The Variance between Recommended and Nursing Staff Levels at Womack Army Medical Center

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine Womack Army Medical Center's registered nurse staffing variances between the actual staffing levels and the recommended staffing levels for seven of its inpatient wards. This study considered five possible rationales for the existing variances - workload changes, staff experience, observation patients, recovery patients, and outpatient procedures - for 117 work shifts over a 39-day period. The primary source of data was the 24-Hour Nursing Reports. The registered nurse experience level yielded significance in four of the five accepted regression models. The workload changes and the recovery patients variables each yielded significance in separate models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 07, 2007
Accession Number
ADA477376

Entities

People

  • Robert A. Holcek

Organizations

  • Womack Army Medical Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Base Closures
  • Business Administration
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Experimental Design
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Medical Personnel
  • Patient Care
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Therapy
  • Workload

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Trauma or Military Medicine