From patient days to weighted patients: Developing better nursing workload measures. Issue 12 (December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fogel, Paul; Hullet, Amanda; Pauls, Lori
• Is Part Of: Nursing management. Volume 53:Issue 12(2022)
• Page Start: 26
• Page End: 36
• Publication Date: 2022-12
• Subjects: Nursing services -- Administration -- Periodicals; Nursing -- Periodicals; Nursing, Supervisory -- organization & administration -- Periodicals; Nursing -- Periodicals; Verpleegkunde; Management; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 610.73068
• DOI: 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000897468.67631.03
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0744-6314

Abstract

Abstract : Traditional workload measures for in-patient nursing units based on patient days, a once-a-day midnight census, fail to account for other relevant factors. The authors outline how to build a system that's responsive to both patient volume and acuity throughout the day and matched to proper patient-to-nurse staffing ratios.