NR532 Week 7 Quality of Healthcare and Staffing

Defining patient acuity has been a challenge related to staffing. As the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), would you measure patient acuity? Explain your rationale. Please share how would you measure it? Be specific. Additionally, how would patient acuity affect staffing ratios? Please share your rationale. As the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), calculating patient acuity involves multiple factors. When working for a vast organization, departments are divided into specialties with different patient acuity tools and guidelines for the patient/nurse ratio. Knowing that information is imperative in ensuring the correct patient/nurse matching is defined, protecting both the nurses' license and patient safety. The CNO must partner with each department leader and leadership team to determine the unit's needs. There are huddles in vast organizations that occur twice a day to assess nursing needs, bed needs, and patient safety concerns