Right nurse, right place, right time.  That is our motto for Closed Staffing.  Closed Staffing eliminates the need to pull nurses from their home unit and ensures that the right nurse is in the right place at the right time. 

At Centra, Closed Staffing was implemented on every nursing unit simultaneously in 2000.  There were no trial units or trial periods.  This video will tell you how that was accomplished.

If you are unfamiliar with the concept of Closed Staffing, then click on this video link.  The purpose of the video is to guide hospital administrators and nurse managers who are planning to implement changes to the way they schedule nurses in order to avoid nurse reassignment or floating.

This video will guide you through the four plan process of how to Assess (Patients' needs), Diagnos (HR needs that nurses can deal with), Plan (For patients' care), Implement (Care), and Evaluate (The success of implementation of care).

To obtain a copy of the Closed Staffing video, please call 1.877.MDLINK 1 (1.877.635.4651).