AONE CNML KR ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Patient days: calculation - ✔✔X = Daily patient census for 365 days
✔✔Average Daily Census - ✔✔total patient days / number of calendar days
✔✔Full Time Equivalency (FTE) - ✔✔This is used to determine staffing needs and cost-
effectiveness
✔✔FTE : Calculation - ✔✔Hours worked in a shift x how many shifts a week x 52 weeks
per year / 2080
✔✔Hours per Patient Day (HPPD) - ✔✔amount of nursing care needed per patient in a
24 hour period
✔✔Productive hours: Calculation - ✔✔(# of staff x shift length) x # of shifts = ___ hours
per day
✔✔HPPD: Calculation - ✔✔productive hours x ADC = X
✔✔Non-productive time - ✔✔Avg. in an organzation is 12-20% of an employees time.
Varies based on benefit package
✔✔Using non-productive time to calculate productive time for patient care - ✔✔2080 x
% of benefit time actually working (in decimal form) = X
✔✔ For Profit Organizations - ✔✔Organization owned by investors or shareholders,
tend to serve lower income populations, CAN lawfully release a patient who doesn't
have the ability to pay for services
✔✔Not for Profit Organization - ✔✔considered "charities", do not pay federal/state/local
taxes, must treat all people regardless of their ability to pay
✔✔Patient days: calculation - ✔✔X = Daily patient census for 365 days
✔✔Average Daily Census - ✔✔total patient days / number of calendar days
✔✔Full Time Equivalency (FTE) - ✔✔This is used to determine staffing needs and cost-
effectiveness
✔✔FTE : Calculation - ✔✔Hours worked in a shift x how many shifts a week x 52 weeks
per year / 2080
✔✔Hours per Patient Day (HPPD) - ✔✔amount of nursing care needed per patient in a
24 hour period
✔✔Productive hours: Calculation - ✔✔(# of staff x shift length) x # of shifts = ___ hours
per day
✔✔HPPD: Calculation - ✔✔productive hours x ADC = X
✔✔Non-productive time - ✔✔Avg. in an organzation is 12-20% of an employees time.
Varies based on benefit package
✔✔Using non-productive time to calculate productive time for patient care - ✔✔2080 x
% of benefit time actually working (in decimal form) = X
✔✔ For Profit Organizations - ✔✔Organization owned by investors or shareholders,
tend to serve lower income populations, CAN lawfully release a patient who doesn't
have the ability to pay for services
✔✔Not for Profit Organization - ✔✔considered "charities", do not pay federal/state/local
taxes, must treat all people regardless of their ability to pay
