EVENING SHIFT HOLIDAY REQUEST POLICY

Purpose

To provide eligible employees on the way forward on requesting for off duty during the recognized holidays

Policy

The unit acknowledges Christmas and new year holidays as off duty days for all evening staff employees, and therefore the unit will attempt to grant all eligible employees an off duty day any time they wish to be granted. However, the unit still needs to maintain adequate staff at all times. Therefore, all off duty days must be scheduled in advance with written approval from the employee’s supervisor office.

Procedures  

• Request for a holiday off duty should be submitted to the supervisor at least ten days in advance
• There can be ONLY three staff who can be off duty at any of the holidays
• A member cannot be eligible for two consecutive holidays
• In case of scheduling conflicts, it will be resolved in a fairly as deemed appropriate by the management. With all other factors equal, the preference will be given to the employee who makes the earliest request through other legitimate factors such as family and seniority are prioritized

 

 

 

 

CHANGE IMPLEMENTATION

Change is the process of making something different from what it is and in this case scenario 6.2, the change is necessary to reduce overtime. On the other hand, there is actually need for change because it will not be necessary for a team which is assigned a certain specific patient to manage, to listen to the entire report of patients in the unit in which they will not take part in delivering care to them. Furthermore, overtime includes pay for most of the employees, and the change will be of much importance to reduce the cost of operation.

It is clear that this change is directed to something which has been there and has been taken as a practice in the unit staff. There may also be those members of the team who saw the overtime as beneficial to them and can be of disadvantage to them. Though the change might be necessary, it will be necessary for the shift staff to know all the patients and their report just in case of an emergency and members of the other team might need their help

Some factors may sabotage the plan for implementation for example if the information concerning the change is not communicated, the staff may restrict the change because of little knowledge of what it entails (Wager, Lee & Glaser, 2017). Some of the team might term the move as unnecessary and will result in minimal or no improvements to the practice.

Besides, the members of the staff might feel like they were excluded during the plan for change and can term it as a change without consultation from them, yet they are the ones to effect the change. Furthermore, if the change agent is considered unacceptable, the planning doesn’t specify how a change will be carried out and lack of confidence in the staff for the change, it will be challenging to implement the change effectively.

 

 

BUDGETARY AND PLANNING

Missing supplies

Stealing in the workplace by even trusted employees is a challenge that every employer might face. It is therefore essential to put necessary measures in place to reduce the cases of missing supplies in the organization (Zepeda, Nyaga & Young, 2016). This will involve the introduction of and enforcing firm theft policies, educating the staff and giving out rewards, proper tracking of the equipment’s an analysis of lost items and being very careful in areas such as the loading docks which are highly prone to theft.

After putting in place the necessary measures to deal with theft supplies, it will be necessary to communicate the rules to all the staff and clearly stating the consequences. Protection of valuable assets through proper access controls and other security safeguards for example video cameras can be involved. It is also essential to educate the staff on the need to take responsibility to guard the supplies and how expensive the supplies are and how they affect the operation of the facility.

Through proper implementation of the measures, the presence of enough supplies in the facility will improve the care delivery to the clients and also the reduction of the missing supplies will enable the facility to expand and in the long run, it will be of benefit to all the employees. Some of the action that can be taken is to fire those employees who might involve themselves in theft, but it is entirely undesirable for both the employees.

However, if the facility uses more than it can generate, there will be a total loss, and it might not be able to offer the services it intends to provide, it might also result to failure to pay the employees which is undesirable (Rosaria et al., 2016). This can happen if there is theft and it is, therefore, worth to eliminate the problem before it causes much harm to the facility.

 

BUDGET EXPENDITURES

Marge’s Budget Showing Income and Expenditures from January through May this Year
Monthly Budget: Income and Expenses	Monthly Budget	Actual Income and Expenses in May	Actual Totals to Date	Analysis
Salary after taxes+	3,500.00	3,600.00	18,000.00	To date overtime pay 500.00
School and credit car debt-	500.00	550.00	2,700.00	Exceeded the budget by 200
Rent and food-	1,200.00	1,300.00	6,500.00	Exceeded the budget by 500
Travel and car-	1,000.00	900.00	5,300.00	Exceeded the budget by 300
Entertainment-	300.00	650.00	3,000.00	Exceeded the budget by 1500
Savings-	500.00	200.00	500.00	Never met the  savings desire by 2000

 

It is possible to adjust the budget to meet the savings, some of the cost, for example, the entertainment and travel and car are controllable while others such as the school and credit card debt, rent and food are uncountable. The fact that she used less by 100 in her travel and car in May means she can adjust the budget to be saving at least 100 per month from that. Entertainment is also controllable, and if she can cut the cost of entertainment and stick to her budget of 300 per month, indeed she will save enough to enable her to relocate.

 

 

 

References

Rosaria, G. M., Lovato, E., Bert, F., Camussi, E., Silvio, C., Andrea, P., ... & Siliquini, R. (2016). Planning, budgeting and control systems, and management strategies of inputs in lean hospitals: literature review and potentialities of HTA.

Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P. (2017). Health care information systems: a practical approach for health care management. John Wiley & Sons.

Zepeda, E. D., Nyaga, G. N., & Young, G. J. (2016). Supply chain risk management and hospital inventory: Effects of system affiliation. Journal of Operations Management, 44, 30-47.