactorily proposed at least one way the administrator in this case must demonstrate quality leadership skills, and one way the administrator must demonstrate quality

management skills in the aftermath of this crisis to improve and maintain staff and resident morale.

Thoroughly proposed

at least one way the

administrator in this

case must demonstrate quality leadership skills, and one way the

administrator must

demonstrate quality

management skills in the aftermath of this crisis to improve and maintain staff and resident morale.

4. Recommend a strategy for BNH to use the Quality Indicator Survey to improve administrative practices and ensure future compliance at the facility. Justify your recommendation.

20 %

Did not submit or Incompletely recommended a strategy for BNH to use the Quality Indicator Survey to Improve administrative

practices and ensure future compliance at the facility. Did not submit or incompletely justified the recommendation.

Partially recommended a strategy for BNH to use the Quality Indicator Survey to Improve administrative practices and ensure future compliance at the facility. Partially justified the

recommendation.

Satisfactorily recommended a strategy for BNH to use the Quality Indicator Survey to Improve administrative practices and ensure future compliance at the facility. Satisfactorily justified the recommendation.

Thoroughly recommended a strategy for BNH to use the Quality Indicator survey to Improve administrative practices and ensure future compliance at the facility. Thoroughly justified the recommendation.