Calculating staffing reguirements
Keith Hurst Senior lecturer in NHS policy and management, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds
Adam Smith Lecturer in quantitative methods, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds
Ann Casey Senior nurse, Barts and The London NHS Trust
Katherine Fenton Clinical standards director and a chief nurse, NHS South Central
Hilary Scholefield Chief nurse, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sue Smith Deputy director of infection control and patient safety, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Keith Hurst and colleagues describe how they devised a method for calculating the number of nurses needed to care for different patients with different levels of dependency
NURSES CAN USE a bewildering array of tools to assess staffing requirements by calculating patient numbers and the amounts of care that patients need.
Nursing Management.
15, 4, 26-34.
doi: 10.7748/nm2008.07.15.4.26.c6616
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