Calculating Nursing Staff in a Hospital
Learn how to calculate nursing staff in a hospital based on service capacity, treatment complexity, and areas of focus.
00:00:01 Learn about the important administrative task of calculating nursing staff in a hospital. Consider factors like service capacity, treatment complexity, and specific areas of focus.
🔑 The calculation of nursing personnel is an important administrative task.
💡 The calculation is based on factors such as the capacity of the services, the complexity of medical treatments, and the area of care.
📊 Indicators are established to guide the calculation of nursing personnel.
00:02:02 Calculating Nursing Staff: Learn about the main indicators used to determine the number of nursing staff required in different hospital departments.
📋 The video discusses the key indicators for calculating the number of nursing personnel in different hospital services, such as surgery, internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, intensive care, and emergencies.
⏰ One important indicator is the number of hours of nursing care required for each service, which ranges from 4 hours for surgery to 10 hours for intensive care.
🔄 Another indicator is the calculation of nursing personnel based on shift rotations (morning, afternoon, and night), using percentages to estimate the necessary staffing.
00:03:58 This video discusses the calculation of nursing staff based on different percentages for different services and specialties, highlighting the importance of matching the right proportion of professional and non-professional nurses to the complexity of each service.
📊 There are different indicators to determine the percentage of professional and non-professional nursing staff required for different services.
💡 The proportion of specialized nursing staff varies depending on the complexity of the service, with surgery, internal medicine, gynecology, and obstetrics requiring 60% professional and 40% non-professional staff.
🏥 The specific requirements for different services, such as pediatrics, prematurity, intensive care, emergencies, and surgical units, need to be analyzed and studied separately.
00:05:54 Calculating the staffing requirements for nursing personnel using two formulas based on the number of beds and hours needed for each area or service.
📋 The calculation of nursing staff is determined by two formulas.
⏰ Formula 1 involves multiplying hours required with the number of beds in the area to determine the number of nurses needed.
👩⚕️ Formula 2 calculates the necessary nursing staff based on hours required and the work shift.
00:07:50 Calculation of nursing staff required based on the number of beds and hours of nursing care needed for a pediatric service.
👩⚕️ The necessary nursing hours depend on the number of beds and the specific service.
⏰ For a pediatric service with 20 beds, 100 nursing hours are required.
👩⚕️ The number of nurses required depends on the specific service and the number of beds.
00:09:48 Estimating the number of nurses required for pediatric service with 20 beds based on previous calculations, dividing the service hours by 8. Rounded up to 13 nurses required.
💡 The video discusses the calculation of nursing staff required for a pediatric service in a hospital with 20 beds.
💡 The formula used to determine the number of nurses needed is dividing the total hours of service by the known hours of the workday.
💡 The distribution of nurses in different shifts is suggested to be 40-30-30 for the morning, afternoon, and night shifts respectively.
00:11:44 Calculating nursing staff distribution based on percentages: 40% for morning shift, 30% for afternoon shift, and 30% for night shift.
📚 Calculating nursing staff based on percentages.
🕒 40% of 13 would correspond to 5 nurses for the morning shift, while 30% would be allocated to the afternoon and night shifts.
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