Nurse Staffing Data

Upstate Medical University

10G - MEDICINE

Campus: UH

What this means:

Number of Nursing Staff - Number of RN's, LPN's and HCT providing direct nursing care.

Percent of Nursing Staff - Number of RN's, LPN's and HCT providing direct nursing care / Total number of RN's, LPN's and HCT's providing direct nursing care.

Nursing hours per patient day (NHPPD) - Number of hours of direct care a patient can expect to receive from an RN, LPN, HCT, in a 24-hour period.

RN Hours Per Patient Day (RNHPPD) - Number of hours of direct care a patient can expect to receive from and RN in a 24-hour period.

Nurse : Patient Ratio - Number of patients cared for by one nurse; calculated as 24 / RN Hours Per Patient Day.

Data for the period between Q2023_3 and Q2024_2

Indicator	Staff Type	Q2023_3	Q2023_4	Q2024_1	Q2024_2	Total
Number of Staff	RN	6.2	9.8	9.8	11.9	9.3
	LPN	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
	HCT	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	2.0
Percent of Staff	RN	94%	97%	97%	96%	82%
	LPN	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%
	HCT	6%	3%	3%	4%	17%
Average Number of Patients per Day		7	11	11	13	10
Nursing Hours per Patient Day		7.61	7.22	7.00	7.87	8.77
RN Hours per Patient Day		7.15	7.03	6.82	7.59	7.17
Nurse : Patient Ratio		3.4	3.4	3.5	3.2	3.3

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