A. Sue Davidson

Present: Vikki Hickmann, Linda Coates, Sue Davidson, John Nangle, Joe Sack, Tiffany Fredericks, Terri Lewis
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The PNCC Chair, UPC reps and Sue Davidson were invited to attend.
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We will ask Sue Davidson for help on this.
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Guests: Linda Coats, Karen Hack, Collene, Sue Davidson
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ONA Staff: Sue Davidson, Kurt Willcox (briefly)
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I. Introductions, purpose and general background. (Kurt Willcox, Angie Streeter, Sue Davidson)
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A. Sue Davidson provided each attendee a folder which contains the following materials:
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Sue brought up the point that terms matter and a term that is frequently used by staff nurses at SCMC is "acuitize". To those who use the term, it seems that they are referring to calculating how ill/sick the patient is, and from that, determining the nurse's work load intensity. The most important part of the "acuitizing" is the nurse's work load intensity. Sue suggested that nurses who will be on the SC be care to use the term they really mean. There are standardized definitions about this and other terms frequently used in nurse staffing and ONA will be preparing a list of accepted definitions for these that are used in the US.

Another term that is being used is "hours per patient day"aka "hppd". What also matters are the "nursing hours per patient day" aka (nhppd). Sue suggested that in the discussion about staffing plans, DCRN's strive to leave what the actual nhppd is for their unit, and how that differs from hppd (something, non-direct care givers are included in this).
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A. Staff nurses in the UBPCs on each unit need to have a template for the "interim staffing plan" for their unit.