Measuring patient acuity tools

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In other words, one cannot assume that the difference between responses is equidistant even though the numbers assigned to those responses are. The response options were never 1 , rarely 2 , sometimes 3 , frequently 4 , and every shift 5. I would suggest reporting the percentage of each classes and the median 1. This would be transparent and avoid false interpretations if the answers were clustered at the high and low extremes.

Either the tool needs to be less interpretation-free and have more quantitative criterias or the nurses need to have the same interpretation of each criteria before using the tool. I want to thank you for your work as it is a great start and hope you continue to enhance this potentially powerful tool. Sullivan, Gail M. Artino Jr. Nice article on acuity. Many years I developed numerous acuity systems from P. Can I use this tool? Thank you. Thank you Great article.

I was wanting to contact author about the possibility of using this tool. And i think your study will be of great help. But before my hospital can adapt this, it has to be grounded with a study and so I will be making a study on this and would like to use also your survey with some revisions that is applicable to us if you could allow me.

Thank you in advance. Thank you all for the responses to the article! I am sorry it has taken me this long to respond, but I would love to provide the survey used. You are more than welcome to adapt our tool to fit your patient population. I hope it works out well for your staff! How long have you been a nurse?

How long have you been a nurse on 6A? In my opinion, I feel that patient assignments are equal between nursing staff. Strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree. In my opinion, I feel like I have input into making the nursing assignments. Please rate how frequently you feel overwhelmed with your patient assignment. Frequently, sometimes, rarely, never.

I feel like patient safety is a concern when I accept my patient assignment. Every shift, frequently, sometimes, rarely, never.

Thank you! Thank you for this insightful article. Our hospital is expanding beds and we have been using this tool to ensure our new units are properly staffed. With your permission, our team would like to make slight modifications to this tool to better fit our unique patient population. Please let me know your thoughts! I believe patient acuity is a critical aspect to take into consideration when looking at staffing and nursing assignments.

I agree with method the article used, creating a tool to score patient acuity. It is important to have an objective way to determine the acuity and fairly assign patients to a nurse. Having a balanced assignment benefits not only nurses by decreasing their workload, but also extends to the patients by giving them better outcomes. As a bedside nurse I have experienced overwhelming, unbalanced patient assignments.

Being stretched thin forces me to be more task-oriented rather than patient centered, as I would prefer. Several months ago the unit I work for started utilizing a tool similar to the one mentioned in the article. By giving us an objective way to rate the acuity of a patient it lead to more balanced the assignments. It gave us more of a say in the assignments, the charge nurses ask us our opinions on our patient group and if they need to be separated for the next shift.

This makes us feel as though we have a voice and give the charge nurse an objective way to fairly make assignments Morrow, Overall, RNs who rated their assignments as appropriate were more likely to be satisfied with their jobs, intend to stay on their current units, and deliver quality care to patients than those who rated their assignments as inappropriate.

Registered nurses who said that their assignments were appropriate are more likely have higher job satisfaction and deliver higher quality care to patients as opposed to nurses who said their patient assignments were inappropriate and unbalanced Choi, I find that in my own practice, a balanced mix of acuity within an assignment group I am able to spend more face-to-face time with each patient as opposed to having a group of patients who are all considered high acuity.

Utilizing a patient classification system is a low cost tool that nurse leaders can ensure that nurses are receiving equal assignments. References Choi, J Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 50 5. Morrow, A. Patient acuity tool on a medical-surgical unit. American Nurse Today, 13 4.

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What is acuity based staffing? Acuity based staffing allows you to achieve quality patient outcomes, more efficient employee scheduling, reduced costs and increased employee satisfaction and retention.