Question: You will be opening a nursing unit with 52 beds. Your nurse to patient ratio is 1:5 and each nurse works with a dedicated CNA.

  1. You will be opening a nursing unit with 52 beds. Your nurse to patient ratio is 1:5 and each nurse works with a dedicated CNA. There is a Unit Secretary 16 hours a day and a dedicated Charge Nurse for 16 hours. During the night shift, the Charge Nurse takes a full patient load. How many staff will you need to hire if you assume 100% occupancy? You already have a Nurse Manager.
  2. Assuming you need 10.4 nurses to provide care for 52 patients, 10.4 nursing assistants, one unit secretary, one charge nurse, and a nurse manager, calculate your hours per patient day using the information contained in question 7 using 100% occupancy.

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