Patient Workload Levels: Care Hours, a Workload Index & Staff per Shift
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You turn the number of patients at each workload level into care hours per day, a workload index, the staff needed on the day and night shifts, and the hours a simple per-patient estimate misses.
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Lessons in this course
- Midnight Census, Occupancy & Staffing to the 80th Percentile Locked
- Patient Workload Levels: Care Hours, a Workload Index & Staff per Shift Locked
- Hours per Patient Day: Actual vs Target, Earned Hours & the Variance in FTEs Locked
- From Hours to FTEs: Non-Productive Time, Replacement Factor & Fixed Posts Locked
- A Census-Based Staffing Grid with Minimums and a Lookup Locked
- Roster Check: RN Gaps, Skill Mix & a Shift Leader on Every Night Locked
- Filling Gaps: Overtime, Bank or Agency – Cost per Hour and a Fill Order Locked
- Labour Budget vs Actual: Flexing for Volume and Splitting the Variance Locked