An emergency room manager is looking over the next month?s schedule and decides to supplement the schedule due to vacations. The manager decides to use centralized staffing. Which of the following is an example of centralized staffing?
1. PRN staff from the internal pool of nurses
2. Agency nurses
3. PRN staff from the emergency room nurses
4. PRN staff from the medical-surgical nurses
3
Explanation: 1. PRN staff from the internal pool of nurses can be centralized or decentralized. Agency nurses
and medical-surgical nurses are considered decentralized. PRN emergency room nurses are
centralized or from the same department and/or manager.
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