Nurse Staffing Data

Upstate Medical University

11G - PEDS HEM/ONC

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 Q2022_1 and Q2022_4

Indicator	Staff Type	Q2022_1	Q2022_2	Q2022_3	Q2022_4	Total
Number of Staff	RN	10.5	10.8	10.6	10.9	10.5
	LPN	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	HCT	1.4	1.0	1.1	1.3	1.5
Percent of Staff	RN	87%	92%	90%	89%	87%
	LPN	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%
	HCT	12%	8%	10%	11%	13%
Average Number of Patients per Day		10	11	10	11	9
Nursing Hours per Patient Day		9.56	8.68	9.79	9.03	11.36
RN Hours per Patient Day		8.30	7.96	8.83	8.04	9.89
Nurse : Patient Ratio		2.9	3.0	2.7	3.0	2.4

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