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Discuss the question using 3 APA reference with nursing content within 5years.
Your supervisor met with you and let you know you are over the budgeted dollars for agency nurses for your unit. What are some tactics you could implement to decrease agency usage? What departments in your health care facility could you partner with?

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Running head: OVER BUDGET IN AGENCY USAGE
Over budget in Agency use
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OVER BUDGET IN AGENCY USE
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Over budgeting occurs when the department spends more on agency nursing above the
planned expenditure. Agency nursing supplements labor, but it sometimes increases the labor
cost. To reduce agency cost and usage, I would use Information Technology (IT) to track labor
costs. There are various employee systems available to track the number of staff needed at a
given time. Therefore, I would benchmark the...
