An emergency department manager is looking over the next month's schedule and decides to supplement the schedule due to vacations. The manager decides to use decentralized pool staffing to lower costs and provide quality care. Which group of nurses is a part of this manager's decentralized staffing?
A) PRN staff from the external pool of nurses
B) Agency nurses
C) PRN staff from the emergency department nurses
D) PRN staff from the nurses who work on medical-surgical units

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1. External pool nurses are generally more expensive to employ.
2. Agency nurses are from the external pool.
3. PRN emergency department nurses are decentralized or from the same department and/or manager.
4. PRN staff composed of nurses who work on medical-surgical units make up centralized internal float pools.

An Emergency Department Manager Is Looking Over the Next Month's