a. Excluding the wait times by patients, recalculate the standard time.
b. If there were an average of 1,800 patient visits to the outpatient clinic, what would be the standard hour per month?
c. If the target utilization rate of the facility is 80 percent; the indirect support time per visit is 0.10 hour; and the total administrative time by all staff in a given day is five hours, what is the target FTE level for the clinic?
d. If fringe benefits account for 9 percent of the target FTEs, what are the required FTEs?
Table Ex 7.6 depicts the average RN minutes needed on a daily basis in various units.
a. Assuming an 85 percent utilization level and that everything else is constant, how many RN FTEs should be hired to satisfy the patient care demand in each unit?
b. The FTEs hired for SURG, MED, PED, and OB/GYN are scheduled for eight-hour shifts on a 540 plan
c. The FTEs hired for the ICU and CCU are to be scheduled for ten-hour shifts on a 4/40