Nurse Staffing Data

Upstate Medical University

12F - PEDIATRIC ICU

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	19.8	19.5	18.4	23.0	18.2
	LPN	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	HCT	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.7
Percent of Staff	RN	98%	99%	98%	98%	96%
	LPN	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
	HCT	2%	1%	2%	2%	3%
Average Number of Patients per Day		8	8	8	10	9
Nursing Hours per Patient Day		19.61	19.12	20.07	18.52	17.55
RN Hours per Patient Day		19.25	18.84	19.62	18.10	16.91
Nurse : Patient Ratio		1.2	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.4

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