What does "acuity index" or "average daily acuity levels"

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What does "acuity index" or "average daily acuity levels"???

This is the formula for that

Total acuities / Number of patients

Please help. I need to explain this for my class.

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What does "acuity index" or "average daily acuity levels"???

This is the formula for that

Total acuities / Number of patients

Please help. I need to explain this for my class.

A lot of places have a scoring system for how much care a patient requires....you add up the points for each patient, then add all of the patients totals and divide by the number of patients to get the average acuity score- then they use that for staffing :)

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Specializes in lots of specialties.

yep at our hospital it tells us just how much care each patient needs and we staff accordingly. The more care they need the more staff we get for our floor

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

You need to do your homework or at least give a good example that you tried

google it.......http://tinyurl.com/3bu8zs3

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Homework is there for a purpose: to learn as you investigate and search. Those who give you quick answers do not truly help.

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Specializes in Hospice / Psych / RNAC.
You need to do your homework or at least give a good example that you tried

google it.......http://tinyurl.com/3bu8zs3

All right Esme12 ... how did you do that? That was fantastic! :yeah:

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
All right Esme12 ... how did you do that? That was fantastic! :yeah:

It's a google search page....type in "let me google that for you" and viola! it's actually a great engine but it let's them know what you are thinking....:lol2::lol2::lol2:

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