You will be opening a nursing unit with 52 beds. Your nurse to patient ratio is 1:5 and each nurse works with a dedicat...
- You will be opening a nursing unit with 52 beds. Your nurse to patient ratio is 1:5 and each nurse works with a dedicated CNA. There is a Unit Secretary 16 hours a day and a dedicated Charge Nurse for 16 hours. During the night shift, the Charge Nurse takes a full patient load. How many staff will you need to hire if you assume 100% occupancy? You already have a Nurse Manager.
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Total number of beds =52
Nurse Patient ratio =1:5
So for 52beds the approximate nurse patient ratio will be 10:52 or
1:5 for 40 patients and 1:6 for 12 patients (because the standard ratio ranges till 1:8)
1 CNA =1 nurse ,as there are 10 nurses ,10CNA has to be recruited
There should be two Unit secretary and two Charge nurse (one for day shift and one for night shift)
Total number of staff=Nurse+CNA+Charge nurse, +Unit secretary +Nurse manager
=10+10+2+2+1
=25
25 staffs has to be hired to assume 100% occupancy.
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