4. Assume that you are the Nurse Manger planning the staffing for a 20-bed, shor

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4. Assume that you are the Nurse Manger planning the staffing for a 20-bed, short-term surgical unit that will be open from noon on Monday to Friday evening (including holidays) and closed on weekends. You have calculated the average variable staff hours required for each day of the week: Monday 64.0 Tuesday 86.4 Wednesday 86.4 Thursday 86.4 Friday 48.8 If the anticipated paid nonproductive rate is 280 hours per 2080-hour FTE, how many FTEs will need to be budgeted to provide coverage for this unit?

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Average variable staff hours=(64+86.4+86.4+86.4+48.8)/5 74.4 Standard Deviation=Sqare Root((74.4-64)^2+3*(74.4-86.4)^2+(74.4-48.8)^2)/(5-1)) 8.64 Lower Limit=74.4-8.64 65.76 Higher Limit=74.4+8.64 83.04 We can take the conservative number of 83.04 as the number of FTE requuired for calculation Efficiency =(2080-280)/2080*100 86.54 Final number of FTE to be budgeted =84/( 0.8654) 97

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