Safe & Effective Staffing Guide

For over 30 years, the AARC has published the Uniform Reporting Manual (URM), with the 5th edition published in 2012. This tool has served RT leaders for decades in utilizing time standards for the most common clinical activities as the hallmark to measuring productivity.

However, measuring productivity alone is no longer relevant if the procedures they deliver are not clinically indicated or driven by evidence-based practice.

As a result, the AARC has expanded and re-branded the URM to the “Safe & Effective Staffing Guide: Achieving Your Mission to Deliver Value-Based Respiratory Care Services.” Known as “The Guide” (or the SESG), this rebranded tool offers many of the same benefits of the URM; however, The Guide expands upon those to meet the 21st century needs of today’s RT leaders.

New content will be offered to assist RT leaders in the following areas:

• Evaluating the value of provided services as the driver to determine appropriate staffing levels
• Access to newly updated, validated, procedural time standards, scope of care and CPT codes
• Methodology to incorporate the philosophy of Value Efficiency into staffing decisions
• Tools, references, case studies and best practices in staffing optimization

There are many ways by which hospitals, clinics and diagnostic labs measure productivity. In most cases these methodologies are driven by external consulting firms engaged by the organization. While these methods often are ideal for nursing measures, they fail to meet the unique needs of the respiratory care department.

Do you want your RT department to deliver world class care driven by value-based decision making? Do you want to ensure that productivity in your department is measured by the value of care you provide and not simply measured by a timed interaction you have with the patient? Do you want to incorporate a validated, nationally recognized staffing optimization tool into your department? If so, the SESG is your answer!