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...
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...