Calculating Staffing Needs You use a PCS to assist you with your daily staffing needs

Calculating Staffing Needs You use a PCS to assist you with your daily staffing needs. The following are the hours of nursing care needed for each acuity level patient per shift:

When you came on duty this morning, you had the following patients:

One patient in category I acuity level Two patients in category II acuity level

Three patients in category III acuity level One patient in category IV acuity level

Note that you must be overstaffed or understaffed by more than half of the hours a person is working to reduce or add staff. For example, for nurses working 8-hour shifts, the staffing must be over or under more than 4 hours to delete or add staff.

ASSIGNMENT:

Calculate your staffing needs for the day shift. You have on duty one RN and one LVN/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