Assume that you are the Nurse Manager planning the staffing for a 20-bed, short-

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Assume that you are the Nurse Manager 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?

Explanation / Answer

FTE is the annual working hours of an employee considering that the daily working hours are 8.

now the FTE can be calculated by total FTE hours devided by average working hours.

the total FTE hours= 2080/280= 7.482 FTEs

the toal number of FTEs in this process is= 7.42

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