project nursing budget

Write a 3-4 pages Word document paper that explains the following topic:

• Identify a patient care problem with an impact on budget as a financial management issue in your workplace. 
• Search a minimum of two peer-reviewed articles that discuss the issue you have identified.
• Provide a summary of the reviewed articles, make a short critical analysis of the information
• Provide a short analysis of the role of the nurse in relationship to this problem as described in the literature. 
• Explain how the literature helps to provide insight into the problem you have identified and how this information can be used in a practice setting. 

Possible problems with an impact on budget:

• Departments not working weekends -Saturdays and Sundays (Echo Lab, Radiology, OR) unless an emergency, which lengthen patient’s hospital stay 
• Increment of excessiveextra time or overtime by nurses (related to lack of time management skills)
• Delays in MD consultations which lengthen patient’s hospital stay (lack of communication bt nurses and doctors)