pt acuity system

Can anyone help me, please....

Not every floor has CNAs? There should be more criteria though.

We use it in Outpatient Surgery for LVN & RN assignment. We use it as a scale to determine the patients overall complexity of care. We don't have CNA's so if a patient is assigned you, you do total care. So it all depends on the facility really. If a patient is requiring a lot my attention, then he/she is a 4 (highest) but if he/she is requiring standard care then it's a 3 (the norm). Hope that helps!

thank u very much, I did some more research, it is a really complete system when u do assignment. I think both of your explanation helped me. I forgot there are some area only have rn, thanks again

There's a lot more to acuity than whether or not the patient is total care. And, as PediLove said, not all floors have CNAs and, even if they do, that doesn't mean that a total care patient isn't more work for the nurse.

Also, every facility does this differently. My experience of working in the hospital was that we had certain categories of patients who were high acuity and meant to be staffed at 2:1 on days or 3:1 on nights... but if staffing didn't allow for it, you could still end up with 5 or 6 patients including your 1-2 who really belong in the ICU.