2. Staffing Requirements and Full-time Equivalents Assume that a home health age

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2. Staffing Requirements and Full-time Equivalents

Assume that a home health agency requires 6,000 nursing care hours. If a full-time equivalent (FTE) is paid for 2,080 hours and nonproductive hours are 382 per FTE, how many FTEs will be required to provide the required care hours?

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3. Staffing Requirements and Full-time Equivalents (continued)

Assume the agency in the above example operates a total of 250 days a year. How many care hours must it provide per day? Assuming 8-hour shifts and using only registered nurses, how many nurses must be on duty each day?

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4. Calculating Workload

Assume that a clinic expects to have 5,000 visits next year. It expects the visits to be divided equally among each of the four general types of patients. The required care for the four types of patients is 0.5 hours, 0.8 hours, 1.2 hours, and 2 hours, respectively.

What is the total workload in care hours? What are the expected care hours per clinic visit?

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