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Efficiency.
Prepared by:
DR.
Ahmed Mohammed Zinhom
:objectives
By the end of this lecture each participant should be able to:
nursing services.
Consequently health care facilities are now compelled
to reexamine their methods of care delivery and
develop creative approaches to contain cost while
providing the expected high level of quality.
:The cost definition
The cost is the money expended for all
resources used, including personnel, supplies
.and equipment
:The types of nursing costs
Standardized schedules.
Standardized conditions.
:The principles of efficiency
of.
Written instructions.
Unit-level costs-
Batch-level costs-
Business-level cost-
Enterprise-related cost-
:The levels of cost hierarchy
Unit-level costs: are directly assignable to predetermined
cost objectives based on characteristics associated with the
patient.
Examples patient identifiable supplies and equipment.
Batch-level costs: include all the supporting services that are
performed from admission through discharge. Example are
records management, scheduling and nurse
management.
:The levels of cost hierarchy
Business-level cost: it is the category that has no
direct relationship to the patient care. Example
include accounting activities, recruitment, and
marketing.
Enterprise-related cost: it is usually has no relation
to cost objectives such as utilities and taxes.
The stages of cost effectiveness
:and containment
Cost awareness- 1
Cost monitoring- 2
Cost management- 3
Cost avoidance- 4
Cost incentives- 5
The stages of cost effectiveness and
:containment
desired behavior.
Exercise: match
1. Cost
focuses on how much will be spent -1
awareness . where, when and why
It increase the organizational-2
2. Cost awareness of what cost are, how they
monitoring .can be managed and by whom
motivate cost containment- 3
3. Cost
the most expensive and less- 4
management .effective items avoided
4. Cost incentives It focuses on what can be done by- 5
whom to contain costs
5. Cost
avoidance
:Costing out nursing services
Costing nursing care: Is the process of estimating
the monetary value of providing nursing care to
patients. It is thus of major importance that
nursing acquires a cost allocation system that can
define and measure the consumed time of
providing nursing care by different personal
categories per patient and its cost. It can be
estimated per hour, per patient, or per day.
The benefits of costing out nursing
:services
Costing out nursing services makes it possible for the
outcome.