Productivity

I would talk to a finance representative at your organization, or take a nursing finance class. Our hospital uses a measure called hours per patient day (hppd), which allows so many hours of direct care to each patient in a 24 hour day. We use a benchmarking system that gives us a range of other hospitals' hppd levels by unit type, but it is difficult to find information on why these numbers are "right." Using our base hppd level, we have developed a matrix that shows for x unit census you need y number of staff.