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Hi all, I have looked at many posts on the site with this subject and cannot find a specific answer. So here is my question... I work in an acute care inpatient hospital. I am a night shift nurse in the Oncology unit. I am trying to compare my unit with other units with the same patient population. We do not have BMT but we do hang chemo on both days and nights. Our staffing has been recently changed and not necessarily for the better of the patients. Also does anyone have articles about oncology staffing specifically? According to our p & p we are to be staffed based on acuity but all I ever hear about is the number of patients. OK so here is the specific criteria I am trying to get answered. Inpatient only, oncology with non tele med surg overflow, no bone marrow transplant, chemo is hung, we also have day stay patients for chemotherapy treatment as well. Anyone with that same criteria please share your staffing guidelines so that we can continue to provide excellent care to our beloved patients. Thank you.