Calculating Staffing Needs
Calculating Staffing Needs
Question description
Instructions for Calculating Staffing Needs:
- Review Learning Exercise 17.4 – Calculating Staffing Needs (located in Chapter 17 of the textbook)
- Calculate the staffing needs for the day shift and answer the following questions:
- You have on duty one RN and one LPN working 8 hour shifts and a ward clerk for 4 hours. Are you understaffed or overstaffed?
- If you had the same number of patients but the acuity levels were the following, would your staffing needs be the same?
- Two patients in category I acuity level
- Three patients in category II acuity level
- Two patients in category III acuity level
- Zero patients in category IV acuity level
- Your paper should be:
- Typed according to APA style for margins, formatting and spacing standards.
- Typed into a Microsoft Word document, save the file, and then upload the file
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