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CHALLENGING RULES There is a debate on whether a well-established payment system for nursing care can lead healthcare organizations to have more nurses through proving the value of nursing in a visible way such as a value of money. What about establishing a law with strict regulations to secure a sufficient nursing workforce? That also cannot be a permanent solution to the nursing shortage.

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CREATING SHARED VALUES: PARK'S SWEET SPOT THEORY-DRIVEN CENTRAL ‘OPTIMUM NURSE STAFFING ZONE’ Mathematical Programming has a noticeable limitation in providing a reliable/stable/sturdy Optimum Nurse Staffing Zone because the technique produces only one single best optimal point (Sweet Spot) under a given model setting. Sweet Spot can be continuously changed as the model setting(s), selected quality/cost variable(s), chosen reference(s) indicating the method to transform the selected quality variable(s) into a value of money, and so forth, change. Park's Theory (2017b) covers this limitation by providing an intersectional Optimum Nurse Staffing Zone, “Central-’Optimum Nurse Staffing Zone’” among the given model settings.

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My research is a world-leading study, contributing to solving the global nursing shortages and pioneering a new specialization in nursing (Nursing Decision Science). My research is about navigating optimal nurse staffing thresholds (sweet spots) of the (1) number of registered nurses (RNs), (2) composition (RNs/assistant nurses/care robots), (3) nursing care hours/workloads, maximizing quality of care relative to costs in the home healthcare nursing for the elderly, which requires a multidisciplinary collaboration with operations research, cognitive psychology, health economics, and computer science. I am developing AI algorithm to help determine the central-'optimum nurse staffing zone'

Ms Claire Su-Yeon Park
Center for Econometric Optimization in the Nursing Workforce

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This page is a summary of: Challenging rules, creating values: Park's sweet spot theory-driven central-‘optimum nurse staffing zone’, Journal of Advanced Nursing, December 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jan.13496.
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