Nurse leaders play a key role in creating and maintaining budgets

  1. Nurse leaders play a key role in creating and maintaining budgets. Who creates the budget in your clinical practice? Do multiple leaders and managers contribute to a team approach? An increase in patients to the unit and overstocking a patient's room are two common ways supplies can run low. The need for an increase in supplies is not budgeted. Who absorbs the cost of overstocking supplies in a patient's room? As the nurse leader, how do you address the supply shortage? Staffing needs are expensive: What is the costliest solution when staffing needs are not being met for the nursing department? Why does this source of man-hours come at such a high cost?