Question

Assignment Exercise 10-2: FTEs to Fill a Position Metropolis Health System (MHS) uses a basic work week of 40 hours throughout the system. Thus, one full-time employee works 40 hours per week. MHS also uses a standard 24-hour scheduling system of three 8-hour shifts. The Director of Nursing needs to compute the staffing requirements to fill the Operating Room (OR) positions. Since MHS is a trauma center, the OR is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At present, staffing is identical for all 7 days of the week, although the Director of Nursing is questioning the efficiency of this method. The Operating Room department is staffed with two nursing supervisors on the day shift and one nursing supervisor apiece on the evening and night shifts. There are two technicians on the day shift, two technicians on the evening shift, and one technician on the night shift. There are three RNs on the day shift, two RNs on the evening shift, and one RN plus one LPN on the night shift. In addition, there is one aide plus one clerical worker on the day shift only.

Answer 1

Employees	Day	Evening	Night	Total
Nursing supervisor	2	1	1	4
Technician	2	2	1	5
RN	3	2	1	6
LPN			1	1
Aide	1			1
Clerical	1			1
Total employees	9	5	4	18

Employees	Day	Evening	Night	Total hours
Nursing Supervisor	112	56	56	224
Technician	112	112	56	280
RN	168	112	56	336
LPN			56	56
Aide	56			56
Clerical	56			56
Total hours				1008

Employees	Day	Evening	Night	Total FTEs
Nursing Supervisor	112	56	56	224/7 = 32
Technician	112	112	56	280/7 = 40
RN	168	112	56	336/7 = 48
LPN			56	56/7 = 8
Aide	56			56/7 = 8
Clerical	56			56/7 = 8
Total FTE				144