Assignment 2: Human Resources and Staffing Crisis at Blumbergs Nursing Home
Due Week 10 and worth 250 points
Blumbergs Nursing Home (BNH) is a 100-bed Medicare and Medicaid certified facility in suburban Philadelphia PA. The administrator recently terminated the facilitys Director of Nursing (DON) receptionist and dietary aid for inappropriate conduct. They had all been involved in purchasing and using illegal substances on facility grounds. Facility staff as well as 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 BNHs code of ethics and to provide additional training on workplace culture. Because federal law requires that there be at least one (1) registered nurse on duty for a minimum of eight (8) hours a day seven (7) days a week and that the DON must be a registered nurse (RN) which the interim DON is not BNH is out of compliance.
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