Calculating Staffing Needs (located in Chapter 17 of the textbook) .
2.Calculate the staffing needs for the day shift and answer the following questions:
a.You have on duty one RN and one LPN working 8 hour shifts and a ward clerk for 4 hours. Are you understaffed or overstaffed? .
b.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. . .
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