Planning & Managing Resources for Expanding ICU - Desklib

Planning & Managing
Resources

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Question 1:Determining the concept of resource planning in the order of expansion of ICU....3
Evaluating the different resources of funding in order to the managing the expansion of ICU. 5
Question2 Analysing the concept of project management in order to contribute in the effective
management resources for expanding the ICU in a short, medium and long term ....................6
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Planning and resourcing is the process where an organization and a system allots the
tasks and assignments to the employee and team members according to their definite skill sets
and abilities from which the organization can obtain the fruitful results (Kershner, Woodward,
and et.al., 2020). The report will illustrate devise strategies to make the resource available for the
Hospital NHS trust who is expanding the Intensive care unit due to increased number of cases of
covid19 patients.
MAIN BODY
Question 1:Determining the concept of resource planning in the order of expansion of ICU
Resource planning is the process where the particular organization plan the workings and
its criteria in definite way. According to the report, it has been already known that due to
covid19 pandemic there are huge changes and modifications has been done to overcome this
disease. The hospital named North Middlesex University who is located in London, United
Kingdom wants to expand their ICU resources from which they can be able to cure covid19
affected people in accurate manner. The concept of expanding the intensive care units resources
has become an important to be done and utilized for the betterment of the public and society
(Harris, G. and Adalja, A., 2021). An increase of covid19 cases has made the hospitals to not
provide the accurate treatment to the people because of lack of resources like ventilators. The
resource planning has become the most important activity to do in the times.
The UK health and social care ministry has also announced and implemented the
different resources for the people to secure and protect the lives of the public and community. A
hospital has to enhance their medical equipment resource in definite amount so that the patients
can be able to get cured timely and not have to suffer from these kinds of diseases. A covid19
affected people have mostly the issue in the respiration where the mechanical ventilation is
required for them. The hospital should have the required numbers of resources like bed,
ultrasound machine, dialysis machine, PPE which is personal protection equipment,
bronchoscope and such more related medical accessories. Let's understand the different
resource's utilization that can help the hospital in improving the ICU facilities.
Ventilator: The availability of mechanical ventilation is the covid19 period has expressed the
demands of this resource has increase in huge amount. A sudden global disaster has made the

public and society to suffer from many obstacles where the hospitals were also incapable to
provide the definite amount of treatment (Goh, Wong, and et.al., 2020). A ventilator is a device
which is used to serve the hypoxic respiratory failure which is in huge demand in covid19
circumstances. In this order, the medical industry were not able to get the supplies of the
necessary resources from which the hospital are needed to plan out their stock of resources
which can be useful in these sudden happenings.
PPE care: The utilization of PPE and medical face shields has given a great challenge due to
global pandemic where the shortages of medical equipments has taken place. A PPE care is a
resource and equipment which are designed to safeguard the health of the people in the covid19
times. This care unit includes the surgical and non-surgical masks, gloves, face shields, glasses
and N95 masks which is utilized by many people to control the viral infection. The hospitals are
required to keep the maximum number of stocks of the PPE kits which will help the human
being in accurate manner in these sudd7en natural disasters.
Staffing: In this pandemic circumstances, the lack of staffing in the hospitals also putted a great
impact. There are many hospitals where the excess demands of the staff took place to help and
protect the patients' life. Staff people are required to take care of the patients in definite way from
which they can be able to get cured quickly. As, the large number of ICU patients has been
admitted in the hospital where the well-trained staff are also required essentially. An initial
training with the physicians can help in emergency cases, surgery and anaesthesiology in medical
care. Working with group of nurses, respiratory therapist, specialist and pharmacist can help the
critical ill patients in accurate way.
Dialysis Machine: This medical equipment helps the patient to remove the wastes and water by
circulation of the blood outside the human body and known as external filter for the body
structure. It filters the blood to remove the excess amount of water and wastes in the body
because it damage and dysfunction the kidney (Kerlin, Costa, and et.al., 2021). In the expansion
of ICU care resources the hospital is also required to utilize and increase the number of the
dialysis machine where in covid19 circumstances the patients are needed the machine from
which the service provider can screened the covid19 patients before entering the dialysis area.
Beds occupancy: As, the rise of covid19 patients there has become a huge shortage in the
hospitals and the situation occurred where the beds are occupied in large number and not able to
admit the patients in the hospitals. However, the service providers makes the people to isolate at