Topic: Ask to examine the most recent unit or department budget.

Topic: Ask to examine the most recent unit or department budget.

Paper details:

Work with your current unit manager, or ask the advice of a nursing manager that you know. Ask to examine the most recent unit or department budget. Were there any variances? If so, what types of variance were present? What was the total variance? If you were the nurse manager, how would you address the variances present? What strategies would you take to better control variance?

Also, when your unit (or one that you may have previously worked on) has more staff than is projected (for example, due to low census), how is this managed? How is this strategy received by employees? Is this strategy fairly applied to all personnel?