- NURS FPX 8143 Week 2 Assignment Critical Thinking Question.
HPPD Table for Telemetry Unit
Hours Per Patient Day (HPPD) calculations for the Telemetry Unit based on the provided data have been carried out in the report. The budget average daily or Unit of Service (UOS) has been used as the denominator for the provided hours to find the HPPD (Buck et al., 2024). The HPPD calculations are conducted for direct Registered Nurses (RN), direct tech, total direct, total indirect, total worked, total nonproductive, and total paid hours. The calculations consider the given data on each of these seven divisions of the hours in terms of time and divide it to the UOS provided in the case of the telemetry unit.
HPPD Calculations
UOS for the current case of the telemetry unit is 280. The UOS is the primary element of the budget HPPD calculation in nursing practice at different healthcare institutions (Buck et al., 2024). These calculations are as follows:
NURS FPX 8143 Week 2 Assignment Critical Thinking Question
References
Buck, J., Justice, M., Tussing, T. E., Richards, M., & Maitland, J. (2024). Evidence-Based leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship in nursing and healthcare: A practical guide for success. In Google Books. Springer Publishing Company.