Mixed Recovery Productivity

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Specializes in PACU RN, Pre-op Charge focus, now manager.

Hi folks! I'm a relatively new manager for a Prep/Recovery/PAT unit at a regional hospital and I am having the darndest time figuring out why my staffing looks bad when compared to the hospital's productivity numbers. I've been on this unit for over 8 years before stepping in the manager position, and we are a combined Prep/Recovery unit with roughly 17 bays split between the two, and 7 ORs. PACU recovers both Phase I and Phase II patients, so it's a combined setting. 

Right now I'm being alotted 2.83 staffing hours per patient, and we are running about 20-30 recoveries a day. I guess I'm curious if other managers have this same number, and if they are including all of their team, such as the nurse aids, or if this is a number that is just supposed to reflect nursing staff. I know we're a different type of PACU set-up as we aren't split between Phase I and Phase II, so that makes a difference I'm sure. The only time that I've actually been "above the red" for my productivity is when I'm severely understaffed and I am in the numbers as well. I don't want to have to develop a staffing model that will create an unsafe environment only because the higher-ups don't have the right information to calculate my unit's productivity. Any help or insight is appreciated!

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