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Acuity Based Staffing: An approach to improved outcomes
Academic Level at Time of Presentation
Senior
Major
nursing
Minor
none
List all Project Mentors & Advisor(s)
Dr. Marcia Hobbs
Presentation Format
Poster Presentation
Abstract/Description
Acuity Based Staffing: An approach to improved outcomes is a research project that focuses on whether or not acuity based staffing is the ideal way to accurately staff hospitals. The research suggest that there is not just one model developed that best measures a patients acuity and also incorporates all other factors of a nurses workload that is needed in order to make sure that each nurse has the same or as close as possible acuity level of patients. However the research does suggest from looking at several different models of acuity based staffing that this type of staffing can better the staffs work expereince as well as decrease CAUTI, CLABSI, falls and expenses. In conlusion more research is needed in order to develop a universal acuity based staffing tool that accurately incorporates every factor of a nurses workload to ensure that all nurses have close to the same acuity level of patients.
Location
Large Ballroom, Curris Center, Murray State University
Start Date
November 2016
End Date
November 2016
Affiliations
Nursing
Acuity Based Staffing: An approach to improved outcomes
Large Ballroom, Curris Center, Murray State University
Acuity Based Staffing: An approach to improved outcomes is a research project that focuses on whether or not acuity based staffing is the ideal way to accurately staff hospitals. The research suggest that there is not just one model developed that best measures a patients acuity and also incorporates all other factors of a nurses workload that is needed in order to make sure that each nurse has the same or as close as possible acuity level of patients. However the research does suggest from looking at several different models of acuity based staffing that this type of staffing can better the staffs work expereince as well as decrease CAUTI, CLABSI, falls and expenses. In conlusion more research is needed in order to develop a universal acuity based staffing tool that accurately incorporates every factor of a nurses workload to ensure that all nurses have close to the same acuity level of patients.