The Business Planning Framework (BPF) is a key tool for managing nursing and midwifery workloads.

The BPF guides safe staffing levels, yearly planning, evaluation, and negotiation to ensure the delivery of high-quality frontline services.

All nurses and midwives employed by Queensland Health work to the BPF every day.

Come and learn how you can contribute.

During this session, you will:

• learn the process of developing a service profile
• work through the seven steps to calculate nursing/midwifery hours per patient day
• explore workload supply and demand, and how it links to staffing and resourcing
• understand BPF notional ratios and legislated prescribed ratios
• gain practical strategies for resource allocation and yearly planning
• learn how to ensure the BPF is signed off and operational within your unit

This course is open to QNMU members working for Queensland Health and provides 6 CPD hours.

As a specialist education session delivered by the peak professional and industrial body for nurses and midwives in Queensland, this course meets the requirements for Industrial Relations Education Leave (IREL). Please check your IREL entitlements in your EB agreements and (if applicable) apply for this leave as early as possible.