This is a fact of life. We should not be dealing with this as a new perspective. We do appreciate your willingness to change the mentioned days off the 2 LPNs. It is still our position that we can better serve, not only in numbers, but also abilities by maintaining the number of LPNs we have. There are 2 issues, acuity and team leader.
Acuity can cause the team leader role to become more complex.
The plan was to not spread out the duties. Non post days often are not that. This will help eliminate confusion and reduce the caseload of the team leader so they can address all of the issues of the clients. This will also decrease the non post time. We have added 16 LPNs and reduced 8 RNs, and we feel we decreased the RNs too far.