Nursing

Nursing

Introduction

Nursing facilities in the hospitals are provided by the professional nurses registered under the nursing rules and regulations. Hospitals in order to keep a record and measure the performance of the nurses, by using different measures like productivity, care delivered to each patient and number of hours served by the nurses. Nursing is a full time job this is the reason why the full time equivalent or FTE is calculated to provide a full overview of the data of numbers of hours worked by each nurse in the hospital and among the number of hours the hospitals also keep a track of number of hours given care to the patients. Thus the report will help in finding out the FTE of the nurses working in the hospital.

Discussion

Many of the analysts in order to find the workload of the nursing staff calculate the productivity measure; some of the hospitals simply calculate it by just measuring the number of hours care given to the patients by each nurse. The hospitals are able to calculate the workload by just keeping the record of the number of hours worked and number of patients looked after by each nurse. Many healthcare analysts also refer the workload measurement of the nurses as the ratio of patients to the nurse that is for example 1 nurse looked after 6 patients. It is also important that a nurse might only be responsible for looking after a group of patients that have similar health problems. Thus it can be possible that 4 nurses are required to work in a group for looking after 20 patients. Apart from this nursing staff is also working in shift timings and in each shift there are a number of nurses who have to look a fixed amount of patients. For example a shift of ...