NSE 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Full-Time Equivalent
4 Oct 2015
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You are a nurse manager of a 15 bed surgical unit in one of the hospitals in toronto. You are trying to prepare nursing work schedule for the next 6 weeks. Currently, there are 10 patients admitted to your inpatient unit. Each patient requires 0. 3 fte of nursing care per shift. Step 1: calculate number of ftes required per shift: Ftes per shift = # of patients * # of ftes per patient per shift. Ftes per shift = 10 patients * 0. 3 ftes per patient per shift = 3 ftes/shift. At this point, you know that you will require 3 full-time nurses (3 ftes) to provide care to all patients in the unit during each shift. Step 2: calculate the number of ftes required for next week (and the hourly equivalent): Hint: you know that there are 2 (12hr) shifts per day and one week has 7 days, so there are 14 shifts per week.
