Workload Measurement Tool for an Integrated OR/PACU

Résumé

The 1990’s and the resulting budgetary downsizing have reinforced the need to have objective data that will reflect both staffing patterns and accurate nursing workload measurement. How to translate case length into potential workload becomes the issue that this article will address. Staffing patterns and quantitative analysis of workload measurement (WLM) makes resource allocation obvious and justifiable.