amr9077

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1. We've all heard "staff according to acuity" long but want opinions

   amr9077 replied to I<3H2O's topic in Med-Surg

   I don't see why this is so difficult. Instead of assigning a nurse rooms 1-5 (just because they're right in a row) why can't the individual pts be looked at and distributed evenly? You can have a great team of five pts if they're independent and ther...

2. We've all heard "staff according to acuity" long but want opinions

   amr9077 replied to I<3H2O's topic in Med-Surg

   Our hospital is just starting to look at an acuity grid to help with volume-to-staffing while taking into consideration how sick the pts are. How do you "rate" or "number" the pts so we don't give one nurse 4/5 really ill pts?